The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-10-20
Republican Platform.

'T T.cs | tory of Aazona. fh .Territori,l conven- ti6h asseHe3le,l in;thet city5f Prescott, present to theft fellow-citizens the fol- lowing statement of the tenets of their political faith, and ask from the voters of Arizona a careful consideration of the; Same: -
 We e-epdQrse the platform adopted by the Republican Nationa! convention of 1892, at Minneapsliss-. as the highest expression of those principles of gov | ernment, that through the rule of the Republican party have made the United States the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth. Mk |
 We endorse the present national adj ministratiSn aad urge its continuance in powsss for tic reason that in it's sue cess ls.fhe only assurance of the main tenance of that policy that has made the United.skstes the leading nation of the e,sarthy 4 is'
 SWp endorse the brcscnt Territorial adminisNation ,ss pure, economical and progressive. aid call the attention of the citizens of Arizona to the benefits which will accrue to the Territory by the success attending the refunding of our Territorial indebtedness under. the wise provisions of the Wolhey Funding act. ,"
 We fayor the free and unlimited coinage of silver as being demanded by the best interests of our nation.
 We point with pride to the general close observance of all laws, both fed eral and territorial, and challenge a comparison with any state in the Union, and we earpestly urge the admission of Arizona into full statehood.
 We charge the leaders of the Demo- cratic party of Arizona with debasing | the honest labor of the Territory by arraying against it the competition of convicted ciiminals-a competition that placed the cell of the felon against. the home of wife and children, the whip of the taskmaster against the dignity
 of men laboring for ioyf of shome and 1 hearthstone-by passing during the last legislatpre-in which body, out of a total of thrty-six members the Dem ocratic party had twenty-seven--a law
 authorizing the leasing of. the convict
 labor of the; Territorial prison, and we
 ask from every laboring man a com iparispn between the action of the Dem focratic legislature and the action of
 the Republican goyernor in setoing the
 measure. | Recognizing that no factor in the 7 future development of the west can be
 so potent as better and cheaper rail
 road transportation, andie.aizing from . the history ;of the pass the growing
 danger to the public welfare of the
 enormous power and telegraph lines, \ we believe and urge as asbublic neces- 4 sity that he.owneFship-of aA railroad
 aud telegraph lines he vested in the
 general government and pledge our 'l selves ias Republicsns to-, lakor to the accomplishn,ent of that eph,
 1 Large bodies of land in this Territory
 are held by various corporations, under Congressional land grants, on which nc taxes are paid owing to their not being ! surveyed and paenteds We pledge , our representative to urge upon Con . gress immediate action torhave their grants and their uusurveyGd land sur.
 vcyel, and thus decrease the taxable | property by many Thousands Sf dollars. , We urge updin Congress ths.Seeding to different States arfi Territories of all
 arid lands now Held by the federal igoverument. S%ra