Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-10-15
A LARGE AUDIENCE
Greets the Next Delegate to Con- gress at the Opera House which is Brilliantly Light
 ed and Decorated.
Tucson Endorses the Mental Giant From CocoEino by Frequent Applause.

Band proceeded from Reid's Opera House down Pennington street to the San Xavier Hotel for the purpose of es- corting W. G. Stewart, Republican Del egate for Congress to the scene of Tue sons greeting for that occasion, namely, the Opera House.
 4 carriage containing AdJ't Gen. Geo. Brown, J. w. Grant, Gen. Flo. Williams and w. G. Stewart proceeded by the torch bearers ard the Philharmonic Band then remaIched from the San Xavier taking the route up 9th evenue, Tenth street and along Congress street up North Meyer street to the Opera House. All along the route rockets or different co!oTs were discharged Tn the night air and bombs and lire crackers lent both vim and spice to the scene. The guest and speaker Of the occasion having arrived at the entrance of the Opera House, was escorted to the plat form where a committee of leading busl- ness men soon followed forming a de- termined, solid and respectable phalanx of support to the speaker of the evenpg who, from all appearances, seemed to be destined to wear the iaurelS ot congressional victory at the next eec- tion.
 A large audience greeted the arrival of the guest of the evening and many ladies of Tucson occupied the numer- ous seats directly ID front of the foot lights whilst every available seat in the building was occupied and standing room vas at a premium.
 The band played lively ar of greet | IL, 1f the people at the next election, and at the close ot the music and prior to the introduction of w. G. Stewart, Chair man Geo. Brown introduced to ths as semblage Gen. Flo. Williams the veteran soldier and iurist from the State of Pennsylvania orignnlly, but now an adopted son Of the threshold State of the union, the about tO be Initiated Arizona. General Williams is an agre- able speaker and seemed perfectly at | home before the large audieRce that | faced him. He related some amusing anecdotes of war scenes that were con densed volumes of speeches contained Tn a few brief remarks. He claimed | that MT. Stewart was half through with his race and was now catching his second wind and that the audience vera aware that when one caught their second wind there was 10 let up until l the race was finished. (applause)
 Gen. Williams than stated that he | hoped to have the pleasure of addres- sing his constituents in tbe future many many times especially in punches of 12. (applause)
 Adjutant General Brown then in a neat presentation speech of Q few words ! ,rorr.,&,l thn cnaol-nr of the ". G. Stewart, Of CcconiuO, so popular lv known as Mickey Stewart all over ] Arizona. Mir. Stewart is a neat appear ! ing and very unassumirg gentleman, whilst he has the peculiar faculty of l holding his audience as close and ln- l terested hst9ners throughout the entire course of his speech. He was frequently | interrupted with applause and the | scenes of the evening wound up with a grand ovation amidst the playing of the band and the dispersing of the large as- sem blaze. The following speech of MT. Stewart will appeal directly to the heart l of every practical citizen of Arizona as it is not psrpetually dwelling upon is sues of the past but relates diractly and emphatically to every live issue that ' bears so conspcuously to the people ! 1 itself an ercvclCpedia Of the ohofcest in structiors re lsti.4 our present needs. l The epaech was we'll iuteriarded with practical and amusing jokes, and for 1 two hours Mickey Stewart, one from among the people, tie gisnt Of Coco nino, the advooa.e Cf the Territory . best interests, held his audience at tentive listeners ard at no time vas ] thara drorr i,af fnn Gatlra rlrnpaaniTrrz
 Mr. Stewart spoke ss follows:
 1 MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLE MEN:-It is very gratifying to one who has been placed in nomination upon either tIcket to meet so vast an asseln- blaze of far women and patriotic men.
 1 am proud to meet you all here tC- night, and am proud to be able to give you my views of the principles Of the greatest, grandest and noblest political
 party that ever graced the civilized
 globe. (Applause.)
 I have been repeatedly told by the op-
 posing newspapers and eympathizing
 friends of the opposing party that l had
 a hard fight on my hands 1 have fully
 realized that fact, but as l started out travelling the rugged roads and noun tain passes of A rizonG and have kept ii up. have come to the cOncluslon that 10 Is more of hard and rocky road to Congress than 1 anticipated when 1 started, but Rs l gaze upon the face of that lnartyred man turning to- pOr- trait of i brahaTa LlucClnt and recall
 the trlals and struggles that hs passed through. 1 still have hope that Mickey Stewart" may gain some la1rels too.
 It is not my wish to talk to you as
 Democrats or Republicans. nor as Mug T wumps, Prohi bitionists, Peoples Party or Tugwumps. This last party may be
 new to some of you, but it is the title
 applied to office holders holding over
 after the administration has changed.
 1 an safe to say that we shall have no
 Tugwgmps In the Republican party be-
 cause l believe Benjamia Harrison will
 be reelected and there will ba very few
 changes made, (Applluse.)
 In talking Nith you tonight I desire
 to talk with. you as bueiDess men. Jf
 there is a man in this house that is SO
 naTrOWminded to vote against his own interests or the interests of his neigh
 bor. that wi;l vote against the prosper ity of bis country and will close both
 ears and eyes to Teseop, he is the man
 1 am looking for, not believing that | can convince him, but believing that if
 he Is one of those hard -shelled persons that 1 may apply a little acid tonight that will soften that shell so that he
 will look upon the Republican party and
 its nominees with some reason and not
 .oo much prejudice.
 believe 1t is tie duty of every citi- zen of the Territory of Arizona to take into his consideration that which is best for bis welfare. Then, after we take lnto consideration the welfare of the Territory We must not be too narrow
 and not look further than that. We should cast our eye around oyer the
 vast country known as the United States and take into consideration the
 welfare of the people of that country and consider them and determine that
 which is the greatest good for the most people. Now am here before you to.