Arizona republican., 1903-10-18

avapinp the visitors returned to their train for dinner and 10 prepare for the reception which had been arranged at the Hotel Adams.
 The crowd gathered there long be- fore the guests came. Among the first of them to arrive was Mir. Hearst ac- cornpanied by MT. Lawrence. Mir. Ihm- sen was already in the hands of the reception committee.
 Before the beginning of the recep- tion proper Mayor Bennett introduced Col. Wilson, who in turn introduced Hon. David A De Armond who he said had been elected the spokesman of the party. MT. De Armcnd spoke briefly on the subject of statehood and in cidentally expressed the gratitude of himself and party to MT. Hearst who had given his guests an opportunity to study a matter which would be or the greatest importance to the terri tories. He alluded to the powerful in f1uence wielded by MT. Hearst through his six newspapers and he declared that the most powerful champion of the territories had now arisen
 Of the qualifications of the territories for admission the speaker had no doubt. There was the wealth of min-
 
 extent and fertility the famed valley of the Nile MT. DeArmond said that he had been a consistent supporter of statehood. He had voted for every statehood bill that had been presented since his entrance to the Fifty-second l congress. He would not predict that statehood would hc accorded to the territories soon. but he would say that ;e II, of ha "a cd at the next session it would not be the fault of MT. Hearst or the gentlemen who had become his guests.
 At the conclusion of MT. De Ar mond's address there was a vociferous demand for MT. Hearst. He appeared at length. He said that he did not wish to intrude upon the time. Re garding statehood he said that more was to be hoped from the experience of the other gentlemen of the party than from his enthusiasm. He was not, he said, a stranger in Arizona. He first visited the territory seventeen years ago and he had passed through it many times since. He felt a senti- mental interest in working for state hood. His father had assisted in the making of new states during his ser vice in the senate. He alluded to the proposition for the joining of Arizona and New Mexico in one state. saying that since two northern states had been made out of one territory, he did not believe that two territories should be employed for the construction of one state.
 MT. Hearst was loudly applauded up- on his appearance and throughout his address and one voice suggested his elevation to the presidency.
 The visitors were taken to the hotel ordinary which had been efaborately decorated and where d reception was held until ten o'clock. The visitors then returned to their train which left the city at midnight. The next and only stop ir the territory will be made at Tucson,
 After the party had returned to the train from the afternoon drive a pretty incident took place in one of the cars. That was the presentation to MT Frank Holme, the artist who is living in the valley. of an art exhibition prepared for him by a couple of score of his artist friends in the east. The exhibition, which has already been described by the Republican. consisted of miniature copies of the works of his friends, and U was put lIito tile ildlluS Ol MT w dl- lace Rice, the literary editor of the Chicago American. to be delivered to MT. Holme.
 The presentation was accompanied Dy an appropriate address.
 Immediately after the reception at the Hotel Adams MT. Hearst and Mr. Lawrence paid the Republican office d visit and remained until it was time for them to go to the train. When they entered the editorial room they laughed and said that the general dishabille Of it. papers scattered over the floor knee deep, reminded them of the disorderl!- condition of things in the editorial de- partment of all the Hearst papers.