Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-11-05

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 mittee so considering them, refused to give us statehood under that Instru- ment.
 Why then did not Mark Smith yield to the universal demand for statehood from his constituents, by endeavorlng to secure the passage of an Enabling act through the House, which act would have been immediately passed by the | Senate. Simply because the water l thieves, whose su ubservient tool Mark Smith is care more for the water than they do for the Statehood, more for the poodle constitution than they do for the Statehood, Shame upon public man who, for any reason whatsoever, subor- dinates the public good to his own sell fish personal and party interests.
 Does any sane man suppose that W. G. Stewart would not have long ago secured the passage of an Enabling act for the admission of Arizona, had he been our delegate to congress?
 Nobody knows this better than Mark Smith, hence that gentleman's alarm, lest Mickey bs elected: For the cleo ton of Stewart and the passage of an Enabling act would end the career of Marcus A. Smith as Democratic pol itician.
 Stewart stated in his speech delivered in this city that he was unalterably opposed to the present poodle constitution, be cause it stole the water from the farm CTS of Arizona, and robbed the tillers of the soil of our future State of their last hope of making free homes for them selves and their children. He also op- posed it because of the obviously corrupt provision which enables a venal board of supervisors to debauch the other of fees and job the county every year out of many thousands of dollars under the form of law. All pralse to a man like Stewart who boldly denounces every villainous attempt.to rob the tax-ridden I people of Arizona, whether the crime be the brazen theft of the water, or the covert burglary of the hard-earned | money which is wrung from them to 1 support theIr government. While MT. | Stewart thus openly denounced the pres ent constitution and eloquently pointed | out tie evils which would result from | Statehood under it for which all true Arizonians, regardless of party, honor | him. He stated in his address here, 1 and in many other speeches throughout | the Territory, that Statehood for Ari- | zona was of the first wish of his heart, | and that if elected, the best energies of | his life were pledged 70 secure it. It is | all very nice for Mark to seek to escape the inevitable defeat which now con- | fronts him by diligently circulating the | silly falsehood that Mickey Stewart is | opposed to Statehood.
 Stewart is not rhetorician, but he IS | a worker. He may not be able to give | points to the professors of English lit l erature in Yale College. but he know ] that when you steal all of the water that flows ln our streams of this Territory that you peon the farmers of Arizona for ever. He may not know as much | about the tariff as Mark Smith claims to know (there is no living man who does) but he kno 4s that the interests of the taxpayers of the Territory are In grave danger, when constitution gives board of supervisors the power to "iob" out innBmerable clerkships to inn pecunious relatives and friends. Mickey may not be as handsome as Mark, but his good sense and answering loyalty to every public interest will enable hIm to accomplish more for the welfare of Arizona in six months than Marks beauty has done for us during the past six years. Shame on man who parts his hair in the middle and whose chief boast is that he is handsome!