Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-08-17

get.rich. quick scheme, strike the gay capital of the world, after mad whirl of pleasure, in such blue funk that they send for reporters to take down their indigo. We conjure Frank M. Murphy of Prescott to be of better cheer. God reigns and the government at Washington still lives.
 "We are suffering from too much Roosevelt" says he, and he groans out at the last, in the extremity of his gout, that the conservative Republicans and Democrats of the country must get together and defeat present tendencies or all is lost. The printing of this jere- miad in the Democratic press is evidence enough that the most conservative conservatives are getting together already, regardless of party lines, and that they will support Bryan, as MT. Hartman long ago announced that they would. Mir. Murphy's indigestion is late. Mir. Hartman got it first, and without going to Europe. It was while sent for an interviewer and announced himself ready to support Bryan because Bryan party could be easier controlled than the one now in power. The get rich-quick men of the last ten years all have indigestion. It was Hartman who set the fashion of the bilious interview, which Mir. Murphy follows. With Mir. Hartman it is old enough to have be- come chronic. With Murphy of Pres cott it is still acute, and there may be hope for him.
 Let him think on Prescott, and that railroad line of which he is president, which stretches down from Prescott to Phoenix, and more on its route as it bends eastward to old Santa Fe. Across that old wilderness, less than thirty years ago, there was a star mail route, serving coyotes and buzzards and the old greasers who inhabited the adobe huts by the side of the long trail. It was devil track in the devil 's land, yet the government had expedited v that star route until, six months before the federal grand jury began its investi- gation, it was costing the postotiice de partment a quarter of million year, with no lid on extras or incidentals. The men who were behind that steal, and other steals like it, were denouneing the Republican administration then in power and which was prosecuting them as being opposed to progress, !" detrimental to business interests, /" "retarding the development of the country" and "paralyzing exchanges. !" Some of the men interested in the star now denouncing Roosevelt with more of vulgar vituperation than others have ever used. Frank M. Murphy of Prescott should beware of them. They have never made or unmade a presi- dent It was not until after the star route between Prescott and Santa Fe was wiped off the map that the country between those points began developing in way to eventually justify the build ing of the railroad line of which the bilious Frank NJ. Murphy is now presi dent. His road may even follow the old trail along which the stages used to run. Arizona has been booming since the old star route along that trail ceased expediting" it. Coyotes and taran- tulas have grown scarcer, but there is a marked increase in the population which does not sleep in its clothes and die with it's boots on. One of these, we have no doubt, is Frank M. Murphy of Prescott. Prescott is a good town. Arizona is great country. We have no doubt that the melancholy Frank M. Murphy will be able to continue making living there.