Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-24
MILLIONS SECURED
! BY MARK SMITH


to those grants and my
Judgment today is that there was not
a valid grant in Arizona nouwlJn-
standing the findings of the Court.
| did more to defeat the Reavis
grant than any man in Arizona. The
people used to know these things.
| secured the appropriations of the
money to ferret out the fraud. hau
the Iamented Peter r. Brady selected
by the Department to trace the pedi-
gree OF Mrs. Reavis and his researches
were rewarded and Reavis ultimately
sent to the penitentiary. Perhaps my
critic had better write about something
which occurred since he got here.
He says l have opposed appropria-
tons for the education of the Indian.
Let him consult the Record and if
he has any conscience then will apollo
gize for that false statement. Every
year / have in committee appealed for
larger appropriations for such schools
as at Phoenix and other near reserya-
tons. but have bitterly opposed the
expenditure of a cent on such schools
as Carlisle in Pennsylvania and
Hampden in Virginia and have on the
floor frequently had such appropria-
tons struck from the bill in the
House. The records of every Con-
gress contain my speeches on the In
dian education question and are open
to any seeker after truth. The Scan
dial monger can let them alone or
continue to write about them. man
a speech at the last session on this
question which was, think, published
in your paper which brought to Lie
many letters of commentator and l
have no doubt met the approval of
honest public sentiment.
never opposed any lease of school
lands, l was not in Congress when
that bill passed in April 1896. Hon.
{ Cakes Murphy was in Congress. The
critic is ignorant on even question
like this and tells a slanderous lie
when he says l have represented
special interests in Congress as
against the people" and that this is
why several large corporations have
labored to keep him in congress" What
SPECIAL INTERESTS" have repre-
scented: Name them or confess that
you have lied. Name them and win
prove that you have lied
l have lived an honest upright life,
giving ny best ability to the serves
of the people of Arizona and to their
evident satisfaction, and l now find
myself assailed, my acts distorted, my
character attacked by few miserable
nondescript liars who for bread 10
eat or money to waste would hesl-
tate at nothing and hold no MAI,
higher than their own knowledge OF
their own character.
The only truth told in that Bisbee
Miner article is that | opposed The
anti-gambling bill, known as the Little
field bill and my speech on that occa-
sion can be seen in the record. con-
cealed nothing, the reason of my oppo-
sitiou is plainly set forth in my
speech. In that as in all cases i
steadfastly maintained the right of
Arizona to pass her own laws, free
from Congressional interference. /
said in that speech and in other
speeches before committees, that gam
bling was doomed in Arizona-that our
legislature would act for itself, ana :
protested against a precedent which
I deemed dangerous and under similar
. circumstances would do the sarle
thing again. I don't gamble myself
and | had no earthly interest in pro
| tecting II.
Now when these papers shall have
exhausted all the false accusations
they can bring against me, they should
direct their attention to what theil
champion was doing at nome while
was serving the people, in Congress
had hoped that this would be a cam
paign of decency and truth. am
growing very tired of SANDER. vilifica
| ton and falsehood heaped on me BY
an irresponsible press and give fan
notice that the opposition is living II
a glass house and have plenty o
good throwing rocks close al hand. A
few more lies will surely brine -
light some record facts. A word e
1.-THE wise is sufficient. How 1t az
fects a fool remains to be seen.
MARK SMITH.