Arizona republican., 1891-05-10

The announcement oi Francis J. Heney in the papers of Tucson, last week. challenging Judge Wm. H. Barnes to joint debate on Wednesday evening, May 6, 1891, stirred the political feel ings and the curiosity of the ancient city to its marrow bones. The result was the largest and most recherche audi ence ever assembled in Reid's spacious Opera House.
 The ladies were there in full force and Tucson's divines, lawyers, politicians. and business men were all counted. The audience must have numbered six hundred, and though the evening was unusually warm the young orators elo- quence held them all to man for two hours and twenty minutes.
 Mir. Heney's effort was pronounced a masterpiece by the most prominent men of both parties. He appeared terribly in earnest, though remarkably cool and collected, and commanded deep and re- spectful attention throughout. The Judge, himself, failed to materialize upon being called for by Mir. Heney, who spoke as follows:
 Ladies and Gentlemen.-I feel that in opening this address owe some expla- nation to you all as to my reasons for being here; and, first, 1 feel like con- graduating the people of this city that so many of them seem to be interested in the highest and best welfare of the community. have not come here to indulge in personal islander. The pri- vate vices of a man, however detestable they may be, do not rise to dignity which deserves the censure of the press nor the amimadversions of public speaker; but whenever man is nomi- hated for a public office, his public rec ord and his public conduct become the personal property of every right-think- ing man in the community; and if there is no other way to learn his record, it then becomes the duty of 8 citizen who does know facts which prove the man unworthy to be trusted with public office, to give those facts to the public. At least that is my view, and that Is my excuse for being here to night. IAp- plausel
 We live in a country of which every one of us should be proud. We have erected a Government which is the grandest the world has ever seen, ond l want to say to your fathers and to your mothers that when you accumulate property and leave it for your children to enjoy, you do but half your duty. There is higher duty behind all that. If you do not leave those children the spirit and sense and judgment to pro- tect that property and to protect that liberty you have failed in your duty.
 Human liberty and human property is precarious. The highest duty a man owes is to his country, and in order to do his duty to his country he must do his duty to his family, he must raise his children so that they will appreciate the blessings of liberty. These truths should be instilled into his children from childhood.
 Now, ladies and gentlemen, we will be confronted with the proposition that q young man starting out in life as l am, ruins his future, ruins his prospects of advancement or preferment in party by having the courage and the manhood to stand forth against corruption in of flee after man has been nominated by his party. If that be the consequence, l accept it with pleasure IApplausel. Parties are formed but for one purpose, and that purpose is the welfare and the interests of the community in general the purpose is to put principles into ex- ecution in government. In Govern ment the size of the United States, where there are so many offices to ill., where there are so many conflicting in terests to be harmonized--there is but one way in which it can be done. It is impossible for us all to know each in- dividual who is nominated on National ticket. It is almost as impossible Tor US to know every person nominated upon a State ticket, likewise as to a Territorial
 
 ticket, and even as to county ticket, and, further yet, even as to a municipal ticket. Therefore we must be guided by what we call principles in electing officers. Therefore it is that parties are formed. We examine the principles of a party and decide for ourselves W hich principles are the correct ones and We accordingly join that party for one sole purpose-the purpose of putting those principles into execution in Coy. ernment, for the welfare of the people generally, and for no other reason. Therefore when we find that corrupt man has been nominated for any office by party, or that man has been nominated for office by corrupt means. it becomes not only our privilege to falI back on the first principle, which causes us to join party, to wit: The welfare of the country, generally, and to refuse to support that nominee, but it becomes