Tombstone epitaph., 1892-10-02

The Republican party of the Territory of Arizona, Tn Territorial convention as sembled m the Guy of Prescott, present to their fellow citizens the following state ment of the tenets of thelr political faith, and ask from the voters ot Arizona a careful consideration of the same:
 We endorse the platform adopted by the Republican National Convention oi Ie92, al Minneapolis, as the highest ex- prrssion of those principles of govern ment, that through the rule Of the Re publican party have made the UnIled States the greatest and most prosperous nat.on on earth
 We endorse the present National ad- mlnis,ration and urge its continuance Tn power, for the reason that in 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 minisuaiIon 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 reiunding of our Ter nIoriai indebtedness under the wise pro- visions Of the Wolfey 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 It the competition of convicted criminals "a com petition that placed the cell of ,he felcn against the home of wife and children, the whip of the taskmaker against the dignity o! men laboring for love of hon e and hearihstone-by passing during the last legislature, m which body out of a total oi thiIty-sIx members the Demo cratic party had tweniy-seven, a law authorizing the leasing of the copvic, labor of the Territorial Prison, and we ask from every laboring man compari- son between thls action of the Democrat ic Legislature and the action of the Re publican Governor Tn vetoing the meas , ure.
 Recognizing that no factor in the future development of the west can be so poteit as better and cheaper railroad , transportation, and realizing from the history of the past, the growing danger to the pIblic welfare of the enormou, power of railways and telegraph hnes we believe and urge as public necessity that the ownership of all railroad and telegraph lines be vested in the genera 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, undeI congressional land grants, on wtich nc taxes are paid owing to their not being surveyed and patented. We pledge our representative 10 urge upon Congress immediate action 70 have their grants and other unsrrveyed land surveyed and thus increase the taxable property by many thousands of dollars. We urge upon Congress the ceding to the differ ent States and Territories of all arid lands now held by the Federal Govern ment. If