Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-12-15
RETURN OF MIR. ELY
Prospects of the Hudson Reservoir
Company.

Mr.. Sims Ely, private secretary to
the governor, was at his desk yester-
day, having returned the night before
from New York where he attended a
meeting of the directors of the Hud-
son Reservoir company, of which he
is secretary. There is nothing in
which the people of the valley are
more generally interested than the af-
fairs of this company. Mr.. Ely said
he had nothing definite to report as a
result of the late meeting. The out
look is very bright though and the gen.
tlemen at the head of the enterprise
feel greater encoura cement than ever
before. They are now prepared by
their contracts with the water COM
panies, and lately completed surveys
to go before capitalists with definite
proposition, which they have reason to
believe will be eagerly taken up.
1t has been the policy of the gentle
men now at the head of the enterprise
to say less than they do, and not to
hold out hope of which there is no GER
tainty of early realization. They have
not been chasing rainbows themselves
and do not want to set the people of
this valley at that delightful, but I'M
profitable sport. They are therefore,
probably much more sanguine now
than they desire outsiders to be until
the construction of the reservoir is
actually begun.
Mr.. Ely says that it is difficult to
understand the prosperity of the coun-
try. The stacks of every factory be-
tween Chicago and New York are pour
ing out smoke day and night in a vain
endeavor to fill orders, which are al
most as embarrassing now as the lack
of them used to be from three to seven
years ago. Many travelling men whom
Mr. Ely met, told him that these I'M
filled orders constituted all their
troubles, and the way things were &C.
ing the end of the troubles was out of
sight.
There is only one political view in the
east about which people talk much, and
that is republican. Everybody favors
a gold standard and expansion. No
administration was ever so solidly sup
ported as the present one, and there
is a general protest against a change.
A democratic victory next year is adj
mitted by business democrats to be
as improbable as lightning from
clear sky, and as undesirable as
cyclone, a flood or an earthquake.
These men are as good democrats as
ever they were, but they realize the
overwhelming silver sentiment and
populistic tendency of their party in
the west. They say they are not sorry
that it is so at this juncture. 1t would
be impossible to elect the strongest and
soundest democrat next year. All they
desire is that the party organization
may be maintained. They do not want
a split in the party like that of three
years ago, and therefore there is not
only no opposition to Bryan but many
men of sound money tendencies are
advocating his denomination and pre-
tending to encourage the readoption of
the Chicago platform, move at
which even some ardent silverites are
hesitating and inclined to a discreet
silence.
But the eastern democrats want this
silver question in politics settled next
year. They desire that there shall be
no misunderstanding of the sentiment
of the voters of the United States.
They believe that the coming presi-