Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-17

An arrival yesterday in Prescott from southern Arizona, whose vocation
 keeps him out of the political arena,
 says that the canvass of Governor
 Murphy in southern Arizona is one of
 the purest political pilgrimages he
 ever witnessed, and in political circles
 of both parties such was the universal
 verdict. In Tucson and Bisbee the
 emphatic and able manner in
 which the republican nominee has
 plainly and fairly placed his position
 before the people and the fearless and
 loyal manner in which, too, he has
 upheld his official career on many
 questions to be Haunted in his face by insincere and bulldozing haranguers,
 gives his candidacy sacred regard
 by even the bitterest partisan.
 The governor has been assailed as corporation railroad candidate and as a blacklister of Arizona mines. His position in the former is that of person who was the first in Yavapai county to urge the construction of the old P. X A. c. railroad to Prescott. and the argument he advanced in the sos was later verified and fulfilled by the building of that road. In that distant day the earnestness of this question and the regard of railroad salvation to assist especially ly in min ing development, was acquecsied in without a murmur from any one, when the present road was under con sideration and building, the same ideal regard was entertained for it as before. The fact of the matter is the candidacy of Mir. Murphy is assailed on purely fraudulent grounds in re- spect to his railroad connection. If man must bear the stigma of a politi- 1 cal viper when he assists and encour- ages, by railroad building, the de- velopment of our mineral resources, and the consequent introduction of men and money, it is a sad commen- tary on the loyalty of country's aim and a rebuke to itsindustrial element. !. Yavapai, and for that matter all of Arizona, demands and deserves just i what is before us today in our railroad | existence, and for any one to cry down such channels of progressive ! and stimulating influences is wedge that drives asunder the material ad- | vancement wished and hoped for.
 Today the apathetic condition of the mining interests in districts south . of Prescott is too plain to be contra dicted, and probably the less said about it, the better. The fact re- mains, however, that the miner-whe ther he be an owner or an operator of as zealOusly today for railroad communication as did the people of Prescott when the fate of the city hung by the fiimsy thread of alarm and uncertainty.
 The picture of the past still lives and the political sentiment of the present campaign cannot erase it thinking men. The building, then, of the railroad to Crown King and the association of the Murphys with the project, should be vigor- ously pushed commercially and as sisted in even to a political extent. Governor Murphy's stand on rail roads Is to our mind a move that has associated to it the regenerating of the country commercially ly and finan- cially.
 On the other hand. his mine warn ing proclamation is also vigorously and unjustly attacked, and no one knows it any better than do the men who today are the victims of and as sociated closely to the properties that carry the odium of wildcat and in sincere merit in open speculation. The Yavapai field of mining, and the men who for generations have been quietly and earnestly working below on good shOwings, are each too sacred to be given the traditional black eye, because a wild and scheming traducer unfortunately ties himself to a prop erty near by to fleece the unsophisti- cated with in representations of the vilest hue. Such transactions strike home and, if persisted in, come back home in ten fold harm. The strug- gles of this particular section in years gone by, in its outside relations with the mining element, gave to us a re- gard, for years, that was as damnable as it was damaging. For that era to be revived is unjust, and We do be- lieve the candid and conservative miner will uphold any political senti- ment that upholds the interests of the country.
 Governor Murphy is making a flat footed and open canvass. In short, he is speaking out boldly to sustain his official and private conduct.
 Whether elected or defeated, he is right.