Tombstone epitaph., 1900-10-28
REPUBLICAN ORATORY
The Burden of This Political
 Song

held al Sshietfvln Hall last right, AS
 announced. OnlY two Of the political
 Surphy orators were billed 10 appear helo viz Cul N NcCowsn aud Hon
 II A Willis or PIoenix. However
 there was stiil another O! the gid d
 sPe ak CTS who was on had and erliy-
 sd Hi.h iAe party, Col J A Zloriskie
 oi Tucson. but all three were given a
 respectful hearing. The absence Cf
 any erthus'a-m or warmth oI ap- plEuse was esp. ciAlly 10 ieabie but ir
 this the speakers were not disspp int
 ed juising from the remarks of Mr
 WIl!is which left the inference that
 other A'iz)ua towns he'd given them
 lhe col! shoIiirr-syen more iorc-
 ibly. Iii, wJulI appear somewnAt
 discsafteous but nevertheless Is re-
 gstded us an index o: ,he sjmps ,hiss
 and feelings Of he peope.
 Pref J A Rocsiellow presSei a.
 ch"irmsn Of the meeting aud in:ro.
 duced the orators. fine fir.t .peaker
 WIS Col McCowan. The Coli slow,
 deIbsrat, out p.eassEt talker aud s,art
 ej ont with story of how Tombstone
 was s.s: impressed upon hin through
 ayeliow-bacS dime novel which he
 read when 10 years old. A lit,le
 matheps;ical calculation on basis of
 tue fret di:covery Of Tombstone re-
 vrsls the fact that the Col must ba 3l years of sse and IL is admitted he holds his age well. During his speech he i1o.si the bible qliis freely and shoNed his religious education had not bsen negise'eI. He s2ok- of prosperity and expansion and laid All the c:edi, 10 tn, repuclic.ns say ing VIC did 70. wan. any charge, It is presumed the Col spoke for him. self and can be psricned iAr not wanting 0 change as long as le waxes Ia. on his prssen: well salaried federal office, The Col is q1ite & joker and worked in a few alleged snnecdotes also the country would be saved by the election of Murphy. The Col closed by telling an amusing apple story which with another inter- pretation is taken so mean that the republicans would -i,h even louder than the loaded tres when the Deli tical Vind of Nov. 6.h fails to shake the coveted offcss in'o their Keeping.
 Hon II M Willis WIS next intro- duced. MT Willis IS an able attorney aud of pleasing address. He was formerly s dem )crat and gave no explsnatian for his apos,acy. He one as making plea for a client who had . hard case and try. ing .o win out on technicslity bat nimseli felt there was no hope. H. iilatet on The war and Aguins'do, overlooking the fac. that the aImin- s.rs'ion have repeatedly announced | hat the Filipino leader was dead, while On the mater Of trusts and im- ,erisli m he WIS not in consonaace 1 with the utterances Of Mark S.nna. moving that he was not entirely st iome with his pea adoption. He re- !, erred to the republican eudorsem ent f gol5Sugism ani it sent a eAili 'Dund ihs hall. He then took u; he defense o. Gov Murphy on th- 'ond deal and tried to elaar away the loud of doubt aud Gistrust over
 anging that trsussc.ioo. Alter hi- reseEt sion the stubborn fact still emains. ths: Yavspai county is sad. lsd with debt oi S29}.U00 on & silrosd of which not tis or raj! i- eE 10 be found in She territory and lso tha' YsYs2si couaty is strenu- ssly resisting it's payment. He said .rizoas made a mistake in Sending Iurphy to congress before and Ike Ise Wilson last term. having dou. ie wrong thing a, the right time |; Ia urged that the right thing b. one this time snd the people can se epended npon to do it by sending Dur Mark"
 Col 7 lbriskie " ss the last speaker ne Col is a good speaker at all times It Tombstone has vivid recollection
 his former gold bug utterances dur
 g the last campaign and do not . !res win his ideas. He cut his f 'eech short which was in eff-ct tha, T r;zons snd the U s wers staudinx , q new threshold and, closing the s ,or Q: yesterday, preseDably to shut : It Republican errors and mistakes, e door Of tomorrow stands sjsr with oppo' tubities and wonderful fu- ra but Ihe sentiment and aerspec 'e vas spoiled by the endesvor to lsh Murphy through the new O; en- E 2 into congress The Col sdmitt d st Mark Smith vas a good fellow sl d gave the s. surance that his ar. aiGtsncs with Murphy warranted | st a in saying he too wss a good