Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-12

nate the next QelegdtS 70 conSfSSS,
and the democracy Of Arizona is proud
OF the men she has sent to congress.
for they served the people capably and
have been honest in Office, and 1t Is a
pleasant commentary upon the char
acter of Colonel Wilson TO know that
when he retired from the public ser
vice he had, and he still retains the
aTectionate devotion of thousands of
our people because he served them
well.
We are met here, gentlemen, to
nominate for congress democracy's
best beloved son. under the stainless
folds of whose banner the democrats
Of Arizona have again and again
charged TO victory and marched to
glory and have never known defeat
the man who has stood for twenty
years in that fierce white light which
beats upon a public man, and no taint-
ed breath has ever dimmed the bright
mirror of his character and reputation
Marcus A. Smith.
We are met 10 nominate this man
who has been prosecuted and pasqui-
riaded BY prejudiced newspapers, but
who through all this misrepresentation
and abuse has remained silent, digpi-
fed and proud-conscious that he has
lived an honest and useful life, and
who, by his silence and patience
through this abuse, has shown a noble
ness Of soul beyond the comprehen-
sion and therefore beyond the imita-
ton of his traducers. Shame upon the
man! Shame upon the democrat who
would vilify such a faithful public
servant as Mark Smith! But it is
much consolation for US to know that
while he was abused at home by some
migusided men and newspapers, in
the American congress he was soaring
on the wings of genius to flames proud
heights, amidst Alpine attitudes, with
an eye that never winked and wing
that never tired.
The insidious encroachments of the
pillaging and predatory rich; the grab
bing, grasping and crushing tenden-
cies of certain great monoplistic cor
porations and thieving trusts, unless
checked and properly regulated, are
things which threaten the happiness
and success of all the people; but the
thing that may some day shake this
republic from ''turret to foundation
stone" and the things the most diff
cult to meet in nation like this--an
elective republican, the wild decla-
nations of shallow demagogue seekr
ing to win some public Office by ap-
pealing TO popular prejudice. Mark
Smith breaches no demagogy but he
defends the peoples rights.
On a certain day in January, 1906, |
at the far of national capital, when
the joint statehood bill was pending,
when the icicles hung by the north
wall, when mackarel skies and the
transient architecture of clouds brood |
ed over that historic city there was
enacted a stupendous drama, a scene |
that will long live in the memory of
Arizonans. On that day, that trium- |
virate composed of His Strenuous !
ness" the smooth bore Cannon from |
Illinois and the hliputian statesman |
from Indiana, all enemies OF our good, |
determined forever TO shackle Arizona !
and link her into joint statehood with |
New Mexico. That triumvirate, the |
most powerful. the most plausible and |
the most desperate that has ever been |
in America for fifty years, |
gave orders to despoil Arizona. Our
star of hope for single statehood |
which had blazed so brightly, shrunk |
TO the size of a heated needle point, |
for we well knew the power of our
enemies This triumvirate believed in |
the maxim, better expressed in the |
Latin than in the translation, "Obolus |
non olet''-"Money does not smellT
But upon the floor of the house of !
with vizor set and !
plume waving there appeared one of |
the brayest men that ever drew sword, |
and, like the Excalibur of King Arth- !
uT, his great shield was dented ali |
over by warding OF many a giant and |
vicious blow aimed at Arizona, which |
contains a people whose proud spirit |
aad love of freedom no strenuosity !
can ever crush Long and well this
brave Arizonan fought, aided by many
patriotic congressman and senators, |
both democratic and repu ublican, until
finally this gallant man from Arizona
put to fight-to precipitate flight