Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-09-24

surrounded them faded from sight
 their last thought went out to near sn'
 dear ones far distant; they fell perishinl
 from thirst, and lie buried on the bar
 mesa where the giant cactus casts 1t
 shade like a great sun dial over thei
 grave. But those days of darkness ana
 of doubt, of danger and of vicissitude
 Tn a great measure have passed iron
 sight, and a period of greater prosperity
 and a more rapid advancement hsl
 dawned upon this people. The civil
 izing influence of rapid communication
 with its rapid transportation, and free
 dom of intercourse between the peopl,
 of the various portions of our Territory
 the influx of wealth and men skilled II
 the great industry On which the pros perity of our country must rest, promise
 to give this Territory position among
 the other States and Territories of the Union.
 Mir. Chairman, feel as though I had
 occupied as much time as I ought. Cries
 of go on, go on, and great applause.
 will state that had the pleasure ol
 reading the names of those gentlemen
 who had been nominated by the Bepub-
 hcan County Convention of your county
 yesterday, and find among those names many men whom I have known for yeats, men who, know, have the ability to and will faithfully represent this county in the Legislature next winter. There is no name upon that ticket, and l will not take the time to specify them, but what believe, and think I know every one of them, will make the Re- publican party glad they elected them. It seems to me as though the Repub- fican Convention covered itself with honor when it placed those gentlemen in nomination. Great applause. lean see no reason in the world why that ticket, in this county, in this county where is the city of Tucson, in the coun- ty where there is the intelligence and the advancement and the push that there IS here, should not be elected from the very head to the foot of it. Great ap- plause
 There is a gentleman on the Terri torial ticket, the Hon. A. E. Davis, who has been nominated to the office of School Superintendent. l feel little delicscy in saying anything about brother Davis because he could say 1t SO much better than I, that anything that could say would be very weak and feeble, and before this campaign IS over Mir. Davis will be in Tucson and think he will have the horor of addressing an audience in your city. Mir. Davis IS a gentleman against whose character there is not a shadow of reproach; he IS a gentleman whom the children love; be is a gentleman whose life IS as pure and lucid as a mountain stream; he IS a gen tleman of ability; he IS a gentleman who loves the cause of education, as be has demonstrated 1t in this very city; and l would say to the Republicans of this part of the Territory that Mir. Davis, ID the north where he is the best known, will not only carry the Republican vote but will receive the suffrage of many and many a man who has the interest Of the public school a. heart and who be- lieves and knows that Mir. Davis will devote his time and his energy and all that he has to carry out the duties of the office if he should be elected.
 The Repub lican party has platform, will not take the time to read 1t to you, because it has been published, and 1t IS a pretty safe proposition that pretty near all the Republicans can reac and do read, Ilaughterl, and know the platform. rhere are one or two blanks Tn that platform that may say a word about. One is in reference to the reorganization of the courts. I say this, because 1t is claimed by some of the brethren on the Democratic side that the Judges have been opposed to any changes. So far as have known of the conduct of the Judges of the SupEeme Court of the Territory of Arizona, it has been their custom ID appellate cases to assign to the other two judges, the case appealed from the third judge. If the case IS appealed from Judge French's court 1t was assigned to Judge Silent and myself, If from Judge Silent's court, to me and Judge French and if from my court to Judges Silent and French. Some times they could not decide the question, one would thInk one way and the other the other, and then the judge who had tried the case at the nisi prius court was compelled to come in and decide t over again, aud that in measure of course was not a clear case of court Of appeals. But I wish to disavow to this audience, and to every man Tn the Territory, for I am of the bench now and 1 can say what 1 feel about these things, that from the time of that grand old man, Judge Titus, who was the Chief Justice of this Territory, who was maligned and traduced time and time again, man who knew nothing but to do the truth great applause whose re- putatiOn they tried to destroy-from bis time down, so far as I know, and there have been four chief justices On the bench since l have occupied the position of associate justice, I can say, and believe 1t to be Gods truth, that so far as anything of corruption or Of speculation in that court is charged, that 1t is base islander upon that court in every instance, [ Great applsuse but we believe this, and know every judge who has occu- pied the position has felt tine embsrrass- ment of his position at times as being compelled to act, sometimes, upon a question appealed from his own court. If the Territory IS wealthy enough at the present time to establish independ- ent county courts and allow the AssOci- ate Justices to be the court of appeal, why then that settles the question with put any further difficulty. The Judges
 
 cases that are now brought in the Dis trict courts and the United States Judges would sit as an appellate court. But if in case you do not desire to shoul- der the expense of independendt county courts, for 1t will cost many thousands of dollars when you come to figure up, then you have the other proposition. seeking to have Congress pass law creating fourth district. It IS not so much the volume of the business as 1t IS the travellng and if the Territorial Leg islature makes many more new counties it will soon become physically impossi- ble for these judges to hold the courts twice a year in the counties of the Ter ritory. If Congress should appoint a fourth judge and give him part of this Territory as his district. why then an appellate court might be formed so that there would be three Justices who could decide the cases brought from the fourth distrlct. For that reason 1 am in favor of that plank in the platform.
 There is one other matter that l will touch on, and that IS the Indian ques- tion. It IS said that every body in Ari- zona has an Indian policy of his own. have one, and 1 guess it IS the policy of nearly every body when they come to think or talk about 1t. It is that the hostile Indians of Arizona shall be re- moved from Arizona. applause It is well known that the people of the East and Congress know nothing about the Indian question. You speak of sn h. dian outrage in Arizona and they y-don't know whether it is at Tombstone or in Mojsve county; they don't know wheth- or It is at San Carlos or at Yuma. They have an idea that the whole Territory of Arizona is in a state of danger from the Indians. All people in the East have an idea that all indians are liable to be bad. I say that there never was race of men of whom have heard any record. that were more traduced and slandered. In the Territory of Arizona there are many tribes of Indians. They