Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-09-26
FRANK l.. ROGERS,
REPUBLICAN TERRITORIAL PLAT
 FORM.

1he lepuDlCan party m AllZOna, m
 convention assembled, hereby renews
 its allegiance to and reaffirms its undy- tug confidence in the great republican
 party of the nation. It pledges un-
 swerving loyalty and devotion to the
 great principles of republicanism as ex-
 pressed Tn the platform adopteddn Chi
 cagn in June 1888, as well as all the
 platforms and resolutions officially pro-
 mulgated by the chosen national repre-.
 sentatives of our national party
 The republicans in Arizona in com
 nor with republicans everywhere, can
 now review in the light of facts the rec.
 ord of the national democratic party
 for the past four years. They view with
 adherence the long array of broken
 pledges, deliberate fraud, unblushing
 violation of plighted faith, utter incom-
 potency. imbecility and d;sloyalty which
 have characterized the entirs career of
 the present administration. They look
 with scorn upon an administration
 wsich obtained power by misrepresen-
 tation and false promises, entered into
 power amid tumultuous shouts of re-
 form, profuse in professions of devotion to the best interests of the country,
 without redeeming single pledge, but dovoting its last hOnrs and failing en- ergies for the destruction of American industries and the sacrifice of American honor. Such record IS Tn accordance with ''the eternal fitness of things" and perfectly becoming the character of a president whose administration is not credited with single loyal act, and who was never known to express an opinion upon the merits of the greatest struggle for human liberty that the world ever saw, whose doing and sayings are true reflex of the demagogue who by bitter degree of fortune and irony of fate was accidentally waited into posi- ton so lofty that the Insienifcance of the individual stands prominently forward as lasting stigma upon the grandeur of the station, whose contin- uous and persistent insult to the loyal defenders ofthe union IT opposing the veto to their just and merlted demands with unerring precision his ut ter want of sympathy for our gallant de- lenders and appreciation If their price ess efforts.
 The republican of Arizona hereby pronounce their devotion 10 the doctrine ,f home rule for the territories. The allure of the democratic party to re- ieem the pledge of home rule made in 1884. and the orninous silence of their platform on that subject in 1888 render he original hypocracy and subsequent reachery the more gla'lng, and inspire he republicans of Arizona with more | cal and determination to accomplish his great consummation We earnestly ,elieve in real home rule for the terri ories and that the people thereof aye apable of self government and that all ffices in the territories should be filled " persons who have actually resided herein for sufficient time to have be- ome acquainted with the resources, ustoms, wants and necessities of the eople. Knowing that the pledge i'll be faithfully carried out if national publican triumph IS obtained, VIC commend that the president of the 1nited States appoint federal officers ,r the territories who may be selected ' the political party in accord win the 1 lministration. This IS made impera- ve in order to avoid the bllghte ming ef cts resulting from the appointment to NY territory of an executive such as rizona has been afflicted with, gov nor who has totally disregarded his ,ligation hy the promlscous pardon of uiiing with our legal tights , signing a law to appoin; code com ission whose labors in the brief time auired entalled an enormous experse thout any adequate return, many o. i'd laws not even being engrossed b., re they were acted upon whose tat- king in political patronage by aPp ,int- ? favorites to office even members of E legislature, as compensation for DO .cal perhdy, has been so notorious as
 cast an indeiible stain upon the r name of our territory. by appoint 7 to office men who had been de tied at the polls thus insulting the op,e by his reckless endorsement of Iitical outcasts and profligates, thus corruption and eStrava- nee wohse corruption and incompet- cy Is cf so fragrant anatute that he