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

of the Pacific ocean; and the promo tion and support of the irrigation ideas for and on behalf of Arizona and other portions of the arid west.
 We commend and take pride in Theodore sRoosevelt's unswerving fidelity to duty, lofty patriotism, his fearless enforcement of law, his loyal support of republican principles, his broad minded attitude toward, and intelligent promotion of the interests of all sections and classes of this great republic; and we heartily endorse the action of the republican national con- vention in placing him in Lomination for president of the United States of America.
 We most sincerely endorse the ad- ministration of Governor Alexander ] O. Brodie as an honest, efficient and impartial administration of the affairs of this territory, and worthy of the best wishes and most earnest support of all of Arizona's citizens. We de- mand the admission of Arizona into the union as a separate and sovereign state, but we are unitedly and unal- terably opposed to the proposed ad mission of the territories of Arizona and New Mexico into the union as one state; and we deeply regret and de- plore the action of the democratic majority in the last legislative council in passing a resolution favoring joint statehood and causing the same to be transmitted to the president and to congress as the joint action of the two houses of the legislature all of which was done against the earnest and united opposition of the five re- publican members of the council.
 The members of this convention re- mind the people of Yavapai county that it is the republican party which 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 of labor and the candidates for legislative po- sitions on the republican ticket are hereby pledged to work for and SUD- port ali proper and reasonable legisla- tion looking toward the material in- terests of labor and the enactment of territorial laws providing for the rights, personal safety and we'll being of miners. sfl| All labor has the undoubted right to and it is we'll that it should organize, to the end that the relations between the employe and the employer shall be of the closest mutual interest.
 We charge that exemption from tax ation in Arizona, originated under democratic auspices, and that every democratic legislature since 1891, has passed new tax exemption laws, and if returned to power they will con: tinue so to do.
 We have no hesitation in asserting our determined hostility to all illegal aggregations of capital and unlawful encroachment upon the rights of labor and we will fearlessly endeavor, in all legislative ways, to protect the in terests of laboreIs as well as all other persons in the community.
 The principle of protection to American industries and American labor has ever been productive of plenty and prosperity thoughout the land. Seasons of democratic free trade and tariff tinkering have inva- | riably been filled with financial dis aster and universally hard times. The republican party can safely be relied upon to carefully and properly fix tariff taxes.
 We are in favor of the just assess ment of all property within the coun- ty at fair and equitable valuation, without discrimination, and we pledge our candidates for supervisors, if elected to the rigid observance of this principle.
 The republican party of this county also pledges its candidates for legisla- tive positions to do everything within their power to reduce the fees of the sheriff's office to at least one half of the present rate, as we consider said fees exhorbitant and entirely out of to the services rendered and should no longer be paid by an already over taxed people.
 J. E. Morrison,
 T. B. Carter,
 L. Wisecarver,
 J. K. Mason,
 W. H. Kelly, OYn DloffOrry, onl