The Phoenix herald., 1880-07-30
ararIcopa Republcans Address,.

The undersigned committee hay
 ing been appointed to prepare a cir cular letter to the Republicans of
 Maricopa county, in compliance with
 its duty submits the following:
 At meeting of the Republicans of this county, held in Phoenix, on the
 10th day of April. 1880, Gt having
 been understood that the Democrats
 had effected an organizatien) it WAS
 determined that complete and thor
 ough organization of the Republican
 party should be made; believing that
 such organization would afford the
 best guarantee that good men would
 be put in nomination for the various
 offices to be filled at the November
 election
 Having determined upon such or
 ganiaztion let every Republican,
 every lover of good government rally
 to the good old Standard. and earn
 cstly strive to do his duty to himself
 his neighbor and his county. And although we have no voice lu nation al politics let us not forget that we have a country, that that countr is 1 the United States of America. and | that belief in the United States as i Nation, not as Confederation, is | one of the fundamental principles of | the Republican party.
 Let us not forget that the Repub lican party is the party of progress and improvement; that it has given us :; national currency based upon the standard value of coin; that it has fostered and encouraged the com merce of the country; that it has aid ed and resisted in all reasonable ways the development of all the industrial pursuits; that popular education by means of free schools for the benefit of the masses has always been and is now prominent feature in the Re publican platform.
 Let us stand pledged to them and all the principles enunciated by the Republican Convention at Chicago; pledged to support and uphold ihe Republican party throughout the country Tn all it's measures, looking to the advancement and development i of our country.
 In our Territory, fast growing in wealth and population as it is, with : an assurance that soon we shall be admitted and take our place among i the old historical States, as an equal with them, let us strive to make our selves worthy of the honor we hope , so soon to recei~e. To this end let f every Republican remember his duty |, and do it, that we may he represented f in Washington by a Delegate nomi- I hated and elected as Republican; : that our Superintendent of Public [ Instruction shall be man every way F qualified for the office, whose whole ', heart and soul in his work, whose - only ambition is to eXcell in that | work to which he has devoted his life.
 While thus faithfully performing ' our duty as citizens of the United States, and of the Territory, we must E that our local officers are If immediate importance 10 ourselves md that it is the duty of every voter O interest himself in our local govern G nent and to so direct his actions as q o mitigate as far as possible the q burden of taxation under which we x LOW labor, as well as to avoid the ,AOCtApti OA 0ISSA HUH tO Ol- U ice, either county or territorial, who 4 nay seek, for their own gain, to in e .reaSe our burden by a further in- D rease of our bonded indebtedness [ The present debt of our county mounts to ab0u3 sixty-fve thousand a: lOllars and the warrants upon our ounty t.easury are subjected to pI liscount of thirty cents on the dollar. al Ne boldly charge this deplorable fl condition of our financial affairs to he bad management and defalcatiOn n office upon the part of Democratic oi ficials. ht To this burden of debt which the ar resent revenue of the county, at the ighest rate of taxation possible, up n the assessed valuation of the coun 7, could not cancel in three years c, allowing nothing for current eX- Pl enses) there is now sought to be 21 breed upon us the sum of one hund- ed and fifty thousand dollars. This be ct Is also directly chargeable to the party of this county. ad As Republicans then let us all stand re ,gether. First, pledged to resist every co leasure that will increase the coun te, : indebtnesS without some compen- m lting benefit; second, for retreEch- lent and reform in every branch of to 1r county government until it's war Ints upon the Treasury shall stand q par valuation; third, irrevocably oposed to that bribery and corrup- - on which has bought up foreign ,te whose legal right to the election anchise is more than questionable, - Id with a power thus obtained, has ndered the vote of American born E tIzen, inert and of no avail in the H loice of the officers who hold the E ms of county government; fourth, edged to use our best efforts for ch legislation as will secure the were punishment of bribery, in ections or of parties in office, either srritorial or county; fifth, pledged the support of every measure that Ivances the educational interests of A IT county and Territory; sixth, op s.. ito all sectionol envy, jealousy V Id i'll feeling by which one section our county or Territory may seek disparage another in order to se- eA re it's own advantage.
 J. E. WHARTON, H
 WI. ISAAC, Committee. Pre-
 WM. 4. HANCOCK Hil IqI
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