Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-11-03
MEDICATION Last Nights Rally Was a ROuSer. MURPHY'S RECORD CLEAN. That $ll00 Distortion Shown up
 in it's True Light-Judge
 Wright on Gladiators.
MURPHY'S RECORD CLEAN.

l Agaln the opera house was packed tC the standing capacity last night to heal the republican speakers, Messrs. Wright and Kibbey. The applause was fire quent the evening througouht. The musical features were the military band and the colored quartette. The main subject, and what everyone had come te hear, was what Judge Wright was going to say abou: the lean commission.
 They were not disappointed. They got thelr moneys worth. Both speakers were enthusiastically received, and their remarks evidently endorsed. The sledge hammer arguments Judge Kibbey gave and the wItticisms and facts of Judge | Wright's vent home.
 NJ P. Freeman was chairman Of the evening and after the musical preliml- minaries introduced Judge klbbey Of PhoenIx. Judge Klbbey is a speaker who talks straight from the shoulder He gave 6 plain facts acd figures last night that brought conviction with | them
 "We have in Phoenix man who sits in his office there, 8 business man, a banker and democrat of democrats, who holds an important office in the present territorial aC ministration with Mir. Henev. He is in favor of the state hood of Arizona He is for Arizona, for the United States and for America. 1 refer to MT. Jamos A. Fleming the terri torial treasurer. MT. Fleming says:
 While 1 am B democrat 1 am more for Arizona. 1 want a man who can make record. A man who has done something. A man who blIlds rail roads and sells mines. My feeling for Arizona is above my democracy. l am going to vote for Murphyr
 "At Goldfeid the principa! mine owner is democrat. He is man of sterling worth. He employs many men. He is a wealthy man. He says:
 |" T have been told all about that record. I am not afraid of it. 1 am going to vote fir man who when he gets to Washington will not have to inquire his way 10 the capitol and ask if there are any hotels there. l don't want a man who has been in public office eight years and stands up and thanks God he has DO record"
 THE MORMON VOTE.
 The speaker read letter from John Heury Smith, of Salt Lake City, the head of the Mormon church. MT. Smith extended the best wishes to the repubil- can party in Arizona. He said the Mormon vote of Arizona Gs he under stood it was as favorable to the grand old party as to the democracy. The Mormons he sBI5, were entirely lrdepen- dent in their suffrages. The letter was read to explode mu0-slinging claim of MT. Murphy having written cringing, abject, contemptible letter to MT Smith.
 The colored qugrtrtte sang couple of taking campaign songs to popular tunes that were voclferously applauded. The Mark Smith song was particularly popular.
 Applause greeted Judge Wright as he stepped forward. He had good deal to say about gladiators. He did't know what "glad!aGors" were but that WAS what MT. Zulick called them, and he expected it WAS a nice thing to be. He he'd been camping on the trail of some gladistors.
 Judge Barnes was long range gladia- tor. He did not stop at Arizona or the United States, but took in South America, and the whole world. The queen of England and the czar of Russia were standing with their hands behind their ears, waiting to hear if Arizona went democratic. They all hung in the balance. If it did not go democratic Engl ni could not last but couple of weeks. While as for Arizona, no man would have time to finish his breakfast before the crash came.
 They had eladietors in Washington. Hayseeds in iong dusters they were with the extract of plug tobacco trick ling from the corners of their mouth. Cleveland stood them up in a TOW and asked them if they agreed with him that the purchase of silver should be made crime and the last mothers son of them said "ayer' The speaker paid his respects to other gadiators and then rolled up his his slevees took a drink of water and went into the loan commis- sion matter.
 His argument YVES broad gauge. It WAS without spleen and venom and he called nobody thieves or liars. He vindicated to the utter satisfaction of all the character of ex-Governor Murphy.
 It was all a question of Interpreting the statues. If statute was as Frank Heney interpreted it they should take Murphy and Morford and Tom Hughes and put them in a box car and sent them to Yuma free of charge. If the expense paragraph of the funding act was as the speaker interpreted it, and as other attorneys interpreted 1t, they had | ought to weave wreath of victory and | put it on Oakes Murphy's bald head. i The cause of the funding act was ex- | plained It was to fund the debts of the territory, the counties, the cities, the | towns and the school district The ] speaker wanted his debts funded in too, but they wouldn't have them. These debts were paying 10 per cent interest. The funding bill provided that they be funded at per cent. The saving possible | on this amount vas d total of Sl00,O0U per snnum. his saving was the object of the funding acr. Tbe sitting out Of these various city and school district and other indebtedness was herculean task. The chaff was there and had to be blowed out. It was finally found that the territory owed two millions. The funding act provided for advertising for bids. Governor Wolfley was then in office. He advertised as specified and cooked his feet upon his desk and waited for bids. No bid came. One morning he woke up and found he was DO longer governor-that he had been displaced by an Iowa man.
 Governor Irwin, the Iowa man, came, full of the importance Of saving the territory good lot of money per aunum.
 He advertised, and no bids came. That is none except one from Chicago with impossible stipulations. MT. Irwin then went east and hawked his bonds "Bonds, bonds," he cried, but the moneyed men needed not. He went tC Chicago, to New York and to Philadel phia. No, they said, they didn't want any bonds.
 One morning this Iowa man woke uI and ha was ooverpor of Arizona nc