Arizona republican., 1911-12-08
PHoENIx. ARIZONA. DEC. s. 1911.
In Re the Gazette.


 Recently The Republican paid som' little attention to an article in tho Gazette on the advisory recall for the federal judiciary" And that article seemed so funny that it is barely pos sible The Republican handled it in 8 rather flippant manner. It would seem so at all events, for now comes the Gazette and in awfuIly sarcastic lan- guage conIesses that it did know exactly what it was talking about in that article The Republican is al ways willing to admit an error; so, if the esteemed Gazette-really and truly. cross its heart-says it knew ali the time that federal judges are not sub ject to any such mummery as the ad- visory recall. why. just consider that the sackcloth has been twined and the ashes sprinkled. But it is SD rare for the Gazette to be informed on any subject that. really. The Republican should be excused for thinking its funny article was in line with a dozen or so others that have appeared re- gently. Also. it thought that if the Gazette had any Knowledge upon the subject it would have given some evil dence of it in that article and not wait for another occasion to display its wisdom.
 Now. just read this bit of sarcasm. It's from the Gazette-honest. it is:
 The constitution itself was d huge joke. F'ine irony. thatJ Its adoption by eighty per cent. of the people was Imaginable"
 But not half so laughable as the Gazette's adherence to that hoary old tiradiddle. Stick to it, old man. You'll believe it yourself one of these days
 For the information of any stran- gers who may happen to be in town the constitution was adopted by about 76 per cent. of the people who voted or about 40 per cent Of the whole electorate
 And since the first line of the con- stitution was written. The Repub- lican has never heard anybody say it was joke And. while it hates to say it. it really doesn't believe the Gazette has any information of that kind. either
 Its a discOuraging thing to try to make The Republican understand the English language.-Gazette.
 Maybe so, maybe SO The sort of English in which the Gazette is wont to express those mental abortions it mistakes for thoughts would puzzle anybody.
 Then. the Gazette refers to the Min nesota rate case, which was decided by Judge Sanborn. and in which the court still further restricted tiie power of the state over railroads. For which the Gazette proceeds to jump all over Judge Sanborn rough shod
 This is remarkable-or, rather. in the case of any other paper it would be remarkable-for two things:
 First-it is only a few short weeks since the Gazette, in double leaded screamer type, as loud as a fresh mans socks. proclaimed that the Min nesota outrage was perpetrated by the supreme court of the United States.
 GOT course, the Gazette probably wouldn't know the difference between the supreme court and a district court so that statement would be superflu- out)
 Second-The Sanborn decision up- held the very thing for which the Ga zette has been ranting for more than a year. That is. it enlarged the pow CTS of the government and restricted the powers of the railroads. IL took the power from the state railway commission and placed it in the hands of the interstate railway commission.
 Yet. the Gazette says. without know ing at all what it is saving. that Judge Sanborn leaned so far toward the corporations that he fell upon the law Until the decision in the recent Missouri case. The Republican had all ways believed the supreme court of the United States would overrule the Sanborn decision; but this is the first