The Coconino sun., 1913-08-15
ANOTHER PITIFUL VAIL

ably IS an admlSSlOn that us aruC- les did not mean anything, their effort to swipe the very heart out of Coconino county and leave 1t to patch together the scattered remnants, was only pipe dream. If Van has been hired to divide the county, he should do 1t. While he does not know where the pro- posed dividing line is, 1t makes no difference to him, he should cleave it in two.
 Lives there man with soul so dead that his heart will not flop about like a fish on dry land when he reads the pitiful paucity of this painful panegvric of pantamor- phic mind! No? Yes?
 He says: The conditions in Coconino county are no secret. Every one understands how at least one great fortune has been built up in this northern section of Arizona. Everyone understands just how great that influence brides itself on its guiding propensity, on its power to dictate this and dominate that; to threaten, ridi- cule, ruin, anything and every thing to anybody and everybody who dares get in the way ot the juggernaut."
 An ha! No grinding heels this time on their necks while they are throwing stones at the birds. One certain fortune was built up by some one who had brains enough to do it this wasn't made in Williams, so soak him. Soak anybody, it's a great argument for county division. Drag out the '''iigglednutt," even if it has to be imported, and run it over lem all. More court houses, more offices and more county seats are needed by the poor and needy clique at Williams.
 And then another spoonful:
 "So the attitude of the Coco
 
 just little remnant away out here on the edge of the west of that spirit which Uncle Joe Cannon epitomized as standing pat"
 It is a fact, one at least that the News has come right out in the open and admitted. The attitude of the Sun is no mystery. Thank heaven for that. Some less astute an individual might have miscon- strued our attitude on the county division question.
 This lugging in of Uncle Joe Cannon was master stroke-the people now know he has been fighting against county division too. He is deadly interested, so vote for it. He also stands pat. A man should stand somewhere at least long enough to let the people know where he is--the clique at Williams never will stand pat; no, nor even stand the exposure of the fine little job a bunch of them have been trying to put up on the tax payers. so- The editor of the News and MT. Maddock have a perfect right to boost Senator Ashurst in their paper every week in the year-it may be a part of their contract, or their duty morally and mentally. This has nothing specially to do with Uncle Joe Cannon or county division, besides Uncle Joe might hear of the spanking he is get ting and be really peeved. If the editor of the News was really astute he would follow a good example by breaking into the re- publican party, then with dem- ocratic paper to back him, he could work both ways more sue cessfully. Senator Roberts and MT. Maddock had right to frame up any job they could make stick, but two such astute men should have followed their percentages up and not be toiled by mere clerk.
 So far as we can see the heroic wall of our neighbor on the west is leading nowhere; it is not an argument or statement of fact mere ring g-around-a rosy sort of an affair, with no facts to warrant it, merely bellyaching vail in hopes that some one will pitty the clique and assist them in grabbing off few fat jobs at the expense of the people. A few reasons that an ordinary thinking man would consider have never been given by the deviders. The main reason is now and always has been-We want it.