Mohave County miner., 1904-10-01
The Opening Gun.

welcome to the old war horse. Monday evening the can paign was opened 6y rally at Elk Hall, where large crowd of people congregated to hear the ex position of campaign issues by the $ speakers. Red fire and booming dy' namite announced the event and at the hour of eight o'clock the meeting was called to order by Foster $. Den his. chairman of the county democ. racy. The candidates for county of fees were ranged on the platform with the other speakers. Mir. Dennis made a nice little talk and then introduced Fred w. Morrison, candidate for dis riot attorney. Mir. Morrison devoted his time to national and local issues and wound up by referring in eulogis. tic terms to the local ticket. His talk was we'll received. Mark Smith was introduced at the conclusion of MT. Morrison's speech and he at once launched into a discussion of the is. sues of statehood. He maintained that if repu blican was elected at this time to represent Arizona in congress the democratic senators would take it as an evidence that Arizona was willing to be joined to New Mexico as state and that it would be impossible to align them against the measure now before the upper house of congress. but that if democrat was elected it would be taken as a protest against the merger and every democratic sena tor would filibuster until the end of the session against the passage of the bill He devoted considerable of his speech to d denial of the statement made by the repub blican platform. which alleges that he was in favor of the Arizona New Mexico merger two years ago, and referred to the telegram sent Councilman Ives and the action taken by the council on the subject. He referred to his action in the house and his strenuous fight for single state. hood and his refusal to accept dou ble statehood when it was offered in place of the omnibus statehood bill two years ago. Ills speech was we'll re- ceived and applause was frequent.
 The following people were on the
 platform during the evening: B. F.
 Thompson, territorial committeeman | F. H. Hunt, candidate for council maI
 Walter Brown, ndidate for sheriff
 Fred w. Morrison, candidate for dis
 trict attorney; Charles Metcalfe, can
 didate for pro bate judge; John Multi gan, candidate for supervisor and J. R
 Whiteside.
 After the meeting broke up the hal
 was cleared of chairs and dance wal participated in until midnight.
 Tuesday night rally was held a Gold Road and nun Der of local dem
 ocrats and candidates went out to bel
 celebr te and report having had
 splendid time.
 A big ng of track builders were a
 work here several days this week ant
 a cleanup of all the rubbish and sil
 brought in by the late floods, wa
 cleared up and carried down into tn
 canyon, where it was used to build u
 tbe road bed All the bridges throug the canyon have been rebuilt and tn !. road graded up to nearly it's old leve A big gang of men have been at wor in Truxton canyon the past month an , big fills have been made and the ol , bridges repaired. The big locomotive , are beginning to run oyer this division
 which shows that the roadbed is i
 good condition.
 , William Grant, the present incur ? bent of the supervisor office has bee , named by the republicans for re-ele' 3 tion and they have acted wisely in tn matter. Mir. Grant is one of the mos conscientious officers in the count 9 and is deserving of re election. Tt
 office of supervisor Is an onerous or
 and the best men of the parties shoul
 be named for them.
 l J. E. Perry returned Tuesday la 8 fro m San Francisco, where he attende h the convention of the sovereign gran O lodge of Odd Fellows as grand repr f sentative for Arizona. Mir. Perry r d ports having had splendid time.