Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-10-15

orage reservoirs in Ari4onac and l be- lIsve they could be induced tO invest a
 few thousand dollars in experimenting and prospecting for Arsesian water, and
 thus by the development of our great resources make Arizona one of the best
 States in the Union for she will be a State. (Applause).
 wIl: i.dfDIG that cur de egate has got a great many bills in the House, but
 very few of them has passed tho House alone, and 1 believe that we can count upon the fingers ot one hand those that bave passed the Senate, l do not know whether our delegate quit working as soon as they had passed tit House, or
 whether the Republican Senate has nailed upon it's door the notice that Arizona need not apply so long as she has Democratic delegate. We ina Iu New Mexico that the Democratic dele gate. An hOnv Joseph, had a blll passed giving Unit d States jurors anu witDes- sss three dollars day and fifteen cents a mile, whIe in Arizona they receive two | dollars a day ard five cenis a mile. Three dollars q day Is small enough and IT cannot understand why ArizOca for | the asking shoul net receive tbe same, unless 1t was that our delee n was busy with something else, snd if that Is the casa we had better change, and if 1t IS | not me change for some one else, and | the sooner the better. We find in Mon tana, Idaho, Washington and Wyoming prior to the tIme they were admitted to statehood thousands of dollars were sp- priated for pOst-rOads, but eau you show an instance where our delegate has lifted his voice for mouey to im- prove our roads?
 He says he is a free silver mau. | say the same thing. If tEere is any ques- ! ton that interests the people of Arizona
 It Is the question of free silver I am for it first, last and all the time, and I
 pledge that you will find my words will
 be sustained by my actions. When the | bonds of this Territory were issued they
 provided for payment, principal and interest, iu lawful money of the United States. There was bill introduced
 into the House to-change it so that prin- ciral and interest would bs payable in
 gold coin. 1 asked my friend when be
 was in Flagstaff if he was free silver
 man how be could consistently raise his
 voice in behalf of that bond. He said
 that circumstances altered Cases" I say when he did that it was direct
 stab at Free silver, and SO long as you
 have a delegate of that kind no free
 silver measure will ever pass Congress.
 My friend Smith States, and I admit,
 that in 1873 Republican Congress de-
 moneti2ed silver, but by referring to the
 records you find that in that Congress there We're 7S Democrats and every one
 of them, first last and all the time voted
 for it, and the Democratic party, cert -alrly deserves no credit for trying to sustain 1t.
 wish to call your attention to the plank in the Republican platform as to the ownership of telegraph and railroad lines by the government. Our friends on the other side laugh at us for en- deavoring ia Arizona to start the ball rolling to have the goverDment pur- chase the telegraph ard railroad lines It costs one half cent ton per mile to haul freight here to day. It costs less in the eastern States; and we haye to pay from 315 to cents a ton per mile, and the proportion is about the same for telegrsphic service. They say 1t
 would cost ten billion dollars to buy the roads and that it took the government a quarter of century to pay oRe billion dollars Of the national debt, and would take almost an enternity to pay seven billions snd in the mean time we would
 0s :fxed II times more than we are now.
 We all know that the postal system is sals-sustainlng, and that postage has
 been reduced from tune to time and probably by the next Congress 1t will be reduced still lower. ! do not say that railroads could be operated on the same plan-as carrying letter, but it could he under the same management, and toe service would be better, and the millions underworld go into the general treasury,
 Now in regard to the Force bill. If yop will ti.ke it and read it section by section no henest man can find any thing in 1t to object to.
 l have talked to you longer than I had anticipated. but I am here. to get acquainted with you and my tune IS short, 1 desire to meet every gentle man, and every lady, too, if possible: be- cause l know If toe lad.es are for me each one of them controls at least one or two votes their husband, son, or "0est fellow" and 1t is very easy for them to lniiuence that vote for me.
 o'u SAdClAg iu blS pOSlLlOu Ol IE6 man in Kentucky that got religion. He went to camp meeting and the preacher told him that If he would accept the faith and join the church that the Lord would protect hIm from all harm and in all difficulties aud would preserve him from Injury of all kind. He thought that was a good thing and he got re- Igion and joined the church. He start ed home and bad to pass through a piece of timber very late, at night. Asl he WAS going up the trall through the timber he was confronted with a large bear iu his path; be thought of the ia- ducemeDt held out by the preacher and he prayed to the go"d Lord: "Now. Lord, is your time, # you are ever ep- ing to help me, Lord, do it right now: out, Q Lord, If you can't help nee. just lay tow and don't help that bear and you will see the confoundedest bear hght you ever saw in your life" (Laughterl
 Now l say to you if you cannot help me just lay low and don't help Mark, and you will see the confoundedest pol lticsl fight you ever saw in this Terri tory. (PrClOnged spplause.)
 The speaker illustr=tq his points "lth app opuate anu amusing anecdotes, winch fe related with rare humor Bnd telling effect. He was frequently in terrupted la hIs remarks by laugh CT and appreclative demonstrations. We have given the substance of all he said, but for want of space are unable to publish his speech verbatim as reported m short hand.