Arizona republican., 1891-05-10

lamented friend, Harry R. Jeffords
 Mir. Jefords was also the attorney fol
 this great bug-a-boo of MT. Barnes
 Brewster Cameron, and yet in face o
 the fact that MT. Jeffords ought not tc
 be trusted in any public office, or any
 thing else, while acting as the attorney
 for MT. Cameron, Mir. Harry R. Jeffords
 was elected to the office of District At
 torney of this county over Cameron II
 King by a majority of something over
 200. And when Mir. King was nomi.
 mated in the Democratic convention by
 two or three men standing up and vot'
 ing twenty-three proxies, old honest
 Ben. Hereford, whom you all knew and
 loved, one of the idols of the Democratic
 party, came forth upon the street and
 said, "When man is nominated by
 corrupt methods, or when man who IS
 nominated is himself corrupt, or when
 the manner and methods of the nomi-
 nation are corrupt as we'll as the nom
 inee himself, no man is required to vote
 for the party nominee, nor to work fol
 him, but it becomes his duty to go. out
 upon the streets everywhere and to
 oppose that nominee by every means in
 his power. His duty as citizen requires
 it, and that duty is higher than party
 fealty." Now, our honored young
 friend Frank H. Hereford, one of the
 nominees of the Democratic party, and
 whom hope to see elected. followed the
 lead of his honored father, Ben Hereford
 in this matter. Did the Democratic
 party pronounce that wrong? No. Be it said to their credit, they did not. Only two years later they nominated
 Ben. Hereford, and elected him by a large majority over the same Republi can candidate, Mir. Jeffords, showing
 that Mir. Jeffords' success over Cameron
 H. King was due alone to the corrupt character of the nominee and to the corrupt methods employed to bring about this nomination, and not to the fact that Mir. Jefiords was the more pop ular man. l say they did right. say
 that is what we must all do. Frank H..
 Hereford deserves credit for his courage in doing that. and hope the fact that he did do it will gain him many vote in this campaign, instead of losing a single one for him.
 William II. Barnes when he was nom- mated made little speech in which he said, "Let's sink partisanship. This is not for party, it is for faction it is for all the people of Ari- zona. This is not q party question"
 Well, ladies and gentlemen, 1 don't suppose it is a party question; Under the Constitution of the United States, a constitution which would do for Texas or Louisiana, and which would be q good Constitution for Texas and a good for Louisiana, would he just as good for Maine or for Massachu- setts, or for New York or Ohio, or for California or Oregon. It makes no diff ference in what portion of the continent the State may lie. The Constitution is simply statement of principles and upon the power of the Legis- lature to deprive us of our civil rights or our property rights. The Constltu- ton is formed, say, for the purpose of corrupt Legislature which it is possible to elect, even in Arizona, from depriving people of their civil lib- erty or their property rights. That is it's purpose, and is about the only pur- pose it can subserve-to be limitation upon the powers of the Legislature. 1 say that Constitution that is good for Texas is just as good for New York, or for Maine or Arizona. If you believe so, then this is not a partisan question, al- though the politicians may be anxious to inject few little things in this Con- which will make it a party and which will inevitably prevent the admission of Arizona into the union of States at the present time. Now, Mir. Barnes, on that occasion, said that he wanted to follow the precedents 1f the last hundred years. Well, we nave large number of States here from which he could choose a Constitution. He says he does not want to embark on any new lines, but to stick to the old beaten path. He is somewhat of dem- ,gogue. He talks about sticking to the ,ld beaten paths and then winds up with the most novel proposition l have heard in long time he says, "Gentle- men, if can do it, will insert pro- vision in that Constitution that our United States Senators shall be elected by the people," The poor people, [Ap- plause loud and continuedl. Now hls tour years experience on the bench, as Associate-Justice of the Supreme Court ,f Arizona, and the fact that he is a lawyer, did not prevent him as dema- yogue from drifting into absurdities so profound that they would be a disgrace to the lips of an idiot. Elect Senators by the people! That might be a good dea, but a man who has spent four years on the Supreme Bench of Arizona ought certainly to know that the Con- ;titution of the United States, over which we have no control, provides that United States Senators shall be elected by the Legislatures of the States. [Ap- plause].
 But the people of Arizona are so ig- norant it is all right, we can talk to them as we choose, thinks Billy Barnes.
 Now my text this evening is this, and 1 am sorry l had to go to Republican to get it, but he was great and good man nevertheless---Abraham Lincoln
 Long applause my text, l say, is this, I think 1 get it about right, although l haven't seen it for years); "You can ool all of the people some of the time. md you can fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time." Laughterl.
 Now, William H. Barnes lays great store by the fact that he is party man md therefore should receive the party Let us look into his history a title as a public officer and see what sort of party man he is. The first hing he did upon coming into this Ter -itory, carrying a carpet sack, for the purpose of holding office, was to bring dong with him Republican--John H. Martin, his son-in-law-and install him n the office of Clerk of the District Court, which, I believe, to be the most lucrative office in the Territory of Ari- ,ona. Martin had been an active Re- publican partisan in the city of St.