Arizona republican., 1894-10-04
THE FIRST GUN. Opening of the Demo-
 cratic Campaign. Greeted by a Large and Interested Audience.
The Speakers Judge Campbell
 and General Heney.
The Evening Devoted Chiefly to Review of the Late Loan
 Commission.

An aperient was administered to the
 Territorial Democratic campaign last
 night. The attending physicians in the
 case were those eminent practi.
 tioners Gen. Francis J. Heney and
 Judge Joseph Campbell. There was
 fairly successful attempt at eclat but
 the climatic influence of an October
 evening was calculated to cast sort of
 a chill on what was intended to be a
 very enthusiastic operation.
 There were besides too many Repu b.
 licans present. Though they helped to
 swell the size of the open air meeting
 south of the court house plaza they did
 not enter into the spirit of the thing to
 a remarkable extent and the speakers
 and crowd shivered under the influence
 of chill.
 The Pioneer band marched down the street with stirring harmony. There
 was no torch light procession or any other sort of demonstration but large crowd of people followed along on the sidewalk.
 The band went to the rendezvous al- ready described and the crowd followed and took seats until a large and very re. spectacle audience of ladies, Republi- cans and Democrats, were facing the speakers stand.
 Chairman Fickas of the territorial committee appeared and confdentially stated that E. F. Kellner would pre- side at the meeting. He also let the audience into the secret that mum Der of vice. presidents had been carefully and prayerfully selected They were John Lattourette, T. N. Clanton, A. Petit, B. J. George and John Norton.
 President Kellner introduced Judge Campbell, who came to the front with an apology and bad cold, which he said threatened bronchial affection. As the sole representative at hand of the territorial ticket, he had been selected, he said, ito break the ice." The mem bers of the audience looked at each other and seemed to think the phrase was an appropriate one The ice needed breaking but simply break ing it did not dispel the wintrv rigor Having fractured the ice, Mir. Campbell began promiscuously and wildly point ing with pride first, to the record made by the Democratic party, since it had been invested with the Royal Toga," an ancient costume designed by that eminent sartorial artist Thos. Jefferson. He pointed with some more pride to the present territorial administration, and he had little pride left with which to point at the court house ring. The one institution which elicited the speakers widest enthusiasm was the territorial asylum. He challenged Re- Democrats and "even Po- oulists. God help them" to find fault with what had been done at the asylum
 He entered upon defense of Mir. Herndon, who had evolved as district attorney of Yavapai county an opinion hat mines ought to be taxed. If this | was an error (and it was not said, MT. | Campbell. for Mir. Herndon had been | sustained by courts of low and high de- i sree) it was an error of the head and not i 'f the heart. He had construed the law IS he understood it. It was not his business as a public officer to go out to | he mining camps and ask the miners low they liked his construction.
 The next thing was statehood, and 1 lere the orator trimmed his oratorical | wings for flight. When the oil of state lood should be applied to the stiffened | lmbs of Arizona great suppleness would | esult. Many members of the audience lad never regarded statehood in it's ole aginous character and they pricked up heir ears to hear more about 1t, but the 1 peaker had begun to say that the oil would not be applied to Arizona unless he went Democratic this fall. It was lot in human nature, the speaker said, hat an administration would admit hostile state. He cited the cases of Me- ada, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington, ,tc.
 At the close of his address Chairman Kellner introduced Gener- l Heney General Heney by the way Tas the individual for whom the ndience had been lying in wait. He is loquent but not more so than Mir. Campbell but he had the main attrac- ion, the expose of "the Loan Commis- ion, Past and Present"
 General Heney began with misgiv- ngs concerning the probable effect of he night air upon his elocutionary rgans. He had, he said, viewed with ismay the case of Judge Campbell and hen he spoke of the loan commission oncerning which he intended only to ell the truth as the God of Modern Democracy had enjolned In the Maria ialpin episode. He assumed responsi- ility for that clause in the territorial