Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-08-21
The YouuC Dems.

cratlc CluO or Tucson, was uelu lhst night on Church plaza. A bonfire of empty beer barrels (they have no other use for beer barrels that are empty) and the explosion of few fire-crsckers en- tertained the slowly gathering crowd until the arrival of the Mexican band. when its dulcet strains revived their in- terest in expected events.
 Upon the platform were such young democrats as Messrs. Wm. S. Oury, Tom Powers, Wm. Zeckendori, $. NJ. Frank lin. Ben Hereford, l.. H. Manning, O. T.. Rouse, PhIl Gotihelf. Morgan F. Wise, States Morrison, l.. c. Hughes, Geo. L. Hood, Earll Webb. J. L. Turner, Cam eron H. King and others.
 The meeting was called to order by President l.. H. Manning, who made a few remarks upon the object of the meeting and the formation of the Club, and then introduced Mir. Geo. l.. Hood, who talked of the club in pleasant way for the short space of time allotted the speaker.
 He was followed by Earll Webb. Esq, who appealed eloquently to the young men to study politics and act upon their own judgment In casting their poll cal lot.
 Cameron H. King gave them lots of buncome m regular stump speech, winch, If given on the night before an election, might have made a candid democrat believe that democracy IS based. solely upon the principle of get tIng office.
 MT. Pedro c. Pellon made the best speech of the evening. It was in the Spanish language and but few were present who understood 8 word of 1t. Hence its appreciation.
 Hon. O. T. Rouse made few encour- aging remarks and thought some of tEe young democrats might aspire to emu late a brilliant example of political am bition, wherein John c. Breckenridge beat hIs older opponent. He did not carry the illustration, however, to the point where Mir. Breckenridge was eX- pelled from the senate for treason. He encouraged them by saying there is lots of room at the top" and the expres- sion was tscitly agreed to as being true.
 Hon. 5. M. Franklin got his cardinal points reversed Tn scattering the storm clouds that had at one time seemed de- termined to flood the meeting, but made a pleasant little talk.
 Gov. Morgan K. Wise spread himself over five centuries of alleged history, and gsllantly asked the young ladies present to turn back theIr memories three hundred years snd compare the Roman mothers with the fair sex of to- day. He painted the ladies in lily and rouge, and they enjoyed the application, or at least smiled Gudibly. A former speaker deprecated the practice of drag ging the history of tweDty-four years ago into the campaign and wanted the rec ord buried, and yet Mir. Wise shook the dust and cobwebs almost from the .hum- mics to answer bis argumentstl' pur- pose.
 Brer. l.. c. Hughes had intended to say something sweet to the young ladies, but as Gov. Wise had taken all the wind out of his sails in that direction, he turned his attention to the young dem ocrsts and gave them lots of paternal advice, which they received in the same spirit the widows mite was accepted, as recorded in the holy writ.
 MT. States Morrison begged 10 be ex- cused from speaking and the audience charitably, but reluctantly, sccommO- dated him.
 District Attorney sBen Hereford, en- dorsed the young democrats, just as he endorses everything democratic, and wanted them tO look squarely upon the big. round sun as 1t rose this morning, and they would find written across 1t the word "work." In the evening If they would look upon its other side they would find written thereon in unmIs- tskable csbslistlc characters the word "VictoryT Inasmuch as only one ticket was in the field. with no opposition, 1t IS very probable that his eloquent words were indeed prophetic.
 NIT. Wm. Zeckendorf was somewhat uncertain whether he was young dem- ocrst or one of their war horses. He hurled some severe invectIves at ballot box tamperers, evidently meaning the Tsnque Verde and San Simon pre- cIncts, which made some of the demo- crats sit uneasily in their seats. His reference to the "compromise" actually drove away one democratic candidate whose aspirations were crushed by that incubus. He trod on dangerous ground for his psrty's good and the party man agers will likely be careful to avoid any such indiscreet remarks In the fu- tUTe.
 This closed the meeting, the object of which was to ratify the nomination Of delegates selected at caucus last We'd nesdsy, but somehow this feature was lost sight of snd the safety valve of campaign orAtOry was opened wide Rs 8 precaution against disaster from over pressure. They set up an imaginary foe and achieved a brilliant victory over the inanimate thing.