Arizona republican., 1894-05-01

sufficiently brazen to re.echo the claim made by the Gazette and the speakers at the Democratic meeting last Satur- day night.
 That fallacy WAS thoroughly disposed and with it went every argument in favor of the Kellner ticket.
 The meeting was concluded with the speech of Col. Thos. Fitch. The "Sil- yer Tongued" orator never appeared before Phoenix audience in better form than last night. Wholesome and conv ncing truths were frightened by glealns of wit and dashes of eloquence. Said he:
 For runately for the interests of Phoenix both the publican and Democratic nominees for municipal office are gentlemen of a high character for integrity and business ability. MT. Monihon is an old soldier and an old citi- zen, and has in some particulars greater claims upon 5he good will of this people than h1s com petitor; and any city government will be fortu- nate in securing 1n its councils so able and honest gentleman as Maj jor Lewis; but it is & pleassn mt thing to be able to say that the busi- ness interests of this city will be perfectly safe no matter what may be the result of the elec- tion tomorrow.
 We must find some better, or at least some stronger. reason to control our votes tomorrow than mere choice of men. Our Democratic friends tell us that we ought to find that reason in the pending bill for statehood. They tell us that the statehood bill has been locked up for four months in the senate committee on terri tories awaiting satisfactory assurance that Arl- zona will not be republi ean state, and that ii we will only give that assurance, by electlng MT. Kellner as mayor, then the bill will be re- ported, and within twenty days-as my friend Frank Cox states 1.-the star of Arizona will shine in the American galaxy. If we Republi- cans believe that, if we could think it might even probably be true, l fear that many of us might be induced to wink at the otfense against sound morals and help Mark Smith bunco his Democratic senatorial friends into admitting Arizona into the Union on false pretences. [Laughter,l But how can we believe it? What sign or pleugeo of unreasoning and unreasonable devotion to Democracy could Arizona give that would equal that which she has steadily given for eight years in electing Mark Smith to con- gress? Democratic senator who will not be satisfied with that, will not be satisfied with anything. [Cheers.l
 Democratic friends four years ago themselves take just such dose as they now commend to our lips? There was at that time Republican president, Republican senate and a Republi- can house of representatives. Congress had admitted to statehood the DakOtas and Mon- tana and Washington and Idaho and Wyoming, and was ready to admit any other territory that was likely to be Republican. All that was necessary then to have secured statehood for Arizona was for the Democrats to have exer c1sed little self-denial and elected Repub- lican candidate to congress. Did Mark Smith at that time urge his party friends to such an act of self denial? Did he then propose to make a secondhand Quintus Curtius of himself and leap into yawning gulf of defeat and save statehood? [Laughtsr Did he perambulate the land like the fabled roasted hog with knife and fork quiyering In his flank, begging the public to live upon him? [Laughter.l Did he burden the mails will letters, and the wires with telegrams, saying. Don't mind me, but elect Republican delegate and so secure the adm m AriZ dOinp best to secure his own election and apparently less 1n terested in the state or Arizona than in the estate of Mark Smith? Laughter.1 This is supposed to be world of glve and taKe, bui have noticed that some people do all the taking and allow others to do all the giving. intend no assault on our friend, Mark Smith. He is bright, obliging. companionable gentleman, but ill the maddening whirl of Washington life he seems to have lost that shrinking modeSty which was once his distinguished character ,stic and to have cultivated in it's place an e8 panse Of cheek that would excite the envy of government mule. [Laughter.l You all know that we had on Saturday and Sunday last an unusual spell of cold weather, and the meteorological experts have been puzzled to account for it. Let them veX their brains with astronomical calculations no longer. The cause of it all may be found in Mark Smiths
 letters and telegrams advising Republicans to sacrifice the Republican party ano help him to convince Democratic senators that Arizona is Democratic. When these letters and telegrams struck Phoenix their icy coolness sent the ther- mometer Jumbling down It is fortunate for our horticultural interests that the election is to take place tomorrow. One more batch of
 letters and telegrams from Mark Smith and every alfalfa field would be blackened with frost, and every orange grove as dead as salt mackerel. [Laughter.l
 If statehood depended in any degree upon the result of the election tomorrow, then iE might well be suggested thAt since the Demo- cratic majority in the senate is very light, and since 1t IS known that several eastern democratic In A0m Of Ari- zona, and since the bill cannot pass the senate without number of Republican votes, pos sibly it may be as important for us to conciliate Republican senators by electing Monihon as 1t is to capture Democratic senators by electing Kellner. The argu nent is a two-edgsd sword. If you use it it is as likely to cut one way as the other. But 1t is not necessary to use 1t at all The simple truth is that the opposition at Wa hington to the admission of Arizona does not spring from any apprehension Of her Re- publieanism. and it will not be plac ated by any assurance of its Dem mocracy. lCheersl It is the strong hand at the white house that hSs kept the Arizona statehood bill pigeon -holed for four months in the desk of Senator Faulk- ner of West Virginia and It will keep 1t there, l fear, for the remainder of tfe session. When Big Simon at the white house says to his pat. dow and stay down until simon is ready to say "thumbs up." President Cleve- land hardly expects-with all his egotism-to outrank George Washington and Gen Grant and obtain a third term. In politics he is like Byron's Cain, without remorse and without hope,' and with brutal and pompous candor he blurted out the secret of his hostility to the ad mission of Arizona when he said that HE "wauted no more sagebrush senator's" In brief, it is not the possible Republican, sm, but ] the certain westernism of Arizona thst stands in the way o1 her admission to the Union. She is kept from statehood because she lies on the sunset Sde of the Missouri river, because the | breezes of the Pacific cool her valleys, because the ideas of her people on economic and inan. cial policies are western and not eastern ideas, | because Grover Cleveland knows that the Ari. l zona senators, whether they be Democrats or Republicans, will never go to his friends in | Wall street for instructions. [Cheers
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