Arizona republican., 1900-09-26
VIRGIL EARF'S RECORD
The Kind of Elan Yavapai Repub-
 licans Want for Sheriff.

Virgil Earp was nominated for sher- if by exclamation, by the republican convention at Prescott last Saturday. At the ratification meeting held in the evening by the NcKinlsy- Roosevelt club, candidates were present and ex- pressed themselves.
 Earp was called upon and made one of the best speeches of the evening. No doubt" said he, many of you have heard Of me. I want to tell you a few things. Tn 1874 I went to Dodge City. and I tell you. boys. she v-ls the widest town op the Alns~ ~ican conti- nenJ. I lad been there cnIy a short tune when business men and property owners came to me and said. 'Earp, you mutt help us to overcome the law lessnes5 in this city I replied. T don t want il; give it to some one else They said If you don't take the city mar shalship We will have 10 leave town So in the interest of law and order I acceTted, and I leave 1T to the law { abiding citizens of Dodge City as to whether I performed my duty or not
 The year 1876 saw me in Prescott. On my arrival I soon found out that some of the boys whom l had driven Cat of Dodge City Were there. As soon as they saw me thEy concluded that if they Were going to make any gun plays or shoot up the town they mad better do it before I became idenufied with the country. so they startec Tn a once to shoot up the town anu Cery the au- thorities of Prescott. Ed Bowen was sheriff Do you remember that time. Eddie?" said Earn. addressing Judge F.. w. Wells who wa in the chair.
 ''I do, well, Virgil" responded the judge.
 We'll continued Earp, "Bowen asked me to go w:,h him and arrest the gang and ] said. as at Dodge City, T don't want to go; am new comer; get some one else. But he insisted. Whether I performed my duty then you ask Judge Wells and others.
 A Few years later I was in Tomb stone, and I tell you, gentlemen and ladies, sine wGs a hot town. I had been there a short time when sucn men as E. B. Gage came to me. They said: Virgil. you must be city marshal and clean up this town of it's disordcrly and lawless clements I said: T don't want it; get some one else They replied: If you don't we'll have to shut down our mines So I accepted. Fellow citizeus. let F.. F. Gage answer. and he will tell you whether l performed my duty and whether ! stood for the protection of life and property and the enforcement of law. Let Wells-FargO. answer also We'll, l moved to NaVhpai county and nave been leading a qui-t life for years. ] came up here to the republican con- ventions. Republicans. Judge Wells and others came to me and said: Farp. We want you to accept the nomination for sheriff. As at Dodge City and Tombstone, I answered, T don't want it; give it to some one else and the republicans said. 'No one else will have it. So was nominated. and f elected you can count on it thai I wIl. as in former years, stand for goo, govern ment and the protection of property"
 MT. Gage was asked about Carp. and h. said: "I know personally that whatever Virgil Earp did in Tombstone was at the reqpest of the best men in Cochise county and I wish to remark that if Earp .s electe,' sheriff of NaV- apai county, all classes and all inter ests. individual and corporate. win re. ccive fair and just treatment at his hands,
 The above is evidence o' the fact that Yayapai republicans have a strong ana experienced candidate for sheriff and one in whose hands the duties of the office can be saEeIy trusted.