Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-09-21

committee on credentials an oppnr
 tunity to prepare its report and as
 certain who were entitled to seats il the convention.
 On the convention reconvening the committee on credentials submitted
 its report which was adopted. The
 report showed a splendid attendance
 of delegates, Yavapai and Maricopa
 having only one or two proxies and all
 the counties except two or three hay ing nearly full delegations.
 A committee on permanent organiza- tion and order of business and com mittee on platform and resolutions were appointed when another recess was taken until 8 o'clock.
 Shortly after O clock Chairman O'Brien rapped the convention to order with his gavel when the report of the committee on permanent or gauiZation and order of business submitted it's report which recom- mended that the temporary officers be made permanent. The report was unanimously adopted and the com mittee on platform and resolution submitted the following platform, which was adopted unanimously:
 We, the republican party Of the territory of Arizona, in convention as sembled, do hereby reaffirm our devo- tion to the policies and principles of the republican party as enunciated in the national republican, platform, and further approve those principles and purposes as embodied in our national legislation of the past, and comparing our present leaders with our great historic leaders, believe them to be worthy of our most earnest support.j
 We endorse and approve the admin istration at Wasbintgon, and especial ly that high diplomacy which has so magnified our country's prestige and influence in foreign affairs, which secured to us the Panama canal, the building of wbich we believe will re- suit ln worldwide benefit to all man. kind, and secure to the United States the political and commercial suprem- acy of the Pacific ocean.
 We especially and particularly en- dorse and approve the promotion and passage of irrigation laws for and on behalf of the territory of Arizona and other portions of the arid west, by the republican majority in the national congress, and call especial attention to the fact that President Roosevelt was the first and only presi- dent of the United States which called the attention of congress to the needs of the arid west in the matter of irri- gation, and made possible the passage of the present national irrigation law.
 We commend and approve She ad- ministrstion of Theodore Roosevelt and heartily endorse the action of the republican national convention in placing him in nomination for the president of the United States of America. We approve and take pride in his unswerving fidelity to duty his genuine Americanism; his lofty patI iotism and fearless enforcement of law; his loyal support to republican principles and policies his broad attitude toward the interests of all sections and classes of this great | republic.
 We endorse the action of Governor Alexander O.. Brodie and his efficient | and impartial administration of his duties as governor of this territory.
 We desire the admission of Arizona | into the Union as a separate and sovereign state, and are unitedIy and | opposed to the admission of the territories of Arizona and New Mexico into the Union as one state, preferring to remain a territory in | definitely rather than such union, nd | NO uCOPAy ACSICe anu uCp1OlC Nuo | action of the democratic majority in the last territorial council in passing a resolution favoring joint statehood, and transmitting said resolution to the president ana nstional congress as the joint action of the two houses i of the territorial legislature, all of which was done against the earnest and united opposition of the republi. can members of the council.
 We again remind the people of Ari- zona, that it was the republican party who formulated and maintained that policy of protection for labor which has made the American laborer the most independent of workmen and the peer of every citizen of the United States. The republican party today, as ever, stands for the best interests If labor. and we are in favor of and