Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-09-28
Territorial Platform.

Territorial Platform.
 We. the republican party of Ari- zona, with heartfelt gratitude and unswerving faith and loyalty en- dorse the national republican ad- ministration and pledge our con- plete support and fealty to those immortal principles of republicanism which have upheld and preserved the grandest republic of the earth.
 In William Mckinley, our loved and honored president, we see ex- emplified unsurpassed ability, lofty patriotism, sublime courage, true repubIicanism, and the highest type of American citizenship-the peer of his illustrious predecessors who have ennobled the nation.
 We challenge the world in all his tory 10 produce a chapter equal in military and naval achievements, wise legislation and able admins tration of governmental affairs, to the one now being closed between the United States and Spain With in few months a grand army was enlisted and equipped, and, with an invincible navy, sent forth to main tain the nations honor on land and sea. The unsurpassed heroism of the army, and the unequalled vieto ries of the navy, have swelled every American heart with pride and made unquenchable the fires of patriotism on every American hearthstone. All the nations have been compelled to respect and honor us and acknowl- edge our supremacy.
 The republican congress respond ed with enthusiasm born of love of country, to the call of the president for means with which to carry on the war, and all Europe viewed with respectful wonder the promptness with which apparently inexhausti- ale resources were placed at the dis
 osal of the government, when the Il ions honor seemed in the slight est degree imperiled. All this by republican congress and republi- can administration.
 The republican party of Arizona endorses fully the legislation accom- plished by the national republican leaders, and congratulates the coun- try upon the effectiveness and wis dom of the revenue laws enacted by the fifty-ffth congress.
 We unhesitatinglY support the judgment and discretion of the re- publican congress upon all ques tions of financial legislation, believ- ing that whatever changes are neces- sary for the welfare of the people can be best secured through repub- lican efforts.
 We express our hearty and un- qualified approval of the annexa- ton of Hawaii, and applaud with unstinted commendation the wis dom and sagacity of the republican president and the republican states men who accomplished annexation against the narrow, unpatriotic op- position of that party whose un- American president humiliated his country by ordering the flag hauled down.
 We point with pride to the wise and efficient administration of pub lie affairs Tn this territory under re- publican officials, and heartily en- dorse the administration of Gov ernOr N. O. Murphy, and pledge to him our earnest and loyal support in his able and economic conduct of territorial affairs.
 The republicans of Arizona are for statehood; to continue the terri torial relation any longer under the circumstances and conditions, con- frmed by the record, is not only an outrage, but an unwarranted and despotic abuse of legislative power, and entirely contrary to the spirit, if not the letter, of the most cher ished principles of our government. The same spirit which aroused the unquenchable enthusiasm of our patriotic forefathers when they re- sisted with their ives, taxation with out representation, and cemented with their blood the foundation of the immortal republic, actuates the people of this territory in their de- sire for self-government. We pledge the party and its nominee for con- gress to use every honorable means to secure the admission of Arizona into the union of states.
 We favor the repeal of the forest reserve act.
 We favor the adoption of the principle of the initiative and the referendum in all matters concern ing the creation of public debt in territorial, county and municipal af- faiIs.
 Arizona is justly proud of her mo- ble sons who with uneXampled bray cry led the soldiers of the nation at Siboney and Fl Clancy, and sealed with the blood of immortal heroes the territory's claims to the rights of self-goverument and the highest honors of American manhood.
 The republican party of Arizona believes that wherever the Ameri- can flag has been raised over ac- quired territory, in advancing civi- lization and punishing the cruelties of semi-barbarous governments, there iE should remain, an emblem of enlightened government, protect ing commerce and serving notice upon all Christendom that wherever our flag floats over soil conquered by American heroIsm or made sa- cred by American blood. it is there to stay.