The Arizona sentinel., 1902-10-08
A FROST IN YUMA


morning, and before midnigh
 everybody in Yuma had dome
 an OvercOat to prevent takin
 cold. It was the severeSt chi
 experienced in years; even tn
 oldest inhabitant cannot remem
 Der anything like it. The entir
 orange crop was threatened witt
 total destruction and BlaiSdel
 was making arrangements witt
 his attorney for d damage sui
 against the democrats, whel
 some patriotic republicans cam,
 to the rescue by warming thing:
 up sufficiently to avert the i'm
 pending ruin. Early in the day
 the local democratic central com
 mittee issued some yellow (why
 the color of the quarantine flags
 we don't know circulars notify
 ing the people that the Hon Pud dn Head Wilson of Yavapai
 and Nowhere Ives of Tucson
 would address the citizens of
 Yuma county upon the political
 issues of the day at Elks' hall at
 7:30 o'clock. In the early morn
 ing hours the "Kurnel" took a
 much-needed rest. When he
 awOke he breakfasted at the Ho-
 tel GandOlfo cafe and after
 breakfast loitered around that
 popular hostelry wondering
 where the Yuma county demo- crats could be hiding. After the noon hour Elsewhere Ives, W. F.
 TimmonS and $. E. Kinds, with long faces and woe begone looks,
 came around and took their doomed chieftain on tour of the town. It was to them an un- pleasant duty. They remem- bered how they had declared he could not carry Yuma county; of how they had instructed their delegation to the Tucson conven- tiOn to declare this to the people of the territory and vote as a unit for "CharleS Shenanigan;" and now they didn't know how in the name of all creation they were going to convince the vot- CTS that Wilson was the man of the hour and make them believe ip their sincerity. With slow alfd measured tread they fol lowed their solemn round of the business houses of, the town, halting at the socialists head | where Ives of Tucson | vainly hoped to receive an invi- tation to address the socialist to be held on the morrow. At each halt the 'Kurnel' was introduced to the man of the house as the only man in the territory who could and would put down the trusts,
 md then they would tell him too
 that the "Kurnel's" method was
 he only method, i. e., take off
 he tariff. When this solemn
 statement was finished some fel- ow, who couldn't quite compre- lend the ponderous logic of the nan of the north, would meekly ; Lsk; Why, if taking off the tar if will abolish the trusts, is it possible for trusts to organize ( nd flourish in the free trade $ ountries of the world" sad ' nd disappointed four would 1 hen pass on to the next place. $ loping that they might find ' ome one with a brain so consti- l uted that he could penetrate C he mysterious secret hidden i way in the gloomy depths of q he ''Kurnel's" bewildered imag- r nation. So it went until the t Ounds were completed and then, a s a last resort, they sought the II acred precincts of the republi- a an headQuarteS for blessed con- U olation in this their sad hour of t rial, and there they sat them t own, beneath the pictures of t, Washington, Lincoln, Mckinley, t .Oosevelt, Brodie and Morrison, e nd wept What followed after e lis until the hour of the meet a lg at the hall, we know not. IC At 7:3O o'clock a lonesome an sl Il shot rang out, announcing sl le hour of the speaking. In r, le hall a small assemblage of u dies, children, socialists, a P