Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-10-29
MARK SMITHS GOODBYE

JOHN II. ATWOOD, | Manager Speakers Bureau. ]"
 ''I want to say to you, my friends, in what will probably be my last speech as far as I am concerned in Arizona, that wish you all the prosperity pos sible, and in the name of all my friends I wish you most affectionate and cor. dial goodbye"
 So Mark Smith has hied himself away to his dear old Kentucky. That he will never return to Arizona is the l opinion of many of those who have been his staunchest supporters in the | twenty years he has been enjoying his sinecure as delegate to congress. He owns but little property in the terri tory which has nursed him so long two lots and house in Tucson--whieh bring him in very modest income. He | has never made & secret of the fact that his heart has always been in the Blue | Grass state of his birth. He is said to own far more property there than here. The months when congress has not been n session during his incumbeucy, Smith ! has spent for the most part among | scenes and comrades dear to his heart. | In doing so, instead of cultivating his constituents and studying their inter ests, Mark Smith has for years steadily courted the fate which has overtaken him. He has been good campaigner, ] a splendid mixer and unriyalled in his ability to superfcially shine, but the time had to come when the people of Arizona "were from Missouri and had | to be shown"
 It was inevitable that when the time did come, Mark Smith would be left high and dry on the rocks of public opinion. When the people demanded his record, he wiped his eyes, and "in a voice shaken with emotion' promised to show them a pamphlet. Then it dawned upon Smith that the people had discovered him.
 His farewell speech at Tucson was characteristic of the man. He made no | pretense of appealing to them on his record. He sad nice things about the ladies, betrayed his own inherent little ness by growing peevishly sbuseful of Ralph Cameron, and then made the startling misstatement that he had taken up the Pima Bond Contract, in which the records show he tried to bleed Pima county out of a s75,000 or | $l00,000 fec at time when he had never thought of representing the ter ritory in congress; this in the face of the fact known unto every resident of Arizona conversant with territorial his. | tory, that Mark Smith has been dele gate for ten consecutive terms, with the single two years intermission from 1902 to 1904 when the Pima Bond deal was attempted by him and rejected by the board of supervisors.
 Leaving the bond deal, Smith lin a voice choked with deep emotion" de clared that he excused National Com mitteeman Sturges for opposing his election because Sturges, "having no sense of the feeling gentleman should have," did not realize how badly Mark felt over having his public record at tackled. Then he childishly rolled his tongue around with the lie published in the Kelly papers that the republican territorial committee has been hiring one Salisbury to go around Gila county and tell some of the people that Ralph l Cameron 8 election means prosperity and enhancement of property vaiua. tions.
 Then this monumental egotist, whose ! nf Efa t,% pvIl perpetuate Mark Smith 's name in his | tory as the one man who wrote his name one the scroll of fame as blank, after hypocritically decrying what he termed Crock throwing" proceeded to say, "I have nothing in the world against Ralph Cameron, but want to say that he is absolutely incompetent by training and | life to get on the floor. of the house of representatives to defend what l know will be the assaults made on the statehood bill at the next or succeed ing sessions of congress.
 The text of the remark is given from a stenographer notes. The words are {, authentic. They clearly establish that all the democratic pretens:ons of big majority, or any majority in the next house, are absolute rot, or else demo- cratic promises of statehood are utterly inSncere.
 | Then Mark Smith went on with his nauseating egotism by trying to patron ize h's opponent. ''I am not villifyihg him." in tho voice which shakes with deep emotion: Gentlemen, there is not a man in this audience that is not equal ly qualified with Ralph Cameron to rep resent Arizona in the house of repre- sentatives."
 It was the last vindictive slap of beaten, exploded politician at the strong typical western gentleman who is going to Washington to accomplish at single session the securing of statehood, which | Mark Smith confessed will not be con ferred in a number of sessions if he is returned ocongress. Mark well his I own words; they are part of the record Mark Smith or his champions and de- | nnnuok lanx, tbann. e