Arizona republican., 1908-03-13

tionary portion of our S5,000.000 of people, constituting the best inoulders of thought. together with the best brawn and sinew oc the land. few of whom are federal officeholders, and a few others partial in the manipula- tions of conventions. but who outside of the territories have a vote. Is 1t not n fact that this people with it's fast swelling bud of public opinion. are still at the helm. loving their country are ready to do battle against rev olution and anarchy by voting to down the cause Of the discontent and prostration now prevailing among wage earners throughout the west and who are marching in large process sions. with red flags and threats of revolution in the large cities Of the land? The ''reactionaries" are those who would call them back from revolu- ticn and anarch- as the word is de- fined.
 Shall the people os the west vote for 2 policy that has lined uD $50. 900 empty cars that would reach from New York to Prescott that has paralyzed all new enterprises in the Rocky mountain and Pacific coast states, so that right here in Arizona with it's splendid record of natural resources, 1t is next to impossible to secure wanted capital to develop worthy properties: where. In the northwest, chinook winds are sweeping empty dinner pails from the Japan current to the Mis- souri river while government reclama- Aa1o x- ahead from lack os funds from sales of lands owing to the wholesale with drawal of public lands without au- thority or precedent. together with the restrictive autocracy of the controlling power of indiscriminate forest reserves created within the past two years. Will the people vote to continue this Hardly.
 Soup houses in cities will not avert, but only palliate discord and anarchy with our starving poor who can vote.
 My most careful thought tells me that the real reactionaries of the re- publican party are among our best moulders of thought. together with the best brawn and sinew of the land who are now suffering from the causes and who are determined to vote as their stomach and pockets direct, and that, Cor an entire change from a misguided administration to one that will revoke the mistakes of the past and on republican lines re- store prosperity.
 Another pertinent thought: May we not have cause to fear that the prediction of Hetty Green. the richest woman or the Continent. may prove true: that the reactionaries and ad- forces will produce a locked convention, when, at the physiological moment, the big stick will sacrifice Taft, and amid the din and clamor O. the administration forces. a ready prepared third term banner will be displayed from the stage of the auditorium with the DOT tentious word Roosevelt" crossing it from left 10 right. when at the close of laundering applause an unanimous nomination will result. followed by a telegram O. acceptance.
 Then what? Is 1t not possible these reactionaries from June to November will have become lethargic. losing en- ergy, and lukewarm enough to keep away from the polls.s causing the cleo ton of a democratic president"
 And. rather than witness such re- suits would rbt Governor Kibbey be better pleased to have the reactionaries in the majority instead, as he now asserts. 9 minority?
 Would not history be repeating itself? Was t rot illustrated three
 g,, in the cit- of Cleveland when our president. with his accustomed zeal, backed Congressman Burton for the place. and because of that backing did not the reactionaries drop their en- ergv and permit a democratic to suc- ceed. and this in a republican strong hold?
 Did not the reactionaries of Okla homa let the thing go by default for the same reason?
 Did not Mark Hanna do the same thing openly in his own district: split his own party to serve his ends and permit the democrats to win?
 Was Mark Hanna also an reac- tionary?
 Did not the writer, a lifelong re- publican. accomplish the same thing in northern Ohio in defeating Mark Hanna's partner for congress, a man named Everett, political boss for fourteen years in our republican ranks. and elect democrat for two terms? The daughter of that congressman is now sojourning in Phoenix and will remember the incident And did not the republicans Of that district take their medicine cheerfully and cherish the reform?
 The temptation to criticize Governor Kibbey's other reasons. why, comen- surate with their length. is enticing: but it is unreasonable to ask so much space from the Republican at one swallow