The Phoenix herald., 1880-08-27
SUCCESSFUL STEWART.
Grand Ratification Meeting
 Monday Night.
Republican Batteries Uamasked.
 and in Position.

Last evening a grand mass mecI
 ing was held on the Plaza by the Re
 publicans of Phenix, (assisted b,
 their blethern from abroad, wht
 were in attendance on the First Re publican Territorial convention,) tc ratify the nomination of Hon. NJ w. Stewart, as the Republican can lidaie for delegate to Congress, and
 also to endorse the recommendation i of Prof NJ. IT. Sherman, for Superin
 tendent of Public Instruction, by the
 convention. Mr. Win. Isaacs called
 the meeting to order. and his mo
 ton that Hon. John J. Gosper, acting
 Governor of the Territory, preside
 over the meeting, was enthusiast
 cally and unanimously confirmed by the aulience.
 HoN~JJ GosPER, On taking charge for the evening,
 addressed the meeting as follows;
 LADIEs AND GENTLEMES-It may
 be expectcI, on your part, in as
 much as have been elected your
 chairman, that am going 10 make
 you speech. An such expectation
 as that will not be realized, as I am
 no speccii-Tnaker, and if I were, 1
 have made no preparation for such
 q contingency. 1 will say this, as a
 Republican. however. that l feel honored in being called to preside over meeting to ratify the nomina- ton made, today, by the first Re publican Territorial convention ever assembled in Arizona. 4 cOnven- ton which, though a small one, has been the most successful it has ever been oy pleasure to observe. You have placed in nomination, today, two gentlemen whose reputation cannot be impcached. And 1 think I know the character and diSpcsi- ton of the people of this Territory sufficiently well to predict that Stew art and Sherman will be elected to the offices for which they have been respectively nOminotcd.
 Now, gentlemen. there arc a mum bcr of you who will be called on to- night to make addresses. as we in tend to have regular old fashioned, AIeihodistical camp-mec;ing and love-feast spcech-makine- Thank ing you for the honor you have cen fcrrcd on me, by making me your l will give way to the ! more able speakers who are 10 ad dress you.
 At the conclusion of the address | Inc following gentlemen were elected | .icu-presidcnts of :i.e meeting. " I I ]. Osborne, C. ". Beech, o. II. P. 1 Sheets and J. ". Darlington. These gentlemen took seat on the plat form, at the request of Chairman iosper. "who, while feeling certain hat the Phoenix Brass Band, (Which le understood to be composed mostly ,f Democra;s.) could play good Re publican music, felt lonesome among hem, aud wanted 10 have some good with him for company's 1 ake."
 HON. CLARK CHURCHILL, Whom Gov. Gosper termed "a good alker and q good worker, but, if ,ossible,a better worker than tallIer,'' hen addressed the meeting as fol ows:
 MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GEN 'LEMES-It is now over twenty ears since 1 made an effort 10 ad- lress q meeting assembled in the pen air. Twenty years ago l made he campaign then inaugurated by he Republican party, and tonight m really surprised to find myself meeting in the open lir on Republican principles. Prin- .iples which were then, as 1t were, n embryo, have since grown into .ctual facts, recognized not only as lbstTact truths, but a. established so firmly that no one dares dispute hem. The first principle of the Re publican party is that the United States is government; and that it means something. In order to es- ablish this principle the country was ,ncumbered win large and enOr- nous debt. After the war was over he men who caused this debt 10 be treated, again came to the people, in he guise of Democracy, and asked hem 10 redeem this debt with ire leemablc paper promises to pay When asked by whom these promises " ere to be paid or made good, they -eplled, to nobody, and when asked when this paper was to be paid, they answered, never; and in this way 1 los a lonal credit This proposal was strongly and bitterly opposed by our party. and. in consequence, today he Republican party is. entitled to he honor of establishing the Ma ional credit throughout the world. Heretofore party lines have not been lrawn in Arizona, partly on account 1f its isolation, and the smallnesS of is population. Now we find our selves in a position to take up the gauntlet thrown down to LIS by the Democracy, and organize to contend with them for our party principles. [ am glad to say that in Yavapai our has had the effect to de 7clop an unexpectedly strong Re 1 publican following, which awaits only the 2d of November to trans form It into an OVcrWhclmlng naJO ity for the gentlemen who have been ! his day nominated as the standard | bearers of the Republican party dur ing the coming campaign.
 MR. POMROY,
 Of Tucson, was next introduced by l Governor Gosper, who remarked | that the Democrats were now seeing | 'unmasked those batteries against | which they were to hurl their forces | in the coming campaign, and which, if they would secure victory, they ! must overpower. MT. Pomroy re- gretted that his physical condition l would not permi. him to address his l hearers in the way he would like ! l,1