Arizona republican., 1901-09-30
THE BENIGHrED EAsrERNER
A Story of the Presidents Journey
 Through Arizona

The effort to impress upon the peo- pc of the east correct notions regard ing Arizona is as discouraging as the effort of the missionaries to civilize the benighted nations of the ear,h. The July number of Railway and Loco- motive Engineering contains an ac- count of the Presidential Trip to Cal ifornia.' It was written by Angus Sinclair who says he got his inforEna- ton from MT. Charles A. Moore Of New York who was a member of the presi- dential party. Mir. Sinclair adds that MT. Moore was indebted to President Charles M. Hays of the Southern Pa- citic for the data upon which the very inaccurate story of the trip is based No one should for d minute surmise that this incident has had anything to co with the severing of the relations between MT. Hays and the Hartman interests though this story and the earliest rumor of Mir. Hays resigna- tion were coincident.
 MT. Sinclair changed the topography manner. He turned Maricopa into mountain resort and there he says the train stopped for seventeen hours for the purpose of giving the party the benefit of the brac:ng mountain air to fortify them for the most enervating part of the jourhey that lay beyond"
 No reasonable person who knows both gentlemen can doubt for an in stant that Perry Williams or J. " Edwards inspired that particular mis- statement. Mir. Sinclair continues:
 The party was given an opportunity to make a side trip up the Maricopa & Phoenix railway to Phoenix, the capi- tai of Arizona The principal attrac- tion there seemed to be famous gold mine into which the most of the party descended" If MT. Sinclair had come to Phoenix any time in the week fol- lowing the visit of the president, or had read some of the democratic news papers of this territory on the sub jects of capturing or kidnapping" ne would have learned that that famous gold mine was not within the corpo- rate limits of Phoenix.
 The presidential train after many vicissitudes climbed back to that aiti- tudinous mountain resort, Maricopa. ito resume the schedule. A run of about six hours through the silent night took the train to Yuma. the cap ital of the state" What state 7 in the name of HeaVenA MT. Sinclair had already invested the territory with one capital. Did he think it has as many as one of its most celebrated inhabi-
 
 that there was an unknown state, q terra inccgnita lying somewhere be- tween Arizona and California? It should be stated that none of these ex- t.aordinary facts were given cut by MT. Moore, who is business man of wide reputation and a well informed gentleman. The writer certainly scrambled the data.
 Mir Sinclair is evidently a gentleman of intelligence, and even of education. though it is equally evident that he is not much given to correctness or cetafI He Is a pleasing writer, and in this case. had ample opportunity to col lect accurate information. If such men as Mir. Sinclair have such vague mo- tisns about Arizona. it is d wonder that the average man has ever heard of the territory. Surely the boards of trade and immigration bureaus and commissioners of the territory have much to do for the conversion of the customer who sitteth in darkness.
 The startling geographical misinfor- nation possessed by MT Sinclair re- garding an important division of his own country is in strong contrast with the marvellous accuracy of Kip,ing in Captains Courageous in which he describes d journey through Arizona over the Santa Fe. He even describes the points where grades cf the road begin and end. One who has passed over the santa Fe many times after reading that story sees many things which he had not noticed before but of which Kipling had in some way be- come cognizant.
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