Tombstone epitaph., 1892-10-30

The Republican party of the Territory Of Arizona, Tn Territorial convention as sembled ID the City of Prescott, present to their fellow citizens the following state ment of the tenets Of ther political faith, and ask from the voters of Arizona a careful consideration of the same:
 We endorse the platform adopted by the Republican National Convention of 1892, al Minneapolis, as the highes, ex- presslon of those principles of govern ment, that through the rule of the Re publican 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 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- ministIauon 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 Wolfley 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 | 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 ar raying against i; the competition of convicted criminals "a com petition that placed the cell of the felon 1 against the home of wife and children, the whip of the taskmaker against the dignity of men laboring for love of home | and hearthstone-by passing during the last legislature, Tn which body out of a total of thir,y-six members the Demo cratic party had twenfy-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 in vetoing the meas. ure.
 | Recognizing that no factor in the future development of the west can be so pote.,t as better and cheaper railroad transportation, and realizing from the
 history of the past, the growing danger to the public welfare of the enormous
 power of railways and telegraph lines,
 we believe and urge as a public necessity that the ownership of all railroad and telegraph lines be vested in the general government, and pledge ourselves as Re. publicans to labor to the accomplish ment of that end.
 Large bodies of land in this Territory
 are held by various corporations, under
 Congressional land grants, on which nc taxes are paid owing to their not being
 surveyed and patented. We pledge our lrepres-Ets pe n urge upon Congress immediate action 10 have their grants
 and other unsurveyed land surveyed and thus increase the Isxabie property
 by many thous ,nts of dollars. We urge upon Congress the cedipg to fhe differ ent States and Territories of all arid
 lands now held by the Federal Govern ment.