Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-10-17
COOPER SPEAKS TO
 A LARGE CROWD

' '"g k''k' sank to the bottom of inc can, dead.
 The optimistic irog. however. ton, Kching away for dear life. and when the milkman took the lid off the con some time later, there sat the litr. frog, on pile of butter he had churr ed up, alive and doing well.
 That" he went on. "is wbc,o ,bo Republican party is today in Arizona lhey have kicked up a pile of butte. md are resting on il, alive and doing veil. !"
 Going on to more serious things. Mr. 'oopor said
 "Show me, defy you, where the Democratic party io Arizona. in the last twenty years, have kept one promise they made the people, and if you do. i'H quit this campaign right here and now.
 "When l first came to the territory. some sixteen years ago, the Democrats were saying that if the people wanted single statehood, the only way to get it was to send Democratic delegate to congress. The people took them at their word, and sent their delegate. Two years passe dand another campaign came on.
 Send Democratic delegate to congress this time said the Demo. cratic party, 'and wc assure you that he will come back with statehood for Arizona in his pocket
 Again the people believed them. nd again they were fooled: the next ampaign they put forth the same old tory, this time absolutely guaranteeing hat their delegate would get statehood or them, and again they were deceit. al. And in all this timc mind vou their delegate in congress was getting nhso. utcly nothing for Arizona; no public 'uildings. no benefits. asking for noth ing hut single statehood, and not get. ting that iecause he was at outs with the administration. In all the years that a Democratic delegate has been in congress what has he accomplishment 2 Nothing. Merely acting as messenger boy.
 "l want to go to congress, n ad init, but not as a messenger boy" !" Loud applause.)
 At the close of his remarks, Nr. Cooper said:
 "I want to make the people whom I am asking for their support, one prom. isc, and that Is that pledge myself 10 accomplish in my two years at con. grcss, should the people of Arizona see ft to send me there, just as much os the Democratic delegates have accom-. plished in the past twenty years. Heaven knows it would be impossible for me to accomplish less" OLaughter)
 Mir. Cooper then spoke of his advent into the territory, how he had worked up among the people of Arizona. until he had reached his present position in life. and had been accorded the high honor of attempting to carry the ban ner of Arizona Rcpublieanism to vie tory, and how he wanted to represent the people of Arizona m congress.
 "I am frank, and will not attempt to say that was pushed into the breach. l sought the nomination be- cause I want to go 10 congress. not as messenger boy, but 10 accomplish things. l want your support. l would be foolish to be wasting my time cam paigning if, like other candidates pro fess. I did not want to be elected. do want to go 10 Washington, to be there, a friendly, not in opposition to the administration in power, but as q Republican, during Republican ad ministration, that l may work harder even than have worked for myself these past sixteen years, to accomplish something that will De for the benefit of my chosen home country An zona.
 "And, now, ladies and gentlemen, wish to thank you again for the spien did welcome accorded me here tonight and to bid you all kindly good night
 As the large audience filed out Of th' theater building, nothing bat words oi commendation for the man who had risen above his conditions and surround ines. to his present position of hono' in the territory, could be heard, aud that Hon. William F. Cooper, our next delegate to congress. had made man, friends by his straightforward manner and direct and convincing way of put
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