Arizona republican., 1904-10-04
IiOt and Hurried ReiOiRder
 to Republican Editorial
DENlALS DID NOT DENY
The InauspiciOus Opening of Demo- cratic County Campaign Which Amounted Only to the Presentation of a Glimpse of the Candidates.

' of the Hon. Marcus A. Smith for dele gate to congress was ratified. All this was accomplished in the presence of a very good crowd and with a pro- per amount of enthusiasm. The demo- cratic mana gers of affairs had seen 70 the size of the crowd. They had spent days in advertising the meeting and all | of yesterday was spent in going about the town and the country turing people 1 away from their legitimate pursuits to ! come to the meeting.
 There was an unexpected number on | the programme That was Mc. Smith | | himself. His presence had not been | calculated upon and as soon as it was | ! learned that he had come to town yes l terday morning that fact was insert 1 | ed into the advertisement among the | | inducements.
 The master of ceremonies was w. B. Cleary who opened proceedings by in ! stituting a comparison between Judge Kibbey, the chairman of the late re- publican meeting and himself in the matter of courtesy. It was the opinion of MT. Cleary, that as courteous gen tleman he was somewhat the superior of Ju5ge Kibbey.
 MT. Smith was the first speaker, he
 explained to the audien-e the nature of the accident to which his hearers
 
 hearing of him. He gave an account
 of the state of the weather in thA
 northern part of the territory. He had
 been very cold there and he forecasted
 still colder weather later in the season.
 for instance as Christmas was approch-
 ed.
 But if Mir. Smith was cold he got
 thawed out quickly and manifested
 signs of intense heat Particualrly to- ward The Republican on aci-ount of cer- tain editorials which have lately ap-
 peared in this paper setting forth the
 belief that MT. Smith is not a sacred bird. NIT. Smith was not only hot buc he was also in a hurry He could take
 time he said at the present b little
 mere than dle, denials to the things the
 Republican said about him but later sn
 the campaign he would come and prove
 the Republican to be a liar by the
 watch.
 One of the things that had particU-
 larly Galled Mir. smith was the asser- ton that he had stood in the way of kseparate statehood for Arizona at the
 time of the passage of the Utah state
 hood bll by refusing to accept the anti
 polygamist provision of the Utah bill for the Arizona bill. He undertook to sqCeich the Republicans statement by 7 | reference to dates showing that he . could not have taken an obstructive
 part in statehood legislation at that
 time for the reason that he was not fthen in congress but was engaged in the practice of law in Tucson. That 1 seemed a conclusive sduelcher and MT, Smiths admirers on the platform and
 in the audience became uproariOusly
 joyfal. But it has been observed that v MT Smith was hot and in a hurry, so much that date or a fact might easily
 have been overlooked by him. He
 missed the time of the passage of the Utah bill by year and in his excite Il ment neglected to specifically deny the s things with which he had been charged Y It had been stated also that in the F course of his obstructive career MT n Smith had vainly opposed the passa gt g of tie law creating the court of pri- .- vate land claims. Neither did Mir g. Smith deny that statement but he sail " ne had opposed a bill creating a pri- l. Vate land grant commission and ha , been mUlch praised therefor In thi! ,- connection Mir Smith asserted what |! .s not generally known that he was re
 sponsible for the defeat of the Peralta. % reavis claim. Those who thought the, s knew how that gigantic fraud had beer ,f uncovered found in the statement O n MT. Smith new information which am  i'd him.
 s- Concerning the charge frequentl- k made that ne sent a telegram to tn in council of the twenty second legisla al ture asking for an expression on tn Id subject of joint statehood and fntimat es ing that was the only kind that Ari L. zorla was likely to get, MT. Smith sai
 he would say nothing at the presen of time. That would be done on some fu d ture visit to Phoenix when he shout er be armed with his hammer and be pre- g. pared tO Eail lies.
 There was one thing in the speec
 of MT. Smith which many of his de
 mCcTatic friends believed might hay
 been omitted with profit to himself of That was his effort to helittIe the per
 fOrrnances of his oponent, Hon. E. i fin Fowler in behalf of not only this val i- ley bat Of the whole Of the arid wes h. MT. Fowler was held forth as havin nv been m league with God for the relic ve or the desert regions. Concerning tn m subject of irrigation which it seem ts to be the purpose of Mir Smith { on shove into Inc back ground, be sai or that .t was not true that he had bee i, apathatic. He did not deny that r 5a took TO part in the struggle when tn ,- present national irrigation law wa bL pending in congress but he said he ha - years hefore that, fifteen years ago O o, the hCor of the house urged govern
 ment irrigation. That was. said Nj
 Smith. before. MT. Fowler ever saw a
 irrigation ditch"
 Then Mir. Smith reverted to his fa1 +t Orite theme, statehood; that ws = where he was at home. The situatio ,,s at the present time required a 'rea1 cs rangement of the reasons why NJ