Arizona republican., 1900-10-28
SMITH AT TUCSON

With his voice husky with the dissi- ' patton of a democratic campaign, his
 face flushed with pride, Mark Smith 1 the patron saint of a divided hope,
 opened his campaign in Tucson. His speech was like a plea for the life of man condemned, and the crowd list ened and felt i,he emotions of sympa- | thy which one always feels for an un- fortunate person, but emotion is only a
 temporary assault upon reason-it is , but an impulse of the moment which sober thought soon dispels. The speak
 CT dwelt upon the policy of expansion
 anc progress made by the republican party and appealed 10 his hearers to go
 back to the old days when men did not give their whole efforts to the trade | of the dollar to the days of the slow
 moving stage coaches, and idle slave | owners, to the days when the country was young and its ambition was con fined to the development of it's own lit tie domain.
 Think of this argument. you young men who are entering Cn your life work. you older men who came to Ari- zona when the first spirit of expansion began to sweep the east and sent the best blood of New England homes to the wider fields of the west and south west. Mark Smith wants to return to | those days, he wants you to give up your hopes. your ambitions. and let the star of progress fall In the western seas. Is this the policy which built up Arizona and made a home for Mark Smith? Was it not this spirit of conn mercial energy. this trade of the do!- lar," as MT. Smith put it, that made the Arizona of today? Are you willing to take this mans advice and stand still?
 Mark Smith deplor5s the fall of old Tombstone and every one in Arizona shares this sorrow with him. But when Tombstone fell, did Arizona fall. too? Is this country not greater today with the development of it's great copper and gold and lead mines than it ever was? The Citizen believes that if the fall of silver started the prospectors after copper and opened the eyes of capital to tn great resources for profit in a new metal, which all men must admit followed the shutting down of the silver mines, then Arizona is in finitely better off than it was In the days Of old.
 Taking up the issue Of statehood Mir. Smith told of his own unsuccessful efforts in behalf of Arizona; how a Yankee with all exaggerated frame and a. stubborn mind stood in the way and blocked the Arizona servant. MT. Smith. if ne was true then to the sen riments expressed last night, did not want statehood, for that meant an ex- tension of "Lhe trade of the dollar and there is little wonder that he did not put forth that energy which has been exerted to make this country great by that same trade of the dol lar"
 His speech was a disappointment to all who are not blind to the issues of the campaign. To those who had never heard him speak 1t left an un- favorable impression. To the young men who are to cast their first votes his words denouncing the expansion of trade and greatness was an insult, and they will not follow a leader so pessi- mistic; one who decries progress, who wants to go backward instead of for ward And this man asks the suffrage of a progressive people of a growing commonwealth. Mark Smith Is de- ridedly not the kind of mar to repre- sent the Arizona of today.