Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-10-12
Silent as a Clam on the Ives Tele-
gram, the Utah Bill, Parker and
Davis, and Bryant Was a Nice
Little Hand Painted Flower Pot
Talk on FanCifuI Subjects.

MdIk OmlL0 is Dack NUN Der.
Twelve years ago he had something to
talk about and he impressed people
with his ability. Time changes all,
however. Last night he dished out
the beautiful, and when you say that
you say all. He had nothing to i'm
part of a sulid and substantial nature
and the way he struggled and jungled
his language was pitiable In the ex-
IRENE. Instead of the fiery and Iogi-
cal campaign speaker, he was distress
ed and like a helpless skiff at sea, be
went as the waves carried him, hither
and thither. The issues, he had none.
He knows it. He showed it, and his
great ambition was to ''get there"
again. On what? Nothing. Absolute
ly nothing.
He started to dissect the trusts, but
a few flowery plays exhausted the
subject, and he went over to socialism
which he branded as nihilism.
Quick as a fash he jumped the
traces and what a fiasco he made Of
Arizona and single statehood. His
war cry is emblazoned with the single
motto, but what reason did he impart
to his many hearers that it should be
given? None whatever but to buck
the administration and the senate also.
"AriZona is up against it," he said.
Nothing more truthful was ever utter
ed by him, and he spoke advisedly,
believing that be will again conquer
at the ballot box He advocated then
in that case the coarse weapon of the
fillibusterer, and he was the only one
that was capable of welding that
kind of a club. What a commentary
that is on delegate in congress from
Arizona on such an important issue.
The only way to block joint admission
was for delegate from a territory to
block it? Where then does single
statehood for Arizona come in? He
paid a tribute to Governor Brodie and
there was applause. He referred to
the national platform of the party,
and threw a scented bouquet at our
townsman, John Lawler who was a
delegate to the st. Louis convention,
while be was not.
He then went to the old omnibus
bill, and said that he got it through
the lower house of congress. That is
as far as it ever got, as all know. He
was the delegate in congress so let the
statehood rest there for the time-dead
as door nail. He revives it. and
then refers to his friend % Senator
Bard of California. The next person
he throws into the statehood guillotine
is Col. Wilson, the incumbent and
threw a hat full of protests from every
hamle. and city into the lap of the
senate and the administration. That's
all the good that came. The senate
still held the measure tighter than
Mark used to hold the cinch on Ari- !
IONA. He said President Roosevelt
was in favor of Arizona being admitted
as a single state on account of Gov. |
Brodie, but the senate and the east
had stronger pull, so it was hung up
in the dry climate of the ella, Just as
it now is. He made the statement
that the republicans had it fixed and /
settled to pass the joint bill. Then if |
that is so, why should we send demo-
Graf to buck a stalwart republican /.
body. Why then, did not Mr.. Smith !
advocate fighting fire with fire. He
is not built that way. Mark wants
the Office.
lie recedes again to fiIibustering
tactics, drifting as it we're out on the /
statehood tide. He practically adj
mitted that the senators would tie up
the joint statehood bill in one breath,
but ask his audience to send him as a
democrat so as to make a good job of !