Arizona republican., 1911-05-28
The Impending Catastrophe.

! COCnlSe county IS ready to join lT a concerted movement to remove the scapital from Phoenix to Tucson. Dear old COchise is willing to do more than this, she is ready to take the initia- tive in the movement if others will not. And that is not all. We propose
 to remove the territorial insane asy- ! lum to a more suitable locality, to | transfer 1t to Flagstaff where is a ! better place, Phoenix being entirely too hot in the summer for the best interests of the unfortunate insane ! and the climate at Flagstaff being al- most ideal. Phoenix and Maricopa lcounty have not only tried to, but have ! 'hogged the game in Arizona They ! have done so too long. We of Cochise have stood it as long as we will and are ready to act. If Phoenix had ever been reasonable, she might expect something. That's the trouble She has always expected and demanded everything. Usually she has got it. bur this is going to end. From now on. Phoenix must and shall learn that she is not all of Arizona, but a very small slice of a very big country. We mean business in Cochise and other counties will align themselves with us for the movement, as Phoenix has es-
 tranged herself from nearly every
 city in Arizona and Maricopa from
 practically all of the other counties" ,"
 Prom an interview with District At
 torney Williams of Cochise county. in
 the Tucson Star
 MT. Williams is really too modest
 by half in outlining his program. Why
 be content with a mere removal of
 the capital and of the asylum for the
 insane? We beg leave to amend his
 motion by providing for the removal
 of the Roosevelt storage reservoir and
 dam to Tucson; the removal of the
 Salt River to Bisbee; the removal of
 the newest buildings from Phoenix to
 Tombstone, and the removal of the
 Grand Canyon to Dos Cabezas. All
 of these propositions will be practical
 under the provisions of the "nishativ and reffyrandum," which Williams and the Star propose to invoke for the removal of the capital
 The people up this way have a right to know the reasons for the calamity which is destined to overtake them. Mir. Williams tells us quite definitely what is to happen to us, but he is provokingly vague in describing his grievance in the remarks we have quoted. Phoenix has hogged the game" he says. But how? An! we have it. Reading his manifesto fur ther, we learn that the tentative plans of the territorial administration for the construction of a system of terri torial highways have not received the approval of District Attorney Williams of Cochise county.
 As a matter of fact, even if Terri torial Engineer Girand were to insist on having his plans approved by Will jams, and were Governor Sloan and Auditor Mauk to refuse nourishment or decline the services of barbers un- LII llltS lldu Dttu ptTIlllItu 10 proceed with the approving pax vobiscum" of Mir. Williams, the distress of these would have to continue for a while, anyhow, and Phoenix for at least brief period of mental torture would have to contemplate the possi- | bility of capital removal by MT. Will | iams-for, misfortunately, the terri l torial administration has not yet de- | cided upon the definite location of the l territorial highway in Cochise county l The fact that there had been no defi- | lite location was made plain by Gov ernor Sloan in a public statement at Tucson last week. Incidentally, it is lot clear to us how Tucson has ac- Iuired a grievance because of the 1 unfinished plans for the Cochise county highway. Tucson is located in Pima county