Tombstone epitaph., 1892-10-16
REPCBLICAN TERRITORIAL PLATFORM.

The Republican parry of the Territory of Arizona, Tn Territorial convention as sembled In the City of Prescott, present to their fellow citizens the following state ment of the ,enets of their political faith, and ask from the voters of Arizona a careful consideration of the same:
 We endorse the platform adopted by the Republicin 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 parry 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 Tn its 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. l mInistrauon as pure, economical and progressive, and call the attention of the | citizens of Arizona 10 the benefits which will accrue 10 the Territory by the sue cess attending the refunding of our Ter ntorial indebtedness under the wise pro- visions of the Wohey 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 . comparison with any state m the UnIon and We earnestly urge the admission ot Arzona into iull statehood.
 We charge the leaders of the Demo- crauc party of Arizona with dehasing the honest labor of the Territory by ar raying against it the competition of convicted criminals - com petition that placed the cell of the felor agaInst the home of wife and children the whip of the taskmaker against the dignlty of men laboring for love of home md hearlhsIone-by passing during the last legislature, in which body out of . total of thirty-six members the Demo cratic party had twenry-seven, a law authorizing the leasing of the coDvic1 labor of the Territorial Prison, and ws ask from every labcrins man a compari- son between this action of the Democrat ic Legislature and the action of the Re publican Governor Tn vetoing the meas ure.
 | Recognizing that no factor in tbs future development of the west can be so potelt as better and cheaper railroad transportation, and realizing from tho history of the past, the growing danger to the public welfare of the enormou: power of railways and telegraph lines we believe and urge as public necessity that the ownership of all railroad and telegraph lines be vested in the senera government, and pledge ourselves as Re publicans to labor to the accomplish ment of that end
 L irge bodies of land in this Territory are held by various corporations, undel congressional land grants, on wtich nc taxes are paid owing to their not being surveyed and psten ed. We pledge ouI representative io urge upon Congres: immediate acfion 70 have their grant: and other giswveyed land surveyed and thus increase the taxable property by many thousands of dollars. We urge Iupon Congress the oediDg to the differ ent States and Territories of all arid Hands now held by the Federal Govern m en'. {