Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-09-20
An Unusually Large Crowd of
 Listeners Present.
FIRST CLASS SPEECHES.
And a Housing, Enthusiastic Tine
 Indulged Ia.
Judge Wright, Gen. Thos. F. .. ilson pr. F. H. Goodwin, Judge Ainsa, Judge Ferguson, Judge E5il- Ter, Don. Ramon Soto and
 Col. Zabriskie.

Col. Zabriskie.
 Long before the hour had arrived
 when the first gun should be fired ir
 the republican campaign, the spaciou,
 ground allotted for the audience wa filled. Many who came laler were 1 obliged to turn away, others mounted
 on neighboring buildings and parehes
 showing their interest in the occasion
 Precisely at the time appointed Dr. ii. " Fenner, President of the Republican
 Club called the meeting to order and an
 nounced the purpcse. He then intro
 duced as the first speaker of tha even ing, Judge c. W. Wright, candidate for district attorney. As it is possible only to give the brefest skeleton of each speech, the readers of the CITIZEN will appreciate how difficult it is to do jus tlce to the remarks. Judge Wright delivered an eloquent operation showing 'he difference between he Arizona of to-day and what Arizona might be under benificent rule of home government, or statehood, and with ! such legislation on silver and other local industries as the republican party was disposed to champion. The Judge set down these points as vital to our inter- ests. Statehood that we might come out of territory vasselage. Reduction of offices, and the payment in the re maing to correspond to what the indi- divldual might earn in private or com
 mercial life. The Judge thought the old residents had been paying exorbi- tant taxes long enough and that it was time others came in to haul water and hew timber. The speech was forcible. logical, eloquent and gauged to the practical times before us.
 Gen. Wilson occupied only seven minutes, but managed to work in more common sense than some men do in an hour and a half speech. It was terse and pointed. He spoke of the promises of the party, which had yet to break a promise. He reviewed in the briefest possible manner, the attitude of both parties on silver and showed by figures the immense loss to the miners and the general business of the country, by the opposition of the democratic party to silver legislation. As a candidate for the legislature he promised a reduction in expenses to the lowest point consistent with efficient work and said he would not come back If elected with any ap- pologies for not fulfilling his pledges.
 DI. F. H. Goodwin also spoke briefly. He said the ticket was presented for the tax payers, not the office holders. It was pledged to a reduction of the pres ent enormous bondage. For 20 years' the speaker said "there are men in the sound of my voice who have been bur bened well nigh to death. They have been looking for relief. We propose to reduce this taxation which is eating out our vitals and preventing outside capital from coming in" The Dr. paid high tribute to the character of the candidates and commended them as worthy the suiferages of the people.
 Judge Anisa addressed the audience in Spanish setting forth the issues of the coming campaign in a forcible man her. He spoke of the friendly relations which had always been maintained be- tween this country and Mexico under republican administrations, and point cd out as historical fact that republi- can party as party had invariably shown a friendly feeling toward the Spanish American people on all oc- cassions. Judge Anisa's remarks were re- ceived with approval by the large mum Der of Spanish Americans in the aud fence.
 Judge Ferguson was greeted by a round of applause on mounting the rostrum. He said the democratic party was the party of obstruction. It had never put forth a healthy proposition but invariably threw itself in the way of good legislation. He instanced the cry and hue against Speaker Reed because he compelled Congress to work and not delay. The Judge said the Republican puIlN DLOu1lSCO nOllll4lH WHICH It COUlll not perform, and 1t had on all occasions performed what 1t promised. He cited silver legislation as one instance. The building of a navy another, and he showed the great democratic party true to its fundamental principle threw every obstacle possible in the way of creating the navy. The Judge in closing cited any democrat who had preceded him or expected to follow, to point out a single instance wherein the republican party had not been loyal to its pledges and honorable to its trust.
 Judge Miller opened his speech with reference to a democratic speakers as sertions that the Republican party. would claim tAat they, not God created the heavens and the earth. The Judge disaVoved any such patent and pro ceeded to relate a Imaginable anecdote in which the Lord who was angry with the democrats selzed upon the mots available means of extinguishing them and had them drowned. The demo crat can't stand water any more than d sucker can live on dry land. Judge Miller also stated that at the demo cratic ratification the point was ma e that all the democratic nominees had been tried. He wanted to know when they were tried and what for, and ventured the opinion that if they were tried before a jury they were all found guilty. The rest of Judge Miller's allOt- ed time was devoted to a just arrange ment of the democratic party.
 Don Ramon Soto likewise spoke in the Spanish tongue, and he made an eloquent and logical address. Aside from the especial blanks in the the platform which brought forth his comments the speaker cited history to show that the democratic party had invariably been aggressive in its relations with our neighboring republic. He showed how that party had brought on the Mexican var for the sole purpose of conquest and how that mercenary struggle was opposed by the republicans. The speak CT told them in vigorous Spanish that the republican party to-day, as always could be looked to as especially inter ested in the Spanish-American citizens.