The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-10-06
Republican Platform.


 The Republican party of the Terri tory of Arizona. in Territorial conven- tion assembled in the city of Prescott, present to their fellow-citizens the fol- lowing statement of the tenets of their political faith, and ask from the voters of Arizona careful consideration of the same:
 We endorse the platform adopted by the Republican National convention of 1892, at Minneapolis, 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.
 We endorse the present national ad- ministration and urge its continuance in power, for the reason that in its suc- cess IS the only assurance of the main- tenance of that policy that has made the United States the leading nation of the earth.
 We endorse the present Territorial administration as pure, economical and progressive, and 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 Wolfey Funding act.
 We favor 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 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 arraying against it the competition of convicted criminals-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 love of home and hearthstone-by passing during the last legislature-in which body, out of total of thirty-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 parison between the action of the Dem- ocratic legislature and the action of the Republican governor in vetoing the measure.
 Recognizing that no factor in the future development of the west can be so potent as better and cheaper rail- road transportation, and realizing from the history of the past the growing danger to the public welfare of the enormous power and telegraph lines, we believe and urge as a public neces- sity that the ownership of all railroad and telegraph lines be vested in the general government and pledge our selves as Republicans to labor to the accomplishment of that end.
 Large bodies of land in this Territory are held by various corporations, under Congressional land grants, on which no taxes are paid owing to their not being surveyed and patented. We pledge our representative to urge upon Con- gress immediate action to have their grants and their unsurveyed land sur veyed, and thus increase the taxable property by many thousands of dollars. We urge upon Congress the ceding to different States and Territories of all arid lands now held by the federal government.