The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-05-14


Another bl. ter fight was due to unethica and TN
professional behavior In matters which are never
handled that way elsewhere.
Another quarrel which has been carried into
politics in Nogales division Of the shares of
corporation. People have lined up in that quarrel
one side another, without the least glimmering
of what started the quarrel or who was resnonsble
while its echoes have been heard in the courts and
before the corporation commission.
Another quarrel which shook the town, the
county and the entire territory of Arizona was be-
tween two men in Nogales, both of whom wanted to
60 as delegates to national convention They began
by splitting the local delegation continued by splitting
the county delegation and convention, and ended
with splitting the territorial convention sending to
the national convention split delegation with each
nalf seated with half votes.
The list might be EXTENDED indefinitely. TEere
Il are many differer5 matters that have caused f"c-
.tion, which have entered politics. making fractional
squarrels 1t ms; differences between parties
that made the trouble. Men respect the political
attitude one another VIII re they are in opposing
political parties andconsisently support their ticket
It is taking into politics differences other things
that make for factienal discord
-11 Nogales is not alone in these things. They
ctr all over the country And occur in big politics
as well as in small town politics. In advocacy Of
adoption of the Constitution Of the United States,
lin the Federalist Alexander Hamilton wrote
= ~ "Rivalres, anilnosities and hatreds OF leading
men toward one another will serve to make them
scrtinize their respective public acts and policies,
which will serve as protection to the public from any
great and long continued imposition by their public
servants whether in local, state federal offalrs
s,t. That is all very true.
s4r "Tne Oasis can recall conversation with Fred
Grant in Pullman car, en- route to New York, two
years after defeat Of his father for third term III
the Presidency elaid it all to Elihu B. Washburn,
who was an asprant for nomination at the National
hpHt
fight Mr.. Washburn American Minister IN
Paris during the French Commune, right after the
Franco Prussian War and he became world figure
& When General Grant an obscure tanner IN the
city of Galena, Illinois before the Civil War, Mr.
Washburn was In Congress from that district 1t was
Washburn's recommendation which secured Grant
his commission as Colonel Of the 21st Illinois Inf
Washburn urged and secured Grants appointment as
& Brigadier General then as Major General. He IN
troduced the bill creating the rank OF Lieutenant
General and urged Grant for the appointment tie
was instrumental in having Grant created General
OF, the Army, and ne supported Grants nomination
and election for the presidency twice.
3 Yet when Washburn aspired to the presidency
and opposed Grants aspirations for third term, the
Grant family became intensely hostile; while upon
the occasion mentioned in the Pullman car FRED
Grant cussed out Mr. Washburn all that is vile in
very much the way that we cuss out on announcer
), in Nogales politics.
-. There are many more similar instances that TINS
editor could cite. We have never heard men OF
opposing parties SO ugly and toward one an
other as we have heard big leaders and small ones
within the same party
asa So all this talk about political discord and fac
stona discord making Nogales different from any
other place. or its political atmosphere dfferent IRON
political atmosphere any where else is rot pure and
simple.
ssseysaa WHAT IStNIUDSLINGING?"