Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-08-30
THE DEMOCRATIC ooaIoLAsus.

Last Saturday evening Hon. Mo-g ID K. Wise addressed an enthusiastic audience in the hall over the star office. treati upon the political situation
 with marked effect. His listeners were princlpally Republicans, who paid the most profound attenti n to the speaker. as he roamed over matters political and
 phllosophic with the most astonishing versatility. Indeed. his address was
 strongly suggestive of the old negro who opened the Bible and informed his hearers that the text would be found somewhere between Generations and Revolutions" Mr. Wise arrived in Ari- zona about SIX months ago, after having retired from public life as a member of Congress from Pennsylvanla; he had long been overburdened with the cares Of statesmsnship, and m seeking this salubrious cline 1t was simply with a desire for rest and peace. Upon T, ach. Ing Tucson, however, h!s sensitive nature Was shocked at the lamentable condition of political affairs in the Ter riiory, aud he soon realized how un- fortunate Ne are to be represented by our present delegate to Congress. Mir. Wise must have reflected for a long tIm- upon our precaTiOns situation, bu,, a. last the efrulgent ruth, the light to guide us out of the darkness, GawLed upon hIs mind. He, Hon. Morgan k Wise, should for common Aumau tt' sake, represent us in Con gTss-. Upon reacbiug this concluslOn, how ruiely his hopes for peace were dIsle led-anI broken was the golden bowl Many weary days must have passed ere his uiflidence Was overcome, out patriotism finally prevailed and Mir. Nise announced himself as candidate f~r n1minAtioG as delegate to Congress.
 With this brief review of the causes which led to Mir. Wise's prominence in the political field of Arizona, We revert Go hls brilliant effO-t of last even ing. NIT. Wise shid that he was not gong tu make set speech but he would talk to his auditors 'in blocks" he be felt impressed with hIs own inability tO do iustIce to the talented audience before him (applause by the Demo- crhis) Yet he would endeavor to handle public questions not with a partisan spirit but in E way that would appeal To ell American citizens. At the same time he could not resist the op- portunity of showing the immense superiority of Democratic institutions, thus giving the Republicans stab in the side. The RepGblcan government now fathers a large debt, which Mir. Wise proposes to reduce (Irobtbly hquidate. we should judeeJ by Wise methods, II be should be elected to Congress, and MT. Cleveland (of Buffalo, \. Y.,) Is elected President Then Mr. Wise quotes statistics l. show the immense difference in the national deht between the tune of the two great leaders, An drew Jackson and General Grant. In 1885, under the former. tie national Uebt was practically extin suished (the total amount outstanding being about SO Oo0 iu bond -) aud during President Grants administration the public debt was Lever less than two billions. NIT. HIse forgot to state, however, that ID 1886 a new debt of $299, H 7S was ere ated, winch steadily increased under Democratic administrations, and that the magnitude the national debt un der Pre-id,nt Grant was not at all re- markAbis, when We take into consldera- ton the fact that the national govern ment. from 1S49 tU 1861. labOred under the cost of two wars declared by Demo cratic Pr, sid, nts. Mir. Wise forgot to rem rk tbat the War of 1861 was precip itat-d by the pro-slavery demand ID Congrt s,. which iIves to-day ID the r4pks ot the Democratic party, furnishing the latter tre larger poriIs of its vitality. Mir. Wire should have informed the memb IS of the Cleveland aud Hen ,irlckr club that In the three years sue rsrdlng the inception of the late cIvIl war the War Department alone expended two and une-h.lf billions of money, and then the Democrats would probably have realized the financial status of affairs when General Grant assumed the seat uf goyernn ent. IL Is noteworthy fact. moreover, that at the close of the late war the national debt was s2,'33,- 236. .I73 69. and that the amount has heeu reduced, under Republican admin istratiou, to SI,SS4, HIPS 07, reduc- ti,n in fifie n years of nearly SSJOOu,- coo Mr. Wise says he IS citizen of Arizona, although we judge he must oe os fnreipu extraction from the unique propuuciation of the word which, when gliding from his lips, resolves ltseli into "Arlzonya." While We are ecompimeuted to the highest degree by the gentleman s generosity in claiming citizenship yet I. .okiuc afar into the future, we foresee tbat historians w1il mistake his position in the annals of fame. and that the next generations of "Ariz, nyuns' will claim the citizenship of the statesman whose name reverberat,s on the sLores of the Mononcahela. Mir. Wise says the onI! claim upon which be bases his pre'eh- sious for nomination is his knowledge ot tne needs of "Arizonya,' and that II an! other gentleman of Pima count, "desires to wear the belt" be will step aside and follow the gentleman's standard; We are of the op nion thaE there are several ci,izeps of the Territory, possibly without Mr. Wise's peculiar mental acumen) who have lived here a little longer than be, and who probably realize inc situation US we'll as the gentleman from the Monongahela- Sure, MT
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