Arizona republican., 1909-07-07
COMING OUT OF HIS HOLE

We are at last hopeful that Ways
 may be smoked out in the matter of the alleged perfidy of the Prin- cipal Owner, charged by the Arizona Democrat something over a month ago. But Wags does not yet state definitely that the charge is not true. It claims, however. that the accusa- tion was long ago denied by the Principal Owner in the privacy of the directory of the Maricopa County Commercial club. That may or may not be true We have not had access to the minutes of the club and though more than a month had elapsed we had never heard of such a proceeding and the public had never heard of it until last night.
 We understand, from Wags' rela- tion of the matter, which ought to have been made public earlier, that the Principal Owner and the presi- dent of the club was "on the car
 
 traitorously opposed the wishes of the club in the matter of the appoint ment of MT. Jones as member of the Arizona railway commission; that the Principal owner denied that he want ed the appointment himself and that he denied. in all and singular, the specifications of treachery that the Arizona Democrat had preferred; and especially he denied that he went back alone to Governor Kibbey's priv ate office to congratulate him upon the maintenance of his firm front against the desires of the club.
 We further understand from Wags' narration that thereupon the Princi- pal Owner was granteds full abso- lution and remission for his sins
 However, we have only Wags' un- supported statement that such a pro ceeding took place, and if the min utes show that it did take place, those of the directory who were present could have had only the Principal Owners unsupported denial of the act of vilIainy attributed to him by the Demo- crat. We know some members of the di- rectory and many members of the club to whom such an unsupported denial would be absolutely without force.
 Regarding it's further refutation of this charge of moral obliquity against the Principal Owner, Wags last night l made matters worse by the error of indulging in the following lie which | all of it's readers will readily rec ognize as a lie:
 The Gazette editorially last Friday | denied them as false. Then and since ! then, we do not see where we could | have used stronger language in de- | nunciation of the falsity of the | trumped up accusations, except by use | of that shorter and uglier word" which, however, it amounted to.
 The average reader can understand English. Wags last Friday denied nothing and it has since denied noth- ing, but has contented itself with assertions of the Principal Owners loyalty to MT. Jones. We would ask Wags to point to a single sentence yes, to a single word-in denial of or in reference to that clandestine visit to the governors chamber. In that visit and in the congratulations of fered there is the cruX of the charge against the Principal owner. So deep was the silence of Wags on that point on Friday and since then that busi- ness men generally have regarded it as a confession.
 But the quoted paragraph may be admitted as a nunc pro tune denial. Language than which stronger in "of the trumped up could not have been used," may now be considered to have been used. Somebody may be imagined to have been called by "the and uglier word," in fact