Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1902-07-29

The fondness of the southern people
for the wind-jamming known as politi-
cal oratory seems never
WHERE to diminish. The people
ORATORS of South Carolina, for
FLOURISH. instance, evidently have
an abnormal fondness
for stump eloquence. A special dispatch
states that all the candidates for state
offices are touring the state together.
and the voters gather to listen to some
oratory begins just after breakfast and
continues until midday dinner, after
which it is resumed until the setting
sun warns the farmers that it is time
to go home.
| The chief interest. of course, at
taches to the gubernatorial race, in
which Lieutenant Governor Tillman
and Congressman TaIbert are the prin-
clpal competitors. 1t is noticeable that
Tillman refers in all his speeches to his
tilt with President Roosevelt about
Colonel Micah Jenkins sword, and is
applauded for the position he took in
that matter. Congressman Talbert
tells stories and compliments the
women, incidentally taking occasion to
assert that the main question nova
days is whether dollars or men shall
rule the country.
But Colonel Talbert is not alone in
throwing bouquets to the fair sex. A
| report of all the candidates speeches
reads like an account of banquet
toast, THE Ladies'" Down in South
Carolina they evidently know thing
or two about capturing votes.
Mark Smith in his numerous Arizona
Campaigns, wherein his abilities as u
hot air artist have been thoroughly
demonstrated, is an excellent example
although the only one in the terri
tory-of the fiorid, southern style which
still passes for great eloquence in that
section. Those who have heard Mark
at his best can form some idea of a
South Carolina day of ten hours.
| Rending the atmosphere with grand
o'ato'y y, sah!' is not, of course, an en-
tirely southern industry. Spell bind
Ing will continue to call for most of the
funds raised by the political commit
tees, until the managers have the nerve
now admits-that political stump
speaking does not influence one vote
where the newspapers influence hun
dreds. But it is in the south that ora
tory flourishes, and it is there that the
joint debate in a sacred institution.
In Arkansas the joint debate season
is already on, and the dispatches tell
us that Governor jeff Davis, for the
democrats, will meet Mr.. Myers, the re-
publican candidate for governor, in a
series of discussions which began re-
Gently and will last until the 30th of
August. Other appointments for joint
debates have been made, and the two
state committees have combined in a
notice to the public, which, after SEIZED
uling the meeting, proceeds to say:
The above appointments are made
and announced by the respective state
central committees OF the democratic
and republican parties, and not by the
| individual candidates thereof. 1t is
therefore. expressly understood thai
the right to participate in these meet
ings in confined to speakers assigned
by these two central committees t
these appointments, and to no others
The said committees hereby engage
that this engagement shall be carried
out in good faith and that the same
will not be evaded by any direct or in
direct connivance at it's violation il
favor of any candidate or speaker
claiming to represent any other polt-
ical party, who may apply for a divis-
ion of time
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