Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-01

CT owed and served before, and, my fellow Democrats. we have as our presidential candidate, mighty lead .ed-William ]. Bryan. Among the great men who have been faithful 10 the people. he deserves the foremos, place. Possessed with an amplitude of comprehension and a beauty of oiction, he has taught us lessons in constructive statesmanship so sub lime, SO pure and so vigorous that it would not misbecome the lips of even ethereal virtue itself to pronounce the lessons he has taught, and whether listening to the hosannas of success or sitting in the ashes of defeat, he nas never known the sting of shame or the lashings of an upbraiding con- science.
 Bryan. do the toilers know to be
 their friend.
 Bryan do they know, will be faithful
 to the end,
 Tho every leaf were tongue to cry
 Thou must,
 He will not say the unjust thing
 is just
 He is the votary of the common people and has loved them with perfect love. He is the missionary who proclaimed their rights in for eign lands, the hermit who in retire ment kept sweet and meditated while an obscene tumult ragged around him. and in November he shall be their champion, proudly and triumphantly elected, and thus tried by both ex- tremes of fortune and never disturbed by either.
 Second. Fellow Democrats: The grand old county of Cochise is Demo cratic. Majorities may come and ma Joritfes may go, but the Democratic majority of Cochise county goes on forever-and 1 do not forget that Co chise county is the old home of ouI grand tribune of the people, Marcus A. Smith. Other territories send del egaies to congress, but when we send Mark Smith to congress, we send a statesman. Mark Smith is the only man, living or dead, who ever caused the rhinocerous hide of old Joe Can non to shed blood.
 Mark Smith saved us from joint statehood, and in that stupendous conflict he proved that he was too brave to be buTeted and too honess to be bought. There are giants in the American congress wAO have contended against Arizona's delegate. but those giants were unable to scare him from his path of duty to his peo- pie. It is said that ideals are or chids of the soul. That is true: and amidst all the vicissitudes of the years that have flown since we first knew him, our great congressman has never lost sight Of his ideaI-his star which has guided him-the white star of truth and courage-of integrity and manhood. A true gentleman of flow. ing courtesy. a faithful friend and an honorable opponent, he believes with his heart and mind, and soul and strength, that there exists an eternal right to which he owes uncompromis- ing and unprecedented fealty and f. deHty.
 He first entered the national house of representatives as AriZona's dele gate in 1887, more than twenty years ago and his sparkling genius and hon. orable service have given glory to that house. He is, today, one of the very few but familiar figures whose presence there seems to link us with the mighty past. In the house he served with Mckinley and Reed and Dingley, with Bryan and Bland and Crisp, and with Mills and Springer and host of others In all the con tests which have taken place in con gross for twenty years he may truth fully say: All of which I saw and a part of which l was What a splen- did record. In the sweep of those mighty years he has been on the fir ing line, so to speak, and the chivalry of France upon the embattled plains of Ivry never followed closer upon the snow-white crest of their beloved lead CT than the Democratic host Of this territory will follow that lead of that lion of the Arizona Democracy-Mark Smith.
 Third. My countrymen, the stars in their courses nave fought for this federal union. Since the days of the Revolution when the colonists SD. pealed from crack-b-ained king to the justice of heaven and cried out to the ralIons of the earth: A curse upon the rule Of kingly government and a blessing upon the new born re public the lovers of mankind and the apostles of human freedom through the darkness as through the light have pointed to the federal government o1 the United States ss the nation which must demonstrate to the world, if it is ever to be demonstrated within tie next thousand years, that the hope of humanity for a government of the people, for the people, and by the people, Is not 8 failure nor a gorgeous delusion.
 No one doubts that Arizona will soon become a state, and when she shall take her stand side by side with the other states composing this splen- did galaxy, the federal union, the peo- pie of Arizona will hold the most sa- cred deposit that can be confined to human hands. They must solve prob lens of stupendous importance to themselves and to posterity, and let us all fervently hope that every sena- tor and every representative the new state of Arizona shall ever send to congress, be he Democrat or be ne Republican, will defy the bold usurp- CT. whether judicial or executive, and resist to the uttermost, any attempt to carry into execution the threats rec ently made by President Roosevelt ana oecfeidFg hOOI 10 eNtenu ndtlOudl power by judicial in:.sT Tprelation and construction Of raw, and let us all, if we value our liberties, stand firmly to the pToposi ion that if additional con stitutional power be needed to carry on the purposes of the federal gov ernment that such additional power must be acquired and acquired only by amendments to the constitution du- ly enacted. and not by any strained constructions so as to evade any of