Arizona republican., 1908-08-23
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'on the shoulders of Taft and Sherman. who he believes will succeed them not only as party leaders but in the conduct of the affairs of the nation. He also paid a glowing tribute to the administration of Governor Kibbey and to the fruitful influence of Committee man Sturges and that friend of Ari- zona, Frank II. Hitchcock, who more than any other, gained for Arizona the pledged support of the republican party of the nation as well as the president himself, in its aspirations for state hood. The name of the candidate to be chosen by the convention he said would electrify the masses throughout the territory. He would prove invin- cible and Mark Smith would be per mitted to pass his declining years un- der his own vine and fig tree. His address was enlivened by several stor- ies and heartily applauded at fitting places.
 He appointed MeSsrs. R. F. Morrison and F. s. Ingalls, to escort the perm anent chairman to his station. Mir McNair. in assuming the gavel, spoke as follows in part
 McNair's Address.
 I feel that a great honor has been given to Cochise county in calling one of her representatives to act as the presiding officer of your convention. From a personal standpoint. this will prove a memorable occasion because of my firm belief that this will be the last territorial congressional conven- ton. There are few, if any, with cour- age to doubt that before another such convention can be called, Arizona's Star will be emblazoned upon the azure blue of "Old Glory as bright as any in the galaxy.
 ' Shall the people rule?' is the ques- tion MT. Bryan asks. The people are ruling. They have ruled ever since the republican party entered office. Almost everything of any value which Mir. Bryan says the country needs has already been furnished by the repub- lican party or has been pledged by it. The American people have been watch ing politics for a hundred years or more, they have seen the worst and best sides of government and it seems safe to say there isn't another political organization eXtant that stands so squarely with the popular sentiment as the republican party. It is the only great vehicle of the people proficiently in operation. Its action is the inter- pretation of their genius, and it's achievements are proof of it. The re- publican party did not reproduce, it did not reconstruct It created. In what the republican party does the people see the expression of their best gifts.
 The democratic party, from the na- ture of things is reactionary, and it seeks power that it may apply Its IT. actIonary theories to the machinery of the nation. The democrats in control loSg enough would turn us back fifty years. There is no denial of this from aIIy source.
 l. is rather the boast of the demo- cratic leadership that its party is re- actionary Its head is soaked with tradition and all it's heroes are idols It hasn't the neWness. the originality and the greatness of the repub'lCah leadership. The oracles of the lap.o- cracy revive and regild the sombre scenes. of the past, while the men who lead the republican party unfold in ac- tion the glory of the future The democratic party poinIS DdChNdTu lo the history.left behind it; the rspubli- can party towers gigantic in the miGst of achievement.
 From the time of it's birth, with the martyred Lincoln as its first president down to the present time the repubii- can party has made History for the nation and no occupant of the White House has made more history than Theodore Roosevelt That history will continue to be made by the republican party is an assured fact, for. when the mantle shall have fallen from the shoulders of Roosevelt it will be to light on those of that peerless states man. William Howard Taft, than whom, there is none better qualified 10 best guide the affairs of the nation during the busy times of the next four years.
 What can be said of republican lead CTS from a national standpoint may also be said of our territorial leaders.