Arizona republican., 1902-09-24
J. Frank and the Trusts.
We have it on the highest and ables

J. Frank and the Trusts.
 We have it on the highest and ablest democratic authority in the territory that of the interruptions but occasion ally truthful Tucson Citizen-that Col onel J. Frank Wilson, the democratic candidate for congress, is a laborer chiefly with his mouth, and that he looks for his support mainly to the "cormorant and the commune" The chief organ of the democracy was led into this brutally frank expression of it's belief because of the manner in which Colonel Shapnon was defeated for the democratic nomination. but tt has never been held that effort to state a fact is weakened by anger. This being so, we cannot expect Colonel J. Frank-we learn from the democratic papers that it is now the proper frill thus to part his name in the middle we cannot expect Colonel J. Frank, We repeat, to manifest such candor In talk ing to the democratic voters as was SllONli bS lIlG I uISOll Ol Sdil bli- circumstances mentioned.
 The speeches of Colonel J. Frank. we are told, betray most moving solici- tude concerning the welfare of Arizona as threatened by the trusts. It appears, all at once, that the territory is to be swallowed by the trusts, unless Colonel J. Frank is elected a delegate to con- gress. Arizonas marvellous prosperity is threatened; yea, it is doomed to undergo a black financial eclipse be- cause of the trusts, unless Wilson is sent forth as our David to slay the giant monster. This much such of the voters as can be induced to leave their employment to listen to the Wilson tale of woe, will assuredly learn. Much as modesty might lead him to conceal the fact, Colonel J. Frank is forced by high duty to admit that the fate of the terri tory hangs on it's choice between him and MT. Morrison. Truth and frank ness require that he confess these facts, and it is regrettable that the necessities of the case do not call for equal frankness from the democratic candidate as to the record of the demo- cratic party on the trust question.
 It is to be deplored that Colonel J. Franks high mission as the savior of the territory does not embrace recital of the things which have been done by the democratic party to throttle the trusts. For illustra tion, when the col Onels eye is in fine frenzy rolling in ecstatic contemplation of an Arizona redeemed from the blight of the trusts "a redemption wrought by him-how edifying would it be if he would tell the tale of the democratic fight against trusts as said tale is told by the Con gressional Record. It would be most interesting to hear Colonel J. Frank tell the democratic yeomanry about that vote in the house of representatives on the first day of June. 1900. Should his memory fail him he could read from the Record of that date and show that by vote of 154 to 132 the house passed resolution for the submission of an anti trust amendment to the constitu- tion of the United States; that the reso- lution failed because it lacked the necessary two-thirds vote; that every republican except two voted for the resolution. and every democrat except one voted against it!
 It would not do to weary his follow CTS by going over the whole history. but he could in passing cite the fact that the only antitrust law ever en- acted was the work of a republican con- gress and received the signature of republican president, Benjamin Harri- son. It might be rubbing it in too much for democratic comfort to remind the voters that every republican presi- dent in recent years has come out strongly for the regulation of the trusts, but little candor along this line would add to the interest in Colonel J. Franks orations.