Arizona republican., 1903-05-05
HON. MARK SMITH
 OF 'STEENTH WARD
Tells Men of Phoenix How
 They Ought to Vote
By the Election of the Democratic Ward Tickets Today He Thinks They May Secure Statehood as Certainly as They Did When They Voted for Col. Wilson Last Fall

The pflnclpal SpeaAer near the close of the democratic ward campaign last night was the Hon. Marcus A Smitl of the 'Steenth ward of the city of Phoenix, that division of the city which
 has been so long and so ably repre-
 sented in the city council by the Hon. sam Sneed. It was said by Chairman Alfred Franklin in mitigation of the presence of Mir. Smith, that while he
 was not a resident of the city of Phoe-
 nix, neither was he a resident of the city of Tucson, where he lives, but that he was an inhabitant of the whole ter ritory, a roamer between the interna- tional boundary line on the south. the | Utah line on the north, the New Mexi- can line on the east, and the Colorado river on the west; in fact, it would have puzzled a less able naturalist than Chairman Franklin to describe the hab- . fiat of the genus to which Mir Smith
 belongs.
 The leaders of the Young Mems Dem ocratic club in the course of the after neon said that they were surprised at the presence of Mir. Smith they did not know that he was coming; his appear ance was adventitious. but fortunate, and they would make use of it.
 In the opening of his address MT. Smith said in apology for his presence that he had been asked to come to Phoenix and make a speech for the holding together of the democratic party of the city. There is an apparent variance in these two statements. but it is near as MT. Smith and the Young Mems Democratic club have ever been able to get together.
 Mir. Smith naturally talked of state hood. Last fall he came to town when the county seemed to be going repub- lican and talked of statehood. ana thereby converted many vote to Col
 Wilson. his most beloved enemy It is admitted on all hands that but for the deception practiced upon himself and the people of Arizona In the campaign of last -fali. Colonel Wilson would have been overwhelmingly defeated.
 Mir. Smith did not go quite so far Ia st night as to say that statehood de- pended upon the result of the city cleo tion today. but he did say that if the city should go democratic it would not only help some but it would show that the people of the city resented in a most indignant manner the way in which the territory had been turned down.
 He attempted two CT three times to touch upon local issues and then he abandoned the attempt and fell back upon the duty of democrats to the dem ocratic party. The requirement of public utilities by municipalities, he be- lievcd, was the proper thing, but the ac- quirement should be made by demo- crats and they should be given their time in which to do it.
 But the main thing to which he kept harping back was statehood and the avoidance of an unhoIy alliance with New Mexico under the name Of the state of Montezuma, a fate which could be averted only by the election of Emil Gang for mayor and Mr.-Mr. well-for-well-the election of the solid democratic ticket from top to bottom.
 It should be further mentioned in connection with MT: Smiths apology for introducing himself into the ward politics of Phoenix that he loved the valley. He took to himself the credit in a modest way the prospective build A'io pi Nlit blllp IpdSlll ItStI NOlIs Nllt-l every schoolboy knows by this time that Mir. George H. Maxwell was the man and the only man, and the only man who understood the significance of his action. that secured a change in the Hansbrough-Ne -Newlands bill which made it applicable in any way to the people of the Salt River valley. The significance of the amendment procured by MT. Maxwell was not understood by many of the congressman of the arid region until after the bill had become a law.
 MT. Smith also spoke of the Perala- tareavis land grant and intimated that he had been the instrument in the dis sipation of that ominous cloud upon the titles of this valley. It is a matter of record that MT. Smith. with the greatest honesty of purpose. and a great many other residents of this valley. democratic and re- publican, with him opposed the formation Of the court of private land claims because they believed the object of the proposed court was to es- tablish the validity of those claims. The court was established and it em- ployed Mexican by the French name of Mallet-Prevost, since famous in the Venezuela arbitra tion, who alone dis covered the weak place in the title of Reavis and caused that ambitious in- dividual to be sent to the penitentiary of New Mexico after it had been gen erally agreed that his claim was valid. If Mir. Smith could have had his way and the establishment of the land court had been defeated there is little doubt that Reavis would have become the Baron Of Arizona.
 Mir. Smith was followed by Colonel Wilson. delegate to congress. Colonel Wilson also lodged the local questions of the campaign, but spoke in the most inspiriting manner of the necessity of upholding the principles of the demo- cracy and the advantage at all times of voting for the yellow dog.