Arizona republican., 1900-10-29
FACTS ABOUT
 THE CANDIDATES

M- W. Messinger is treasurer of this county. He has discharged the duties of the office better than any man who has prece ded him. He improved the facilities of the office for the conveni- ence of all who have business to trans act there. Eis records have been in spect5d by . democratic grand jury and h. has bIen highly complimented on his conduct of the office. He is serv- ing his first term and is a candidate for reelection He is deserving of re- election as an endorsement of his good work. and it would De very gratifying to Mir. Messinger. But that of course, is purely personal matter. The real reason. the best and strongest reason why he should be returned is that this county has use for him right where he is. The office is the one that repre- slnts the greatest confidence of the people. It demands man of stability and unquestionable good character. The funds of the county are in his keeping and from him comes all infor- nation as to the condition of county finances. In Mir. Messlnger all these requirements are found. In MT. Mes singer an id5 al official has been secured and while there may be others in the county just as competent, there Is no positive assurance of 1t. Sure things are too scarce to be passed by, and those who really have the best Inter est of the county at heart should vote for Mir. Messilger and endeavor to innuz nee their friends to do so.
 N. A Morford is making a good run for probate judge. There is little queS- ton now of his election, and there should be none at all. He has the age. the exp rfsnce and the knowledge of the law necessary to make a good of ficiaI; all of which is not idle campaign talk. but reference to facts that have been fully proved since the briyf in cumbercy of Mir. Morfcrd in that of flee. More. perhaps, than any other single thing that aids, him in the proper discharge of his duties in his knowl- edge of local affairs. Of real estate in ter5sts. of the history. in fact. of nearly all property interests i1 this valley. In the eettHng of large estates where there are many interests 10 b. protected affairs are easily entangIed and many things have to be taken into consider alton that do not appear either in the law or in thu evidence. To illustrate. there are times when 1t is to the inter.
 est of administra tors to deal in a prej- udiced manner, or. perhaps. to conspire with appraisers in placing too low valuation on the property and effects of one who has passed beyond the da-
 fense of his own and to the loss Of either the heirs or the county. In in- stances of this kind MT. Morford can b. depended upon to act fairly. He is one of the best posted men in th- county by reason of his long residence and his close relationship to all thar has transpired here in the past twenty years. and he Is thoroughly respon- sible and reliable. No man doubts his honesty and 1t will be to the credit Of any man. whatever his politics. to say "I voted for MJrford."
 Attention is again called to the can
 didacy of F. W. Sheridan of this couII- ty for sheriff. A few reasons why re- publicans should give them their hearty support are: Because h has been hold ing up the republican banner in this county since tha time when a man would starve to death in this territory If he undertook to travel from one rs- publican ranch to another without good supply of provisions: because tho sheriff's office is one of vast importance in a dozen different ways, a fact recog- nized so fully by the democrats that they have made it the king-pin of the ticket and have exerted all their en- ergy in the past to hold on to it. an ex- ertion that has been alarmtngly pro- 6uctive of results: because Mir. Sher- idan has heretofore proved popular st HfSr1cr oir1r. the republicans have had a sheriff that they are hungry for one and now have an excellent opportunity to get him;
 because he was nominated without party disaffection and is entirely in ac- cord with the entire ticket A few reasons why democrats as well as re- publicans should support him are: Because he is the best fitted for the place of the two candidates now before ul1s. people and for that matter no bet ter candidate could have been found:
 b, cause he knows every foot of this county and as much about the rest of the territory as any man who could be called upon to follow a criminal over Ks devious trails; because he is thorough, practical bookkeeper and competent to look after the clerical and legal business of the office; because he is neither a, coward or a buffer, but a wide-awake, conscientious business man who knows what is going on and is always ready and willing to perform his duty; because he Is well and favor ably known all over the county and in making friends and keeping them he does not stop to ask a mans religion CT his politics. At all proper times he is ready to stand by his convictions. but he is not offensive in his partisan ship and appreciates the vote of democrat just as much as that of a rt- publican and when elected he will be everybody's sheriff. Phil Sheridan is strictly man of the people and the indications are that the people will verify this statement November 6.