Arizona republican., 1908-10-23

the record of twenty years, beginning at the beginning. He refuted tho claims of the friends of Mir. Smith that he had been in any way instru- mental in relieving the territory oi the shadow of the land grants and proved, on the contrary, that he had vigorously opposed the employment oi the very means by which the grants were afterward dissipated.
 He rehearsed for the edification of those who have come to the terri tory since, the most fragrant neglect of duty by MT. Smith, the leaving of his post as delegate, as a sworn off eer of the government. to come to Arizona to defend a gang of men who had robbed an officer of the government, Major Wham, the army paymaster.
 Mir. Wright charged that Mir. Smith had never been sincere in his advo- cacy of statehood. There had been but one time when statehood seemed within reach and that time he came to Arizona and engineered a consti- tutional convention which adopted such an outrageous constitution that the hope of admission vanished with it's adoption. MT. Smith knew, he said, that congress would never ac- cept it and it was urged by him upon the convention, only for the purpose of defeating admission.
 Speaking of the majorities which Pima county had always cast against Mir Smith, though he claimed it as his home, the speaker said there was a reason. He had never done any thing to earn the good will of the voters of Pima. In the matter of the Pima bonds. after they had been se- curely fastened upon the tax payers and when there was no other form of relief. MT. Smith. not then a dele gate, submitted a proposition to the board of supervisors of that county. He would endeavor to secure the pas sage of a relief bill in congress, mak- ing good to the county a part or all of the money it would have to pay on those bonds. his compensation to be one-fourth of the amount he should save to the county The proposition was rejected Mir Smith for four years before that time had been delegate in congress and so he was four years afterward. Yet in that eight years he had never offered to secure such legislation as he had offered to secure for hire. That. said MT. Wright, accounts for the adverse vote to Mir Smith in Pima county.
 In the opinion of MT Wright, how ever earnestly MT. Smith now might work for statehood, he would be a ,l cause. He had incurred the enmity of the most powerful influence in congress, Speaker Cannon. He could secure no aid from any other promi- nent and powerful republican in eith- CT house OratOry would avail nOth- ing. for without the permission of the speaker he could not be heard, and he certainly would not be granted permission.
 Beside. said the speaker. the dele gate is not an official of party con- cern. He represents in congress no political belief of his constituents he is a lobbyist, a business agent whose value depends entirely upon the friendship of the powers that be. Mir. Smith was without friendship, while Mir. Cameron would enjoy it. Therefore he urged in closing, as a business proposition. one in which Arizonians, regardless of party, are equally interested, the election of Ralph Cameron. He believed that he would be elected and he believed fur ther that the matter rested largely with MaricOpa.
 Mir. Wright's speech was illuminated with many humorous and pointed an ecdotes.
 The Prescott Glee club made sev- eral appearances and each time it was permitted to leave the stage by a most reluctant audience.