Arizona republican., 1904-04-08


 tirely unanimous Eli held up his hand with the rest. Another vote was taken on whether or not he should be invited to visit the school again if ever he passed this way. It was carried af- firmatively and unanimously also. MT. Landon did not vote this time just to be funny, but because he believed it to be good politics. He might come again and it is well to have proper assurance of a pleasing reception.
 In the course of his sightseeing MT. Landon called at The Republican office. He had to, out of respect for the truth, which he so sacredly de- fends. knowing that in his absence The Republican leads in carrying on his chosen work. He was met on the sidewalk and invited to enter but he hesitated for a moment till he had se- cured afTrma tive answers to the fol- lowing questions:
 Are your politics republican?
 Are you glad we got the Philippines and have a deed for them?
 Do you favor the Isthmian canal?
 Do ycu love and revere the memory of William Mckinley and stand pat with his successor?
 
 enter"
 He did so, the frightened look left his face. and he conversed quite freely, knowing that his confidence would be respected and that nothing he might say would appear in print, to his dis comfture. He said he had been up- holding the truth all over the north west and had heard the call for its .a- was no truth here, for he was here himself ten years ago and disseminat- ed a deal of it, but it had been jeal- ously guarded, so jealously in fact that few people here ever gave it away. MT. Landon is nothing if not a repub- lican and he Is certainly something. He says he is a democrat, but the statement is only made to widen his influence with. the sinners and he be- lieves the end justifies the means. In defense of republican doctrine he re- lated a couple of true stories he heard on the train the other day.
 4 republican and a Hearst man were in conversation. The latter said the great question before the people was that of capital and labor. but he never could quite understand it. The repub- lican offered to set him right by an illustration. He said that when a re- publican loans a democrat a hundred dollars to go into business with, that's capital. When he tries to get it back again. that's labor.
 That point seemed to be clear enough and the Hearst man switched. He said all laborers should be paid alike; he believed in the dignity Of labor and it's proper remuneration. The juror should receive as much as the judge and the miner as much as the operator But" interposed the re- republican, "I thought those things were governed by the law of supply and demand?"
 50 they are" responded the Hearst man, but the bloody republicans pass ed the law of supply and demand and if we can ever get them out of office we will repeal it.
 Joking aside. MT. Landon was prob ably the first man with whom an in- terview on the subject of the gold standard was ever published in an Ari- zona newspaper, and The Republican was the paper. It was on the occa- sion of his visit here ten years ago. He had but recently returned from a trip to China where he became saturat- ed with the effects of free silver and separated from his gold. He has never recovered from the shock and his at tachment for gold seems to have in creased with age. He would rather have a thousand dollars in gold than the smallest part of that amount in silver.
 When MT. Landon arrived here he was attired among other things, in a fur overvoat, and he kept it conven- iently near to him all day, though the thermometer was S6 In the shade. This was no reflection on the honesty O. the Phoenix people, but he said he was afraid the thermometer might be lying Reasoning along the same lines it is presumed that the costume he wears when lecturing in Alaska is a pair of linen trousers, a negligee shirt and fan.
 The subject of his lecture last night was "The Philosophy of Wit and Hu- mcr and Stories Around the Stove" MT. Perkins was asked if he brought his stove with him, as nothing of the kind could be found here at this time of the year and even in the winter time they arc scarce. All public buildings are steam heated and in pri- vate enterprises dependence is mainly upon hot air. He made an evasive re- ply, but it was noticed he took no stove to the church with him. This is really the only feature of the lecture in which the advance notices were not entirely borne out But it was safer to swerve a little than to produce the stove and incite a riot. Next time he comes it is suggested that he make the lecture "Stories Around the Ice Box"
 The First Methodist church was crowded when the hour arrived for the lecture. For over two hours MT. Lan- don held the closest attention of the audience and could have held them longer but he reasoned that the people had received their moneys worth,