Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-17

8 boundless admiration for him, and urged, in the Sun, the Democratic party to nominate him for President in 1876 and in 1880, and had he been nom mated either year it is more, than probable that he would have been elected.
 Mark Smith succeeded in San Francisco and was rapidly rising in his profession when in a spirit of curi- osity and adventure he made trip to Tombstone, AriZ.. then a wild western camp. He was now twenty-nine, healthy. hardy, handsome. selfreliant. confident, and it was only a matter of a short while until he became what he has since remained, the most popular man in the entire Territory. He knows men and has the widest charity for human fallibilities. There is none of the rigid feature in Mark Smith. He is hail fellow, and yet never was there a man who more despised a meanness. The public-North or South, East or West-always finds out such a man, an dwhen they get him they keep him. One reason why the Republican party is adverse to making Arizona State is that the leading Re- publicans in Congress know that Mark Smith would be one of the first Senators from the new State.
 Mark Smith opene dala " office in Tombstone, and clients fiocked to him. He was we'll grounded in the princi- pies and philosophies of the law, but in the courtroom practieing at nisi prius he was superb. Whether making a plea to the court, or interTogating a witness, or persuading a jury the youthful Kcntuckian was a match for any lawyer in Arizona, and he prosper ed accordingly In 1883 he was elected prosecuting attorney for the district by large majority on the sim. pie promise that he would stop the stealing and shooting. He kept his word and within two years the law was supreme in that community, prob ably due to the yigor of the young dis trict attorney, who filled the peniteu tiaTy with criminals and furnished the ga!lows with five legally convicted murderers.
 So efficient was he as prosecutor Arizona sent Mark Smith to Congress in 1886, in which body he is now serving his seventh term as Delegate from the Territory. Only two other members of the Democratic side Cf the Ffftietn Congress are members (! the Fiftieth-Ninth Congress Banl. head of Alabama, and Robertson, o! Louisiana. Some of the Delegates il the Fiftieth Congress other than Smith were Toole. of Montana, now Governor, succeeded by Carter, new Senator; Dubois, of Idaho. now Sena ter; Hansbrough. of North Dakota HOW Senator; Voorhees,. of Washing ton, son of the distinguished Senator from Indiana.
 Carlisle was Speaker, Mills chair man of Ways anf Means, and Ran | dall chairman of Appropriations, Cleve land was President and sent to Con gresS his famous message recommend ing tariff reform in December, 1887 It was the Congress that debated the Mills tariff bill, which became the paramount issue of the campaign of 1888. Young as he was and new to parliamentary life, Mark Smith made his mark in the Fiftieth Congress. Arizona was covered knee deep with Spanish land grants, such as had plagued California in the sos. Con. gress appointed a commission to pass upon the grants in California, with the result that hundreds of fraudulent claims were allowed and today there arc immense holdings of lands in that State that are spoil of injustice. Not. withstanding the Private Land Claims Committee was solidly against him Mark Smith made q fight against the Ct mmission plan for Arizona. His speech convinced the House. and he defeated the p-ojct. He had won his spurs. He thus made of Do account thousands of fraudulent Spanish land grants ia Arizona.
 Smith was the means of passing Statehood bill through three Ono. gresses admitting Arizona into the Union as a separate and independent State-I mean he passed the bill through the House of each of three Congresses. In the Fffty-Seventh Con gress. strongly Republican, he mate rally contributed to the success of the Statehood bill and was ably seconded by Powers, of Maine, and Hamilton, of Michigan, both of whom now support Speaker Cannon in his determination to yoke Arizona and New Mexico into a physical and political monstrosity and then make the thing a sister of the symmetrical and congenial States of other sections.
 Mark Smiths speech in the pres ent Congress in opposition to the policy of the bosses to join Arizona and New Mexico in an odious and unnatural union is an eloQuent plea