Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-07-10
Republican Leagues.

several or the lnleINeulES ones. l am fairly qualified to give an opin- ion of them. and without the slight est desire to exaggerate, l can very say that for numbers, vim, vigor, unity and answering devotion to the genuine American principles of the republi- can party, the magnificent gather ing of the militant sons of the G. O. F., which adjourned last week, was away ahead of them all. Having wrecked and ruined the superb in dustrieS which took a generation of earnest labor to upbuild, having footed an overilowing treasury and turned a splendid surplus into beggarly deficiency, having passed a law which has not one avowed friend in America, miscalled ga tariff for revenue only," but which is only productive of daily shortages and very little revenue, having humblOd our American pride and made us beggarly borrowers from the soulless English shylocks, having permitted them, or Cleveland and his friends, to rob us of S900,000,000 in a single thieving transaction, having insulted and robbed the brave men who saved the Union, having hauled down our flag at Honolulu, having repudiated the Monroe doctrine and permitted British ships to land on American soil to plunder weak sister republic, and having been most emphatically condemned by our decent and outraged people, the democratic party has been pray ing and hoping for disunion in our ranks. as their last and only hope. Judging us by themselves, they prophecied that we could not meet and discuss great public questions like bimetallism and Is to l, without disrupting the party, but we did, and we discussed these questions nearly two days and an entire night, without a single man forgetting himself so far as to lose his temper or utter single offensive word. As I was not an extremist, l sat and carefully listened to both sides for hours, and 1 was amazed at the ability, coupled with courtesy and forbearance, which characterized the entire debate in the committee on resolutions. After everything had been said, (refusing several times to call for the previous question( the sensible thing was done, and that was to declare that the league was not organized to formulate plat forms, and not only was this the truth, but its constitution absolutely prohibits any such assumption of a power which belongs to the national conventions of the party alone. Here is the rule, taken from Sec. l3 of our constitution;
 "This league shall not in any man- her endeavor to Influence the action of any national, state, county or municipal convention.
 Action on either side of the con-
 tention would have been an attempt
 to influence the national convention,
 and in obedience to our organic law, we resolved to leave the whole mat
 ter to the court which has sole and
 exclusive jurisdiction. Of course,
 this was not pleasing to democrats,
 but we were not there to please them. In fact, the great desire was to displease and disappoint them. Above all other questions, the para
 mount duty of the hour was to pre-
 serve the unity of the party intact, and the brave self-sacri6cing men of the convention nobly performed that duty.
 Let the galled jade vince, our withers are unwrung. The demo crats sheer at us for doing nothing without stopping to think, that do- ing nothing Is sometimes the highest type of wisdom. What would they not give to persuade their wrangling factions and fractions of factions to do nothing for awhile. One sect in Kentucky sustains the gold bug Cleveland, and another says that his election "Was marching through slaughter house to an open grave" Is that better than doing nothingl But the Kentucky democracy is it. self on the same gruesome march and will reach the same goal and the Republic of the bluegrass state will then perform the funeral obse- quies, of the enemies of the immor- tai Henry Clay, the father of protec- ton to American industry. And now a few words about the personal of the convention. I think that even democrats who saw it, would admit that a finer looking, more gentle manly body of men never assembled in America. 1 was most favorably impressed by the large number of handsome scholarly looking young men, (true types of American manly beauty,) who were present. The democracy some time since made an attempt, and an abcrtive attempt it was, to initiate the R. L. U. s. Of course it failed, as it lacked the ami mating spirit of patriotism to keep it alive. Arizona was ably repre- sented by your distinguished fellow citizens, Messrs. Sampson and Christ, and very appropriately they were placed next to New Mexico. and think We were mutually pleased with each other. Arizona may have larger, but she will never have an abler nor truer delegation. They had no time to attend the numerous attractions which the exuberant hos pitality of the large hearted Buck eyes showered upon us; they were constantly attending to their duties while they lasted. If 1 should at tempt to describe the incompatible banquet which the good people of Cleveland, (by all means the hand somest city on the lakes), gave to the l,500 delegates, l would fail, as every one who has tried to describe it has failed.
 1 have attended scores of banquets east and west, but never dreamed of such a thing of beauty as burst on our astonished eyes when we entered that brilliant hall. It was "a thing of beauty and a joy forever Every state and territory, from Oregon to Maine fbut tWol was ably repre-