Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-02-19
ADVERTISEMENT
AN ADDRESS
People Of Arizona.

Believing
and Republican parties, new issues of vital and growing
importance national existence have arisen to be
only ignored and dsregarded by the leaders of those
parties;
Democrat" and Republican parties alike ueed for
the beneHt of the respective sections in watch each OF
cratic party favoring the South the Republican
party the North, that neither party is in truth and
fact national but rather a sectional organization
Believing that the regard to sectonaism displayed
by both parties has caused them to sei6shy ignore the
interests and rights of the West;
Believing that the servile subservency accorded by
both Paes to capital in The past has and is now tend
ing to the creation of selfish and arrogant putocracy
BY which the rights of the great Wpss of the American
people being ruthiessly overridden
Believing that the exercise Of individual independence
and intelligence, outside the pale of the Republican
and Democratic parties alone remedy the evils that
those parties have fosered and encouraged present
this address in behalf of the Peoples Party of Arizona
and ask for it the careful consideration of fellow
citizens of all political creeds
The organization of new political party can be jus
tilted on only two grounds:
That there are wrongs to be righted and
That existing political parties will not undertake
the work eRecting the necessary reforms.
AT the ballot boxes of the nation has just been closed
nation contest the chief actors in which have been
thc Republican and Democratic parties To the latter
has bScH coHded for four the destncs Of the ma
ton.
To the people of Arizona, in common with the labor
ing and producing Of the entire nation this vic
tory means little if anything SO far as Arizona is
concerned not single issue in which il is directly in
terested has been advanced, yet the election of Mr.
Cleveland means as much as did the election of Mr..
Harrison four years ago Between the two men, far
the citizens of Arizona directly concerned,
nothing was to be expected, nothing hoped for The
party which each of the gentlemen represented
party Of the past To the prejudices of the North the
Republican party owed chiefly its existence. In the
tradi Of the South the Democratic party found its
tower strength. The leaders of each appealed
to The passions and seconasm Of their adherants for
victory haa to the higher motives of American patriot
ISM
Ostensbly battle for tariff REFORM the election was
purely fight for public plumber.
1nmmrd Of the rhetoric of party plat orm writers the
contest was one between protective tariff and free
trade This the only issue To it the force bill and
all other issues subordinated or set aside
With that threadbare "boge man, the pauper labor
Of Europe" the Republican orators strove frighten
the totiug into declaring for protective tariff,
While in the language Of their Democratic opponents
a protective tariff only benefited the Carneges of
America, whom in the tugid eloquence of the campaign
lit enabled to live in luxurious castles in Scotland
while the waters of the Susquehanna dyed with
the blood of American workmen."
In Arizona there is a spindle a loom not fur
foundry an industry, or an enterprise that
could be effected one way the other by the issue
If a protective tariff won not another mine would be
opened up, another ranch settled if free trade won
there tariff that could be reduced to affect
the miner of gold of silver or the grower of alfalfa
Yet to have believed the advocates of Repubcanism
Democratic victory meant whte-faced panic and ruin,
and to have believed the Democrat orators only by
instant and sweeping change in our tariff laws could
immediate disaster be averted.
What are the true facts?
The victory has been gained by the Democratic party,
yet Of the six million men who voted for that ticket
not tell whether not extra session of
Congres, will be called to modify the measure which
bsioie the election they thought to believe
iniGuitous and ruinOus in its effects.
The truth is that the tariff has been, is now and
always will be, long as the Republican and Demo
cratic parties the dominant parties merely blind
with which to mslead the masses, in order that the
present growth and increasing power of capital and
monopoly may be fostered and encouraged by refusing
enact laws in the interest of the and against
the increasing encoachment and exactions OF organized
wealth. The records of both parties prove this.
Short as has been the time since the election, the
first measure introduced by the Democratic party
through Senator HILL of its greatest leaders-is
not bill tending to repeal even amend the tariff
laws.
But it is instead bill repeal the law providing for
the monthly purchase Of S45ooooo of slver-an effort
which il successful means widespread ruin throughout
the entire slvcrproducing west, and corresponding
hardship to the laboring and producing masses OF the
nation.
1t is a bill solely and purely for the benefit Of and in
the interest Of the money-leaders and monoposts of
Yet had the Republican party been victorious its
leaders would have favored and supported similar
While the controversy between protective tariff and
free tad, have been thus used by the leaders of both
parties to hoodwink the into blind and
qesi5:aS following Of of the two parties, other
issu.s Vi Ear greater moment and Importance have
arisen 80 be either contemptuously ignored or evaded
suUurIiu,u and double dealing. m
These issues ~
~ The free coinage of silver.
(zj The restriction of monopolistic power by the
government, ownership of railroads and telegraph lines;
and
al The creation of new homes in the west through
the reclamation of the arid regions by the construction
Of government reservoirs and canals.
What has been the policy of the two great parties
these issues? In our own Territory throughout the
west the members of both the Democratic and Repub-
ECan party have unqualihedly advocated free silver.
The free-silver Republicans and democrats of Colo
RADIO of Kansas of Nevada, of Montana, of Idaho of
the Dakotas of Washington, of Oregon, pursued the
policy until they recognized that it useless to
expect any concessions from either the Republican
Democratic parties favorable TO silver and then in the
independence of their manhood they threw aside
partsanship that refused them recognition, and have
cYca.y I'd boldly organized to force from the old
parties that justice to which they entitled.
Arizona afford to do less. To pursue the