The Florence tribune., 1898-06-11

bents wanted to stay in. They feared the people, and well they might and well they may when they or any of them come begging suffrage who have against their record this selfish fight on the just powers of the people. have just come from the Committee on Territories. where I have been pleading for the simple right to elect by vote of the people the men who administer our Territorial affairs. These men have no Federal functions they have nothing to do with the ad- ministration of Federal question. Tine function of these officers are purely Territorial, and the Federal Govern ment has no right and no business to appoint or interfere in any way with them.
 Mir. Chairman, we have begged, we have importuned, we have petitioned for this poor boon, but we have been put of unanswered, our importunities have been unheeded, and we, as our fathers of old with their petitions, have been spurned with contempt from the foot of this throne" Talk about independence Is there any free county on earth where this would be tolerated, CT any freeman on earth who would justify it? Any 1 high-bred freeman who could look without complaint on such injustice as this would kick himself in every walk ing hour and deserves the nightmare in every hour of sleep.
 Prate here on other questions about patriotism, justice, and humanity if you will, but how can you justify this thing? No place this side of Russia, no man worthy to be citizen of any country freer than Russia, can or will even attempt to justify vote against home rule for Arizona.
 Nothing but politics, mean, contemp- tible politics, has beaten the home-rule bill for Arizona, and politics of no better type has kept us out of the Union. The country has divided on great financial question, and because we would not bow down at the foot of Baal's idols we were told to stay out of the Union. TApplause.l We'll, we will stay out until that question is settled, and settled right. I know and you know that you will not admit State that you can not control in favor of the single gold standard. Our peo- pie are for free silver.
 They are right. They can not be cajoled, bought, or bulldozed into change of principle. They are not of the knee bending habit, that fawning may bring thrift. We know you will not let us have two silver votes in the Senate as long as you Republicans are in power, but can you not, just out of the abundance of your sweet mercy, 1 let us have little taste of that l autonomy you are talking of giving to Cuba7 Laughter Justices as well as charity should begin at home. Let it not for minute be inferred that our people are against Cuba.
 1 They glory in the valor ot the in- surgents and loug to see freedom and victory at once perch upon the banner their valor has carried through famine, fire and battle charge.
 The heroic fortitude exhibited chains our admiration, and the insurgents course would be justified if Spain had treated her whit less ungratefully or with whit more of wrong than the Federal Government persists in visiting on it's Territories.
 Mr. King. The gentleman forgets that good many home patriots need office in the Territories.
 Mir. Smith of Arizona. That is the whole trouble, as the gentleman from Utah well-knows, having seen it at work in his own State before it's ad- mission.
 Mir. Chairman, know full well the struggle parties make for political supremacy. I appreciate a political party's unwillingness, even by just and proper measures, to advance the prospects of their political adversaries. The country has divided squarely on themony question. The East mistrusts the West. Under no promise, even if it should be made, would the Western Territories be admitted aa States while this question remains unsettled and the Republicans held this House.
 But these considerations do not entei ! into the. home-rnle question. Tor | i could give us this without hurting i, your gold scheme or affecting the re ! sult of any Congressional or Presi ! dential election. You could let ul pay and distribute our own taxel n through engines of our own creation d without injury to your party anywher' on earth. You can not refuse us thi . natural right without forgetting everl | sense of human liberty, every idea 0 legal justice, every aspiration of fre'