Arizona republican., 1890-10-21
 SMITH AND BALDWIN Address the Voters at the Opera House. Great Acts of Legislation
 Claimed by Smith. He Modestly Places to His Own Credit Nearly Every Act of
 the Last Congress.

Marcus A. Smith and Harris Baldwin made speeches last night at the Opera House. The meeting was attended by a number of local Democrats and the band.
 Judge Crenshaw acted as Chairman and, with a pretty speech, introduced the Democratic candidate for joint Councilman from the Northern District.
 Mir. Baldwin is a man who has poli- tical imagination and scars to the skies in musical oratory. His picture of the valley and eulogy of the people was pretty, to say the least. He thought that the Demo- cratic party was simple, frank and generous, burdened with calumny; the Republican party, the fat, slick and sassy and villifer of the virtues of the former. He denounced certain charges, that he had preached free trade to the sheep men of Apache county. He was, too, of the opinion that the Mckinley bill had been created for the benefit of few corpulent capitalists and against the interests of the people.
 The Union, he said, had been pre- served and would be perpetuated by the consolidated effort of the patriotism of the country. The country was saved by the people, irrespective of party or creed, but the Democrats figured as promin- ently in the various honors of the victories and defeats of the late war as the Republicans.
 The greatest objection to the Repub- lican party was that it had outlived its usefulness, and was dying, East and West. Ingalls, would be reserved to preside at the obsequies.
 The Republicans of the northern part of the Territory, he said, had conceded the results of the coming elections to the Democrats.
 Mir. Baldwin promised and pledged himself, in case of election, to never sup port any movement looking to the re- moval of the Capitol from Phoenix.
 He thought, too, that Marks radiant lips should receive the rapturous kiss of a thrilling victory at the election. Nr. Baldwin would make a better poet tan politician. His fancies never reached cold earth, but fiuttered Tn ethereal realms till time and Marcus retired him.
 Marcus A. Smith was then introduced and deplored the absence of ability to express the tender regard he felt for the people of Maricopa County. He would not take time to answer questions that had been asked and accusations that had been made.
 He proceeded to explain the manner in which the House of Congress was or ganized and to point out the difficulties under which every member labored to accomplish anything, and reviewed work that he claimed he had done in Wash ington as Arizona's representative. In the Eiftieth Congress he had introduced three or tour important bills-among them a right of way bill; a bill reliev- ing Arizona from the effects of the liar rison act he had secured an appropria- tion of $250, ,000 towards the topographi- cal survey and a reservation of all lands from settlement that might be used as reservoirs of water for irrigating desert lands. In other sessions he had advo- cated the repeal of the desert land act of October 22, 1888, also bill reducing railroad land grants, and had defeated a bill to tax cattle grazing on the public domain 25 cents a head.
 He had vigorously fought the Me Creary bill, believing that the establish ment of land court would favor the Reavis claims, as against the interest of the people of this country. Geronimo had been prevented, by his untiring work, from being again turned loose upon this people and Lewis Wolfiey foiled from passing an act conferring upon him the grand dictatorship of the Territory.
 He also secured an appropriation of $10,000 for the location of an Agricultu- ral Station and for improvement of the Colorado River. He had passed the North and South Railroad Subsidy bill but it was vetoed by the President.
 The expenses of Indian trials had been saved the Territory and shouldered upon the Government or, at least, he had advanced such a bill to the Senate. He had further formed a bill creating tribunal to which Indian depreciation claims would be carried and brought it to where it would get action at the next sitting of Congress. He had distributed throughout the Territory all the seeds etc., allowed him as representative. All of which he thought was greatly to his credit, flor he himself has said it."
 He thought George ". Cheyney wouldn't be equal to the work imposed upon Delegate to Congress; otherwise he was a nice fellow.
 As to the Statehood proposition, he did not think it possible to get Arizona admitted, even though she had three delegates, as long as the Congress was Republican. He depended upon Democratic prospective majority of twenty-five to do that.
 As to the questions asked the aspirant for third term honors, one was referred to, the defense being that he had de- tended a man accused of a crime in his capacity as lawyer and the accused a citizen. It was his liberty and he was making living by it. Isdid not occur to him that the people have universally condemned the men he defended and liberated.
 He depended upon Democratic ma jority in Congress to assist him in ac- complishing the work he has been promising.
 There was a large audience present and the politicians were out in full force, applauding every sentence or assertion that could be applauded.
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