Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-09-17
THE CLOVEN FOOT.
THE POISONED DART DIRECTED TO DESPERATE POLITICAL
 CONDITIONS.
Shameful Attack on Reputable Citizens and an Open Confession that De- mocracy Has the Man with the Money

The Prescott Courier this morning lets of the following steam:
 The information comes very straight that the republican delegation from Jerome to the republican county con vention, is at present sleeping and taking its meals in the vest pocket of Mir. Allen, the general manager of the United Verde Copper company.
 The above is nothing more nor less than a malicious statement, and any one conversant with the underhanded methods of the above sheet will readily comprehend the political mo- tives of such dirty statement.
 Why does not the Courier place be- fore its readers and the men it is en- deavoring to elect and come out flat footedly and state what it knows to be candid fact in regard to Mir. Allen and his association to the demo- cratic ticket in the past four years, and the assistance he gave that party, politically and financially and which Senator Clark testified to a few months ago on the witness stand in New York, when he stated on oath that he spent Sl0,000 to defeat John Burns, the republican nominee for sheriff of Yavapai.
 Why does not the Courier state who was the person who engineered the political machinery of Jerome for the democratic party two and four years ago.
 Why does the Courier attempt to weld to the republican party today the head man of a corporation that has at it's head a democratic United States senator, giving it everything fayorable in consideration by cow ardly silence, while with like enter prises of an unofficial republican nature it wilfully and maliciously as- sails such at every opportunity.
 Why does not the Courier publicly condemn the conduct of H. J. Allen in endeavoring to herd men like animals in view of the indisputable fact that Mir. Allen gave to the Courier's party that glittering sup port in votes for six years that elected the entire democratic ticket with the exception of one, and that one was his son-in law, a republican.
 Why does not the Courier con demn MT. Allen for this one misstepi
 Why does the Courier maintain the same old silence on Jerome's labor troubles that Mir. Allen is supposed to handle, while at the same time the Congress strike was wholesomely ventilated, and in a manner that would lead the average man to be prejudiced on one hand and kept in ignorance on the other.
 Why does not the Courier con demn H. J. Allen for riding in com pany, a week ago, with democratic candidate for office, or vice versa, and during the same week is accused of herding the republican delegates to the convention. It should take a stand on either one or the other.
 Why has not the Courier con demned Mir. Allen in his lobby tactics at Phenix that resulted in forcing a democratic legislature to kill the eight law, the mine inspection bill, and in fact every act that had for its purpose or aim the regener- alton of the workingman in security to person and other benefits.
 Why does not the United Verde and Pacific railroad core under the same taxless spleen the $. F., P. x P. does at every opportunity.
 Why does the Courier desire to classify and place in a despicable light before honest and upright man. hood, simply because they are honor able republicans, such men as J. A. Knoblock, P. P. Hastings, r. D. Myers, R. A Armstrong, J. K. Camp bell, Jake Webber, W. J. Phinazee, F. D. Martin, Dr. c. w. Woods, $. F. Dennison. Is is not a fact that a majority of these men are representa- tive business men of Jerome, who while they are conscientious citizens, are not nevertheless serfs to any man or corporation. While it is true some of them are in the employ of the United Verde company, of which H. J. Allen is the financial head in Arizona, reflects creditably on them as we'll does it on the company who has secured their services in busi- way. The men above named are over intelligent, and in coming from Jer- ome are not to be considered in any way less of a favorable regard than did those who represented the late democratic convention. We are pleased to see our sister city send such an able contingent to the Tepub- lican convention, but we are ashamed to know that there is a newspaper that will publicly characterize them as tools and financial mountebanks and subservient to any man, morally or otherwise, other than that which Is right and just to them and then country.
 On the above and other questions Of vital nature, covering financial political, legal, commercial and other industrial grounds, why has not the Courier assailed H. J. Allen in the past, and why does it not now since it today associates him politically a: a republican bribe giver. If he is that today, what has he been in the past with the democratic party. Il Mir. Allen has been right in the past, the democratic party has been wrong in all those years of its triumph. Ii Mir. Allen on the other hand is wrong today in being paraded as buyer of l af