The oasis., 1897-02-27
HONE Rr1r FOR ARIZONA.

people of Ariznna, ia common with
 those Of all the territories. have strug-
 gled for for home rale, for the selcc- tion Of officials Go administer our laws
 and 9 Judiciary to cpnstrne them who
 would be familiar with the conditions
 surrounding them; part and parcel nf
 the people they served, with interests
 identical, and affected alike. S9ms of
 the worst scandals in territorial affairs
 had sprung from administration by
 carpet bug officials who came to enjoy
 the salaries, condiments and stealageS of their offices, to return to the states at their close of their terms Co enjoy their i'll gotten plunder Finally, in
 lSsI Wilbur F Saunders Of Montana territory, presented in q national re- publican convention Q resolution de- claring for home rule in the territories.
 which was adopted, and ihe dem ocratic nltlonal convention adopted a similar resolution a few days later.
 since that time each succeeding national convention of both parties has adopted similar home rule plank ia tue platform promulgated
 The resolution Of that tenor adopted by the national republican convention at St. Louis. in June last, was pre-. seated by the Mckinley instructed delegation from Arizona. and pushed to adoption by that delegation. The anti-McKlaley delegation acquicsced in the measure and should be bound
 by it's provisions But are they:
 Within the past three weeks a con- ference of the adhercuts af that fac- tion Of the party, headed by Colonel
 Wn. Chrlsty of Ph@nix. who headed tLcir delegation at St. Louis. has taken up as . candidate for governor MF. Penrose of Philadelphia Pcnnsyl- yania. wLo is for the time being superintendent Of q mine in Cochisc county. and arc pushing him yigor ously for the appointment.
 Should sIr penrose be appointed governor there would be at once cf- iected an evasion of the home ruleI plank in the national republican plat form against which all Arizouans, oi whatever political persuasion, should protest most earnestly The appo nt- mcnt Of Mr Pearose as governor oil Arizona would be a notice 10 the many eager aspirants in the cast, who iiud themselves shut out frem anticipated prefermcnt by extension of the cirii service rules that there are in Arl- zona q few plums within thelr reach. aud there would be an irruptiun of eastern applicants. So backed by all the irresistible power of combinations of senators and representatives that their appointments could not be re- fused by the executive. With that pleasing situation the people of Arizona would see eastern men In the or the territory, m all 1 the justiceships ia tho collectofship i at Nogales, in tho land offices and in every office in egitt 0f the president phe gentlemen who are now endoay- oring to let down the bars for Mir. ! Penrose will find themselves shut out from the places they hope to till for the very moment it is found that the ! senatorial combination they have in- yoked in his interest has been success ful in foiSting him into office, there will be immediately constructed other senatorial combinations to provide places in Arizona for effective adher- lnts who have been disappointed else where.
 In asserting that MT. Penrose is a