Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-09-28
NOMINATING SPEECH.
The Words Of Adiutant George D. Christy That Captured the Con-
 vention in Prescott.

ChriStY ! nat Captured me NOn-
 vention in Prescott.
 The following is the speech made by Lieutenant George D. ChTisty before the Republican Territorial Convention, al Prescott, Arizona, September 20. 1898:
 MT. Chairman and gentlemen of the convention:
 We are met here today as repre- sentatiyes of the republican party of Arizona to select a candidate for delegate to congress.
 The election of a republican this year will insure us statehood, so We can i'll afford to make any mistake ID our choice.
 He must be strong, popular and capable-a representative m the true sense of tLo word-a man who is acquainted with our various needs, and able t' shape legisla- tion to protect and develop ouEi industries.
 Arizona is a country of diversified resources, and the man who guards her interests in the national halls should be thoroughly familiar with them all, so as tointelligently direct legislation thereon.
 I wish to present for your consid- eration a man, who. from his inti- mate acquaintance with all of her interests, Is pre-eminently fitted to represent this territory.
 A scholar ot high attachments, having been educated at West Point, the military school supported and maintained by the United States. A pioneer, who first came to this territory in the early 70's and took an active part in the struggles which wrested this commonwealth from the hand of the savage and opened it to settlement and eIviliza- tion, and has been identified with her progress and development ever since.
 One who Is a miner of many years experience and therefore can be re lied upon to promote any measure that will stimulate development and unlock our granite bound treas ure vaults of hidden mineral wealth. | One who has been a stockInan of long standing and would jealously guard their interests agaInst hostile ! legislation or competition with the pauper raised herds across the bor- der.
 One who has interested himself in the development of our water sup ! ply-a subject of such vital interest ' to the settlers of central Arizona, who have carved their homes out Of the desert waste and made it bios som as the rose.
 4 man to whom no one ever ap- piled for aid and went away dis appointed 4 toiler himself, he has always been staunch friend to every laboring man.
 4 man of large business experi- ence and scrupuious honesty, the interests of all classes can safely be entrusted to his care. He is the one republican who can be elected be- yond a preadventure. His long years of residence and labor among us have given him wider circle of ac- quaintance than Is possessed by any other nau ID the territory; and every acquaintance, irrespective ol party affiliatiOn, Is friend who will do all in his power to further hi: election.
 And more than all this. he is a gallant soldier.
 The war with Spain marks the be ginning of 8 new era in American history. Henceforth We occupy a larger, N-oader field of national activ:;y nd take that place among the H4t., IS of the world which is rightfuliy our own. Soon shall be realized that life long dream of our gallant leader, Blaine, of the time when ships flying the American flag and freighted with American pro ducts shall sail every sea and anchor in every harbOr ID the civilized world. (ApPlause.)
 It Is fitting, then, at this time, that Arizona, which furnished more volunteers per capita than any other portion of the United States, should send to represent 1t in congress, a soldier, one who stands squarely fol this broader national life.
 I present to you today a man who was one of the first to forsake hi: business and his fireside-leaving a loving wife, with an infant son les: than two weeks old, the only hope of perpetuating the historic name of long list of Illustrious sires- to defend the honor of the country be loved.
 4 man who led in that mad charge upon an unseen foe at La Quisina where the Arizona and New Mexico volunteers meet their first baptism of fire and where SD many now sleeE on the rocky hillside awaiting the final reveille.
 Early in the fight he was severely wounded, yet he never faltered, but remained at the head of his men cheering and encouraging them, till ths enemy broke and fled, and wheI . last tue ulll was NOu nc ItluStL to have his own wounds dressed un |. til the surgeons had first attended 1 to his wounded men.
 Arizona can never forget those men who were the first to plant the old flag on Cuban soil and the frs to shed their blood in its defense.
 The charge of the light brigade at Balaklava will be forgotten tale long before Arizona shall cease tC swell with pride at the remembrance of that brilliant dash up the brush tangled slopes of that Cuban noun tam where the Rough Riders utterly routed a greatly superior force O
 veterans and astounded the whole world by their reckless valor. ]. The old word then learned for tho . first time that strength lies no
 alone in numbers, nor in discipline
 but in that higher courage whict . fourishes only under free institu
 tIons-the courage of a free peopl,
 fighting in defense of liberty snC
 justIce. Arizona glories in the par