The Arizona champion., 1890-04-26


 WASHINGTON, April 8, 1890.
 Eiitor heraid:-A wild worde individual named Smith, claiming to be delegate from Arizona, com plains to nae, Wm. Nigh, that, al thouga home paper or two try hard, in wclrisome columns, to iu- dicate what he means to say in his so-called speeches here, those pApsrs signhlly fail I herewith as his fir end, send you what l think he would say, if he could properly get his sha ttered ideas into words:
 A REGULAR sNoRTE2.
 I, Nitrous Aprilius Smith, in congress assembled, thus speak for ''my people," I hope my brother members duly notice my magElf- cent name, not the last name only, but the whole Romanesque entirety and the gracious and patronizins air with which 1 speak of "my peo pie" Of course my brother mem berS from Che south wal understand that 1 do not include the "carpet- baggers" as part of my people. No, Mir Speaker, they are not my peo- pie. It is true that nearly eve'y one of the present Federal officials of Arizona hsVe been in Eay Terri tory longer by years than I have; yes, some of them almost before I was born; that all O. them own more property in the Territory than l do, and that all of them pay more taxes than 1 do In fact, I avoid poi tax. Yet, Mr. Speaker, they are carpet bagsers" because they are republicans hoidi ig the offices that ny brother democrats are en- titled to, just as our brother demo- crats all over the south are entitled to the cfiices. Why should not we democrats in my Territory be sus- tained in our unconstitutional rights just as our southern brothers are? inr. Speaker, think of the down. troGden condition of my people rul- ed over by carpet-baggers, men who have been longer in my Territory than l have been or who pay taxes where I do not, and would not if 1 could. Think of it, Mr. Speaker. And my Southern brothers of this (not Aurelius) House, was ever a grosser outrage perpetrated on any people, than my people are forced to suffer? No, Mr. Speaker except the loss of my money, my all, by my Southern brother, Silcott How 1 wish he had been one of those carpet-baggers, so that my brother Southerners could feel like our opinions of him. Except, Mr. Speaker, when 1 stood voiceless and saw all 1 ha! Silcotted no people were so outraged as my people, and, Mr. Speaker, as 1 said in my great speech on the courts in Oklahoma, ''This is not all, would that it were" Sirs, the outrage is disgraceful blot on the other wise fair page of our political and, as l said in that great speech on Oklahoma, lis t not strange that while we extol liberty on our natal day, we still have within our bor- ders a political statute servile in its nature" When earpet-baggers, such as 1 have before described, can keep my people, Southern gentle men, from holding all the offices Think of this, oh, my brothers of the liberty-loving South, where no such tbing as carpet-bagger can nog exist. My Southern brothers, ii the very name of carpet bagger does not boil every drop of blood in you and make you rush to the aid of my people, then truly will I have to say to my people as l said when 1 saw my little all disappear along the furtive Silcott not Wham rob- Der route. ''The election of democrat to Congress is g mistake because the carpet-haggers have taken away our unconstitutional rights to hold office after they have lawfully been transferred to others. It is feared that the Silcott defalca-