Bisbee daily review., 1904-10-05
WHAT ANSWER WILL
 ARIZONA MAKE TO THIS?

ARIZONA MAKE TO THIS?
 It remained for that contemptible sheet, the Los Angeles Times, to start a campaign of abuse directed at the Democratic candidate for Congress in Arizona
 The following is an editorial squib appearing in the times of recent date:
 From Arizona comes the pleasant news that the Territory is likely toI shake itself clear this year of one Smith-The Smith-at the same time departing from the Democratic ranks into the column of Republicanism. Smith is the individual who distin- guished himself in the summer time a year agone, in speech before a politi- cal organization in Los Angeles, in which he abused a Senator of the State that was giving him its hospi- tality; and then he sang a paean of praise to Kentucky whisky
 Tt is very probable that the abuse came through overindulgence in the fluid exalted. It is, indeed, charitable to assume that Smith was drunk at the time In Washington it has been said that certain Pennsylvania booze resorts have known the Arizona repre- sentative much more intimately than have the corridors of the Capitol"
 The above lsi from rhe Jpen of Harrison Grey Otis. the editor of the Los Angeles Times and the only pa per on the Pacific slope that opposed the admission of Arizona to single statehood after the bill had passed the House of Representatives
 Further than that, the article has eminated from a source that controls the actions of one Senator Bard, the only Western Senator, who was so lttle-minded. and so bereft of de cency, as to raise his voice against the admission of this Territory at this time.
 What answer will the Arizona Dem ocrats make to this vile islander? The Los Angeles Times and Senator Bard, no doubt, would be particularly pleased at this time to see the Hon. NJ 4. Smith remain at home, and with another Republican puppet in their hands, see the consummatiOn of their wild desires. the placing of Arizona un- der the yoke of New Mexico,
 The attack of the Los Angeles l Times insures the election of M. A. Smith by still greater majority. The people of Arizona do not know the Los Angeles Times as their friend, in | dividually or as commonwealth. The 1 Los Angeles Times and it's tool, Sen ator Bard. may rant and rave and vilify the ablest representative this Territory ever had in Congress, but the people of Arizona cannot be fooled 4 by such hog wash"
 It is true that Marcus Smith was
 brave enough to beard the California Senator in his den. A man who not
 only betrayed the interests of the citi
 zens of Arizona. but the best inter
 ests of Southern California and the entire west. and who has since been
 Tepudiated in his home district.
 It is true that in Los Angeles Mar
 GUS A. Smith challenged the state ment that Arizona was at a standstill; that it's mines were about worked out
 and that it's people were not capable , of self government. and hurled the lie into the teeth of Mir. Bard and the : Los Angeles Times, amid the applause . of every business man in the city oi
 Los Angeles.
 The Times says Mark Smith Wa: drunk at the time. Yes, drunk with , a feeling of righteous Indignation that swelled up in his loyal breast when 7 he heard the name of this Territory
 besmirched; drunk with the sense of outrage that had been perpetrated. up
 on a people who had time and again
 honored him and who were left with. out any defense; drunk with the re. solve to brand as false the prejudiced statements made upon the floor of the ' Senate by the pet and mouth piece of the Los Angeles Times.
 J The people of Arizona know Mark Smith. He needs no introduction through the columns of the Los Ange- les Times.
 The late editor Bran of the Icono