Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-11-08
CHEZ NEY. Nichols and Zabriskie Talk Last Night.
 AN IMMENSE HOUSE. MT. Cheyney States Hi Position
 on Divers Propositions. ENTHUSIASM RUNS HIGH. Nichols Straightforward Speech
 Explains Things. Col. Zsbriskie Goes Tanning on Dem ocratic Hides.-Zulick, Smith and Brady Rounded UP.-
 A Fine Speech.

The republican rally last night wal by far the largest, most enthusiastic and most profitable of the campaign Tlll late hour the audience was kept entralled, and when the orator of the evening Col. J. A. Zabriskie closed he was greeted with cries of ''go on" "go on"i
 Judge Ferguson presided and after a few preliminary remarks presented young Master Johnny Ganzhorn who, delivered iD hls youtful way a very taking address,
 Geo. W. Cheyney was greeted with rounds of applause on his appearance | and it was some time before he could make himself heard above the uproar | His remarks were limited as were Mir. Nichols who followed to make way for the speaker of the evening Col. Zabris- kie.
 Mr. Cheyney said if the campaign hinged on whom was the best talker he Tuust yield the palm to Mark. But in his mind there were issues more important | than oratory and personal abuse; there were issues which dld not permit of evasion and dodging; issues which the people of Arizona had a right to know something of from the man who was to represent them Tn Congress. MT. Chey ney believed this was Tn many respects a business campaign. He believed repub- lican success meant increased prosperity to the territory and its industries. Mir. Cheyney placed himself on record on the polygamy question when he said that this body was menace to rePubli- can instItu tionS and that he would rather stay at home than go to Congress with Mormon votes.
 The bomb of the evening however vas his explosion of the land grant plank upon which Smith has been sail ing serene. MT. Smith has spoken Tn Milis bill was matched out in d secret every county but had never mentsned the fact that he had introduced bill himself, and until Mir. Cheyney read it .;isG night there was not man woman or child in the city that had ever heard Of such proposition.
 In M4Icn 1888 the settlers of the Salt and Giia valleys assembled in mass meeting and passed resolutions calling jn Mr. Smith to recede from his posi- ton in supporting bills to create com mission for the settlement of grant question in Arizona then before Con- gress. Tine resolution was printed and circulated through the territory accom- piniel by a letter, signed Uy J. w Evans, W. J. Murphy and T. E. Parish, all prominent citizens in Phenix ard deeply interested in the settlement of the land grant problem. This letter makes the following assertion: ''There has been introduced in tEe senate by Steward, of Nevada; and in the house of representatives by Delegate Smith of this territory bill to create q commits sion to reject or confirm the so-called Spanish and Idexican land grants of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, this being a vital question to the people of the state and of the territories mention ed We hope you will agitate the matter in your locality and bring about such au expression from yoIr friends and neighbors as will assist the people of Arizona in defeating the proposed leg islation. That such legislation is in stigated by land claimants, and their gents we'll supplied with money ill the hallss.of Congress is sufficient notifca tion to us that such law would be fatal to our every material interest"
 Signed by
 W EVANS,
 W. J. MURPHY,
 T. B. PARISH,
 The question was agitated to such an extent and so much influence was brought to bear upon MT. Smith that he was for the time being suppressed and in the subsequent Fall received large vote based on his solemn promise to intro duce and argue a bill, not only to ac- complish the speedy solution of the problem and throw open to entry and settlement the invalid and unconfirmed grants, but to assure to the settler upon all grants the possession of their lands and improvements. The settlers rights he promised would be protected and de- fendeo by the government of the Unit ed States, and free of expense to them. How has he fulfilled his promise: One year and a half later he introduced bill, the title of which is quoted above in ac slmlle.
 That this bill was prepared long prev ious is evidenced by the fact that by it's test it Is to take affect 13 days before it was introduced. Was it awaiting a propitious time when the settlers lulled to fancied security by MT. Smiths facile and spacious promises would relax their vigilance.
 If it were a proper honest measure why were no copies ever sent to Ari zona, that We might consider its prov ision? Why have none of MT. Smiths party newspapers ever printed the bill? Why have none of Mir. Smiths friends ever spoken of the measure, and why has MT. Smith himself since his return and during his canvass concealed the fact of it's introduction in the face O demands for information:
 Because he has viola ted his promises and not one single provision does the bill contain for the protection of the settler, his lands or his improvements, but refers entirely to more rapid mode of confirmations to the grant claimants
 It is within two or three days of the election at which MT. Smith asks your sufferages for a third term, and his actions on this most important issue in Southern Arizona would have been un-