Arizona republican., 1905-04-30

Dr. Dufneld began by telling the story of his arrival in Phoenix twelve years ago and his first meeting with Frank Thomas, one of the first men he got acquainted with in town Later in the evening it developed that nearly all the candidates had been here at least twelve years and some of them twice as long, hence they have char acters and regulations that are read and known of the major part of ell men who are asked to vote for them. The chairman then told of how he had first heard of the so-called citizens movement and what its alleged pur- pose was. He was at the time out of the city and when he first heard of it he had resolved to support it. As soon as he returned home and discovered the facts in the case, learned to his satisfaction that it was a movement fostered by unreliable politicians to hoOdwink the republican party, he pulled off his coat and went to work for the republican ticket, just as he has always done in every campaign, for in every campaign he had found that the party had prepared a straightforward platform that present. ed clear cut fight on every issue that came before the people. He spoke ten derly of the late Tom Jobs, who for many years had served this city as recorder, chosen and retained in office by the republican party, and now it was his pleasure to introduce his wor- thy successor, who by grace of ap- pointment by the same political pow CTS, has served the people for the last year in the same capacity.
 MT. Thomas said that he did not feel hn hn i'm 1n ha people of Phoenix though it was the first time he had been before them in the capacity of a candidate for office. He said he had no apology to offer for his position on the ticket; on the con trary he was proud of it. Briefly he reviewed his own activities here for twelve years past and promised if elected that he would strive to serve all people as fairly and as well as an honest man can. He expects to live and die in Phoenix and proposed to so live that he will have nothing to regret and will retain the confidence and respect of all his fellow citizens.
 The chairman next introduced with peculiar, unusual and remarkable pleasure, the past, present and yet to be, handsome city marshal, the Honor able Jim Kinney"
 MT. Kinney thanked the chairman for his compliments and then said that after the memorable convention a week or two ago in which Jonah Swallowed the Whale" he met his op- posing candidate for marshal, Phil Ensign. and they mutually agreed to treat each other as friends. and fairly and so far as he had heard Mir. En- sign had kept faith with him and he had with MT. Ensign. Further than that he said that he had taken occa- sion to tell inquirers who MT. Ensign is and to speak well of him as an esti- mable young man. But, continued MT. Kinney, Phoenix once before elected a good young man to office and later was very sorry for it. The temptations of the office he said and the opportunities for a misstep are numerous indeed. He said he was not boasting and many might wonder what had kept him straight. In answer to that he said he accounted for it only on the ground that when night comes he strikes a bee line for home to a good wife and a happy family. Concluding, he said his record was before the people and if elected he promised a continuance of the same kind of an administration. no better, no worse.
 
 sor and tax collector. was next pre- sented. He spoke of his long residence in the city, something like a quarter of a century, of his previous service as county assessor, of his desire to serve the people and his pledges to be faith full to every trust.
 Dr. F. O. Richmond. candidate for treasurer, followed. He was glad he was a republican and proud of his l selection for a place on the ticket. He came here from Kansas where there l is always some sort of political tur- | moil. As republican there were re- l forms in Kansas that he often favored ] and sometimes grew impatient about before his party took them up, but when it did they always accomplished something and he had noted that all | the reform Kansas ever got was l through the republican party.
 The introduction of the last speaker, l the candidate for mayor, was in the usual jovial manner of pr. Duffield. He called attention to the fact that while he had once been refused a pO- i litical favor by MT. Adams and sworn war upon him. he recognized that MT. Adams was the man of the hour and he was now supporting him energeti- cally, not because it was MT. Adams. but because MT. Adams is the ener- getic, aggressive and positive sort of a man the city of Phoenix needs in the mayors chair at this time.
 MT. Adams devoted himself first to the gentlemen on the ticket, of everyone of whom he was proud. Then he paid his respects to the platform, which he said was as clean a document as any | party could construct and with every ! feature of which, every honest repub- l lican could congratulate himself He denied that it was or could be in any way honestly construed as a gamb- 1 ler's platform. Then he repeated the pledge made at the opera house few nights ago, that the republican coun- ] ciImen if elected would carry out the wishes of the majority of the people l when expressed to them, on any ques-