Arizona republican., 1904-10-18
The Ethics of the Salary Question.

AHC LtlilSS Oi liiC OdAdI y QuSSlEOus
 Our esteemed friends, the Hon.
 Windy Bill" Cleary and the Hon. Flu
 gene O'Neill. are prolific of oratory
 just now. They are attorneys for the
 defense in the case of The People of
 Arizona versus Marcus Aurelius Smith.
 To the several counts of ineficiency
 in the indictment brought by the peo-
 pie against MT. Smith. Cleary and
 O'Nein interpose a sort of demurrer.
 While forced to admit the facts pre-
 sented against MT. Smith, these law
 yers plead that the indictment ought
 to be thrown out because-B. A. Tow Ter is in receipt of a salary! In numer-
 ous public meetings heretofore they
 have been counted among those who
 said that the petty salary paid Mir
 Fowler as president of the Water Users association is earned by him, several times over, but they have sud denly found that it is a grave offense for Mir. Fowler to be candidate for another office while in receipt of this salary.
 The records show, we believe, that during the time in which MT. Fowler has been paid a total of S3,COO for his priceless services in the negotiations between the people of the valley and the government of the United States. MT. Cleary has received the sum of s7,50o for his services as special coun- sel for the local stockholders of the various canals controlled by the cor PoratiOn of which he is the efficient manager. To be sure, these stockhoId- CTS are protesting that they did not want these services, and that the same were inimicaI to their interests, but that is not to the point. MT. Cleary has been receiving one or more sal aries. and during that time has been a shining light in politics. If no office that it is not his fault.
 MT. O'Neill, we believe, has been in receipt of no salary-from the public but that is not his fault, either. Barkis is willin'. we are sure. But MT. O'Neill has "done the state some service" nevertheless. He is remem- bered as one of the traveling boosters for MT. Hearst during several weeks last spring. MT. Hearsts unfortunate campaign, it is said. cost him s3.O0O.- oOo How much the expenses" were in Arizona has not been disclosed. But of course MT. O'NenTs high-minded belief that TO man should be in poIi- ties while in receipt of a salary should clear him of any suspicion that his bank account was fat;ened al the expense of MT. Hearst.
 And there's G. Purdy Bullard, as sistant district attorney-the voiceIess. 1 the silent, Bullard. Being in receipt of a fat stipend from the county, BuHard cannot be induced to open his mouth on politics. getting to be the readiest weeper in the United States. and he sheds tears, big as biscuits, at the thought of Mir. Fowler's salary. And MT. ] Smiths weeping over the Fowler sal ary incidentally brings to light the Aei~t NhaA uullIB lHE lOIS years that Smith has been in congress the SSOO GOO | paid over to him in salary and mileage were turned back into the federal 1 treasury. For nobody can believe, l since MT. Smiths sensitiveness cn the salary question has been estab- We say, can believe that MT. Smith has accepted the salary of 5000 year set aside for him by Uncle Sam while he has been making his repeated campaigns in Arizona. It is possible that during the time he was actually engaged in getting Arizona into the union along with Utah, MT. Smith deigned to accept his salary. but our readers can rest assured that he regularly sent back his pay checks on all other occasions.
 And that's why Windy Bill" and Eugene and Marcus have Fowler in