The Arizona sentinel., 1900-10-24
Another from Spectator.

were simply wasting ammunition. Il your premises are correct, we'll you MT. Sun, may congratulate yourself that the potaao in question was rotten, not "specked;" for if it had been sound and hit you as hard az the rotten one seems to have done, there might be more wailing and weeping in this sum- kissed vicinity.
 You seem to think I have it in for MT. Timmons; not so, my lord. But he seemed to stand in range ofmy little pop-gun and got most of the charge.
 Well, you say the potato was rotten, and the allegation not so, anyway, then why use so much space to negative an unasserted proposition? Mir. Timmons, for al know, may now be what Web ster, Choate or Marshall was at his age who knows? But 1 still say that the county needs in the district attorneys office a man of education, legal and lit erary-besides some brains and modi- cum of common sense and a little ex- perience. Mir, T. may have all these requisites; hope so, T have them not. !" Now, Mir. Sun, what intended was to call the attention of the Valley folks and some of those gents over in the other end of the county to this habit of making up states. You know as we'll as I do that there were two of those slates, one from the valley for Mir. Yocum and others, and another from over east headed by MT. Ives and his friends; and it was pull Dick, pull devil, which of the two should get the few votes from Yuma and the other precincts.
 These gentlemen from each end of the county should be little more cour- teous. And, besides, am opposed to rings inside the party. Everyone in Yuma county cannot but welcome the good settlers of the valley; they are valuable aquisition to any community; but let them live here long enuugh to know the points of the compass before they assume to rule the political desti- nies of the county. Several men like MT. Fitch and others have come into the territory-aye, and into the county to get offices now existing, or to be- come existent when Arizona becomes state.
 Oh, no, Mir. Editor of Sun, some of your nominees are good men, and 1 shall vote for some of them. My only complaint, if you please, is--give us a little more modesty in our demands, and when we get into new barnyard don't let us get on the straw pile and crow out loud that we are the only cocks of the walk.
 Now, as time softens grief, as it will this, Specked-tater is growing more aged as well as soft, so if it again strikes the Sun it may annoy it, as these flies are annoying me; but it will not hurt you or anyone down the valley, or else where.
 Yes, know it is cowardly to write over an assumed name. Well, 1 never was very brave-like the author Of Junius's letters and some otbers-I wish I knew their names-don't you?
 see that Judge Lee has aired his opinions through the Sun (they are 'sun-dried) relative to MT. Ives and, in- cidentally, MT. Carpenter. MT. Lee says MT. Ives, as wellas MT. Carpenter, is an honorable gentleman. Quite concession in these days of cynycism- and that they are both eminently quail flied to be councilman; yet he alleges that MT. Carpenter stands on no plat form. Mir. Lee is mistaken; Carpenter stands on the broad platform of com mon justice, humanity and fair dealing between men. He has always worked for the interest of Yuma county, and your penitentiary would be elsewhere today were it not for Harry Carpenter. AS Mir. Lee says, they lives and Car penter) are both good men. We have tried Carpenter in many cases and found him pure gold, and now in these troublesome times, when the office seeker is abroad in the land, is it wise to trade horses while we are crossing stream? Remember the maxim of Lincoln. We have in Carpenter man whom we have tried and always found ready to go; he never balks. MT. Ives may be cast in like mould-but who knows? We all know Carpenter.
 Now adieu for the present; but in the future let us not out-hanna Hanna.
 As the Sun suggests, will sign my name,
 ROTTEN POTATOES.