Arizona republican., 1906-07-18

in their hands to confiscate your prop | erty and mine.
 "The president says he feels a pc culiar interest in Arizona.
 No sane man will doubt that state ment after reviewing the position on the | statehood question. It is not this pc i culiar interest that has made the pres | ident so popular throughout the coun- try. No, it is a straightforward, | generous, appreciative interest in the country as a whole, that the people have been willing to accredit him and it is this that has won their cOnfi- dence and respect; not the peculiar interest that accepts Beveridge's false statements. and with one grand flour ish attempts to place Arizona in bon dage forever.
 T am pleased to notice that both of the great parties here have agreed to eliminate poli- tics during the coming cleo ton. so far as the statehood question is concerned, and I want to say here and now that I think it is too bad that some republican papers have seen fit to abuse Mark Smith in the way they have in the face of the good work that l know he did during the last session of congress.
 It vas simply impossible under the conditions prevailing for Delegate Smith to secure appropriations for this territory without his being willing to sacrifice Arizona. What he did accom- plish for the territory. however, with the able support of many of our best citizens, was a thousand times more than the measly little appropriation that Delegate Andrews succeeded in getting by selling out his territory to the joint ists.
 Let us be fair. I have fought Mark Smith politically for many years. but stand ready to indorse his work in connection with the last session. By saying this, I do not mean to commit myself to the extent of supporting him politically. but in the face of what I know to be facts, I cannot sit idly by and silently accept unfair accusations made against him by his political enemies
 Former Mayor Dennis Burke was the next speaker. In the course of his ad- dress. he made the following compar- ison of the conditions which prevailed at Prescott and those out of which tho greatness of Denver has come: There are. no unvarying laws by which great cities grow and are built but presume it is supposed, and per haps it is generally true, that great cities grow and flourish best on the shores of great rivers. lakes and seas but there are many exceptions to that rule. For instance. the great city of Indianapolis has no great body ot water naturally washing at its gates nor has the great and wealthy city ot | Denver-in fact, the conditions con | fronting Denver, Coios in 1868 were quite similar to the conditions con- fronting Prescott. Ariz today. befne l surrounded by great mineral resources she has had few. if any, commercial ol | transportation facilities, but her rep | resentatiye and progressive citizenship had enlightened liberality, patriotic energy and indomitable purpose. anC by the judicious employment of thes, Indispensable qualities. they forced ma.
 ture to aid them in building wate works and sewerage systems and man, railroads into the regions of nature hidden wealth.
 And it was thus that the queen cit,
 of the great American desert arose il
 her regal beauty as Venus from tn
 foam of the sea, and I now and her
 predict, with the honest united effor of PrescOtts representative and pro
 gressive citizenship since the task ha
 again presented, itself. that We ar
 equal to the emergency; that we vii
 at least encourage the miner and tn
 prospector to such an extent that ther
 will be continuous flow of .ores sen , in to the Humboldt and the Rigb
 smelters. And am here reminded O : a conversation that l had yesterda with gentleman, in which l was in
 formed that there had been oyer S7OO. l OOO expended in the construction O
 buildings, and the purchase of machin l cry by the Humboldt enterprise; and
 was also informed in the same conver l sation that there had been expende } by the Rigby enterprise over auar ter of a million of dollars in the con , struction of buildings and the purchas { of machinery for the economcal treat
 mAnt of ores
 There were addresses by Hon. T. G Norris, Reese NJ. Ling. MT. w H. Say
 Of Pittsburg, Attorney General Clark
 Former Governor N. O. Murphy am
 Mr. Mccarthy, of Washington. | Judge E. w. Wells, in a stronl
 speech, spoke of the great interes
 which is being manifested in the eas
 in the resources of this territory an,
 ne urged most vigorously upon al
 Arizonians their duty in opposition t joint statehood.
 On a suggestion by MT. Murphy il the course of his speech a committe
 was appointed to draft resolutions O respect to the memory of the late Hon
 Henry Cullen Adams and thanking hi
 associates Of the Faithful Forty
 three" for their services to the terri
 tory.
 The club presented a handsome testi
 monial of it's appreciation of the worI of Manager Green of the club, who sev
 CTS his connection with it in order t
 make an extended visit 60 his forme
 home in England.
 FOUND BOX OF GOLD.
 Seattle, July IA special to tn