Arizona republican., 1904-11-01
THE COUNTY CANDIDATES
An Effective Republican Rally at the
 Doris Theater Last Night.

This was the first and last appearance of the candidates as d body and. juds- ing from the cheering with which their remarks were greeted, they made a fla Vorable impression. The addresses were brief many of them consisting of mere pledges of a faithful performance of duties in the event of election. All of them spoke with confidence of the result next Tuesday.
 The meeting was called to order by Chairman Richmond of the county cen tral committee, and he introduced J. C. Adams as the chairman of the Tneat- ing. Mir Adams spoke briefly of the failure of the democratic party in this county Co carry out it's pledges. and of its consistent failure to nominate good men for office. There was. he said among the democrats too much politics and not enough business.
 Chairman Adams first introduced John A. Marshall. alluding to his envi- able public record. Mfr. Marshall spoke Tn general way Of the ticket cnd then of his own candidacy. He said that for thirty-siX years he had been standing at the anvil. handling iron Perhaps not less than 100000 tons had passed through his hands and had been converted to as many different uses. Now, he thought. the time had come for his promotion. As county treas urer he would like to handle gold and -silver for the next two years.
 MT. Marshall was succeeded by ". C. Foster, candidate for county recorder. 1Ir. Foster spoke of his public service. and especially of the position he now occupies as city assessor and tax col lcctCr. He showed that but for the levy made necessary by the water works bonds. the city rate for tEis year would have been lowered 12 cents. Tn this connection. he said it had come to his hearing that he would lose rotes by reason of his official connection with the bond election. He had ouiv performed his duty. and if he were now to be rewarded by defeat for that ger foImance he would cheercuIy accept 1t
 The next speaker was James r. Bark. candidate for the council MT Bark said that he had been asked why he had not in his addresses paid more attention to the platform, that is. the democratic platform. He replied that as a platform it did not concern him. T. consisted of a series Of promises to reform the acts of previous democratic legislatures. As a republican member Of the council he would pledge himself to endeavCr 10 correct as macy dein1~ cratic errors as possible
 Probate Judge Philips lot it be known to the audience that he was not throwing off that he was not Zhamming in his purpose to secure a reelection. and he believed that he had succeeded in convincing T sum- cfent number of the voters of the coun- " that he would like to succeed hir1- self He had, he said. been criticized because he had not turned Into the county treasury as much money from his office as his predecessor had done. Judge Phillips said that he believed his predecessor was honest. but that the law regarding the fees 10 be charged was ambiguous and capable of two constructions. His predecessor. | acting upon his own construction, had collected as many fees as the law ;,I- lowed, while he himself had collected only as many as the law requfret He thought that he was doing his duty in saving to the small estates which had come into his court as much of t5em as possible. He had Iabored for the good of the widow and orphan rather than for that of the general taxpayer, and in doing so. he believed that he had followed the law.
 c. s. Steward, candidate for member of the board of supervisors, made a bUsinesslike talk. setting forth the req sons why he should be elected. And if SO elected he would endeavor to give to his office, one Of the most resPo1- Eible in the county, the same skill of management that he had devoted to his private affairs.
 Judge JamisOn, candidate for assem- blyman. in the limited time at hand pointed out the fallaCies of The demo- cratic county platform and the caa1i- dates on it. He had understood that one of them had pledged, in the case of his election. to reduce freight rates between Phoenix and Kansas City. It was explained by Judge Jamison that this was beyond the power of a ter1i- torial legislature. Even a state iagfs- latUre could not do so much There is only one body which can do that and that is the interstate commerce commission. There were things which the legislature might with proDriety dc. but none of the things which the democrats were threatening 70 Go could be accomplished without some delberation.
 Mr. Jamison was succeeded by r. A. SEaulding, also a candidate for the as- semhiy. Mir. Spaulding made the talk Of business man, and pledged hlm- self to take with him to the legislature the methods of a business man.
 W. P. Richardson, in a short ad- dress. gave reasons why he should be elected district attorney. One was that he wanted the office; another that his opponent, Judge Baker, having run the gamut of offices, from district at- torney to chief justice Of the territory. was now on the back track, threaten ing to obsruct it for all time and eter- nifty, going one way or the other. Mir. Richardson pointed out the impor- tance of the office to the taxpayer, since the district attorney, as legal