Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-03-09

achievements of its great leaders of the past who have hepled to embody those great principles into national legisla- tiOn, thereby shaping the policies and destiny of the republic, and consider ing in the light of the past the prin- ciples and purposes to which our party now stands committed, and comparing the men who today con- trol in the shaping of the policy of our party and the destiny of our country, with onr great historic lead CTS, and approving those principles and purposes, and believing our pres ent leaders worthy of our heartiest support, we do make the following declarations:
 We approve and applaud the admin istration at Washington, and more es: pecially and particularly the diplom- acy which has so magnified the pres tige and influence of the United States in foreign affairs, securing to our people the control of the Panama canal, the building of which will re- suit in world wide benefit to mankind and insure to the United States the political and commercial supremacy of the Pacific ocean; and the promo tion and support of the irrigation ideas for and on 6ehalt of Arizona and other portions of the arid west.
 We commend and take pride in Theodore R0osevelt's unswerving f. delity to duty, his lofty patriotism, his fearless enforcement of law, his loyal support of republican prin- ciples, his broad minded attitude to- ward, and intelligent promotion of the interests of all sections and classes of this great republic; and we advocate the nomination by the re- publican party of Theodore Roosevelt to be the next president of the United States of America, and to that end, we pledge our support, first, last and all the time.
 We most heartily endorse the ad- ministration of Governor Alexander O. Brodie as an honest, efficient and impartial administration of the affairs of this territory, and worthy of the best wishes and most earnest support of all of AriZona's citizens.
 We are united and unalterably op- posed to the proposed admission of the territories of Arizona and New Mexico into the union as one state.
 And it is resolved, That the thirty nine delegates chosen by this conven- ton to sit in the republican terri torial convention to convene in the city of Tucson, Arizona, on the eighth day of March, 1904, be and they are hereby instructed:
 First. To cast all votes as a unit
 Second. To vote and use their in- fiuence in said convention first, last and all the time for the selection of Frank l.. Wright as a delegate of the republican party from the territory of Arizona to the republican national convention to convene in Chicago, Illinois, on the 2lst day of June, 1904
 Third. To work and vUte first, last and all the time to secure the passage of resolution, by the republican territorial convention at Tucson, in- structing the six delegates and six all ternates selected by that convention to attend the republican national con- vention to wJrk and vote first, last and all the time for the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt, for the office of president of the United States of Am erica.
 Fourth. To use their best efforts to secure the instruction of the delega- tion to the republican national con- vention to work for the insertion of plank in the republican national platform favoring single statehood for Arizona.
 The following were appointed del- egates to the territorial convention:
 Thomas c. Job, Thomas E. Camp bell, J. E. Mccoy, s. F. Dennison, John Hanlon, Fred Moore, E. w. Wells, J. W. Smith, Leroy Anderson, John NJ. Ross, T. c. Archer, W. J. Wilsey, J. s. Hammer, P. W. Stra- han, John Ross. E. A. Haggott, Eli | $. Perkins, Ed WagOner, Grant | Carter, Frank Mansfield, Charles George W. Hance, A. L. | Smith, J. P. Bauder, Henry Tharsing, | Frank l.. Wright, Robert Brow, F. | E. Andrews, O. H. Schafer, Dr. J. | N. McCandless, Joseph DOugherty, G. Hathaway, Rudolph Baer, T. l.. liar -is, T. c. Childers,J. K. Mason, John Anderson, G. W. Meade, Geo. Sines, Jr.
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