Arizona silver belt., 1898-11-03
ROUGH RIDING.
Col. Brodie and (. w. Wright Address a Silver Audience. A Weak Talk.

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 The aristocratic republican territo. rial aggregation arrived at Cutter sta tion in a luxurious special car last Sat urday afternoon and were met by a committee of local republicans and several Rough Riders, most of them democrats who will vote for Wilson. The personnel of the visiting party is ] Col A. O. Brodie, candidate for dele gate to congress, c. w. Wright, the intelligent lawyer who says he knows nothing about politics, Dr. Vickers, member of the board of control, who carries the sack, and Geo. H. Smalley, the versitile correspondent who can gid refined gold, paint the lily and throw a perfume on the violet. The reception committee had done I everything possible for the success of the meeting, and were favored by ideal weather. The speakers were ex- pected to do the rest and if they failed and whitening frost damaged repub- lican prospects, the responsibility can not be charged to Globe republicans.
 The speaking took place from the veranda of the Kinney House, and praise is due Mrs. A. Kinney for the handsome decorations and the gener- ous accommodations provided for the meeting.
 The SILVER BELT was not over looked, as two stenographers, Miss Laurietta Coombs, court reporter and Mir. F. w. Gillette, private secretary to Wm. Garland, were seated near the front window of the parlor, within ten feet of the speakers. The full report of the meeting in our possession iand the only one extant) is too vol luminous for publication in our col umns, and to quote Hamlet, the speeches were only Words, words, words" having no bearing upon the issues ofthe campaign. Probate Judge Mills Van Wagenen, and candidate for reelection, introduced the speakers. Col. Brodie labored under the dis advantage of cold and could not be heard forty feet away, He mentioned Halifax, where he received the news of his nomination, and to which place he may return after the Sth day of No vember, A. D., 1898. The coloneps speech was devoted to mention of his long residence in the territory, the many positions of trust and responsi- bility he had held, and from which he retired with the appreciation of all men.
 He said he had been miner, stock raiser, and soldier, and thoroughly understands the territory. When asked what about silver he answered in a half-hearted way that he favored sil- yer, but it is Col. BrodIe's opinion, as expressed in speeches and letters, dur- ing the campaign that ''silver should be laid aside until we secure state hood"
 The speech was eulogistic of Brodie and the Rough Riders, and of Buckle O'Neill, who favored Col. J. F. Wilson for congress and wrote: 'I hope that Wilson will be nominated and that my friends will do all they can to elect him."
 c. ". Wright was then introduced as ''Judge" Wright, ''once member of the supreme court" to which the speaker demurred by saying, mo such hard luck has ever fallen to my lot !" He said it had been question with him ever since they started out on this campaign who knows the least about politics, Brodie or himself, and that 'the consensus of opinion is that nei- ther of us knows anything" There is no argument there.
 He referred to the lack of develop ment all over the territory, although we have soil equal to that of the Nile, climate unrivaled and mountains ribbed with gold, silver and copper, and he continued: "When think of those things and the condition we are in am very tired of poli- tics" So we all are, especially of re- publican politics which is largely re- sponsible for "the condition"
 After slurring the silver question, Mr. Wright described the most disrep- utable politician, who he said the pres ident could reach out his great big hand, catch hold of that politician, ''set him down in Phoenix and make out of that brute the governor of the territory"
 The description fitted McCord (Oakes Murphy's man Friday so well that one of the audience asked; 'Is that McCord.n
 70, God help McCord," said the speaker, land no one else will so far as I am concerned" 'Mr. Wright then made a long talk on statehood (which he so strenuously opposed a few years ago. and he rung in all the stock arguments and wound up by saying, "We can get statehood with Brodie." Oakes Murphy made the same promise and the people elected him. We got statehood-nit.
 MT. Wright thanked the audience and was about to sit down when the chairman detained him by requesting that he say something about the silver plank in the platform. The speaker said, 'T didn't know there was a silver plank in the platform," and Wright was right for once, because the repub- lican territorial platform, favors repub- lican legislation on the financial ques-' tion, and the national republican poli- cy is for gold.
 Before MT. Wright had finished speaking half the audience of two or three hundred persons had departed, and the Brodie boom had begun to