Arizona republican., 1899-04-19
|Is NOT FOR FREE SILVER

he Kansas City Star correspondent
 in Arizona two weeks ago and
 les of letters from his pen are now
 bearing in that paper Like too
 ny of the correspondents Of eastern
 rnals the Stars man skitnmed lit-
 on the surface and while lis lstters
 ltain scIme facts they are filled with
 lot of inaccurate matter. IL is one
 the ncomprehensible thirxs that
 ny correspondents for leading pa-
 Is will make, no efforts to secure ac-
 rate information, which is always hdily obtainable, but will, instead, Aw on their imagination to scribe Arizona and her peo- e. We are particularly sur Fised at this in the Stars cores bnGent for he is an old resident of the est and ought to know something of [. the great west, though evidently never took advantage of his onp9r- mites to glean information from this ection
 In letter published in the Star of
 
 ituation the correspondent says:
 You couldn't run Dewey on gold tandard platform in these mining Hates and elect him to any office. The elections last fall in Arizona were ex- eeilent illustrations of this, for while the most popular men possible were chosen by the republicans, especially those who had a ''Rough Rider" CT war record. thsy were all hoDelessly and overwhelmingly defeated"
 An investigation of the facts would ghavc shown the correspondent that this statement is far from correct. For the first time since 1892 there were but two tickets in the field so that the con test was a square and open fighs be- tween democracy, representing all the free silver elements of the territory, and republicans standing for the main tenance of the single geld standard. And there was no question as to the position of each party. The demo- cratic platform declared for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without the advice or consent of any other nation, and the republican platform unequivocally de- clared its endorsement of the St. Louis platform. Further than his Chairman Hubbeli of the republican convention, in no uncertain terms. declared that the republican party of Arizona witr its brethren throughout the Union stood for the maintenance of the gold standard.
 Now as to results. Wilson, demo- crat, received S,212 votes as against 1884 for Brodie, republican, giving Wilson a majority of 828 In other words Wilson received 52.64 per cent o2 the total vote of the territory, while Brodie received 47.36 per c5nu With the exception of 1894, when there were three tickets in the field, the r5publi- cans have never carried Arizona but once in the last thirty years-in 1884. But even when N. O. Murphy was elected delegate to congress in 1894 he did not receive as large a per cent Of the total vote as was cast for Brodie last year. The vote in 1894 was. Mur- phy. republican, 5,64S; Herndon, demo- crat, 4.772; O'Nsill, populist, 1902 The per cent of the total vote cast for MT. Murphy was but 42.4 as against 57.6 per cent cast for the combined oppo. sition. In 1896, the high water mark year fer the free silver agitation. the vote for delegate to congress stood, Smith, democrat, 6,065; Doran, repub- lican, 4,09O; O'Neill, populist, 3,895 In other words the republican candi date received but 29.1 per cent of the total vote while the silvar vote was 70.9 per cent of the total. Thus it will be seen that although Brodie was de- feated last year, the republicans on 2 straight issue gained 1926 per cent iL the total vote while the si.ve2 vote lost 1926 per cent. If this does not show a, falling eff in the silver sentiment ot M rizona then we would like to he in-
 ,nlad what 1t does show.
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