Arizona republican., 1899-07-08
THE BAcKB1TERs SCORED.

nents Of Governor Murphy's attitude Itoward mining stock jobbing schemes the Arizona Gazette has administered
 a solar plexus blow to the
 backbiters who have worked
 much injury to Arizona'G
 best interests by their malicious mis- Representations of men who are trying Ito place the territory on a substantial basis It is gratifying to see the lead
 ing democratic paper of the territory
 take such a stand, for it carries with lit the certainty that the element repre-
 sented by the Courier and other char
 acterless papers is becoming obnox-
 ious to the party to whose banner it
 has attached itself. This is what the Gazette says:
 ''The building up of a state Or ter
 ritory, county, city or town depends almcst entireiy upon the kind of peo-
 pie inhabiting either. The character of home depends upon the character of it's inmates. If the latter are dis honest, are rascally, are tricky, mean and low down the reputation of the home necessarily suffers accordingly.
 ''If the people of a city are chronic fault-fnders, obstructors of progress, slanderers of their officials and their business men, pessimists as to pros poets and not slow in giving loud voice to that pessimism, that city is retarded in growth and prosperity to just the extent that the faults mentioned ob- tain in the community.
 "In the matter of harm this kind of thing gathers as it runs the up grade In other words the injury increases in percentage as it attacks the more inn portant bodies.
 Arizona has for years been cursed by pessimists, kickers, snarlers and slanderers of the worst kind that ever infested any state or territory on the face of the globe. The reputation of Arizona is almost fixed in the east in consequence of this kind of advertise ment that is constantly going out from the mouths and the pens of this viru- lent tribe of Arizona's worst enemies, | and when some man starts in with de- | terminaed effort to place upon the | blackboard of the east a credit mark | for the grand old territory that man is at once bounced upon by the rabid ele- ment we have described and with teeth |
 
 in a way to disgust the largely pre- dominating respectable element with in the territory and to deter others from putting themselves up as targets for the vituperative abuse of men who live most easily by preying upon their fellows and who, in many instances control or own vehicles for the dis ssmination of that abuse.
 sFIHo,. ware orn of tha QrpaEPSt draw backs to any effort to induce capital, capitalists or brains to come to Ari- zona has come in the form of the pub lished abuse of the officials of the ter ritory. We venture to state that there cannot be found in any other state or territory a newspaper in the columns of which can be found such inexcus- able. unpardonable and baseless att tacks as are daily made against the officials of this territory by some Of the so-called newspapers of Arizona. This has reached the point where every fibre of decency and responsibility 1 within the territory, regardless of pol tics. cries out loudly for its ceasing. /
 "The most recent and fragrant at- .ack of the nature complained against Is directed against Governor Murphy, and, the vulgar and personal abuse neaped upon him by the foul-infesting brood has gone beyond the point where any respectable newspaper, re- publican or democratic, can afford to .emain silent and permit the outside world to believe that the decency and 'espectability of Arizona countenances l lnything of the kind. t
 1.-The Gazette is a democratic paper. ( It owes no allegiance to any corpora 6 ton or syndicate on earth. Neither Governor Murphy nor any of his rela- ives or friends own one dollar of it's stock nor is it under obligation fnan- t ,ially or in any other way to him or i hem Politically it is opposed to g Governor Murphy and his party. It S s opposed to nearly every alleged 0 1r:nciple advocated by the powers u hat placed him an position. The Ga f .ette asserts it now without fear of Il from any respectable a loIrce. that as the executive head of 'f he affairs of Arizona his official acts e annot be questioned as to their good c ntent in the interest of this territory d nd. of this people. Il 'In his recent proclamation against t. ake mining schemes in this territory ts S an official he has done we'll to make f. he expose. As a politician it may be b aid that he acted unwisely, but on W his account alone he is entitled to fl redt for the courage displayed. To e he outEtde world we say when you D cad the personal attacks made upon u i'm attribute them to one or two c, auses. Either the pessimists are at W york or some fellow with a fah5 min h ng scheme has been injured' e The fact that reputable newspapers I,e.