Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-10-04
WHICH sHALLIT BE7
An Old Resident Propounds the
 Question.

Men of Arizona: voters in this Terri tory soon to become state, important issues are before you; not merely party issues, but such as invalue your i'm mediate personal welfare and financial interests. Republicans, democrats and independents are alike affected by them -First comes the silveri ssue. Few are now so blind as not tolsee that the rise of silver from about ninety cents per ounce to about one dollar and twenty cents has infused new life into mining in terests. Investors are beginning to flock in; mines are being bonded and opened in every direction; work Is be- coming plentiful, and thls is only the commencementiof the turn of the tide. Mercantile. business Is improving and in l creased demand for stock and agricul ture products will equally Der eft those branches of industry. But hold! The | battle Is not yet won. Much of this ap- preciation Is due to the fact that 1t Is generally believed that a free coinage | bill will be passed at the next session of | congress. But, will it be passed? No, 1t will not. if the combined efforts of the f whole monopolistic money power of the East, backed by Europe, the lukewarm ness of some republicans and the direct | opposition of the Cleveland wing of the | democracy can prevent IL; and voters | don't you know that the present silver | law provides for the suspension of silver coinage after the first of July next, and if a free coinage bill is not passed that silver will drop immediately. The real great silver battle as against mono metallism, capitalistlc, monopoly, machine politics, eastern gold bugs, and bank rings has yet to be fought, and in sending a delegate to congress,
 arizona will commit political suicide II she does not send man whose every in fiuenee. whose every effort will be to champion the calse of silver on behalf | of Arizona.
 Will Marcus A. Smith do Lthis? Will George W. Cheyney do it, if returned to | Congress.
 Assuredly Marcus A. Smith will not, because he has not in the past. Yet he is a good talker, man of ability, who takes good care that his voice IS heard where he wishes to be heard; but who has e,er heard of Mark Smith as a champion of silver; not much; for he does not believe iu 1t; he IS too strongly in sympathy with the Cleveland views of the question:; he is lawyer, not miner, and we already have far too many law yers in Congress. Lawyers are too of ten trained to defeat Iustlce; to mlsre- present facts; to shield the criminals at the expense of the honest and indus trious; and how well Mark Smith can do this the result of the Wham robbery trials have shown us. As private cit izen he writer admires the genial bon homme of MT. Smith which takes Sc
 we'll with "the boys" when electioneer- ing, and acknowledges his natural abill-
 ties in general, but the best interests of
 Arizona cannot be intrusted to hin for a third term, which is even of itself
 unrepublic and undemocratic.
 Geo. W. Cheyney if elected will fight
 for all our interests; he is himself a miner; he and hls friends are directly in terested in the silver question; 1t Is to
 him as to us matter of stinancial life that We should have free silver coinage
 He is a young man of enterprise and ability, whose interests are identified l with Arizona in a way that Mark Smith
 IS not, and never have been. He is op
 posed to the fraudulent land grants as
 MT. Smith professes to be, and the ln- terests of Arizona can be safely entrust-
 ed to his representation, for he knows
 our wants, and is in every sense an Ari | Zona man.
 Which shall it be, the lawyer ol the miner? Marcus A. Smith the de
 fencers of the Wbam robbers and nur
 derers, released through the transparent perjury of mormon witnesses to the dis
 grace of the whole territory; the choser representive of the mormon fanatic: and dupes, who simply vote as the
 priests dictate, or shall it be George w
 Cheyney, one of the people of Arizona
 an able man, DO machine politician, but
 man whose interests are naturally | those of the people he is called out tC
 represent? i man whose territory lis oul
 territory, not an appendage of Salt Lake
 and who like all patriotic .Arizonans nc
 matter what their political creed may
 be, will fight earnestly against seeing
 fair Arizona dancing to the discord oi
 Mir. Smiths mormon fiddle.
 ARIZoNAN.