Arizona republican., 1900-10-19

teel ing the kindly offices of the United States in a settlement of the difficulty between the Transvaal and England. MT. Herndon knows, too. that more could not have been done without pru- voking war with Gr5a, Britain. But in all these things Mr. Herndon was not more fallacious than 'Mr. Bryan has been.
 THE CHIEF CAPTIVE.
 Judge Baker next exhibited Col. Will son, the chief of "sandbaggers. who assured his hearers that he was not as they might suppose. ashamed to ap Dear before them in view of his ire quent public and printed declarations that he would never. never surrender. He had done so, he said. in the inter- est of his party. He would never let a personal ambition which he saw was out of reach stand in the way of de- mocracy. Now what follows IS not in Col Wilson's own language, but he could not have meant anything eis-.
 He believed at the time of the terri torial convention that he was the reg. uIar nominee and he had not since dis per=sd with that belief. Therefore, MT. Smith was not. With defeat star ing the Heavenly Twins in both their faces, Col. Wilson had proposed to MT. Smith, the usurper and irregular n0mi- nee. that one of them ought to give the other plenty of elbow room. H. had offered to shake il off to do any thing. but the usurper would not listen to reason. su to save the democracy and himself, Col Wilson g5t off. lie denied indignantly that h. had been bribed by a promise of the impossible governorship Of Arizona or any other rainbow, and said further that what na had done he had not done for the love of Mark Smith, but for his affection for democracy.
 Col. Wilson bespoke the support of the party in Arizona for Mir. Smith to the end that the trusts might be put down; that miliJarism might be throI- ti=d in the bud. cut down in embryo, shut off before it could get a start: that silver might be restored to it's rightful place among the nations. and that the integrity of the constitution Of the United States and the declaration of Independence might be preserved. Tha Gafsa at of AIr. Smith. in the sarcastic opinion of Col. Wilson. would threaten the country with all the evils from which it was desired to escape. Col. Wilson then entered upon an eX- haustive explanation of the frequently misunderstood terms, imperialism and ''militarism," and for a more mi mute and careful study of his CbserVa- i tions on these subjects he advised his i hearers to buy The Arizona R. publican this morning. The subject was too comprChensiVely treated to be incor- porated into this story, but the reader : is referred to the ninth page of the current issue of this paper. where Col Wilson's views are presented accurate i ly and in full.
 | Concluding his remarks on national i subjects, the speak=r returned to Ari- | zona. alluded at some length. but 1 tamely to the bond question, and then 1 took up statehood.
 A FIENDISH PLOT.
 Col. Wilson's carefully guarded guarded words on this subject gave color to a startling rumOr which came i down from the north some days ago. i IL was a story of one Of the most tiend- ! ish hellish, damnable and ingenious i schemes of revenge imaginable. The , Republican investigated il, but re- : frained from disclosing it on account of ! the depth of cunning and malignity in vJlved in it. It could have been con 1 ceived only by a man who was cross i between a MichaiVelli and a Borgil | Col Wilson. it was whispered, had it ! in mind before his surrender to Mark 1 Smith and by that surrender led the unsuspecting MT. smith into the dread 1 ful pitf2ll. Col. Wilson's devilish ' scheme of revenge was this: He would | withdraw. lit MT. Smith run on alone 1 and all the time would further his i election. In fact, he would do every
 thing he could to insure it. Then he 1 would return to congress for the short | term. suddenly drag Arizona into ths ! sis-erhcod Of states. and then where 1 would Mr. Smith be? Simply nowhere. A statesman out Of a job. A man armed with credentials from a dead territory to a position of trU-t and 1 honor which had be n abolished A : fend who could devise and carry out such a diabolical plot would be capa-
 ble of jerking q chair out from under
 a man when he was about to sit down in IL.
 THE CONQUEROR.
 The sUppos conqueror but the real i victim Of Col. Wilson's ingenious ma lignijy was next introduced. As usual, i MT. Smith had a bad cold and was worn out by unforJuitous events. As i usual he was proud and thankful for tais o,tpcurins Of citizens. which he could not help regarding as a mark of appreciation of his spotless and even | c5loriess public record. As usual h.