Tombstone epitaph., 1892-10-09
REPEBLICAN TERRITORIAL PLATFORM.

The Republican party of the Territory of Arizona, in Territorial convention as semUled m the City of Prescott, present to their fellow cItizens the following state ment of the tenets of their political faith, and ask from the voters of Arizona a care iul consideration of the same:
 We endorse the platform adopted by the Republican National Convention of 1892, a, Minneapolis, as the highest ex- pres sion of those principles of govern ment, that through the rule Of the Re pubncan party have made the United States the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth.
 We endorse the present National ad- ministra;ion and urge its continuance in pow CT, for the reason that Tn it's success Is the only assurance of the maintenance of that policy that has made the United States the leading nation of the earth. We endorse the present Territorial ad min .stratIon as pure, economical and progressive, and call the attention of the citiz, ns of Arlzona to the benefits which will accrue 10 the Territory by the suc- cess attending the refunding ot our Ter riioIial indebtedness under the wlse pro visiCns of the Wolfiey Funding Act. We favor the free and unlimited coin age 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 a com parison with any state in The Union, and we earnestly urge ihe admission of Arzona into full statehood.
 We charge the leaders of the Demo crate party Of Arizona with debasing the honest labor of the Territory by ar rayIIg against II the competition | of convIcted criminals "a com petition that placed the cell of the felon against the home of wife and children, the whip of the taskmaker against the dignity of men laboring for love of home and nearths.one-by passing during the last legislature, in which body out of a total of thirty-six members the Demo cratic party had twenry-seven, a law authorizing the leasing of the convict labor of the Territorial Prison, and we ask from every laboring man a compari- son between thIs action Of the Democrat ic Legislature and the action of the Re publican Governor Tn vetoiDg the meas ure.
 Recognizing that no factor in the future development of the west can be
 so potear as better and cheaper railroad transportation, and realizing from the
 history of the past, the growing danger 10 the public welfare of the enormous power of railways and telegraph lines,
 we believe and urge as public necessity that the ownership of all railroad and IteIegraph lines be vested in the general
 govt trnment, and pledge ourselves as Re
 publicans to labor to the accomplish ment of that end.
 L srge bodies of land in this Territory
 are held by various corporations, under
 congressional land grants, on wLich nc
 taxes are paid owing 10 their not being
 surveyed and paicn'ed. We pledge ou'
 representa'ivr uige upon Congress
 immediate action TO have their grants
 and o.her unsusse,ed lard surveyed
 and thus iuCTcase the taxable property
 by many thousancs of dollars. We urge
 upon Congress the eeding to the differ
 ent States and Teiriro-ies of all arid land, nov held by the Federal Govern
 mene. ti