Arizona republican., 1898-11-18
THE YAVApAl ELECTION.
ills ruH Significance Dawns Upon
 The People.


 turned down Colone- Erodie and tn
 republican county ticket they did no
 realize the full significance of the ac
 ton they were taking. They were let
 into a trap by the adr0it political man
 agers who were the henchmen of th'
 United Verde Copper company, ana
 that company now proposes to hold
 them up to the full measure of it.
 power. The taxpayers of that county have within the past few days begun
 10 realize the position they placed themselves in, but thsy are powerless
 to prevent the accomplishment. of theil
 own ruin. and wall has gone up from
 them which would be pitiful but fol the fact that the punishment they arc to receive is richly deserved
 Yavapai county is to be cut in two
 and Jerome is to be made the county
 seat of new county to be called | Verde. The people of Prescott voted
 in favor of this proposition when they ! turned down Brodie, Collins and Burns i Thsy fell into the hands of the astute copper miners at Jerome with submis- 1 sive grace, and now they are irving to | wlggle out of tie grip which holds
 them fast. The JOurnal-Miner, pa- per which worked zealOusly to prevent the success of the Jerome people, few days ago sounded -he alarm which has rung throughout the county of Yava- pal. It says:
 Very few people seem to grasp the meaning of the recent election in this county. Aside from the intsres. shown by the United Verde Copper company and the heavy vote they con- trolled and handled presumably for sheriff, district attorney and supervis- Ors, there turks silently, nevertheless behind their formal entry into Yava- pal political life, more than the ordi- nary person seems inclined to grasp. The intentions of this company long ago were inviolabIy given out to enter the field Of politics in YavaDai. and how well they have carried out their threat and accomplished their purpose, the present answers colclusively. Flushed with victory that echoes back to them the power to do as they will, without regard 10 any man or any interest, and following out their incli- nations to still further conquer in their wild and frantic ambition, their wrath and vengeance is to be further and more vindictively displayed by stop ping at neither the people nor the county. Nearly year ago it was quiet " gwen out that this powerful cOrpOr- atlon with its equally powerful vote was ,O place itself in line with not only personal propositions of a political nature, but that if successful in that they would assail the integrity Of the country as gOvernment-cut and slash, as il werc. Today tho impres- sion prevails ot their characteristic disposition to step at nothing. and the cutting in two Of Yavapai county, and the crea lion thereby of Verde county. ] of y4-h ict1 0f the county seat. -is settled matter: CT i a. least it seems to Le if reports are to ! be corsidereateiy weighed. While we will for the present say nothing abOytr the legislative makeup from this cn+fn- ty which Is supposed to deal hOnOrably ana justly by the sacred interests Of a community they are supposed to rep resent, but which they are not bound by political motives to speak for or against. the plain, unvarnished fact remains, nevertheless, that if the eX- lstance Of county gOvernmen; is to be i maintained by the people on one hand 1 or shattered by anybody or combine, | on the other it is time now that the | rip-shod methods which have prevailed { in Arizona legislative channels should ! be needed at once and preparations ac- cordingly made to guard against a | repetition Of that conduct which pre- vailed some years ago ill snap session | when COcOnino and Yayapai were cut . n two without any consideration for principle or regard for Yayapa: Flash 9d with it's victory in not only county 1 )ut territorial affairs, we believe the United Verde company will net step It anything it desires to advocate
 Back of its aC-called claims for q separate county government, if such is l,,r- 1 I,. axed millions of dollars in mining, and he fertile Verde valley and the agri- uitural, stock, timber and independent mining interests of others to sustain as 2 corporate body. More than this | will dictate political principle wherein the whims or the fancies of he few will throw on the weak and he many servitude that will crush nd curse.
 The United Verde company direct nd indirect pays taxes 0n less than JUQ.0OO valuation. The commercial nd other interests of the town Of Je- one, and the country affected by the fig cut, will give q total Of $500,G0 lore. The new county proposed, will. hen, have an independence of its own nd in it's establishment, will neces- arily escape in the future a righteous egard Oe it's wealth. which under con itions not prevailing even now in poll ics, it must sooner or later come face 0 face with, however. The propCsi- ion is a gigantic one, but what does
 mighty corporation fear if it can Onquer. Principles are no more to it han the men they can handle. They now it, and the writer can substanti- te it as coming directly from one of hem
 .-Ne heIi1ve if ic tho dI1tv of every onscientious taxpayer in Yavapai, re- ardless or political belief. to candidly nd sOlemnly consider this hybrid Further, we believe for the resent the people a. large in Arizona bouid likewise reflect on the merits of his overt act to slash and retard lnmunitN that today is giving 10 Ari-