The oasis., 1897-03-20
MISPLACED SYMPATHY.

and not without reason. Tor with a horde of home and outside aspirantS clamOring for this position and seri- oms charges being lodged against some Of the most prominent of said appN- cantS. President Mckinley's easiest avenue out of the dilemma will be to say to the hungry crowd: The pre- sent governor of Arizona IS in sym pathy with the financial policy Of my administration, aud. as this IS the question upon which the national bat tic Of ballots was fought, ] can see no reason for removing him, from poll tical or any other standpoint Now, place yourselfi in the Presidents boots, and see that he is not very nearly the course you would follow, under the circumstances. .-[ Prescott Courier.
 Whats the use of sympathy which withholds expression until such time as it avaiIs ncthing9 That is exactly the situation Governor Franklin oc- cupies. At any time preceding No vember 3rd declaration of his excel ency that he was in sympathy with the financial policy represented by the republican candidate would have been worth thousand votes to Doran, and would have influenced hundreds of | thousands Of votes in the east; for it would have been indubitable evidence l that the free silver craze was opposed py powerful and influential democrats 1 in Arizona as well as by staunch re- publicans.
 "A word from Roderlck then
 Had been worth a thousand mem
 But when the election was over, and Major Mckinley read his title clear to the presidency, then his supple excel lency ''hung his banner on the out ward wallT and posed as q gold bug 'ln court and hall At the national irrigation convention he made an ad- dress of welcome to the assembled delegates in which he offended seven tenths of them ardent silver men by loudly coDgratulating them that the country had turned against tinan- cial disbonor. Had he made that
 
 speech in October it would have great I ly swollen the rising tide Of McKin- leyS political fortunes and. put the republican president under such o5li- cation that continuance in the gov ernorship of Arizona would have been a necessary consequence. But in De cember, before an assemblage Of peo- pie called to consider scientific problems, the speech was of about as much value to the cause of sound money as a Chinese bomb would nave been for a charge for dynamite gun: and it ought to have no more effect in retaining his hold upon the governor ship than had he shouted the words into an empty barrel.
 On the other hand contrast with Governor FrankIin's record the serv- lees rendered President Mel bj ; NIT. McCord He led the Mckinley forces in the territorial convention last April, aud headed the instructed Mckinley delegation from Arzona IO the St. Louis convention. When the national republican convention made it's clear cut declaration on the silver question, MT. McCord returned to Ari- zona and with q few courageous re- publlcans throughout the territory took stand upon the national plat form and declared it was republican doctrine for Arizona as well as for the east. In the territorial convention al Phoenix, in August, MT. McCord led the staunch republicans who stood for the St. Louis platform; and they sue ceeded in incorporating in the terri torial declaration of principles an en-