Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-10-08
Republicau Platform

The Republican party of the Territory of Ar Zona, in Territorial convention assembled in the city of Prescott present to their fellow citi- zens the following statement of tte tene,t O. cir political faith, and ask from the voters of Arizona a careful consideration of the same:
 We endorse the platform adopted by the Be pubiican National convention of 1892, at Min neapOiis, as the highest expression of tbose principles of government, that through the role of the Repub ic n Iarty have mace t7e
 United States the greatest and most prosperous NatiOn on earth,
 We endOsse the present National adminis- tration snd urge its continuance in power, for
 the reason that in its success IS the Ouly surance of the maintenance of that policy that
 has made the United States the leading Nation
 of the earth.
 We endorse the present territorial adminis-
 tratlon as pare, economical and progressive.
 and call the attention of the citizens of Arizona to the benefits which will aof rue to the terri tory by the success attending the refunding of our territorial indebtedness under the wise pro visions of the Wolfley Funding act. We favor the free and unlimited coinage of
 silver as being demanded by the best interests of our N auOn.
 We point with idle to the general close ob- servsnce of all laws, both federal and terri tOrlal, and challenge a comparigon with any state in the union. and We earnestly urge the
 admission of Arizona into full statehood. We charge the leaders of the Democratic party of Arizona with debasing the honest la- Dor of the territory by arraying agalnst it the competition of convicted criminals e compe- | tition that placed the cell of the felon against
 
 | taskmaster against tn dignity of men labOring | for love of home and hearthstone-by passing | during the last legislature-in which body out | of total of thirty-six members the Democratic party had twenty seven law authorizing the | leasing of the convict labor of the Territorial prison, and we ask from every laboring man | cOmparisiOn between this action of the Demo- crate legislature and the action of the Fepub- | lcan governor in vetoing the measure, | Recognizing that no factor in the future de- velopment of the west can be so potent as bet | ter and cheaper railroad transportation, and realizing from the history of the past the grow 1 ing danger to the pub ic welfare of the eTou- | nous power of railroad and telegraph lines, 1 we believe and urge as a public necessity that | the ownership of all railroad and telegraph | lines, be vested in the general government and l pledge ourselves as Republicans to labor to the | accomplishment of that end,
 Large bodies of land in this territ> " are held | by various corpora ions, under congressional | land grants no which no taxes are paid owing | to their not being 8 rveyed and patented. We piedye our representative to urge upon ngress | immediate action to have their grants and l their unsurVeyed land surveyed, and thus in- | crease the taxable property by many thousands | of dollars. We urge upon congress the ceding
 to diferthent states and territories of all arid
 lands now held by the federal government.