Arizona republican., 1911-03-03
'DE PASS DELIVERS
 ANOTHER UPPERCUT
Explains Animus of Attacks on Rail
 way Commission.

| tiAS pdZtllr yesterday. II IS not sur
 prising that he again took advantage of his position with the Maricopa i County Commercial Club by crawling
 behind that organization and claiming | the Commission is trying to disrupt
 the Club
 1 IL is absurd for this little man to delegate so much importance to him. | self as to assume that truthful statement made of him personally,
 was intended to apply to a body of ! business men. and il is surprising that ! the latter permit him tO use the name 1 Of their organization for the low pur- pose of furthering his own ambitions 1 by villifying public officials. who have the real interests of the Territory at heart Men Of Jones calibre are too cowardly to fight in the open. and the yellow streak will invariably come to the surface This fact was strongly evidenced by his alluson to ! me as only 'an ordinary rate clerk. % and this from man who was dis charged by his last railroad employers for incompetency. neglect of duty and other good and sufficient reasons. This self styled traffic expert is not only
 
 and frivolous attacks on the present members of the Commission. but has. in the not remote past. through the columns of his boss yellow sheet. at tempted to explain rate matters and methods of rate-makinG. Scientifically for the enlightenment of the Arizona Railway Commission and actually attempted that ridiculous absurdity when the Commission had as a member. d traffic expert. who. in experience and knowledge of traffic matters. has forgotten more than Jones will ever know. and SO far OutclaSses Jones that it were absurd tO even draw q com parison between the two. l refer to MT NJ Q. Bicllncll
 The people of Arizona will be in terested in learning from the vicious attacks made by Jones on the Rail- way Commission through the columns of the afternoon MugWump. that Jones. the traffic editor of that sheet has placed Arizona in a rate zone of which Phoenix is the terminus and pivotal point on which rates to all other points in the Territory should he based and he indignantly denies the right Of Flagstaff. Tucson. Ben son, Bsbee. Douglas and other points east of Phoenix and considerably nearer the Eastern shipping points. to lower rates than Phoenix. and thinks il Imaginable joke that Yuma. King man. Globe. Nogales. Clifton. etc. should feel entitled to at least as low rates as Phoenix.
 Since when did this self styled traf- fic expert become the dictator of the rate adjustment for the entire Terri tory? He brazenly and biatently pro claims that HE alone secured the recent reduction in rates to Phoenix. and now denies the right of any other town in the Territory to secure a proportionate adjustment.
 Is it any wonder that representa- lives and delegates from other DOT tions of the Territory throw the hooks into Maricopa county" on cer- tain occasions. when such shallow. narrow minded selfishness is permit ted to be publicly displayed. even from such a source and through such a channel as the MugWump?
 AS comparative example of the recent adjustment of class rates from
 
 Arizona. the rates from St Louis to phoenix were reduced 4 per cent: to Tucson 14 per cent. to Benson 9ls per cent: to Bisbee less than S per cent: to Douglas less than per cent: to Yuma less than per cent: to Globe less than 2 per cent and to Nogales less than per cent while the rates to Clifton and Morenci are higher than they were prior to the adjustment of January 2nd.. and are even higher than the rates to Phoenix. though formerly they were considerab- ly lower.
 II is hardly necessary for ma to state that the members of The Ari- zOna Railway Commission are in hearty sympathy with the purposes and efforts of any and all commercial organizations in the Territory work ing for the betterment of their local conditions and the advancement of their business interests. but the con temptible methods pursued by Akers and Jones. while using the name of the Maricopa County Commercial Club as cloak. in giving vent to their per sonal animosity toward. and jealousy bl. lllf ilfiiiDtIS ail litt IttlNdA 'biii- mission. and stirring up strife and dis cord among men who really have the public interest and welfare at heart. ! will not he sanctioned by any honor able men
 These two character assassins" have been yelping and snapping at the heels of the Railway Commission like pack of hungry terriers ever since their own hopes of being ap- l pointed on the Commission were blasted. and they have heretofore l been considered too small and insigni- i ficant to even he kicked aside. but | there comes time when. for the good of the community. such reptiles should | he crushed and eXterminated. The writer realizes that in replying to the attacks that have recently appeared in the Gazette. he is prob ably lowering himself in the estima- ton of his acquaintances. but these parasites have written such vindic- tive lies. both outright and by innuen- do. about the Railway Commission. while pompously posing as moulders of public opinion. that I feel that to some of their misguided readers is due an explanation of the real facts | also realize the futility of at tempting fo refute the lihelous state ments of these men. in which there is