Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-08-30

and New Jersey. This plank is en- titled to consideration from the pension office The platform proceeds:
 We demand that we be relieved from the tutelage of the territorial form of government, and that we be admitted to statehood. We are taxed as Ameri- can citizens, but are not allowed repre- or vote in making the laws that shall govern us. Until that time, we demand of Congress that home-rule | which shall allow us to elect all of eur | executive, legislative and judicial as well | as our county officers. instead of choos- | ing our officers,through intrigue. in Wash | ington. These officers eXpend the money | we appropriate and pay in taxes and ad- minister the statutes we enact, and We shall Ee allowed to choose those who shall execute them.
 IA Republican congress has persistently favor ed and voted solidly fer extending statehood to territories The democratic party has as per- sistentIy opposedit.l
 O. The Republican party in this ad- minlstration has shown its untitness to successfully govern. @ We see that party torn in factions. Under ambitious and selfish leaders, it IS struggling with itself utterly careless of the ruin that IS being wrought to the republic. (3.) A despotic speaker of the house of repre- sentatives disregards the unbroken pre- cedents of hundred years of legisla- tion and makes himself the master in stead of the servant of that body. Un- der hls lash the taxes found necessary in the emergency of the great civil war were voted to be increased. (D. Free coinage of silver was defeated and a (5.) Force bill carried which proposes to substitute military control over elections. | (6.) The surplus has been recklessly | voted away until we are now brought to | look deficiency in the face. G.) Jeal- ous of this leadership, other rival and ! equally ambitious and selfish leaders have come forward to contest for su- premacy. The rank and file of the party | watching this battle of the giants are | snarling at one another like human
 wolves. (8)iCompare this.spectacle with | the veteran democratic hosts keeping
 step to harmonious music and marching forward to aid the progress of the great est republic and the best government
 ever established by man, and we invite
 with open ranks every patriotic citizen
 to join us.
 l m We presume the Republican
 party showed its unftness in passing the
 silver bill; in homestead legislation; ir
 resumption of specie payment; in re
 claiming railroad lands which had not
 been justly earned; in suppressing lot
 teries; in insisting. ..upon arbitration 'be tween corporations and employees wher
 differences exist; in establishing natlona
 credit, and elevating the position oi
 American citizenship abroad; in increas
 ing the money; in advocating education | al bills; in presenting the nation with ;
 protective policy wEich has in
 creased our wealth by billions;-in re
 pealing the democratic measure to with
 draw every acre of land n Arizona iron , entry and turn immigration from ou
 doors-this was repealed yesterday b, , a republican congress, not to mention
 other painful inbecilities of which thu
 republican party has been guilty. @ l is impossible for some people to disting
 ulsh the difference between an homes difference of opinions and fair discus sion of the same, and being led up to tn , polls like chain gang, and told to 'vote (3.) MT. Reed. the despotic speaker prot
 ably referred to, insisted that every mem
 bers of congress was paid to be present
 and when present he must vote aye, o
 nay; and that if he cid not vote his pres , ence would go toward quorum, jus II the same. The democratic idea is to clo 5 all legislation which dos'nt go one way b
 by remaing silent and thus claiming n quorum. This IS despotic according
 the democratic "idee". (0 The ''force
 bill serves the same purpose to the den ocratic person as a green rag shook a an orangsman or a red bandanna at
 bovine gentleman; the lodge bill, whic r has been inquitiously dubbed force 2 bill simply provides for supervisors ( ', election to tho end that an honest cour may be had. It is not to the shame (
 the Republican party that this necessit f exists, but We can't say as much for den d ocracy. (6) The surplus is always l. debatable subject with democracy. Tn surplus in the treasury when the reput r licans took control of the goverpmer
 had co be counted from the other side (
 the ledger. After suppressing 'demc O cratic movement" at the expense ( y somesbillions, the republican party ha l. made a financial record.which has n $ parellel in this or any other country. ( t The jealousy exists in the democrati '. mind-no further. Really great me l. men who have carried the countr l. through difficulties by almost supel l. human efforts, and have left militar r. and civil epoch, which is one of tn B grandest of all times-are not given V petty jealousies. (9) Ye gods, compar n We favor free coinage, and rt
 duction of taxation. levied for revenu > only.
 b Before MT. Clevelands' reform admir- l. istration was finished silver was quote t at 70 cents To day it IS above 122, wit l. every prospect of reaching at par wit t gold.
 @ The platform then demands "the abol ,f ton of all useless offices, and a consol O dation of the remaining to the en that the fees and emoluments take l. from the people shall be decreased an d that taxation may be reduced in tn d lowest practicable point. And We il
 struct our nominees to the legislature
 elected to work to that end"
 e This is good sense, and we are glad l. see it. We hope it is sincere.
 l. The platform closes by condeming tn T. local territorial administration for nun '- erous offenses, and eulogizes Mark Smitl delegate to congress. MT. Smith ma @ be good man, and we understand h
 is, but his political aspirations will nc > shoot upward with any more suddennes