Arizona republican., 1900-10-02
TAGALOG CAMPAIGN
Opened By the SmithOCrats
 Last Night
Col J. F. Wilson and His Congress sional Aspirations Seem to Be Regarded as the Paramount Issue.

The Smithocrat and Tagalog cam at the corner of Third avenue and Washington street. There was a very good audience, drawn largely by curt- osity, for within the memory of com para.ively few people in Phoenix have public meetings been held in the United States for the purpose of de- nouncing the country and attacking it in the rear while it has been engaged in a war with foes in fron5.
 The meeting was opened by F.. F. Ellinwood, who arrived from the north yesterday morning with doves wings attached to his shoulder blades. Very early in the day he put his coat over them and became involved in the Smithocrat demonstration. The stage was occupied by Hon. Marcus A Smith, Judge Baker, Col. e. H. Gray, two boys and some of the county Canr didates. all shades of belief or none at all-SmithOcratis, Wilsonists and dem- ocrats.
 Judge Baker was first inflicted upon the audience. He had hardly begun when the stirring notes of q band threw the crowd into please'l anticipa- tion of a TOW. Said they: "The Will sonites are coming to break up the asssemblage,' and Sam F. Webb. who is held responsible for things that hap pen to MT. Smith and his cause in the county hurried off the platform and met the invaders. They were members of the Mexican band wno had been em- ployed for the occasion and had been ssreEAiing the empty headquarters for half an hour. The committee of ar rangemsnts' had forgotten them. Judge Baker resumed. The judge Twas not in as good voice as usual and altogether he was out of trim. When the judge is at himself and has a fairly good case he is a pleasing speaker. He has been known to fill the eyes of jurymcn to tears and lead them to unjust verdicts. He is a good lawye" even when he has not good case, but the best lawyer must have some sort of a case. That Is precisely what Judge Baker did not have. The judge in the absence of facts proceeded to manufacture them and became visibly embarrassed. The committee of arrangements. thoughtful of the judges feelings, had sought to !.aIisVe him of embarrassment as far as possible. In the arrangement of portraits the post of honor was given to Thomas Jefferson. AdIai Stevenson was on his right, while the visage Of that 'cowboy statesman of Nebraska" was partially concealed behind broad palm leaf.
 The Aguinaldtan orator now and then looked around in apprehension at %he palm leaf, but it was faithfully per- irNCr n1, tr,-t,, Baker alluded in the most indirect manner to the democratic candidate for president, but the gentlemen Who had been s'taked out in the audience to start the applaus= did not understand him. so that in the course of the speech not note of approval of SIr. Bryan was uttered. The speech of Judge Baker may be generally divided into two pdrts-the eXagtation of the Tagals and the deEassment of Col. j. F. Wilson and that wing of the democratic party represented by him. IL has been said that Judge Baker is frequently a log ical and ready speaker Last night he was most illogical, stammeriug and haltins. Tot instance. in describing the republican policy in respect to the Philippines he said that the party was suangling a new born republic whose members were filled with lofty aspira- tion5 and who for centuries had been reaching out toward the torch of lib- erty.
 Later, ir attacking the so-caIcd i'm perialistic policy from another side. he said it was the doctrine of the fathers and the purpose of the constitution that no territory should ba acquired out of which sovereign states might not be carved. The Philippines, he said, with their miserable savage and hcathHn tribes could not be formed into such states. They were no longer liberty loving and possessed of lofty aspira- lions. Their decadence had occurred within less than ten months by ths judges watch.
 His subsequent description of them as liberty-loving peop'e struggling hopelsssly against a monster half empire and half republic" brought tears to the eyes of Thomas Jefferson and the cowboy statesman looked out from behind the palm leaf and winkea his other aye.
 As an ins,ance of Judge Bakers stammeIing: In the course of bis al tack upon imperialism, describing the tutN ana SGnJlmGntS Ol American c)L" izens. he hoped that he might never de- sire the aggrandiZement of his coun- try at the expense Of the liberty of any other people. Said the judge: First may my right arm be palsied and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my head" Reference is made to this i'm. possible wish. not for the purpose or Throwing tidfcule upon Judge Baker. but to show how even a good man may get rattled and fall into the error CT eXtraVagant expression.
 In his address last Saturday night Hon F. F. Morrison quoted from Stephen A. Douglas a sentiment mC-t strongly expressed in favor of eXpau- sion. Judge Baker made concerning this an exploration. which coming from an Al3bamian. was exceedingly astonishing. MT. Douglas, he said was offering a lame argument in favor of an extension of slavery when MT. Lincoln made the reply which Bryan ties are DOW trying to distort into an argumC;i against expansion. Speaking