The Coconino sun., 1921-08-19
HE DOESN'T HAVE TO BUY THE CITIZEN


 Coconino Sun has become so much worse in re- cent weeks as to indicate that the political spleen of Colonel Fred Breen must be flooded.
 His latest attack on republican officialdom in this State is directed toward State Highway En- gineer MaddOck whom he roundly berates In his latest issue, winding up with a suggestion that the Citizen has been so friendly to Mir. Maddock that the latter might as we'll buy it outright"
 The answer to that insinuation is that, so long as Mir. Maddock continues his remarkable record in state road work, he does not have to own an inch of space in the Tucson Citizen to get it's pub lie approval, and neither does any other compe- tent public official.
 On the other hand an incompetent public of cial cannot get the approval of the Citizen as he can the Coconino Sun, merely because he holds high office. No one connected with the Citizen, in contradistinction to The Sum- is suffering from 8 perennial itch for office, past, present and future
 The state highway department is one of the best administered in this country. It is one of the glories of the republican party in this state. Its record was one of the things that contributed materially to republican victory in this state last year.
 The fling at Tom Maddock is, of course, only part and parcel of the abject kissing of the sen- atorial bigtoe in which Colonel Breen is now en- gagged Having new idol to bow down to, he is displaying all the ardentism of the recent con- vert and whatsoever things are CameroniSn are holy, and whatsoever things are not simon pure Cameronian are all wrong. Tom Madd0ck's sin in the eyes of the Flagstaff Boswell is that he had the temerity to run for the United States senate in the republican primaries last fall
 Breen is evidently one of that very group of republicans whose, course the Citizen has de nounced for some time, those republicans, alleg ed, absentee, prodigal or otherwise, who are in- sisting that every republican who did not support Cameron in the primaries is political pariah l. d. ,~-l~~ ~xfk party.
 We wish them joy of their job. When it is all over and they find that the republican party is whole lot bigger in Arizona, as elsewhere, than group of opportunists and tuncoats, they can console themselves with the reflection that they are in the same position of the Hindu as he worships his fallen idol, knowing that their god is ugly and still believing that he is great.-Tuc- son Citizen.
 We reprint in full the above editorial from the Tucson Citizen, not only because it is so amusing, but because it shows exclusively just who, in their opinion, constitutes the state administra- ton and republican pary of the state.
 The Citizen shows just who theid "big idol' is and just how much further they will go than merely kissing his big toe. Nothing was said of Senator Cameron in the short twelve-ne ed itorial which should have occasioned the tirade of the Citizen against him. The mere mention of Maddock's name and his road methods seemed to get the editor of the Citizen all "het up" and he rushes in to protect his little tin god Despite this claim that he was soundly berated," when we rather facetiously spoke of the private temple he was building with road funds at the expense of taxpayers, we had no intention of berating him. Far from it. We merely felt that he was doing his own will, regardless of the petty laws of man. His will is that of God and the republi- can party as outlined by himself. We are shock ed and deeply grieved that such harsh construc. tion should be placed upon our innocent state. ment We will leave it to Hugh Daggs, the First, who can also write good editorials, if we are not penitent However, if them few words were "beratss" we have volume of them left, and they come from friend and foe alike.
 "Maddock's sin in our eyes," as quoted from the Citizen, was not his egotistical attempt at running for the U. S. Senate. He was the only man who knew he was running He is still very thoroughly going over the results of the race with Hugh Daggs, to note just where the big idea slipped.
 Anyone but the Citizen would have known we were only Kidding" when we suggested that Maddock buy that paper where each knows the "callouses" on the others hand so we'll.
 No intimation was made that there was any one of the Citizen force suffering with the "polit- ical itch for office" That's all news to us; the Citizen should have gotten all that was coming to them long ago.
 We have number of old letter files which might clear up some few things in the rather be- fuddled mind of the Citizen editor, but prefer he would keep up to date and shoot straight, rather than wander back into the past.
 However, we are rather seriously inclined to admit what seems obvious to even the casual reader of the Citizen article that Maddock is the state administration the state and the republi- can party if he is not protected in all his doings,