Arizona republican., 1900-09-30
MADE AN OPENING
Republican County Campaign
 Began Last Night.
Housing Ratification Meeting A Pleasing Earnest of the Good Work to Be Done This Fall in Arizona.


 county was most auspiciously opened last night at a meeting ratifying the work of the late county nominating convention and at the same time the re- suit of the territorial convention last Monday at which Governor Murphy was nominated for delegate to Con- gress
 The committee had made most elab- crate arrangements for the meeting. A speakers stand was erected at the corner of Third avenue and Washing ton street. Every square inch of it was covered with red, white and blue and great flag was gracefully draped along the rear. In the foreground was a large portrait of President Mckinley in a frame of the national coIors. The persons in charge were not only pa triotic. but artistic. Fairly comfort able seats were provided for several thousand and near the speakers stand a band stand had been put up. The meeting had been given no especial ad- vertisement, yet before o'clock every seat was filled and many stood in the aisles and in the rear.
 Shortly after o'clock Chairman Kibbey entered the speakers stand followed by Governor Murphy, Hon. R. F. Morrison of Prescott and nearly all the county nominees and the precinct nominees of this precinct.
 The Pioneer band played the Star Spangled Banner" Chairman Kibbey delivered a brief address in which he mentioned the pleasing circumstance that this was a republican year made SO everywhere by the achievements of the republican party during the last four years. It was especially d repub- lican year in Arizona and Maricopa county on account of the strong and spotless tickets which had been put up for endorsement. This ticket. the speaker said, was now presented for the approval of the republicans as sembled.
 The chairman ihen introduced Coy ernOr Murphy The governor said he had not come in his own behalf, but as a humble member of the republican party of the county 60 lend his pres ence and give voice to his approval of the candidates for the county offices. He would ct future meetings speak of himself. his candidacy and the issues which had been presented in the nation and the territory He very briefly re- viewed the accomplishments of the party in the nation in the past four years and he urged that though direct support could not be given it at the coming election, Arizona should afford encouragement and offer endorsement by the election of a ticket composed of men who stood for the principles enunciased by the na- tional republican party.
 Governor Murphy was succeeded by United States Attorney F. E. Nor rison, who delivered the principal ad- dress of the evening. His speech was made up of statements of sound fact. ! relieved by humorous aIlusions He began with a reference to MT. Bryan's free trade record in congress and his utterance since become famous, or notorious, that he cared nothing about the effect upon the wool grower or the sheepmen of free wool, but wool must be free. This record introduced an eX- perience of MT Bryan at Gallup, N. M, in the course of his western tour last summer. He was presented with a Navajo blanket there. When he un- rolled it he found a paper pinned on it. The paper informed him that the wool of which that blanket was made worth 312 cents a pound under the sys- tenn which he had advocated. Under the moderate protective system in force HOW it was worth more than fourteen cents. MT. Bryan was asked to explain the cause of the increase. It is a matter of record that EIr Bryan did not thereafter permit himself to be- 1 come entangled in wool so long as he was travelling through sheep country.
 .g,1fr p1,1g against the democratic anti-expansion crusade, Mr. Morrison arraigned MT. Bryan and his followers for their al lusions to Lincoln and their efforts to distort words of his in support of their doctrine. He quoted from the demo- | cratic national platforms of 1864 and l 1868 showing that Lincoln had been de- nounced in much the same language l as that now directed against MT. Me Kinley.
 The war against the southern states 1 was then. as the war against the Fili- pinos is now, declared to be a mon strous wrong, a violation of the consti- | tuition. threatening the existence of the l of the republic upon whose ruins it | was feared MT. Lincoln intended to rear | an empire.
 MT. Morrison quoted from Lincoln. Douglas, Buchanan and Jefferson in | support of the present republican the ! ory of the constitutional right and even the duty of the United States to ex- pand. even to the taking in of the islands of the Sea-
 The rest of MT. Morrison's speech was devoted to territorial affairs and was in part humOrously descriptive of the rise of the two headed democratic ticket. He also described the shftiness of Mark Smith and his readiness to get out from under impending political ca- lamities, showing how he had avoided the nomination for congress in 1894, when he foresaw certain defeat, and i again in 1S9S when he thought he fore saw it
 The failure of Mir. Smith to obtain statehood for Arizona during his long service in congress, under the most favorable conditions, was elaborately