Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1908-09-30
W|CKEN BURGERS
SLIP SMITH AN
ICY NIT
Nothing WarnstoMar
Except His Trusty
Bottle

VIC KEN BI RG. Sept. 27..-ln ac
rordancc with well established prccc
dent and rejecting the hospitality Of
this city, both Republicans and Demo.
Gratis turned out last night TO The Mark
Smith meeting I, WIS y cold. unsym
pathetic and uncnthusiastic greeting
Instead of telling his auditors what he
had accomplished during his twenty
years service in congress, smith devot
ed his time to roasting the Prescott
Journal Miner and the Pnoeuix Ga
Ictic u Is well known here that both
of these papers are anti-corporation
and are not eucircled with either brass
or copper collars, and hence Smith 5
febrilc Examinations only served TO
ALLEVIATE Democratic votes from him.
This in itself was considered a sign
of weakness. and the audience became
disgustcd with him.
After the meeting smith did not cir
cula,e around town ~ he did in the
old time days. but returned 20 his hotel,
ordered bottle Of whiskcy, IL Is re-
ported. srntcd To his room and there
cnioved its contents in bachanaian
solitude. In the morning. IL il said.
the bottle was drained Smith il re-.
gardcd here a. almost a moral and
physical wreck. and he would have had
more votes ~ he had stayed away from
thc town.
III. fearful protc.'ations last night
ns being free from corporate influence
were regarded not only ~ ~ joke but
~ a lamcntahe apologv Tor his actions
in congress. The people of Wicken.
burg are vitally Interested in tnc he.
vclopmcnt of the \. A c. country. They
appealed TO smith To use his influence.
IL he had any. to have the Indian re
Scrvaiion contiguous 10 Parker. thrown
upon 10 settlement II embraces the
finest agricultural lands in Arizona
and is all susceptible 10 irrigation. Did
Mark make an effort in that direction
Not Bit hut when he Sana Fc asked
him TO secure right of way through
the reservation and secure waarhbg
privileges on the Colorado River, he
besiirred himself and secured the same.
Hence, II in not unnatural under these
circumstances that the people Of Wick
cnburg and vicinity should regard
Mark Smith NJ the suppIiant tool Of
th. corporations, and for that reason 30
he east with the object of RELOCATING
this putty spincd politician TO Oblivion.
Another fact that j. hurting Mark
Smith here - that his manager is Joe
Dillon of Prescott. who is regarded
here ~ the paid political factotum of
the Copper Queen Mining Company.
Dillon : record as "a lobbyist in the last
Legislature in well known aud IT is such
that his cspousal Of the cause of Smith
does not help that gentleman.
The general opinion here Is tnat
smith has gone to pieces. lie has
started to "explaining' his record,
and when n man does that he Is usually
lost. His roasts of the Prescott Jour
nal. Miner and the Phoenix Gazette are
rega rded as the 6sal snarls Of n dying
dog. II Mark had been confident IL
his own rectitude, and serene in the
coHss iouness Of a well spent congress
sional rarccr, he would have utterly ig.
nored tine criticisms Of those journals.
A mans record ought to speak for IT,
self but Marcus apparently has no re-
cord Of whioh he is proud, for he has
made no extensive mention of il. His
speech last night was the "wild wall
OF lost sosl Smith knows he has
been reeresnt TO his sacred trust, and
he is seeking to becloud the issues by
resorting to malicious and Anannias
attacks upon such newspapers as have
been hold and candid enough to tell
che truth.
Wick@burg has always been regard
ed as a Democratic precinct but on
Friday night a Cameron club was or.
ganizcd with n membership Of 30 and
nj the primaries next day the Republi'
cans east ~ votes while the Democrats
polled ~. This is n Cameron camp for
many straight Democrats openly ex'
press themselves MS being opposed Ia
giving one man n lifetime job, espec.
tally as he has not accomplished any.
thing.
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