Arizona republican., 1908-03-13

 LATE LETTER
Attracts the Attention of
 Captain PedriCk
A Caustic Reply to That Document by a Man of Affairs.

Captain ". F. Pedrick. whose com appears beiow, is here to escape March weather in New York. Although living in practical retirement for rest. he could not resist the temp tation to voice his sentiments in rela- tion to Governor Kibbey's letter. The captain is well known about Wall street and has done his share in edu- eating that circle to a better knowl edge ot the west, and largely through the columns oe the Wall Street Jour nal. He was for many years general agent of the Maxwell Land Grant com pany in Colorado and New Mexico and was instrumental in developing the grant into an empire of itself. Mark Hanna presented his name to Mckinley for governor of New Mexico. but the captain withdrew it for busi- ness reasons. Concerning the gover- nor's letter Captain Pedrick writes:
 While residing in New York city. where my voting Is done. I have trav- ersed and sotourned in all the states and two territories west of the Mis- souri river during the past year. My observation glass for business and po-
 
 me For twenty years before remov- ing to New York, have done busi- ness throughout the entire west, and am considered fairly familiar with its interests.
 Knowing Phoenix for it's incompara- ble winter climate, 1 have chosen 1t above all other places as a spot for rest. I had selected my burrow and for the time being had become a re- cluse.
 But vixen. in an evening journal of Phoenix of Monday evening last, read a message of $500 words from the governor of this territory, to the peo- pie of Arizona, in an effort to teach them why they should insist upon their two lone delegates to the Chicago con vention being instructed for Secretary Taft, who. if shorn O. his great bur den, no republican could take excep- ton to: this voluble message from the governor. together with the bursting buds Of spring. compel me tO come forth from my hibernating burrow to cast off the cocoon of a recluse and appear in the wanted sphere of a pub licist. as perhaps I am better known in New York and Ohio.
 To Governor Kibbey's homily, with the courtesy Of the columns of the Arizona Republican. I beg pe-mis- sion to are exceptions.
 Three thousand, three hundred words necessary for the governor to tell the sheep men. cattle men, lumber men, horticulturallsts, agriculturists, drillers, hammers, etc, of Arizona why they must instruct their delegates for Secretary Taft.
 Assuredly the iab must have been difficult for Governor Kibbey. Surely 1t must, sor have met men of affairs in this territory today who will in ten lines ably show wh- those two lone some delegates should not be instruct ed for Secretary Taft's nomination for the presidency
 Imagine for 8 monment those tive Taft delegates on their Hav tu Chi cago with their burden of inst1 ctiCnS on their backs like Bunvon's Chris ian in Pilgrim Progress, looking askarce at each ether and wond .ring how they might be rid "f their pack, until the trestle oyera the little Colorado river is reached, and from the platform of the car they view the scenery. when sudden jolt from the locomotive bursts the fastenings of their burden, which drops into the abyss below with no willing hand to stay it. Then. as thev look back with the fading mountain of Superstition and terri toriaf political thraldom in the rear, and turn to behold the Delectable Mountains O. Freedom on the eastern horizon, how rapidly their pulses beat as they contemplate the privilege of exercising their best judgment in their votes for the best interests of Arizona.
 Massachusetts sends no instructed delegation. nor does its governor pro- duce a message of instructions or req sons Why Has any other governor?
 Governor Kibbey essays to instruct the citizens of Arizona to believe the republican party is divided into two distinct classes: Class "I," those who approve of the policies of President Roosevelt, and Class ''II' he terms "reactionaries.' and who he states "are in a hopeless minority. but still insists on misrepresenting and fooling the people"
 Governor Kibbey undoubtedly is correct as to the word used: ''reac- tionary;" but he has been grossly mis- informed as to it's interpretation, as has the president in his interpretation of the Revised Statutes of United States to the sorrow Of all western business during the past two years.