The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-09-29
Republican Platform.

The Republican party of the Terri tory of Arizona. in Territorial conven- tion assembled in the city of Prescott, present to their fellow-citizens the fol- lowing statement of the tenets of their political faith, and ask from the voters of Arizona careful consideration of the same:
 We endorse the platform adopted by the Republican National convention of 1892, at Minneapolis, as the highest expression of those principles of gov ernment, that through the rule of the Republican party have made the United States the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth.
 We endorse the present national ad- ministration and urge it's continuance in power, for the reason that in its suc- cess IS the only assurance of the main- tenancc of that policy that has made the United States the leading nation of the earth.
 We endorse the present Territorial administration as pure, economical and progressive, and call the attention of the citizens of Arizona to the benefits which will accrue to the Territory by the success attending the refunding ot our Territorial indebtedness under the wise provisions of the Wolfey Funding act.
 We favor the free and unlimited coinage 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 oi Arizona into full statehood.
 We charge the leaders of the Demo cratic party of Arizona with debasine the honest labor of the Territory by arraying against it the competition oi convicted criminals--a competition thai
 placed the cell of the felon against tho
 home of wife and children, the whiI
 of the taskmasler against the dignit,
 of men laboring for love of home ant
 hearthstone-by pessing during th' last lcgislature--in which body, out O
 a total of thirty-six members the Dem ocratic party had twcnty-scvcn-a law authorizing the leasing of the convic
 labor of the Territorial prison, and WI ask from every laboriag man com
 parison between the action of the eDem ocratic legislature and the action o ? the Republican governor in vetoing tn
 measure.
 g Recognizing that TO factor in tn
 future development of the west can b e so potent as better aDd cheaper rail f road transportation, and realizing iron the history of the past the growini
 danger to the public welfare of tn enormous power and telegraph lines
 we believe and urge as public neces ] sity that the ownership of all railroa' | and telegraph lines be vested in tn - general government and pledge our selves as Republicans to labor to tn
 accomplishment of that end : Large bodies of land in this Territor $ are held by various corporations, unde l. Congressional land grants, on which D i taxes are paid owing to their not bein surveyed and patented. We pledg
 our representative to urge upon Con l. gress immediate action to have thei |. grants and their unsurveyed land SUI if Veyed, and thus increase the taXabl e property by many thousands of dollar: We urge upon Congress the ceding t T different States and Territories of d c arid lands now held by the fedora ! l government