Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-11-02
PERTINENT QUERIES AND SELF HELPS FOR DEMOCRATIC
 VOTERS.

How do you stand for delegatei But that is a rather blunt question, and might embarass some of you. How should you stand for delegatei
 Let us try to convince you with out either obtruding our 'blsck re- publican" views on finance, tariff, reciprocity, territorial expansion, new navy, etc, etc, or seeking to break the magic spell-the soothing and hope-reviving influence of your cherished balm and angels food" free silver.
 Arizona is territory, knocking at the door of statehood. Conceded.
 Who has been knocking, for To, these many yearsi Mark Smith. Who is Mark Smithi A democrat, and a sensible one, as he so we'll demonstrated at the last democratic convention, when he declined to stand for delegate.
 Has the door of statehood opened to his knockingf Not yet.
 Whyi For the good political reason, forsooth, that a republican administration could hardly be ex- pected, 'don'tchernow,' to hand over so much good ammunition for dem ocratic campaign purposes. Would n't you, good democrats, do the samei
 Who is our c1ndida.s i,- lbis- gatei Alexander O. Brodie.
 Who is Brodiei What 8 silly question! Go and ask Teddy Roose- welt, General Joe Wheeler, General Shafter, William Mckinley, or Gen eral Linares, now of Madrid, who met Brodie and ''some of the boys" at Las Guasimas, last June.
 Known in Yavspaii Well, l guess! Known and loved by every man, woman and child from the Hssssy- amp to the Verde, and If he were only an unmarried man, like Hob son, he could never complete the triumphant campaign tour he is making without wearing what some eastern expert has suggested-s baseball mask.
 What IS Brodiei He is an expo nent and living example of the true principles of citizenship, of patriot ism and love of country. He is for the upbuildlng of the educational interests of the territory, aud the enlistment of capital and brawn and energy for the development of her marvellous resources, as his past re- cord abundantly shows. He is for statehood for Arizona and will use his best efforts 70 secure It. He will have the administration with him, as we'll as the constant support of many men of national reputation whose counsels are needed in the halls of congress.
 It will have to be conceded, IS now in fact generally conceded, that Col. Wilson, the democratic candidate can do nothing for us in the matter of statehood. He is a large man, largely impressed with the "16 to l" idea, which he lovingly fondles and gracefully holds up to view, with honeyed words, asking the territor- ial democracy to take the foundling under her protecting wing and send him to Washington to have it christ ened in the name of Arizona. If the Colanel were as we'll up in modern history as he appears to be in an- cient history, he might have discov- cred that until sehood is secured the delegate from Arizona has no vote on the silver, or any ther ques- tion.
 Here, then, is your choice:
 Elect Col. Brodie as your dele gate, and you will have enacted strong, progressive measures for the good of all, regardless of party, statehood for Arizona, aud, last but not least, you will show to the world that true Arizonans will never turn down true Arizonan hero, of what ever political faith.
 Elect Colonel Wilson and the old serial story, by Mark Smith entitled, 'Statehood-s Sure Thing" will once more appear in the Congres- sional Record as Continued in Our Next" The remainder of the elo- quent Colouel's Congressional "his- tory making" will appear in print, in the shape of speeches for distri- button among his admiring constit- uents, sometimes accompanied by a package of garden seeds from the Agricultural department - which did so much to make Mark Smith popular, you know.
 WILLIS P. HAYNES.