Arizona republican., 1902-07-01
GOVERNOR MURPHY
 AND HIS OFFICERS
The Arizona Capitol a Superb Monument to the Outgoing AdmiNistration-The
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will take the oath of office before Chief Justice Kent and will qnietly take up the duties Of the office. There will be no parade and no flunnery- There was talk of more or less ceremony, reception, and so or, and an excursion from Prescott was discussed for awhile as one CT the possible features, but it was the wish of the very practical and matter of-fact incoming governor that there be no fuss anl feathers. Soy ernor Hrodie was rot q dress-parlda ssl!ier. and it is evident that he does not propose to be dress-parade gov ernor. In their dislike for ponp and show in official matters. Brodie and Murphy are much alike.
 This change ir the office of the e319- outive of the territory takes place on the date fixed by President Roosevelt. EatIy in April fast Governor Murphy, in kulillment Of plans which had been ms turing for a year, forwarded his re4ignation, to take effect at the pleas urE of the president, and Mir. RoOse- vilt decided on the beginning Of the r4w fiscal year as the date fer the r3signation to take effect. He there pbcn sent to the senate the nomina- i on Of Colonel Brodfc to be governor olf Arizona, after June %" and the T Iomination was promptly and unani- mously confirmed.
 Governor Murphy's second term as governor has lasted practically four years, he having been appointed tc sue ceed Governor AIcCord by President Mckinley in August, 1898. when Gov ernor McCord took the colonelcy of the First regiment Of territorial infantry.
 The Murphy administration has GOV cred the most remarkable period in the history Of the territory. During tine past four years there has been great CT advancement in the development of Arizona's resources than during any decade previously. This was due, Of course, to the good times brought to -Tffies. whole country by return to re- publican politics in the nation and to in. tconfdence established abroad as to the Integrity of the people of the terri tory The Murphy monument is the territorial capitol. Immediate ly after Governor Murphy took office arrangements were completed fo- the construction Of the capitol. A com mission was appointed to supervise the construction and never was trust more faithfully carried out. The DOT traits of the capitol-building connis- sioners, MT. E. B. Gage MT. Walter Talbot and MT. Frank H. Parker art printed on this page of The Republi- can. With the hundred thousand dol lars provided fer the purpose they con- structed a capitol building which vii B, the pride Of the people as long T: the structure stands. Of massive gran ite and tufa, and following classica Greek ines the Arizona capitol is 0rf Of the most beautiful public building: in America. Indeed, during the state T hood debate in the house Cf represents tives at Washington a few weeks az: some of the eastern congressman allud ed to Arizona's capitol as the mos beautiful capitol in the union. but this distinction is not claimed fer it. II is however. a building which would d. credit to any state in the union. and is safe to say that never in histor. was there such another capitol con structed so cheaply. It has been cftel remarked that had the building beel erected in any of the eastern states it cost would have run into many hun dreds Of thousands Of dollars.
 The secret of the great achievemen was honest management. It is To ex aggeratioa to say that not even
 postage stamp was wasted.
 Yesterday tablet Of marble wa placed in the rctunda cf the capito on the second floor, reciting the histor of the building and the history of tfi organization of the territorial govern ment at Navajo Springs in 1863. an
 he location of the territorial capita
 Prescott. later at Tucson, then a Prescott again. and finally at Phoeni2 But the tablet makes no mention. of tn
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