Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-10-31
VOTE FOR DORIAN.

VOx6 FUR Oo1S6N
 There never was 8 time in the his-
 tory of this territory when there was SC
 much at etake in the matter of choos'
 ing . congressional representative. The
 entire United States hss been deluged
 with literature and speakers. upon the
 financial question, and that hss been
 made the issue of this campaign. The
 battle has been 6ercely wsged upon
 both sidee, and though with great
 reluctance, the popocrats themse.ves
 are forced to concede the election Cf
 Mckinley. In the selection of presi-
 sidsnt for the United States, unfor-
 tunately Arizona has DO voice. The
 voters of the territory, however, have it
 in their power to either promote their
 own prosperity or plunge themselves in-
 Co almost hopeless ruin. Every step
 they tsKe should be guarded by their
 own interests, and directed by the cons dihons which are forced upon them from the outside. Of course. the re- uonetization of silver is one of the is- sues by which the territory is vitslly affected. No one denies this, and the three parties who have candidates in the 6sld, are all struggling for this end. The republicans differ from their political opponents ss to the beet me- thods for the restoration of the white mstsl, but here their differences cease. Aside from the silver question, however, there are many other interests of far greater importance to our citizens to- day than the coinage of silver, upon | whatever basis. The story has gone | abroad in the ssst, among those who | have capital ct their disposal. that Ari- xops is an unsafe place for investment; that che is territory; that she is sntsgonistic to capital, and will not | tolerate corporations in her midst. | There IS not a single resident of thIe | territory who does not know that every | enterprise. the copsumation of which is desired to further our interests, is de- pendent upon outside capital for it's de- velopment. Such gigantic schemes of irrigation as those proposed by the | Hudson Reservoir company, the Rio | Verde. and Agua Fria, cannot be car ried on except by the investment of the combined capital of 6 compsLy or cor porstior. The millions of dollars necee- cary to the extension and completion of the North and South railroad will never be contributed by any one individual. It must come as the result of a oom- binstion of capital. The s:su ~ance of McKinley's election has already ins- pired capital with confidence, and in- sestments which promise anything will Asisagerly sought by those who have money st thelr disposal.
 It is certainly easy for the people of this territory to see. if they will think just . moment, that, from g business point alone, If from 10 other. the only chance of our future depends upon the election of Hon. A. J. Dorsn to con- gress. Mir. Dorsn is the nominee of the republican party, upon the Saint Louis and the fight is being made upon this issue. Hls election will be the strongest assurance to east ern capital, which at present is the very fife blood of Arizons's progress and that our people are, as . great majority wholly in sympathy with its views on the great questions which are to it first and foremost in the selection of place for investment. Mr. Dorau's election, for this reason, if for no other, is of the very highest import Anos at this time, because it will make it easy to obtain capital for the develop F ment.of the many enterprises upon which our entire future depends. The ad- vautsges which will come to Tucson by the completion of the Nor:n and South railrr c |, are alone so vast that any citizen who lays straw in its way is fslse to his own interests and those of she entire community. The other which would follow this are almost innumerable, and the only way to secure these things is by the election of MT. Dorsn.
 We cannot afford to remain 8 territory any longer. The tune has long ago passed, when we reached the point where