Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-28
HUNT PAYS HIS RESPECTS
 ID CRITICS
President of Council Replies to False Utterances of Repub. Iican Press on Railroad Leg station
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PHOENIX. Ariz.. Feb. 26.-The a,. 'entiop of George ". F. Hunt. HHesi dent of the council. hsVing been cat d to the unfriendly criticisms di rected toward him and some of his fellow members ty certain teTritor.ai newspapers. with particular reference to q recent conference between the Democratic members of the counci. ard a number of Arizona railroad. rep resentatives. Mir Hunt h3s dictated md authorized tae publication of the following interview:
 Tt has not come to my notice. said the president of the council, that any newspaper of sufficient standing in the territory or fin the community Tn which 1t Is published--to entitle 1t Co recognition. has given space to taese ill-timed aud more ill-intention ed interpretations. Nevertheless, I have no objection whatever to talk ing the people of Arizona into my confidence. and I am sure this senti- Epent Is shared by each Of the mem 5ers of this legislature, who, in com mon with myself nave been and are laboring solely In the interest of the people we were sent here to repre- sent
 '-So far as my official acts may be concerned. the Journal of the Coun- eli win speak for itself. and upon that recofd l snail be content and proud Co stand, just as l was content ahu proud to stand during the late cam Daign, upon the platform of my party, whose pledges we are now engaged in an honest and successful endeayor to fullfll both in letter and in spirit.
 With reference to the recent ua. official action. Of a number of mem eers of the Council, of whom I am one. .n meeting informally seyerai representatives of Arizona railroads ana discussing with them certain pro posed railroad legislation-or. If you choose, anti-Tallroad egislation-there s not. nor has there been, anything 10 conceal.
 If the several scathing rebukes so soercilessly visited upon the defense ssss heads of tho Democratic members If the Council, with especial reference 70 this diabolical wholesale plot to deliver the people of Arizona into the hands Of the railroad corporations which already have them hogiied, shackie6 and gagged-no, not gagged for they are speaking quite andibry through the presetn legislature-I have been most attracted, not to say sascinated, by a unique production Ehicn appeared in the Bisbee Evening Miner. It purported to contain an authentic account of the mysteriousIy secret or secretly mysterious confer sv. ha certainly to be complimented upon 6he Temarkable journalistic enter price with which he secured an al most wholly foundationless account of che proceedings which were widely and freely reported and discussed by every councilman immediately after adjournment. This quite stupendous fOurnaltstic effort was courageously signed by the well known and higdly esteemed writer whose pseudonym is Walter Welldone'-whoever that is [ am constrained to confess that fl the pseudonym bears reference to whal che writer got when the story was told him, 'Welldcne' could hardly have been improved upon, but if perchance Et relates to the liquids with which taC writer must have been surrounded while engaged ia his mental effort, suggest that < might with apprPri ateness be amended to 'Wilidrown.
 After falseiy-but doubtless inno gently, since ne was Weildone-asserJ ing that the repreheusible conference zas held at the office of Frank Cox Southern Pacific attorney, the Miner, Euthority states that the caucus was called for the purpose Of deciding that tbere should be no railroad legisiatior ct this session. and the reason fO' calling in the Democratic cOunciineI Eas to break the news as softly a' possible
 The fact that the meeting Wss really held in the Cfiice oi Judge Der Goodrich, Democratic councilman rom Cocaise county, detraets but iit gle, perhaps, from our authors Well done faeetsoasness, but the further face that every Democratic member O Sie legislature. including those Wh' Eere not afEaid tO discuss The ma, Ser with the railroad representative araye since voted for and passed oii creating a railway commission the very legislation which the com oanies most feared and most strenu ously oppoSed-vOuld Indicate tha s1e news that there was to be no rail road legislation was broken so sOftl mat it was not even heard
 ''Brsefiy, the facts of the conferenc
 which was wide open-and the prt ceedings. of which aA one so dis posed might have secured truthtu account. are these:
 Tn the midst of our battle for som legislation designed to regulate ta railroads of the Territory and give th people relief from excessive and dii crfminating freight ard passenge charges l was advised that a coniel ence with certain railroad represent; eives who were authorized to speak 10 che companies operating in Arizon gas solicited, and as an .nducemeI for the conference the company repr' sentatives had signifed their wiilin' aess to agree to certain concession sn the way of passenger and freigf tariffs. I stated that l would conseT 70 no compromise which would in an Eay affect the creation of a railwa g,o~nu,fsetoa and that wound net