Arizona republican., 1894-08-30

one perhaps that ever moved an aggre gation of Arizona Democrats, is here produced in part:
 Colonel FrankIin's Speech.
 Gentlemen of the convention and fel-
 low Democrats
 1 heartily congratulate you upon the harmony and good fellowship that has prevailed this convention. It argues well for our success, and the great inter- est the entire community is taking in it's deliberations indicate strongly that Maricopa will hold her place this fall as the Giberalter of Democracy in Ari- zona.
 AS Democrat I am proud of the principles of my party. They are in- terwoven and interlocked with the very foundations of our government, princi- ples as vital and as dear to us as those that animated our fathers upon the field of Lexington and of Bunker Hill.
 What are the mere aspirations and am bitions of men as com pared with the success and maintainance of Democratic principles? Men come and men go but the principles of Democracy will live as long as our mountains and valleys re- main. 1 come before you as Demo- crat without a blot upon my political record. I have never raised my voice against @ nominee of my party, have always fought under it's flag whether defeat or victory greeted it's march. 1 see before me men whose locks are tinged with the frosts of the winter of life, who as residents of the grand old state of Missouri remember the days when the ballot box was hedged in by bayonets and infamous test oaths and not sound Of victory greeted it's marching columns. It may meet with defeat after defeat yet it keeps it's ban ner flying like the antique wrestler it rises from each successive fall inyigor ated rather than weakened by the effort.
 For more than half a century after its foundation by it's great apostle. the i'm mortal Jefferson, it had almost contin- ual control of the government. It ex- tended our possessions from the Alle-s ghany mountains to the father of water and thence to the Pacific coast, and caused us as nation to become the envy of the civilized world. Gentlemen, Arizona is the gift of Democracy to the union. This territory. New Mexico, Nevada and California came to us as the results of the Mexican war. Demo- cratic war inaugurated under Mr. Polk, and what arithmetician can compute their value?
 l When we take our position as one of ! the states of the union we will owe 1t to the Democracy, for we would have en- joved statehood long ago were it not for Republican opposition, and we would have had two Democratic senators in congress to make that body more strongly Democratic than it is.
 In all candor, what excuse can the Republican party give to the people of this territory for admitting Idaho and Wyoming and refusing Arizona? We excel either of them in all that goes to constitute a prosperous state. I will tell you the reason. It is because the Republican party in congress did not like our politics. The Republican party by its vicious legislation enacted during the years when it had complete control of all branches of the government cre- ated the monopolies and colossal trusts that are now overshadowing congress, and are menace to good government. They have legislated for the few at the expense of the many and caused the financial distress and mbarassment that is abroad in the land, and with hypocrltlcal cant inquire why the De- mocracy has not remedied all this in the short time since Cleveland began his second term. Why, do they not know, if they do not the people do, that after long exile from control of the government the Democracy elected it's president and the lower house of con- gress in 1884, and when our great leader president, Cleveland, had completed his first term and had left surplus of more than $l00, ,000, ,000 Tn the treasury and so ably conducted our national affairs that American citizenship was elevated throughout the world. He stands to- day as a statesman worthy to take his place by the side of Jefferson and Jack son. The Republican party under MT. Harrison footed the treasury. When they met with the Waterloo in 1892 the $l00, ,000, ,000 was gone and in it's place a deficit of $50, 100000. This maladmin- 1stration of public affairs, it's infamous robber tariff, its crimes against silver have resulted to bring about the dis tress now abroad. Who struck down silver in 1873? A Republican congress did it. Who restored silver in 1878 and caused the coinage of hundreds of mil lions of dollars of It? A Democratic congress did it.
 If you will examine the records you