Arizona republican., 1908-05-28
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, MAY 2s, 1908
TUCSON ENDORSEMENTS


 We suppose if Hon. Marcus A. Smith should receivathe democratic endorse ment today at Tucson. it will be said the corporations are in control of the democratic territorial convention. If he should not be endorsed, or if there should be an expression in favor or Hon. Eugene Brady O'Neill that would be a sign that MT. Common People IS still master Of his fate" still ."captain of his soul" in Arizona.
 As a matter of fact, whatever may be done at Tucson today in the matter of endorsements Of a candidate for delegate to congress, it will signify only that the endorsee has a larger personal following in the convention than any other candidate. The ques- tion of candidates and corporations and other such irrelevant things have not yet been considered by the rank and file of the democratic party. who constitute the majority of the party.
 Democrats for Sbme years have not been friendly to corporations. That was not because they were the especial victims of the corporations, but be- cause their leaders who were the "outs" wanting in adopted the anti-cor- poration slogan as the rallying yell. The rank and file would doubtless have responded as readily to any other yell.
 But the democrats of Arizona have been less corporation-mad than any other democrats We know of. Now and then a leader has tried to excite them, but without degree of success which would warrant him in continu- ing. As a result of the democratic po- sition on this subject, together with the. normal good sense of the republi- cans in the presence of corporations, this territory finds itself unswept by the. radicalism which has disturbed so many other parts Of the country.
 Legislatures two years ago almost everywhere went mad and enacted legislation which the intervening time has shown to be foolish and destruc- tive of the interests of the people, as weTl as the corporations. But the Ari- zona legislature had the honor of being one. of the very few conservative leg islatures of the crazy period. The demogogues could make no impression upon it. It continued along its busi- ness like way for sixty days and left things betterthan it found them. There was no disturbance of confidence. The territory stood well in the estimation of investors. When the panic came. Arizona was the one serene spot amid it all. Outsiders did not wonder for the territory had already established its reputation for level headedness and solidity.
 This is an asset which the people, democrats and republicans, are not likely to relinquish merely because politicians cry out against corpora tions
 But whoever may not be endorsed at Tucson today, Col William J. Bryan will be, with all his anti-corporation mo- tions. That will be a different thing: It will not be significant of the local | democratic state of mind with respect | to corporations. It will mean only l that if MT. Bryan can put the federal | offices into the hands of men that God ! intended should hold them, the demo- 1 crats of Arizona will permit MT. Bryan | to believe and say what he pleases | about the trusts, the corporations, the | predatory rich and the silver dollar.