Arizona republican., 1891-05-10

tic uouHucu duIy Ol every ludu WHO
 has the welfare of his country at heart
 to oppose the election of that corrupt
 man to office by every means in his power.
 It is only by the preservation of this principle that we can perpetuate the
 Republican institutions under which we
 live. This principle is not a new one
 it is not even new to my friend William
 H. Barnes and it has received the un-
 equivocal endorsement of William H..
 Barnes.
 When l addressed the Democratic
 Club in this city short time ago and
 enunciated these principles and an-
 nounced that to be the doctrine by
 which I intended to stand or fall, Judge William H. Barnes followed me in a
 speech, in which he said he agreed with
 everything I had said, in which he en- dorsed every word I had said, in which
 he said it becomes the bounden duty of
 every honest citizen to oppose by every
 means in his power the election to office
 of a corrupt man, or of a man who has
 been nominated by corrupt means. Of
 course, it is to the interest of politicians generally to adhere to the system which says, when a party has once made its
 nominations you must stand by the
 party nominees. Why? Because by corrupt means, when you succeed in
 having nominations made--and we ali
 know how they are made--we all know what a farce the primaries are. We all
 know what farce and by what means tickets are put up, and then, after the delegates are elected and meet in con- vention, we all know how the nomina- tions there are made. We all know that two or three men put these tickets up in back room and put them out on the public, and that unless some man is willing to get out and spend his money to make Gght, the ticket so made is nominated. That ticket is put up in the interest of some one man, or several men, and by means of trade. or other corrupt means, in the convention, he or they are nominated for office. Then what shall we do? l say it is to the in- terest of politicians to adhere to that system and that doctrine, because by that system and by that doctrine of ad- herring to party nominees, men can be nominated and can retain office without having courage, without possessing ability, without experience, without in- dustry and without popularity. The ambition or avarice of corrupt politi- clans can thus be gratitied, for they can run for office with impunity. Under that system, if they have records as black as the shades of night, they can not be attacked by any man in their own party, and no man in their own party is an honest partisan unless he goes to the polls and puts in his little ballot straight, for the party nominees, and swallows them whole. Laughter Is that the principle on which the per petuitv of government like ours is to depend? Is that the principle which you want your children taught?
 l hope to live to see the day that the American flag will float over every school house in the United States. [Ap- plause.l 1 hope to see the principle sunk deep in the hearts of every man, woman and child in America, that the purity of party is the palladium on which every civil, political and religious right of American citizens rests. Ap- plause, long and continued.l
 Now, ladies and gentlemen, we have great many examples of the growth of this principle in American history. As 1 said before, it is not a new idea. You all remember when Mir Folger was nominated for Governor of New York by a trick. He had the reputation of being an honorable and an honest man, but because an intimate friend of his came into the convention that nomi- mated him, with forged proxy, and aided in his nomination, the people gen erally throughout the St lte rose up and overwhelmed him by electing Grover Cleveland Governor of the great State of New York by the unprecedented and un- parallelled majority of one hundred and ninety-two thousand. Long Applause. Was that wrong? Did the Repu blicans do wrong because they defeatod their nominee on the ground that he was cor ruptly nominated, and therefore no lon ger represented the principles alone of the Republican party, but represented, in addition thereto, corruption? Must they go up to the polls and vote for cor ruption? No; No. They did right. But we have a later and still better example than that. Is there Democrat in Arizona who will find fault with the Re publicans of Pennsylvania at the last election for carrying out the principle which 1 lay down tonight? Is there Democrat who says the Republicans and they were not the scum of their party either-in Pennsylvania, did wrong when they said, "Mr. Delamater, you are corrupt man." We now have the evidence that they were right, or partial evidence, in that failure of his since, for things look pretty queer.
 They said, "You are corrupt man and have been nominated by corrupt means; you have been nominated by the most corrupt boss that ever lived in the United States -- Mir. Quay"-and al- though am talking to partly Repub- lican audience am Illustrating the prin- ciple which 1 am laying down here to- night, and it matters not whether 1 hit Democrat or Republican. Why did the of Pennsylvania say, "You cannot be elected; we will elect that honest citizen, Mir. Pattison, whom we elected before; we will elect him this | time upon his record"
 Why did thousands of Republicans leave their ticket and vote for Pattison They did it to put into execution the | principle that l am here to advocate to- the welfare of our country is our highest and greatest duty, and that patriotism and manhood must rise above party fealty or boss rule. Loud Applause.l But we have recent and still more eminent example of this prin- pie. The great and momentous ques- ton which divides the Democratic and Republican parties is the tariff. Yet in the Presidential campaign of 1884 the great issues ef the day were entirely ig- nored, and Grover Cleveland was elected President over James G. Blaine the 1