Arizona republican., 1900-10-09

pocket and read it. It was a beautiful thing bright with flowers of rhetoric, culled from the field of poesy, woven into garlands for the growing of the ''matchless leader" '''the peerless l chieftian, the immaculate Bryan" Cap tain Crenshaw was done.
 The order had been reversed in this 1 democratic feast. Usually the best comes first, and the inferior orators 1 last but in this case the last vas Judge | A C. Baker. Not only the piece de re- | Sistance. but the dessert, the pie, the ! pudding, the cafe noir. the brandy and 1 the cigars.
 A VOICE AND AN ECHO.
 The judge began with an attack upon Colonel William Herring, one of the l speakers at the republican rally last Saturday night, charging him with in- consistency in having appeared in sup port of the republican national and ter ritorial principles this year when, four years ago, he was the advocate of the doctrine of free silver.
 Speaking of the republican meet ing" said Judge Baker, There was Colonel William Herring, a courtly gentleman, pleasing lawyer and enter taining story teller, who four years ago, was stumping the territory in the l interest of Bucky O'Neill. He lamented the attitude of his party on the ffnan- cial question, and said in a public speech: When the news of the adop- ton of silver platform reached Ari- zOna the noble pines which wave above our silver mines bowed their heads in shame and wept.'
 Judge Baker spoke in a ringing. so- norous voice. His words thrilled his audience and were carried far beyond it until they were arrested by a sheer wall in the distance and were echoed back. The returning waves of sound were broken and disturbed by passing street cars and the roar of traffic so that out of them were formed the fol- lowing tumble of words:
 There was Judge Baker ." courtly gentleman Chief Justice of Arizona four years ago
 prancing up and down the streets Of Phoenix denOuncing the insanity of the silverites and when the news of Bryan's nomination reached him he bowed his head in shame and said
 'D-d Nebraska cowboy, sage. brush statesman and wept"
 RATHER OFF COLOR.
 When this embarrassing echo had died away and Judge Baker had recov- cred his equanimity he began talking shop and offered several illustrations within his own experience as a criminal lawyer of the manner in which justice is defeated. He put the audience into good humOr and one lady occupying a front seat was among those who laughed the lOudest. She thought the Judge was about the funniest humorist she had encountered. Without warning he introduced an Illustration which would be excluded from the mails and which set the men in the audience in a roar and the ladies in a litter. This front-seat lady's face was frozen. She made a movement as if to go, but her husband detained her. 'The worst's over." said he. There's no use going now. I don't thlnk he'll do it again this time" The lady remained, nervous and ill at ease, in constant expectation of another out
 break
 Judge Baker then entered upon a dis cussion of the Yavapai bond uues- ton, which since last Saturday night. the democrats of the town rather hoped would not be brought up again during this campaign. Governor Mur- phy had gone over the case so thor oughly and left the whole subject so clear that no thinking man could see how it could possibly be converted into democratic capital. It was matter of regret to them after Judge Baker got through that he had tried to snake capital of it, and his best friends particularly regretted it.
 THE YAvAPAI BONDS.
 He reiterated the story of the fund ing of the Yavapai county bonds and impressed upon the audience that the burden of not only these bonds, but that of the Pima county bonds. amounting altogether to about $500. 900. had been shifted upon the other coun- ties of the territory. He afterward stated that the shifting of the Pima bonds had not been complete. but had been made possible, and next ne thanked God thaS the funding act was no more. Thus upon his own showing the Pima bonds cannot be. funded a fact which Governor Murphy had him self stated along with the other fact that they had not been legalized and that it was never intended that they should be.
 The most surprising thing in Judge Bakers speech and the one most pain fuI to his friends was his insistence and reiteration that Maricopa and the other counties than Yavapai had been made to bear the burden of that fund.- ed debt. II was difficult to believe that Judge Baker did not know better and it was equally difficult to believe that if he did he would risk his repu- tatiOn on tina. statement. As a matter of fact well known to those familiar with the original funding act or its eX- tension. the burden of a countys debt cannot be transferred. Maricopa has never paid cent of interest upon the funded debt of YaVapai county or any other county except it's own. There | are four counties Tn the territory whose obligations have never been re- funded and they have never been called upon to pay a penny on account