Arizona republican., 1902-10-16

enforced during the administration of Mir. Cleveland.
 When the republicans came into power the Sherman antitrust law was put in operation whenever it's opera ton was required. The speaker pointed to the earnest efforts of President Roose- welt to bring the trusts under subjec- tion. He had begun an agitation which would end in bringing great aggrega- tions of capital within proper limita- tions. The course of the president in the matter of the coal strike the speaker said was in line with republi- can policy for the preservation of proper relations between capital and society. Great and perpleXing as the problem is it will be solved bp Presi- dent Roosevelt, as all great problems have been solved by republican admin istra tions.
 Concerning labor. Mir. Morrison said that whatever had been done for the working man had been done by the re- publican party. It had made his con dition better than that of any other laboring man. There was a place for every man by reason of the great in- dustrial activity of the country and there had always been industrial activ- ity when a republican administration was at the helm. The interests Of labor had always been safeguarded by the party as the interests of the whole peo- pie had been.
 The speaker presented a reason why the laboring men of this territory should support the legislative tickets of the republicans. The democratic leg islatures of Arizona had not kept faith with the workers. The legislature of two years ago had turned down the re- quest of the laboring men for relief. and now the same party was asking tO be given another trial. What the re- publicans had promised they had in variably performed. In their territor- ial platform they had recognized the rights of labor. and it they were given | control of the legislature they could be depended upon to redeem any prom ise that has .been made. On the con trary the democratic promises were not backed by good record
 At this point MT. Morrison desired it to be understood that he was as sailing only the public acts of demo crats and rot the personal conduct or any man.
 With regard to tax exemption with ! which the democratic platform dealt
 Mr. Morrison wished to remind his | hearers that it had been the practice of i legislatures for years to pass eNenip- ! tion laws. He believed that this kind of legislation was proper. that 1t had resulted in the earlier development Of
 the territory. Every legislature for I the last ten years had passed such a law and every legislatu but one had | been democratic. Many men relying
 upon those laws had put money into railroads to the great benefit of the territory. The democratic party now proposed to repeal these laws and re- pudiate the agreements which had been
 made between the railroads and she people Of the territory. This propOsi-
 tion he believed was repugnant tO ! every reasonable and honest man and he believed further that an expression
 of repugnance would be given at the ! polls in November.
 l Further. as to the record of demo cratic legislatures of this territory he ! quoted from the Prescott Courier. { edited by Col Rogers. that rock-ribbed and Jeffersonian democrat. whose heart
 was made sick whenever he contem- ! plated the work of democratic legisla- 1 lures of this territory for years past | Then MT. Morrison came to the last issue, the only one which the demo
 crats of the territory in this campaign | have rot abandoned. the one upon
 which is hung every hope of success. | the statehood question. This was a matter concerning which there could be no division in Arizona The demo (Continued on Third Page.)