The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-27
DEMOCRATS ARE RESIGNING
POLITICAL GOSSIP ABOUT THE
CAPITAL CITY
The Santa Fe Railroad Company to
Build a New Line Across
Southern Arizona
Special Correspondence to The Herald.

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last stepped out, despite 1.-The fact that
his financial views are in complete sym
pathy with those of President McKin-
ley" Last Thursday Governor Frank
lin, in response to a peremptory order
from Secretary of the Interior Bliss,
turned over his office and it's emoluments
to Secretary of Territory Akers, who. the
dispatch stated, had been designated by
Governor McCord to serveas acting gov
ernor until his return
1t appears that Colonel McCord took
the oath of office Wednesday night at
Charlottesville, Va, before Justice Har-
Ian of the United States supreme court.
Now the question lies: Is McCord gov
ernor? All local authorities and. Secre-
tary Akers himself are inclined to the
belief that the governor can be sworn
in only within the territory, and that the
supreme justice has been made party
to an egregious blunder; that the new
appointee will have to again qualify as
soon as he gets to the territory. But the
blunder, if it be blunder, can be readily
remedied and is not likely to lead to any
serious complications.
DEMOCRATS ARE RESIGNING
The new executive will be back in
about week, and will be met at Ash
Fork by rousing delegation of Repub-
licans. Ad interim, Secretary Akers will
have as little as possible of the worries
of office and will file all communica.
TONS To him for the past couple of DAVIS
has been flowing stream of resigna-
tons, and it now looks as though the new
executive would have a free field open
for his appointments. The news of con-
firmation had hardly arrived at the ter
ritorlal capital before couple of Dem
ocratic officeholders called with type
written designations. Attorney General
Wilson and Treasurer Parish, who hate
McCord with energy most surprising in
TINS stage OF the weather, resigned to
Governor Franklin. Among the others
who nave freely offered to give up place
is L. j. Wolf1ey, citizen member of the
territorial board Of control, the Repub-
iican. member as by law stipulated For
while there was a chance that Wolf1ey
would hold on and let the new admins
tration appeal to the courts. but a more
pacific decision was finally made.
1t is told that the reason Governor Nc
Cord is staying in the east is to arrange
matters for big suit in libel against the
New York World. If such be his pur-
pose 1t is evident that the World is per-
fectly ready for a fight. In it's issue of
last Sunday McCord was roasted ter
rifically, both in the Wa shington budget
and in the editorial columns
During the week two other important
southwestern offices have been disposed
of and two patches of waiting candi-
dates put out of their suspense. George
Christ has been appointed surveyor gen.
eral of Arizona, and A. L. Morrison col
lector of internal revenue for the terri
tories of New Mexico and Arizona. Christ
was once collector of customs for the
port of Nogales, where he also ran a
hotel. He has been absent most of the
two years past in the east, doing effec-
tive work as an organizer of Republican
League clubs. Ex-Governor Wolf1ey is
the main candidate turned down. Judge
Morrison is resident of Santa Fe and
is recognized throughout the southwest
as man of the highest personal char
acter. He is the father of r. E. Morri-
son, of Prescott, one of Arizona's lead
ing lawyers. The only Arizona appli-
cant for the collectorship was James Nc
MILAN of this city.
RETURN OF ED GILL
The changes in the political world have
brought back another straying Arizon-
an. He is Edwin S. Gill, adjutant gen.
eral of the territorial militia under Gov
ernor Irwin, and managing editor of the
Phoenix Republican in the palmy days of
it's youth, when Governor Wolfiey and
his henchmen had to have an organ re-
CARELESS of the price. 1t came rather
high, but it must be said that for year
the Republican was one of the warmest
and most newsy Of newspapers. Gill is
we'll known in the Golden state. He was
editor of the Los Angeles Tribune, of
immortal memory, during the decadence
of the boom, and was something of the
same sort on the Frisco Post. For a
couple of years he has been east, as edi-
tor of the Boston Traveller and of a
paper in Rochester and as Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
rcial-Tribune. He appears to have
a very neat pull and as consequence he
has been appointed by Judge Truesdale
as clerk of the Third Judicial district
court in Maricopa county. 1t is one of
the latest places in Arizona and all are
pleased it is to be filled by so genial an
| individual.
dawned there was high old time on the
premises. When the cloth had been re-
moved and the Powhatan pipes were
brought in-the degenerate practice of
cigar and cigarette was not in vogue in
those halcyon days-some one called for
music and messenger was sent for a
negro fiddler, who soon appeared with
his old-fashioned instrument. The old
fiddler started in with "Monny Musk
and then played Sugar in the Gourd,
but when he touched up mississippi
Sawyer" Mr. Clay stepped into the mid
die of the floor and gave them Ken
lucky breakdown. This was fair chal-
| lenge to Mr.. Choate, who followed with
New England pigeonwing. When the
old negro struck the chord of "Old Vir-
GINA Never Tire the courtly Rives, af-
| terward minister to France, felt that the
reputation Of the Old Dominion was al
stake, and. shedding his coat, executed
the double shuttle with a skill that would
make minstrel man envious And thus
the fun grew fast and furious until the