Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-02
PEOPLE WILL RESENT
 ISLANDER OF MARK SMITH.

VIII ftno dIteF tne votes nav pSSH counted in November that the people | have given emphatic rebuke to the islanders which have been heaped upon Mark Smith by some of the re- publican papers of the territory The sieizenship of Arizona has always stood for the square deal in politics and they will not countenanee de parture from that standard now by the tenderfoot editors who have under unfaithfuI public servant in the face l of his record of more than twenty years. The faithful service of Mark Smith is too we'll known to the peo- pie of Arizona for him to be injured by the false accusations of republican newspapers, but the justice-loVing people of Arizona may be depended upon to visit upon the party which permits this method of campaigning the public rebuke it so richly de- serves.
 For twenty-five years the people have recognized the ability and faith fulness of Mark Smieh as a public servant by returning him to congress every time he has asked them for that favor. During all that time he has never neglected the performance of public duty; during all that time he has defended the rights of Arizona and the citizens of the territory against all who assaiIed them; during his career in congress Mark Smith has won a national reputation as one of the ablest public speakers in the country. He has responded to invita- tions to make addresses in New York on occasions when the best orators i in the land were in demand.
 During the present session of con- qress Mark Smith attracted the at tention of all the metropolitan papers in the country by his masterfuI speech on the floor of the house in oPposi- ton to the joint statehood bill which was hated by every true Arizonan. Republicans and democrats alike n Arizona felt grateful to Mark Smith for the able defense of the deserving citizenship of this sun-kissed land.
 In the face of such distinguished service as this we see the Bisbee Evening Miner, whose editor has nc acouaintance either with Mark Smith or his record, in smart-aleek mah- ner asking this impudent and sIander- ous question. "What has Mark Smith ever done in congress?" To ask such question is to advertise its propounder as an isnoramus to the people of Arizona. Be it said to the credit of the newspaper profession of Arizona that only one or two oi the republican papers of the territory notably the .Bisbee Evening mine' and the Prescott JournaE-Miner-are adopting sIar6er and -faIsehood IT their efforts to elect Ralph camercr over Mark Smith.
 Mark Smith has done nothing IT congress-" shouts the Miner. Th'
 Miner makes this charge despite th'
 fact of the long list of accomplish
 nents which the Congressional Rec
 ord dives to the credit of Mark sn1iti
 in every session of congress in "hie'
 he was a member; this islander is sen
 out to the readers of the Miner il
 the face of the fact that Mark SnitI
 was given the credit by republican
 and democrats for being the inStru
 ment which caused the death of tn
 joint statehood bill; in the face 0
 the fact that Mark Smith has seN = eraI times passed a bill through cor y gress creating a separate state ,r the territory of Arizona and at tim 1f when his party was in the minority | d. that body; in the face of the fac le that he just recently secured a so> le ernnnent building for the capital cit
 of the territory; in the face of th
 fact that he secured titles for ou K people to valuable mineral ground o u- the White Mountain Indian reserV; pr ton by having that Indian reserv; g. ton reduced in size, thus eIininatin in the San Carlos coal fields and othe be mineral ground; in the face of tn ,it fact that he secured an appropriate
 from congress for building the Yum
 dam for the protection of that city
 in the face of the fact that he save