Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-10-26
ArArnrrro DELEGATE.

Democrats know, as we'll as repub- licans, that during the three terms that Mark Smith has been in con gress, he has accomplished absolute ly nothing for the territory, of gen eral interest to it. Take Smiths | record as claimed by himself and hs | fails to show that he has accomplish ed anything, his work consisting of the introduction of bills, mostly, few of which have ever passed their first committee and none worthy of note ever reaching the President for his signature to make them laws.
 The universal answer of Mark Smiths democratic followers when he is charged with having accom- plishing nothing, is well he has done as much as any delegate We ever had" That seems to satisfy the democratic conscience to con tinue to vote for Mr. Smith for term after term and thus endorse the most apathetic and worthless dele gate, that has represented any terri. tory in congress for years. While Mark Smith has been ''doing as much as any delegate ever did from Arizona" which has been simply and absolutely nothing, delegates from other territories have been at work and have been doing more than any delegate from Arizona ever did. During the session of fcongress in 1889, prior to the admission of the five northera territories as states, every territory in the United States except Arizona was represented in the appropriation bill. It is perti- nent therefore to ask "where Mark Smith was al" while other delegates were working for their respective territories. It was demonstrated that the delegate that asked and who followed up his asking by actual and persistent work also re ceiyed. It is not through want oi ability that Mark Sthith has failed He is an able man and a fluenI ] speaker. But ability and flower, speeches go for naught as agains active and aggressive work. Som, ] of the most successful men, both il state and territorial legislatures, a! we'll as in the halls of congress, hay, been men who never were gifte6 with the powers of orator, while on the other hand many of the eloquent orators hay, accomplished but little. r Our sister territory, New Mexico as is well known, on partisan vot. is republican, yet their delegate, democrat, has been elected and re elected term after term. Why Because he has something to show ! for the time he has been in Con gress. He was elected for his frs term, the same year Mark Smith wa first elected in Arizona in 1886 During the time he has been ther, he has secured the following ap propristions for his territory a, published in a New Mexico ex change:
 Appropriation for federal building at Santa Fs si00,OOt Appropriation for repairs
 of the governors palace l0.00( Appropriation for Indian school at Santa Fe 33,O0l Appropriation for exten-
 sion to same tin 1892 l0,0O( Appropriation for nation
 sI.cemstry at Santa Fe l5,0O( Bill creating the office of superintendent of same,
 at salary per annumo of 72 Appropriation for the en- largement of Ft. Marcy 10000 Bill for capitol furniture 50,O0 Appropriation for Indian
 school at Albuquerque 25,00G Appropriation for en-
 largement of same tin 1892 l2.OOC Appropriation for survey
 of private land claims 1000 Appropriation for survey
 of Rio Grande river
 from Embudo to
 Fl Paso 25,OOO Bill for settlement of In
 dian depreciation claims
 committed in New Mex
 ico; providing for pay
 ment to our citizens, as
 they prove up their
 claims, of 100000
 Appropriation for pay
 ment of such claims al
 ready proved up and
 allowed 100000 Bill for reduction of the Navajo Indian reserv-
 ation, throwing open the mineral lands there
 on to the prospector
 and miner 5000 Bill for same for Mescal-
 ero Indian reservation 5000 Bill for the establishment
 of the agricultural col
 lege and securing the
 annual government ap-
 propriation of 15,OOO Forty-seven (47) private
 pension bills for old
 soldiers or dependent
 relatives, carrying an average of about 5000
 each 100000 During the same period of time