Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-10-20
| l CELEBRATION That was a Celebration The Opera House Crowded FROM STAGE TO STREET Eloquent Speakers Make Speech es, Winning Songs and
 Good Music.

great shape. Long before the hour CT
 rived for the celebration to begin th
 opera house was packed to its utmost
 The ladies, God bless then, were out il
 full force. Together with their escort
 they largely occupied the front half O
 the hall. Back of them the house wa
 crowded almost to euffocation, standing room not being obtalnsble.
 The exercises of the evening opened with a patriotic selection by the Phil harmonic band. Mir. c. T. Cornell chairman of the county executive com I mittee, called the meeting to order and introduced Mayor W. I. Perry as master of ceremonies. Thst gentleman, with | his customary gallantry, welcomed the ladies, and in brief, but appropriate, speech stated the object of the meeting, | and proceeded to show why every voter in the county should remember Oakes Murphy, the republican standard bearer, on election day. Ths mere mention of Murphy's name was met with deafening applause.
 Secretary Knox then read the list of vice presidents, after which q selection by the republican quartette" col ored epublic8ns-who sang sweetly "My Country, 'tis of thee," an ever popular air with the repu blican party. It brought down the house, and for an encore Down on the farm" was very prettily g Ven.
 Judge Wright was next introduced. That be was the right man in the right place and kept his hearers right with hlm was manifest, from the moment be covered them with his angelic smile to the moment he exploded his last bon. beneath the water line of the democratic hulk.
 He began his address by saying, in substance, that the audience then pres ent was about five times as big as the one presided over by General Heney. who in his easy and dignified way told them tbht General Joe Campbell was the man of all men Cn earth to ropresent the people of Arizona in the counsels of the Territory, and that he (Wrlght) had sat and listened to Campbell, poetry and all He (Campbel) had told the people of Tucson to wake from tAe dust of ages and vote the Democratic ticket, for the particular and special reason that it would give us statehOod; otherwise, tbe people could not get it. MT. Campbell had proceeded further to show that the | republican party was party of changes, | but that the Democratic party was un- changeable. What 1t had been so ii would be; what it WAS yesterday it was l today, and what 1t vas today 1t would | be tomorrow and forevermore. The l democratic party could not change, as | said Mir. Campbell. Neither could the democratic ticket of Pima county, said | Judge Virgin. What it had bsen so it was. From the ticket of today he could | dictate the ticket two years hence. Ii r. equred 10 prophetic vision to see Judge | Barnes rise in convection and say: "Mr | President, l desire to put in nominatiOn 1 Joe Scott, and l move, Mir. President that NIT. Scott be nominated by accla- mation;' and Joe would be nominated | by acclam ation. MT. F. H. Hereford would next be nominated for Distric, | Attorney, when a gentleman from Ari
 vaca would spring 70 his feet and ex- claim: "Hold on, MT. President till put | in nomiua ation Mir. Satterwhite, whose democracy haa been tried in the fires ot | the faith" But when the votes were counted MT. Satterwhite would have l. and MT. Hereford 36. Mir. Hereford
 would be nominated by exclamation
 Then Charley Shibell and Judge Wood two gentlemen whom the democracy hac
 never heard of before, would be nomi
 mated by exclamation f r offices they haC
 held since the time to which the mem
 ory of man runneth not back. Thest allusions to the unchangeable characte
 of the local democratic ticket wert | highly appreciated, aud R democrat i, the audience was heard to exclG!m, "ll
 hope to God the time will come when
 can vote for eoms new man."
 The Saturday night speech of Judge
 Barnes, and the position of that gentle
 man on the question of statehood, nex
 attracted the speakers attention. anC
 the half serious, half mi, i,thful manner
 in which he diagnosed th5 judges posi- ton on statehood brought down tht house. He further declared that tht
 United States congress was patriotI
 enough to admit Arizona regardless 0
 her political complexion. Utah had beer
 admitted by deuOcratic cadminstratiol
 although II was known that the republi
 cans had elected aS least two-thIrds 0
 the members Of the legislature and haC
 made almost a clean sH eep of the othe
 offices voted for. New Mexico was knowl
 to be democratic and ArizoDa was fairl,
 presumed to be Of like political color
 but neither had bean admitted. Colo
 rado was democratic when admitted b,
 repu blican administration. Nevad } was democratic at the time of her ad mission, and President Lircoin ad mitted it by proclamation althougl
 tue proceeding election had gene demo crate by more than 1000 majority Washington and Wyoming Territorie l were about gu even stand off, and Mon tana had not up to the date of her ad , mission sent republican delegate t congress.
 , The Star, in its issue of the 9th, ha r said that Arizona would not be admit ted uuder her adopted constitution, an quoted Senator Steve White, of Califol mia, as having made like declaration ] White had told Governor Murphy tha B the Senate had no intention of admi ting Arizona at its last session, bu would admit her under an enabling aC g at the coming short session. This woul l necessitRte the return of the bill to tn 8 house, and it's passage through tht body would probably be delayed for th whole of the short sesslon.
 :. He compared Governor Murphy an @ John c. Herndon as a twenty-dollar gol s piece to nickel, and in reviewing tt /. connection of Governor Murphy wit !. the north and south road stated tn; under contract he (Murphy) was to ha,
 received s75, 900 worth of bonds for b