Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-09-24
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Sound Doctrine for Arizonans to
 Consider.
Unlimited Silver Coinage Plank in
 the Platform.

The Republican party of the Territor.
 of Arizona, in Territorial Convention
 assembled ia the city of Prescott, pre-
 sent to their fellow citizens the follow
 ing statement of the tenets of theil
 political faith, and ask from the voter!
 of Arizona a careful consideration Ot
 the same:
 We endorse the platform adopted by
 the Republican National Convention Oi
 1892, at Minneapolis, as the highest ex-
 pression of those principles of Govern
 ment that through the rule of the Re publican party have made the United
 States the greatest and most prosperous
 nation on earth.
 We endorse the present National ad- nis.ration and urge its continuance | in power for the reason that in its sue. cess is the only assurance of the main :enance of that policy that has mad the United States the leading nation of the earth.
 We endorse the present Territorial admin stration as pure, economical and | progre Ssive, and call the attention of 1 the citizens of Ar zOna to the benefits ] which will accrue to the Territory by l the success attending the refunding of our Territorial indebtedness under the wise provisions of the Wolfey Funding | Act.
 We favor the free and unlimited coin age Of silver as being demanded by the | be St interests of our nation.
 We point with pride to the general close observance of all laws, both Feder- al and Territorial, and challenge the comparison with any State in the Union | and we earnestly 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 ar raying against it the competition of convi tied criminals-a competition that places the cell of the felon against the home Cf wife and children and the whip of the taskmastsr against the dignity of men laboring for love of home and hearthstone by passing during the last Legislature in which body out of a total of thirty SIX members the Demo- cratic party had twenty-seven law authorizing the leasing of the convict labor of the Territorial prison. and we ask from every labCring man a compar ison between this acticn of the Demo- cratic Leg stature and the action of the Republican Governor in vetoing the measure,
 Recognizing that o factor in the fut- ure development of the west can be so potent as better and cheaper railroad transportation, and realizing from his tory of the past growing danger to the public welfare of the enormous power of rollroad and telegraph lines, We believe and urge as public necessity that the ownership of all railroad and telegraph hnes be vested in the General Govern ment and pledge ourselves 8s Repub- licans to labor fir the accomplishment of that end.
 Large bodies of land in this Territory are held by various corporations, under Congressional land grants. on which no tiXes are pald, owing to their not being surveyed and patents d. We pledge our Representative to urge upon Congress immediate action to have their grants and other unsurveyed land surveyed and thus increase the taxable property by many thousands of dollars. We urge upon Congress the ceding to the different States and Territories of all arid lands now held by the Federal. Gov ernment.