The Winslow mail., 1898-10-22
Col. Brodie at WinsiOW.

AiSHC "do IolS Seiy AtbOhOON' Ouh Oili-
zens turned out, both democrats and
republicans to show their respect to
Col. Brodie who is gallant soldier, an
honorable gentleman and a true Ameri-
can, but is in bad company.
Colonel Brodie opened the speaking
with few words, which were approp-
riate and to the point, but as he had
Judge Wright, of Tucson, with him as
spokesman, he soon closed to allow
that gentleman, who is full of blarney,
to catch the audience.
Judge Wright, though an able man,
soon tied himself into knot which he
was unable to unite and the more be
tried to extricate himself the tighter
the knot drew. He endeavored to
make statehood the leading issue of
the present campaign and spoke at
great length as to what Colonel Brodie
could and would accomplish in that
direction if elected. Judge Wright
evidently imagined that all the intelli-
gence of the territory wss concentrated
in the southern portion and that we of
the north knew nothing of the import
ant events which had taken place dur
ing the past six or eight months He
was speaking from the standpoint that
his audience was entirely ignorant of
the part played by the republican party
Of the territory when Mark Smith first
introduced bill for statehood. Fail
ing in that he introduced another pray
ing congress to give us home rule. He
thought we were not a reading COM
munity and that we we're not aware of
the fact that every republican paper in
the territory, save one, the Tucson
Citizen, opposed home rule. He
thought we had forgotten or never
knew, or he himself had forgotten that
Governor McCord took trip to Wash
ington for the especial purpose of de-
feating home rule. He knows and
every one with common intelligence
knows, that the leaders of the republi-
can party in this territory do not
want statehood. With statehood Cakes
Murphy would not be governor, Nc
Cord wonld not be colonel of the First
Arizona regiment. There would not
be a single republican state official
His plea to the people to support
Colonel Brodie was an insult to their
manhood, to their patriotism, to their
loyalty to Arizona and to their Ameri-
canism. He wants them to send a re-
publican to congress with the view of
deceiying the president, congress and
the people of the east, with the idea
that we have become convinced that
the single gold standard is of greater
benefit to our people than the double
standard and in the next breath, said
that he and every one in Arizona were
in favor Of free silver. He tried to
persuade the people to stultify them
selves to sacrifice their principles, to
abandon their. manhood, to become
hypoerits, traitors and poltroons, for
the purposee ofsobtaining what is ours
by right-a thing we are justly entitled
to but which has been denied us for
the past six or eightyears. Arizonians
are not made Of that kind of material.
They are thorough Americans and
have too much manhood to seek to OBJ
tain by treachery and deceit, that
which they are clearly entitled to.
Taken altogether. Colonel Wright's
efforts and arguments were rather weak
and did not do credit to that gentle
mans we'll known ability. But it is a
ditficnlt matter for anyone to make
strong plea in wrong cause.
The next orator was e. 8. Clark, dis
trict attorney of Coconino county. Mr..
Clark portrayed in eloquent and glow
ing terms the wave of prosperity that
was now sweeping over the country 1
and illustrated it by comparing Cleve-
lands administration to a railroad
wreck with the debris scattered all
over the country. It was evident that
he had in his minds eye the present
battle that is going on at Virden, Illi-
nois, over an attempt Of coal mine ope-
rators to cut wages on their. employees
and the recent shut down of a cotton
and wooden mill in New Hampshire for
want of orders, and the fact that wheat
one year ago was selling for 80 cents a
bushel while it is drag on the market
at the present time at 60 cents.
He gave a vivid description Of the
reception rendered Colonel Brodie at
Flagstaff. He said the cannons were
booming, flags flying, men, women and
children hurrahing, the dogs barking,
roosters Growing, turkeys gobbling and
pandemonium prevailing generally,
ending with the assertion that Coco
nino would go as q unit for Colorel
Brodie.. Very little credence was given
the last assertion, however. That for
est reserve is too recent an event to be
forgotten by the -Sth of November.
Cap. Naile, brother of AL, came down
from Concho, Apache county, Tuesday |
afternoon with load of native apples
which be sold to Messrs. Krentz &