Arizona republican., 1911-10-19
PHoENIX. ARIZONA. OCT. 1s. 1911
The Latest Demagogue Fake.

An interesting sidelight on the fit ness of MT. Brady O'NeilI to be a United States senatOr-assuming that a senator from Arizona ought to have ordinary regard for the truth-is found in the fake recently perpe- trated by his newspaper organ. the Phoenix Gazette
 For several days the Gazette has been throwing a variety of fits il. its local and editorial columns because of "a special train which it assert ed had been furnished by the Fl Paso X Southwestern railway com pany for the accommodation of Judge Wells and Nr E. S DePass candi- dates respectively for governor and for corporation commissioner. The in- ference sought to be conveyed throughout these sensational articles is that, notwithstanding the law for bidding free transportation or rail- way accommodations to one person to tAA' tNNAUoAOll OL VA4lt4S. Allt 1-A I dSD & Southwestern provided at Benson a free and special train for the use of these two republican candidates. Royal" and 'palatiaT" are the ad- jectives used, we believe, in describ- ing this mythical special train.
 MT. O'Neill being a special cores pondent of the Gazette, and having been at Benson on the day of this remarkable favor" to Judge Wells and Mir DePass, who else but O'Nein is to be suspected of giving the in formation" to the Gazette?
 Here is the latest editorial com ment of the Gazette on this notable event:
 Tt is funny. but it is grotesque also, that private train journey re- gently undertaken by F.. $. De Pass, member of the Arizona railroad com mission, and Judge Wells, who aspires to the republican nomination for gov ernor. These aristocrats desired to reach a given point. and what more natural than that the great Phelps Dodge interests should place a special train at their disposal2 The comedy was intensified by the fact that a regular train, containing the com mon people came puffing along a few minutes behind the special. Will it never dawn upon these people that the sovereign voters of Arizona are not looking for private train travellers, but search for a man who gets close to them, who thinks their thoughts and dreams their dreams? To date we have failed to learn of Phelps Dodge or the Southern Pacific plac- ing any private or special trains at the service of George Hunt. or Brady O'NeiIl or any of the other of the peoples candidates"
 The facts are that Brady O'Neill WAS ONE OF THE PASSENGERS on this alleged royal train.
 The whole truth puts O'Neill and the Gazette in a ridiculous light. The whole truth is simply this: On the main line of the Southern Pacific there is a train which carries a Pull man each way for the Fl Paso & Southwestern. This Pullman is trans ferred at Benson, the junction point to and from the Southern Pacific and Fl Paso & Southwestern lines re- spectively. Passengers from Phoenix for Douglas take this Pullman at Maricopa, and when connections are made at Benson, proceed over the Fl PasO x Southwestern without delay. But. the relations between the two railway companies being none too friendly, neither company will hold its trains at Benson for any consider able length of time to accommodate passengers on these twO-road Pull mans On the occasion in question, Judge Wells and MT. De Pass, and many other passengers took the Douglas Pullman at Maricopa, but upon reaching Benson they found that they were somewhat late, and that the Fl Paso & Southwestern train had just pulled out IN THE PULL MAN, with Judge Wells and the other passengers en route for Douglas, was BRADY O'NEILL. On finding at Benson that they would have to wait until late in the afternoon for an other train to Douglas. there was much disappointment all around. The most noisy of the grumblers was O'Neill. It happened that James Douglas. with his family, was also a passenger in the stranded Pullman for the city of Douglas. Being a