The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-10-21
non, r nuLx roIs A,ss,spA ,,

every citizen of Arizona who loves liberty, home, peace. happiness and prosperity will cheerfully indorse. Our space forbids reproduction of the whole argument and we have culled the following paragraphs:
 "With a present public indebtedness $2,323. .So7. which is steadily lncreas- ing with tax rate higher than that of any other section of the Union, deterring alike ,he incoming of set tiers and investors--a rate in some counties reaching to $4 30 on each hundred dollars worth of property. with Il constant and increasing deficit, averaging for the last ten years over $25, 900 annually "a deficit which logi- cally can mean only repudia,i.n un- less public expenditures can be brought within the public income. with but Il single county in the Ter ritory on cash basis, with spirit of discomfort and dis,rust of the future of the Territory p"rvading every class of citizens. the time has come for change in the public affairs of Arizona.
 ..Possessing rich natural resources, enjoying climatic conditions unri- vailed. presenting industrial opportu- nities that should alike attract capital and labor, for ten years Arizona has made little progress. either in wealth or population. Why? Because nellh- CT capital nor labor cares 10 enter where it has not a voice in the making and administration of laws affecting their ndiiion--laws which will either rob or protect them. Since It's organization as Territory, SD far as it's real rulers were concerned, Arizona has been the spells ground of politi- cal parties--the province ,o be farmed out 10 award political services, or to provide places for political hacks whose past records made them eye sores to their parties. or whose pecu- liarities made them undesirable fel- iows-a,-arms in the game of politics in older communities. Mere political oil-scourings. such men are never strong, often not even honest. Had they been so, had they been able to play the roles of leaders that they had assumed in Arizona elsewhere. they would never have left their old home to seek political prefermcut in Arizo- Da. The policy adopted of getting rid of tben by appointment to public office in Arizona merely converted the Territory into political penal colony. With such men in coutsoi of public afralrs--men lacking in abil- ty. ofien iu common honesty. there could be but one result. mismanage- mest and misgoyernment. Where men have not been directly imported to fill Inc offices. those wir have been selected have owned their appoint- ments entirely to outside influences. and as result have always been dqminated to d greater or less degree by foreign influence instead of repre-. senting home septiWept and home thought.
 '.All political parties have rec"gr uized the injustice of the system. Every party in it's national convention for sixteen years has pledged itself to rectify iie evil hy giving the Terri'o- ry home rule, and each pally in iis days of victory has broken ils pledges, This, loo. though the home rule im- piled nleapt merely inc appointment to office of such residents of the Ter ritory as had the greatest polilieal in- fluences without it's boundaries. re- gsrdless of how such appointces might stand tn Arizopa. There can be but one home ruie systcRi possibly, and that by according to the people of Arizona the right to elect their own licefs=saJministratiye aud judielal-- from governor to justice of the peace excepting only those officials as are of purely federal character, such as ibe U. s. marshal, the U. $. surveyor general and the U, $. district attor- ney. The time has come b secure this right. In congress granting II lies the whole salvation of ArIzona--. it's future. it's all. One house of con gress passed such 4 law for Utah. and if wuiIid have lneu Dtlt into effect had