Arizona republican., 1902-09-28
OPENING GUN
 IN THIS COUNTY Touched Off by Col, Wilson
 Last Night
He Dealt With the Trusts, Present ing Scheme for Their Extinc- tion - Imperialism Was Handled in Fearless Manner.

Colonel J. F.. Wilson, the democratic candidate for delegate to congress, was the chief aperient at the opening of the Maricopa campaign last night. There was an abundance of red fire and roaring of bombs, but there was that something lacking which is called enthusiasm. It was not the fault of the colonel or of any of the other orators who participated in the rites. The crowd was partly to blame and the Young Mems Democratic club princi- pally, for/the furnishing of applause was understood to deVOlye upon that organization.
 A gOOd-sized crowd and even a large one preceded. attended or followed the
 Pioneer band to the trysting place which had been prepared a the corner
 of Third avenue and Washington street. Soon after the band came Col
 Onel Wilson, attended by all the county
 candidates and the various masters of ceremonies. The main orator of the evening was introduced by Chairman
 Webb of the territorial central com mittee. Colonel Wilson was greeted
 with modest applause as he rose, and
 then again when an hour and ten min
 utes later he sat down. What the ap-
 plause signified must be figured out by each man for himself The first demon stration may have stood for the joy of anticipation and the last for an eX- pression of a feeling of qualification.
 It is not to be understood that the audience manifested only twice that 1t was alive. Once it cheered slightly at an illusion to Mckinley. and then again near the close of Colonel Wilson's ad- dress, when he said he hoped that in the event of his election he would never take his seat. The colonel meant that he hoped that the territory would be admitted to statehood before the be- ginning of the term to which he hoped to be elected. The allusion to statehood called out the most generous manifes- tation of the evening.
 As the orator announced at the be- ginning, his address consisted mainly of a comparison of the territorial plat forms of the party. He began with the democratic plank relating to the trusts, for whose suppression the demo- crats of Arizona at Tucson assembled had prepared Q very elaborate plan. l. involved the esta tablshment of free. trade for it was pretty generally agreed at Tucson that the trusts owed their ex- istence to the republican tariff. Col onel Wilson said he too believed so. and he said further that his belief was shared by his friends Russell Sage, Pierpont Morgan and Henry Have meyer, who were prevented by circum- stances beyond their control from being present to lend their endorsement in person to Colonel Wilson's views.
 The republican platform, Colonel Will son said, was not so clear cut as the democratic plank. If deprecated the trusts, but did not promise to abolish them. Therefore MT. Morrison was not obliged to put down these unhOly com binations and would not do so in the case of his election. There was there fore only one thing for the people to do if they were tired of the trusts-vote for Wilson and the Marcopa county ticket from the sheriff to the constable.
 The colonel devoted a part of his time to the subject of imperialism concern ing which also the republican territorial platform was strangely and guiltily silent. On the other hand the demo- crats of Arizona. likewise at Tucson as sembled. had carefully planned the uNtI lilION OI JHe lllOllStfOuS structure which had been erected upon the war with Spain. Would Mr. Morrison in the event of his election release the Fili- pinos? Would he give force to the doc Urine that just governments derive their power from the consent of the gov erned? Would he lug the constitution around wherever the army and the navy of the United States carried the flag? Not much. There was nothing in the Arizona republican platform which committed him to any such per formance.
 The colonel next took up the plank of the territorial platform relating to the labor question. demanding the pas sage of the eight-hour law and a mine inspection bill. Here the Colonel houn- dered a little. A more agile orator would have done the same, for the coi- onel was laboring under the burden of the overwhelmingly democratic twenty first legislature which had defeated two such bills as the platform of Tucson