Arizona republican., 1901-05-01

tnese arguments rlSes the simple Iact that we are not right politically. While there Is no politics in the question from our viewpoint. there Is politics on Capitol Hlll.
 To be sure. states have been admit ted by both parties when the majority of their people were not in political ac- cord with the prevailing administra- ton. They may be again. But the circumstances and conditions must be different from those that have pre- vailed. and stin continue to prevail to a certain extent. in Arizona.
 Five years ago the country was un- der democratic control. As natural
 consequence, the land POVERTY, was in dire trouble. POORHOUSE. Finances were swamp PAwNsHOP. ed. Money was in hid
 ing. Confidence was hermitizing. Labor was sore of foot and crippled because of long tramps for work 1t could not find. Factories were closed and soup-houses open. shops were empty and jails and alm- houses crowded. There were no lack of holidays then. yet the people were not glad. Poverty followed on the trail of likeness and bred discontent and unhappiness. The country seemed to be in the last throes of industrial consumption. Care and anxiety carved deep wrinkles into the handsome face of the working man. and drove sleep from his pillow at night. Gradually the homes were impoverished and the pawnshops were filled. The shadow of the poorhouse lay over the land, while eyes grew dim as hope and ambition fled.
 Then a new prophet arose In the democratic ranks. A new leader step
 ped forth with his A crown of gold and NEW words of promise and PROPHET. attempted Joshua
 trick. Like his master of old. he took the people up into a high mountain and promised them all manner of gifts if they would but bow down and worship him. And many believed him and un6er the spell of his hypnotism bowed the sovereign knee to the serpent of brass.
 Arizona. guileless and unsophisti. cated Arizona. fell at the feet of this
 newly arisen and per- GUILELESS sonally crowned One ARIZONA. and swore eternal al-
 legiance. She was com pletely duped. Like iove-sick school girl she flung common-sense and pru- dence to the winds and abandoned her self to the amorous felicity engendered by the wanton caresses of the gallant knight of the silvery tongue.
 What was the result?
 As matter of course. she fell from grace. Prostitution always has brought stultificatlon. and always will It deadens moral precepts. It sears the conscience. makes wrong seem right. and veneers justice and honesty with the tinsel of sophistry.
 When our people wilfully wandered off the path of honesty, out into the
 enticing field of fal- JUST lacy. when they de. REWARD. clared that the coining
 of silver at the ratio of 16 to was the panacea for all our financial and industrial ills; when they allowed their minds to be misled by subtitle suggestions of gain; when they accepted without question the sinful dignosls of the quack graduates of the school of Bryan. that the seat of our industrial consumption was to be found in the "crirae of '73." and that a complete and speedy cure would be effected by swallowing his silver coated nostrums-that moment they became lost to convictions of reason and fit subjects for harsh and drastic treatment.
 The silver question Is now as good as dead. Despite the squirming of the
 wigg,etails composing SQUlRMING the Bryan brain, and WIGGLErAILs. the idiotic mouthings
 of few democratic sllverites in Arizona who would rather be fayed alive than acknowledge an error. the fact is universally admitted that the silver bugaboo Is laid-buried so deep that there is no fear of it's