Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-12-16
Frank Murphy Takes His
Life in His Hand ana
Will Remain in Arizona
Despite Warnings" of
Gazette.
RAILROAD BUILDER
IS FEELING GOOD
And Though He's a Pretty
Fair Thinker He Can't
Quite Understand Logic
Of the Afternoon Papers
Arguments.

It's easy enough to be pleasant,
When life goes along like a song.
But the man worth while is the man
who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong
+. M.Murphy, Of Prescott, was in
Phoenix yesterday accompanied by
Nh. and Mrs. +. p. Cruice The
latter viii remain in Phoenix for a
DAY or two visiting relatives. but Mr.
Murphy left last night for Tucson to
attend business meetings to be held
there today. He expects to return
10 Phoenix this evening or tomorrow
and then go direct To Castle Hot
Springs To spend a day or two.
Mr. Murphy's face was beaming
with smiles of optimism as usual. in
fact, was about the sunniest feature
OF the local scene yesterday, unless
one might except the face Of Ralph
Cameron. who came back on the
morning train from the south. where
ho was caught in a snow storm in
Dear Old Cochise" on the 18th and
from which he had just dug his way
out Mr. Cameron wore an illumin-
alton that made Sunny Jim look like
sour ban; and no man 10 witness
his cheerfulness would imagine for a
minute that he had just lost a tail
hold on the biggest thing he ever
went after
But getting back to Mr. Murphy
and his smiles, the thought came un-
Willingly whether he had been in
formed concerning the details of the
disaster that occurred hereabout on
the 18th instant Asked how he felt
about the election. he said he would
freely admit that he was diSap-
pointed, as he believed most people
were who realized what a great op-
p"rtunity had been cast aside. But
il is not Mr. Murphy's way 10
grieve overmuch or unnecessarily
long about that which cannot be help
cd.
Good Judgment requires a careful
analysis OF every situation. an ad-
mission Of the facts and thereafter a
trimming of the sails Of ones craft to
whatever sort OF simeon may be
raging.
Analyzing the situation he said the
democrats being now in absolute con-
troll of the new state il will be up
u them To see that the rights of citi-
zens, taxpayers and all are not
abused. Mr. Murphy confidently be-
lieyeS that Arizona is going To suffer
q good deal as a result of the de-
feat of the principal republican can
didates, for with republican senators.
a republican representative and a re-
publican governor the new state
would have started under more fav-
cradle auspices.
Mr.. Murphy was asked if he had |
seen the article in the Gazette re-
commencing his withdrawal from the |
territory. He said he had been told |
about it and il was expected that |
what little influence the Gazette had |
would be used toward driving every |
bady out Of the territory who could |
be of any use in developing either its |
Industries or its citizenship Re |
marking that the election of Hum /
means sixty or eighty thousand dol /
lars To the Gazette, as it was un-
derStood one of the proprietors had |
claimed Mr.. Murphy could not figure I
out why the Gazette should feel SO
resentful toward him for allegedlv /
creating a situation which benefits it
SO much
Pursuing this line Of thought he
said the fact of the business is that /
he has never favored any body who
would take money out of the tax
payers, and if the Gazette does make
sixty or eighty thousand dollars as
the result Of Hunts election il Is 10
be hoped the money will not come
from the taxpayers but will be fur
rished from some other source. which
the new governor may possibly be
able to arrange
\ critical inspection of the gen.
tleman being interviewed. left the
impression that his health was al
that has been claimed for il and al,
that it could have been even if the
whole republican ticket had been
elected. While he did not say it In
as many words the impression was
left that it was not his purpose to
leave AriZona,-not at least on the
GaZette'S first invitation. and his ur- |
gent engagements indicated that in
sofar as il could be done under new
conditions, it was his purpose To keep
right on building railroads and op-
ering mp mines. He believes sin
cerely that if the people had voted
differently the effect on Arizona
would have been decidedly to its bus
mess as well as its political advan-
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