Arizona republican., 1904-08-24

form.
 When MT. Hayden h-d concluded
 the committee on platform reported and the orators were unclaimed. The l speeches were of q general character devoted to the national features of the
 platform. There was some word paint ing and mixing of metaphors. W. D.
 Bell speaking for instance of the pur- | ity of the democratic leaders described
 it as a beautiful lily. not of the val | ley but of the mountain top, where it sat among the eternal snows sham | ing their whiteness by its own. MT. | Bell was merely confused in his bot | any What he had mistaken for the | lily was in reality the edelweiss. Oth-
 CT speakers were George Purdy Bull
 lard, w. B. Cleary and Captain Evans. l It was about this time that Messrs. | Clark and Franklin raised their objec-
 ton to any kind of a platform and
 later submitted the substitute. Then | there was some more oratory. Among | those who opposed any platform was | MT. Bullard He merely objected on
 the ground of impropriety. Mr. Cleary arose in behalf of the report. A failure,
 he said, to adopt, especially, the Olney
 plank would involve the party in the
 
 hinted at a slumbering volcano be-
 heath the surface of the Salt River
 valley. The debate was carried on until
 noon when an adjournment was taken
 until two o'oclock, at which time a l spirited fight was promised.
 | When the convention reassembled
 MT. Bell addressed himself against the ! Clark substitute and the elimination of what he called the anti-Southern Pa- | cific plank. He said the time had come ! for the party to take a stand against 1 that road. He had seen the solid pha-
 lanXes of its representatives in the leg
 islature engaged in purchase of such | legislation as the road desired and he | had seen the throttling of such legis- | lation as the people desired. The time | had come he said when something | should be done for the farmer, the 1 bearer Of thirty-five per cent of the l territory's burden. Mir Bell pictured | the easy lot of the railroad magnate l and his servants who infested the leg 1 islature in his behalf, as follows: | '"They sit with their feet cooked up
 on a polished desk and they polish the | seats of their pants on fine chairs.' MT. Bell moved that the substitute He
 on the table and that the report of the committee be adopted.
 | MT. Bullard said that he had recant- l ed. He had opposed the adoption of | the report for the reason that he be- | lieved at the time and still believed | that this was no time for the adoption of a platform. He had been af- fected by what he figuratively describ- | ed as nasal Catarrh. During the inter-
 mission his nasal organ had cleared ] out somewhat and he had recovered his sen3e of smell Then for the first time he smelled a nigger in the wood 1 pile. There was a railroad fight on and he was now against the road and for ! the people. He would vote for the platform.
 MT. Franklin rose to a question of | personal privilege. He said that it had been hinted that in his oposition to
 the platform he was acting in the in- | terest of the railroad company. He | said that it was a mere coincidence
 that he was the partner of Frank | Cox; he had no interest whatever in | the road; nobody had asked him to oppose any plank or platform inimical
 to the road. He was acting only in
 the interest of the democratic party which might find itself embarrassed tin
 the territorial convention if it were burdened with such a declaration of | principles as had been proposed. | MT. Clark said he had been unable
 to see how this railIoad matter had | been injected into the convention. Like | MT. Franklin he cared nothing for the
 railroad. His sole love was the demo- cratic party of the county A platform
 was an unnecessary adornment. He
 was asked tben if he would favor a i resolution endorsing the action of Mr. l Olney on the condition that the plat 1 form should be voted down. He replied
 with some hesitation that he would have no objection to such resolution i but an instant later he said that 1t ! could serve no good purpose. The ac. , ton of Mir. Olney he said had been prop | CT and he had personally congratulat- | ed him on the stand he had taken. But
 he said MT. Oiney was not the repre- i sentative of this district on the board , of equalization and therefore the
 speaker thought an endorsement cf him 7 by this county would be irrelevant. It
 would be quite proper for the Graham
 county democrats to do so The atten- ! tion of MT. Clark was called to the i circumstance that whatever action MT. !
 os a territorial officer and not in that t | of a county official.
 A. the conclusion of Mr. Clark's re-
 marks the substitute was laid on the
 table and the adoption of the original report was then moved. roll call
 was begun and half finished when on ! the motion of MT. Franklin the adop- 1 ton of the report was made unani-
 nous. The vote so far as it went was
 not announced and the record of it was | destroyed, but if it had been finished | the majority would have been slendor
 THE PLATFORM.
 We, the democrats of Mari3upa county, In convention assembled, do hereby renew our allegiance 10 the great principles of democracy us plo- claimed by Jefferson. Jackson and William Jennings Bryan.
 We give unqualified endorsement to the splendid platform unanimously adopted by the St. Louis convention, and pledge our hearty and loyal sup port to Alton B. Parker and Henry G. Davis, the nominees of that conven- tion.
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