Arizona republican., 1897-09-17
THAT "BRAZEN DEMAND"

The Gazette as a rule dolt mix in republican controversies or conten- tions but there is no rule without an exception, and we want right now to say that the attempt of Frank Murphy to force George w. Vickers, his private secretary, upon this ter ritory as it's auditor, is brazen attempt of brazen individual. There will be new auditor appointed with in a few weeks. The office belongs to the republicans, and some reput- able republican will receive the ap- pointment, but in the name of all that is fair and honest, is it proper or just to appoint the private secretary of a railroad president, chairman of the board of equalization, where he is called upon to assess railroad prop erty? Yet this is what Frank Mur- phy is trying to coerce Governor Nc Cord into doing. The Gazette has no unkind feeling against Dr. Vickers, but man who was entrusted wltb poodle to corrupt a legislature in the interest of mining and railroad cor porations is not suitable person to entrust with such an important office, and we trust Governor McCOrd will not consent to 1t.
 l Keep the corporate talons from the tax levy of Arizona. Few men in or i out of Arizona have been pampered as has Frank Murphy, and we think i the time has coms when the line
 should be drawn While we rejoice
 at his financial and business suc-
 cesses, we do not propose to turn the i governmental affairs of this territory 1 into his hands.
 | Arizona needs bullion tax. We
 need men on the board of equahza-
 tion who will deal honestly by the 1 people as we'll as the railroads, and i we here protest and shall continue ] to protest against railroad claquers
 being appointed to positions for the
 sole purpose of doing the bidding of
 railroad corporations. Governor Mc-
 Cord knows we'll that we speak the i truth; every intelligent man in Ari- l zona knows that railroads have in the past controlled our boards of equali-
 zation, but now, when they insist up l on putting on their corporate tools, l a halt should be called.
 Governor, take the advice of the
 Gazette and don't appoint George w. i Vickers auditor and chairman of the ! territorial board of equalization. Gov
 ernor McCord has made his appoint i ments thus far In the interest of good | government; he has selected men who 1 will be true to their trusts and deal i justly by the people of the territory,
 and every man who is acquainted ] with the governor knows that his best efforts will be put forth to lift Ari-
 zona out of the ruts of the past and ] 1,o al 1v,;,, ] be done only by the appointment of
 men who will place the burdens of
 government on the shoulders of those 1 who should bear it, and not permit
 corporations to escape their honest l taxation, while the poorer classes are i taxed out of eXistence.-Gazette. ] We reproduce the Gazette's article i in order that readers of The Repub-
 lican may be thoroughly informed re- l garding the merits of the controversy ] concerning the authorship which the l Gazette has launched. At the outset
 we desire to say to the governor that 1 he may well ignore the advice and
 threats of the Gazette. He undoubt- i edly knows that he cannot mould his
 public acts in way that will be sat
 isfactory alike to the Gazette and to the republican party of the territory. If he remain true to his promises,
 and we believe he will, the Gazette i and the democratic party will derive
 but cold comfort from his admins
 tration. This will be as it should be. A republican executive must look for support in the ranks of his own par ty. Democrats who may lawn upon him or extol his virtues do so with purely selfish intent. They are lhis
 political foes at heart, and sooRer or
 later wfn--tdrn ufpeq him.
 The Gazette's course is in keeping
 with its record. The statement that
 "as a rule the Gazette does not mix in i premely ridiculous. The paper
 mixed" in the McCord fight from the
 very beginning. It had nothing but
 vitriol for those who opposed his can-
 didacy. It went to such extremes in
 it's support of him that many repub- | HcanS became dlSguSted. It is an
 open secret that the Gazette's abti-
 tude was used as an argument against | him by the governors enemies at | Washington Of course the Gazette
 had an axe to grind. The impression
 is general that it hoped to induce the governor to retain c. P. Leitch, one
 of the GaZette's owners, as auditor.
 Now that the governor has declared it
 to be his intention to appoint a repub-
 Hcan auditor the Gazette shows it's
 teeth In the nature of things it
 could not do otherwise. No matter
 whom the appointee might be the
 withdrawal of Leitch would be the sig
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