Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-07-08
A COMPARISON.


 however. the conditions have changed with the times. Old and tried servants must face the changes and step aside for the new. This IS due probably to a combination oi circumstances, prominent among l the questions being the fact that i the country is in sn upheaval m Its l political preferences, and on the l other hand partisan idolatry has ! simply run its race, played ltseh out in short. ThSt this feeling pre- vaiis to-day, and is shared in its be- lief by many men of stalwart demo cratic principles. is evineed n the still undercurceut of hostility to the bslief that Marx Smith IS to be again pushed Q ne front as the democratic nominee for congress, and other men equally, il not more deserving, are to be showed aside Tn consequence. That the supPosltion is well founded that Mir. Smith again seeks old time honors and from his old time followers, the prominence of his name and the prominence likewise of men who do not openly sanction it, IS the best criterion to guide one that NIT. Smith seeks the nomination and that his old time supporters do not want him. It will be remembered that 8 few weeks ago the territorial democratic convention, that selected delegates to their national meeting. declared Nr. Smith the logical can didste for national committeeman. h this move that gathering com mitted a grievious error, and the afterclap of their hasty action Is be- ing echoed back to them in tones of disapproval, and that too, by men whose 6delity to party Is unques- tloued. The action of the territorial convention is sifted down In its simple and true meaning in this connection as nothing more than a delicate endorsement of his candl- dacy for congress, al least such IS the belief of many. h the quiet nipples of disaPproval heard now so generally, the question of repub licsnism figures to only one extent in the candidacy of Mir. Smith. It is what has he ever done for the ter ritorv or for that matter, for his party, that warrants his entry again into the political sphere of Arizona He has accomplished absolutely nothing, and what Is more, if nom mated, his good fellowship will be played with the same old hand and hacked by the same old game as of yore. His candidacy, in short, would be nothing more nor less than an e1empli6cStion of the say ing that he can fool all the people all the time"
 Mir. Smith has been a political accident of the pursst type. He gained notoriety and also promi- hence originally by defending the county treasurer of Cochise county, and from that legal stroke sprang into the delegateshiP ID one bound. During his incumbency of this office, the best recC | Le ever made was by associating himself as counsel for the notorious Tham robbers in Tues ID, his services as an attorney being demanded more from a stroke of policy, in good fellowship, than actual legal merit or ability. Re gently MT. Smith was showed for ward in Prescott as sn attorney of good fellowship in a prominent murder case before the court, but his persuasive manner or legal ability, somehow or other lost its lustre, and he failed for once, in hi, object, if in reality his object va: to clear his client. or to relieve him of the stigma of the crime.
 When the democratic territorial convention in their declaration ol favor for MT. Smiths candidacy thn ysaI. authorized him tO present hi: name again to the people, which they did virtually mean for him tC do, they committed a political crim, they cannot subs:antiate, or bacl up in the face of the stirring resolu ions passed by them in the sam, meeting. While a member of con gress MT. Smith had the bill fund ing the debt of Arizona amended sJ as to read that the bonds of the ter Titory were to be paid in coin equivalent m its interpretation 1, mean gold, while the democrsti, cC1Eention this year boldly and de hantly declares for :he free and un limited coinage of silver at the rati, of sixteen to one. How these tw, propositions can be cemented con sistently into the democratic doc trIne, we fail to figure out clearly Another plan and palPable Propo sition. which northern Arizon' democrats cannot rid their spina column of, IS the trsacherous silenc, Of MT. Smith over the candidacy O J. C. Herndon. of YsvsPsi, tw, years ago, backed up by the vote il localities where NIT. Smith had hi Hbig pull" Mir. Smith not onl, knifed the northern candidate then but ths blade still continues (,