Arizona republican., 1898-10-07
COLONEL zABRISKIE'S ADDRESS.
Enthusiastic Audience at the Military Plaza Listened to an Eloquent Appeal to the Patriotism and the Reason
 of the Voters of Arizona.

The republican territorial campaign
 was opened in Phoenix last night un-
 der the most encouraging conditions.
 A large audience assembled at the
 military plaza to hear Col. James A.
 Zabriskie of Tucson, one of the fore
 most and most polished orators of Arizona Col. Zebriskie, who has been
 in ill health for several years, had
 within week left a sick bed and was in constant fear of the returning twinses of sciatica. He had in con- sequence prepared speech Ito be de- livered from notes as precaution against an attack which might else disturb his train Of thought.
 | Col Zabriskie is a brilliant extem- poraneous speaker and though he was handicapped by departure which robbed his effort to some degree of it's forensic effect, his address was a strong and admirable one which set the audience to thinking.
 Chairman Gill of the county central committee had prepared many pleasing adjunctS. The Pioneer band had been secured and the colored glee club of the Young Mems Republican club. A novel feature was the presentation of portraits of Col. Brodie, Captain McClintock, Captain O'Neill, Col. Roosevelt and scenes and incidents of the Cuban and Manila campaigns An especially interesting incident was 8 series of movable pictures beginning with the return from a Cuban battle
 field of ambulances laden with the wounded and dying, the subsequent ministrations of nurses, and operations by surgeons. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Gill, who introduced the orator of the evening as follows:
 ..The morning light is breaking. The darkness disappears
 One of the sweetest songs of hymnO-Ogy
 can now be chanted by the people of
 Arizona. Already the sun of statehood
 is climbing the eastern sky and the dark
 ness of territorial vaSsalage will soon be swept away. And the people of Arizona do not propose to be turned from their 1 purpose to achieve statehood by any i spacious arguments or promises Regard ! less of past party affiliations, they rsalize
 that the time has arrived when statshood is within their grasp. They know that the way to reach statehood is to elect that splendid man; that gallant soldier, Alexander O. Brodie. And besides elect
 ing Brodie they propose to elect a Re publican legislature to support him so that when he goes to Washington and
 asks the next Republican congress, and l the next congress will be Republican. as is the present, and asks of the Repuphcan President now in the White House to ad- init Arizona to statehood, his requests will be granted, and the next star to be added to the noble galaxy in Old Glory
 will be the star representing the sun kissed Arizona
 But it is not my purpose to take the time of the audience tonight. We nave with us as the speaker of the evening
 one who has been identified with the growth of Arizona identified with all that has been good and great in the ter ritory's growth and progress; one who
 preceded the railroad into Arizona and who for twenty years has been part and parcel of our advancement. He was a classmate at West Point of that gal lant soldier, Joe Wheeler. and Republican that he is, were he in Alabama this fall he would vote for Joe Wheeler for con-
 gress just as hundreds of Democrats in Arizona going to vote for that other gallant soldier for congress this fall ' Colonel Alexander O. Brodie. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce to you Colonel James A. Zabrisl1ie of Tucson.
 Col. Zabriskie was enthusiastically received and his address, an appeal to reason and patriotism, was interrupted by frequent applauss. Said he: Fellow Citizens:
 The present political campaign is in many respects the most unique in our history. Questions have arisen since the presidential election which com pletely dwarf and almost supersede many previous subjects which have hitherto occupied the public mind to the exclusion of everything else. The republican party had heretofore settled most of the vexed questions of na- tional policy, but the present admins tratiOn came ir1o power with a legacy of confused ideas and peculiar status producing the usual chaos incident to democratic control. The pet measures of the Cleveland administration, how ever honestly entertained, had failed to realize fhe hopes and expectations Of their originators. The republican tariff had bsen overturned and its democratic substitute proved in it's re- suits mockery to sound logic and po- iitical wisdom. It utterly failed 50 pro- duce revenue sufficient for the support Of the government, and with true dem- ocratic obliquity of political wisdom the law-making power failed to provide a remedy in case of the failure of the original bill. Hence, upon the sn-