Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-09-24
WAY DOWN IN
 OLD GEORGIA
HOSTILITY TO RAILROADS SEEMS TO BE GENERALLY ENGENDERED IN
 OTHER PLACES.
And Democrats are no Exception to the Epidemic of their Brethren m
 Backwoods Sentiment.

Birmingham, Ala, Sept. I7.-Th, republican state convention today endorsed President Roosevelt for re
 nomination. The platform favors the organization of labor for its legit. innate protection and enactment oi laws for peaceful and fair settlement by arbitration of disagreements be- tween organized capital and labor; favors child law legislation relating to work in cotton mills; condemns spirit which seeks to arouse prejudice of people against the railroads.
 The last paragraph is published to show two things. First, the south owes its progress and development to the channel of the railroad, which re- publicans at least, still regard as a factor, although in mileage and ter ritory embraced by such, Georgia cannot of course be compared to other and older commonwealths.
 Second, the railroad in Georgia is burdened it would seem with the same regard of bitterness in a politi- cal way like is manifested now in Ari- Zola. In other words, before many of Arizona's roads were built, they were not only encouraged by subsi- dies and tax-exemption laws but were they supported legally and morally by legislative enactment. And that, too, by the democratic party, as the records will show. Now that the fruits of railroad tax exemp- ton laws are fulfilled, the democratic party is desirous to take the back track, and is endeavoring to throw the realization of their hopes into the channel of political antagonism.
 In doing this, or in endeavoring to poison the voter with corporate alarm, they are striking at the heart of the country's progress. As an ex- ample take away the railroad from Prescott to Mayer, and throw that particular section back what it was seven years ago, what would prevail.
 Take the Poland branch away, and how many of the dozen big enter prises today in existence will there be found enjoying the same develop ment. If these mines were not there before the railroad was built, how is it that they are in evidence within one year since the railroad has reach ed them. Take away the railroad that is now building out of Mayer to the great mineral bed of the Brad shaws, and what will result even un- der present conditions, and while that road is yet miles from it's des- tination. The hundreds of thou sands of dollars that have been placed at the disposal of men to go in the ground on the Tiger, the Grey Eagle, the California, the Ora Bella, the Wildhower and many other claims has behind it but one argu- ment, and that is that the railroad is coming. If such was not the case, the Bradshaws from one end to the other would only be regarded in the future as it has in the past, and that is of absolutely no rating or consid- eration whatever.
 Take away the proposed building of railroad from Congress Junction to the Colorado river and the reach ing of a great mineral section along its route, and we have what we know to be prevailing under present condi- tions-nothing to be seen and no in ducement whatever for even a pros pector to enter its domain, much less capital.
 II we must acquiesce in political spleen as it is aimed at the corporate interests of Yavapai in mining, rail roading and otLef avenues, to give men office and ne legal reins to act at will, there viii result that stam- pede of capital and labor that Colo rado is today face to face with in laws that were enacted by populis- ticdemocratic combine that is surely and slowly strangling it to death.