Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1903-10-21
WILLIAM HEARST
AND HIS GUESTS
Make a Short Visit to
Prescott Today.
Expressed Themselves Well Pleas
ed With Town as Being Best
Visited on Trip.


distinguished guests who arrived here
at an early hour for the pur pose of
studying our conditions and qualifica-
tions for statehood. The special train
bearing the party pulled into the sta
ton on schedule time, its coming be-
ing herslded by the screeching of the
whistle of the locomotive awakening
echoes from the mountain sides and
awakening many sleeping citizens as
we'll.
The tally no in which was the COM
mittee of ladies appointed to look
after the ladies of the congressional
party left the bank corner at ten min
utes past eight o'clock for the depot.
1t was drawn by six horses. The
carriages provided for the other visit
ors filed down behind the tally no,
and the entire party was soon in We
hicles, and on the move up town.
Arriving in front of the stand built
on Friday on the north side of the
plaza the procession stopped and at
exactly $50 Mayor Burke delivered
an address of welcome, in which he
expressed the pleasure of our citizens
with the honor of this visit. He re
ferred to Mr.. Hearst as being pro-
duct of the west. and an illustrous son
of noble sire. His address follows :
Ladies and Gentlemen of the con-
gressional party: As mayor of Pres
colt it becomes my most pleasant duty
to tender to you for and in behalf of
the citizens of Prescott the keys of
our city and to offer to you its free
dom, its hospitality and its undis-
guised welcome.
As among our republics first citi-
zens we are proud to have you with us
within our gates and as our guests,
and to you Mr.. Hearst, | know that
your colleagues will pardon me for a
moment, for / believe it would not
only be unkind but ungrateful on my
part if | failed to take advantage of
this opportunity to say to you that
the people of Arizona are not unmind-
full of a few facts, that you are pro
duct of this mighty west, that you are
a son of a noble sire, that you have
made and are now making a Titanic
fight for the rights of the toiling
millions. that as a friend and patron
of education and learning, as an en-
ample of civic virtue, progressive cit
iZenship, business capacity and ener-
gy, as truly great champion of pop
ular rights no noble son of this repub-
lie may rightfully stand in your
front, and in this hour when the two
tremendous factors, "capital and la
bor," are painfully often in friction
we hail you as a great leader who has
dared to stand impartially for the
rights of both. And, now gentlemen
just one word for Arizona, and let
me say that the people of Arizona in
dulge in hopeful anticipations for
statehood as result of your visit and
efforts in that behalf and shall be
superinduced by your personal visit
and examinations of the conditions as
they actually exist in Arizona, larger
in area than nearly all of New Eng
land, having an area of over 1I2, coo
square miles, with foot hills and
mountains scanned with the precious
metals with fertile valleys and a eli
mate absolutely unsurpassed, fascin;
ating and Incompatible. And let me
assure you gentlemen, that Arizona
was never so prosperous as il is today,
with countless enterprises of pith and
moment now in process and of others
almost daily being inaugurated. With
peace within our borders, the laws
respected and order prevailing every
where, with population bordering on
200. 600 souls of enlightened. brave
and patriotic people devoted to the
flag. and although it has been stated
and cruelty misrepresented through
out the enlightened east that the peo-
pie of Arizona we're not capable of
self government. yet we at least have
had the intelligence and enlighten-
ment to understand the Importance
and necessity to thoroughly equip
with all modern cOnveniences and a
staff of bright, competent. intelligent
and might truthfuIly add handsome
teachers a public school system and
other educational institutions
throughout the entire territory of Ar
iona that are second to none and
unsurpassed by that of any other com
in the union. And in con-
clusion gentlemen, we invoke the
spirit of Tradition, that the fair
Queen AreZuma, after whom it is said
we take our name, comes and in her
beauty bows to yOu, and respectfully
asks fol your honorable efforts in Sc
curing for Arizona the Grown of
q"
The party was then driven around
the Murphy boulevard returning to
town at Q o'clock
The pupils of the public aud private
schools were arranged on the street
On the north side of the plaza, instead
Of on Cortez street as originally in
tended and each was provided with a
lag which was waved as token of wei |
'ome. This feature of the programme
vas not as prominent as had been ex-
1ected, as the children did not turn
,ut in large numbers.
After their return from the drive on /
he boulevard the entire party were
lriven to the new school building and |
vent through it from the upper floor /
o the basement. This was one of the
,reatest surprises to them all and
hey expressed their admiration for it
n unstinted praise. Mr.. Hearst re-
marked that New York would be
,roud to replace some of her present
fractures for building as modern
nd up to date as this. This feature
f their trip probably impressed the
lembers of the party as much as any
hing they saw in Prescott.
The party having been aroused from
heir slumbers at such an early hour,
nd started out on their drive, they did
OF have an opportunity to get their
before leaving and were
riven from the school house to Hotel
urke where an elaborate breakfast