Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-02
HON. MARK SMITH BEGINS CAMPAIGN.

Hon. Marcus A. Smith who has rep resented Arizona seven times in as many congresses of the United States, is now on his way to northern Arizona where he will begin campaign of the territory, as has been his custom in all his former campaigns. His speech delivered at the Lewis Springs barbe- cue was the first gun of bis campaign for election to the sixty-first congress, for which he has received the nomina- tion at the hands of the democratic party. Mr Smith will go first to Pres colt, where he will meet with the campaign managers of the north. From Prescott he expects to map out his campaign in that section and after he has finished work in the northern counties his appointments will be an nounced for southern Arizona.
 Mark Smith never started a cam paign in this territory under more favorable circumstances; he flnds his party in perfect unity and made stronger by the fact that the territor-- ial platform is vigorous in its declara- tions along the same lines for reform as marked by the national platform Arizona democrats will grox enthus- iastic in upholding the principles de clared for in Prescott and in following the lead of the man who has never failed to carry the banner to victory in this territory. The democrats of Arizona, like the democrats of the en- tire country, are enthusiastic over the brilliant prospects of national success and the fact of the near approach of statehood will stimulate them in their efforts to make the democratic victory of 1908 the greatest ever recorded in the history of the territory.
 MT Smith may go into the cam paign with confidence that he will be sustained and carried to victory by the people whom he has served so faithfully duing a career covering twenty years in congress. He begins rhat will be his eighth campaign ir
 his territory with a record of which se and the people of the territory may yell feel proud. From his frs nomi- lation in Prescott in 1886 to the pres lnt time there has never been a sign If stain either upon the political or of 5cial escutcheoD of Arizona's repre- sentative He has been a true public | servant and one who has never thought of his individual welfare dur ing all these years of public service He began his public career when he was a young man and poor; since then he has never bothered his mind about the accumulation of wealth, but has devoted his time and salary to the interests of Arizona. During his long official career he has won fame as.d honor for himself, not alone among his friends in Arizona. but throughout the various states of the union fr which he has personal friends and ad mirers by the thousands.
 Mark Smith has never been f1nnt wanting in any hour of Arizona's need from the day he first entered con gress until rhe present time. He has been able at all times to secure {, nearing in congress and before the departments in Washington - al matters efectlng the welfare of his | constituents. In three diHerent cor gresses, of which he was member Mark Smith has passed a bin for the admission of Arizona as state and sent these bI1s to the senate where they met defeat because of want oi support Of republican senator's Whe1 the vicious ioint-statehood bill was introduced in congress by the republi cans it was Mark Smith who sought and found the way for it's defeat and to him more than to any ether ma- on earth today, Is due the gratitude of our people for s.Iving them from tho provisions of the vicious joint-state