Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-11-05

man. an idolater of President Harrison
 I am under DO personal obligations O
 official obligations to him, In tha
 great struggle I waged against the com
 bined hosts O. iniquity and disloyaIty II
 this state, in whicn I went down, 1 hac never even the assurance of persona
 sympathy from the administration
 Therefore. have no occasion for ldola
 try, But I affirm that the sadminlstra'
 ton of President Harrison, for the wls'
 dom of his administration of the affairs
 of the nation at home aud abroad, IS
 without parallel or peer in the whole
 history Of American Citizenship. (Ap-
 plause.) He is the only man who has sat in the Presidential chair for the last half century that could take every de- paTtment himself and run 1t without as- sistance. (Appiause.) He IS an enml- nent lawyer, and he was gallant and heroic soldier. He has been 6n efhclent and trained legislator. It IS not often that mans grows after he IS 50 years old. Ordinarily by that time a man IS guaged and scrutinized and weighed so that his specific gravity and cubic con- tents are known as they will continue to be to the end. of the time. President Harrison is distinctly greater in intel lectual stature and mental vigor since he has passed from the Senate than he was before, and he stands today lm- measurabiy higher in the estimation or the American people than he was when he was frot sworn into office nearly four years ago. (Applause.) The series or speeches that President Harrison made in the campaign preceding hls election, and the series of speeches that he has since made in bis tours across the con- tinent in response to the invitation of the people, and that he has made at various gatherings to his comrades upon various occasions, have never been sur passed at any time in political literature. I affirm that for versatility, for lofty patriotism, for beauty and grace of dic- tion, force and yigor, they have never been excelled, and l believe that he has no superior in the compass of political oratory, either ancient or modern. He is a courageous man, he is not afraid to do right, he is a patriotic man, he be- lieves in the American people, and he spells the word nation" with the big gest letter N there is in the alphabet.
 "The State paper that he wrote in reply to the objections of Lord Sali = bury to the continuation of the modus vivendi, in the sealing difficulty with Great Britain, is, in my judgment, one of the ablest and one of the strongest State papers of this century. He wrote it himself He had no Secretary of State, and he is just exactly as compe- tent to conduct negotiation with one of the foreign powers of Europe as he IS competent and willing to look over the private papers in the case of a pensioner applying for pension. Applause. And I hope do not trench upon the pro- prieties of this time and this place and this occasion when I say there IS no American citizen, whatever may be his political affiliations, that does not feel, as he sits at the shadow of that most direful calamity that can darken the energies of a mans soul, that it is some thing to have in this day of trlbulation and danger Chief Magistrate who is neither afraid nor ashamed in this age of anarchy and communism, of material ism and agnosticism, who has faith and belief in that Supreme Being who is the arbiter alike of the destinies of nations and of the faith and fortunes of men. I know that in this great crisis he can be relied upon with entire faithfulness and fidelity"