Arizona republican., 1896-09-18

RepubkcanS n the county to stand firmly by the ticket to be nominated by the convention. His remarks on the silver question brought forth great applause.
 After Chairman Ford's speech Geo. Mintz made a few remarks.
 The committee on platform and res olutious reported as follows:
 Be it resolved that we, the Republi- cans of Maricopa county, in convention assembled, do declare as follows, to- wit:
 the protective policy so ably advocated by the statesmen of the past, and to the acceptance of which policy by the Republican party the Nation owes all of the prosperity which it has enjoyed for the last thirty years.
 And we declare that in the reversal of this protective policy by the Demo- cratic party under the leadership of Grover Cleveland, the country has had an object lesson in destructive states manship that it will not forget in a century
 The Republicans of Maricopa county congratulate the people of the country upon the growth of the Republican sentiment as evidenced by the signal victories of the last three years and recently in Vermont and Maine, which assure a glorious National triumph in the coming election.
 We denounce the Democratic admin istration as the most destructive and disastrous the history of our country h 1yv 4 n,o . appointed the expectations of the country, but has justly forfeited the confidence and support of its own party.
 We believe in reciprocity, which re- ciprocates, and which does not yield up to another country single days labor that belongs to the American workingman
 We stand for a foreign policy, die tated by and imbued with a spirit that is genuinely American
 We assert that Arizona has sufficient population, intelligence and patriotism to entitle her to statehood; and in the name of justice and fair play we ap- peal to the American congress to grant Us this boon.
 We hereby ask that the territorial convention instruct our delegate to congress,
 First, to make His chief official duty the admission of our territory into the union of states.
 Second, that he use his earnest ef- fonts towards procuring the govern ment to construct and control reser- voir system of irrigation for the arid lands of Arizona.
 We hereby pledge our allegiance to the Republican party and its princi- pies, and promise our hearty support to it's nominees, territorial, county and precinct
 The Republicans of Maricopa county take great satisfaction in the approval of the National nominees and espe- cially that pure champion of Ameri- can labor and American industries, that soldier statesman of America, William Mckinley. We pledge all the nominees of this convention to strict economy in office, at the same time we ask our super visors to maintain good roads through out the county, and legislators for hb- eral appropriations to territorial in- stitutions, and especially to our schools.
 We shall ask our legislature and governor for just laws upon the water rights which will be at once full and complete and yet so simple that he who runs may read. A minority report was offered as i follows:
 "We favor the free coinage of the coin of the United States product ot gold and silver under such restric- tions as will maintain a parity between the two metals" The latter was referred to the con- mittee on resolutions J. J. Hodnett of Tempe made a strong talk and said that if the convention allowed a Popu. ldstic plank to creep into the platform the Tempe delegation was not in it H. 2. Buck, also of Tempe, said that the entire Tempe delegation was back of MT. Hodnett and that they were Republicans from head to foot. T. w Hine endorsed the remarks of ZucI and said he stood fatfooted on the St Louis platform. He moved the adop tion of the majority report with thu exception of the last clause referring to silver, which would be voted or separately. The majority report was adopted.
 Buck moved the adoption Of the mi nority report.
 MT Molloy, one of tile committee or platform, said that the rest of the com mittee had betrayed the party and ob jected to the insertion of the minority
 report, and unmercifully scored tn. Tempe delegation. He claimed they were misrepresenting their constit