Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-07-08
INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE
 MAN ARRIVES
,From Tueaday'e Daily,

the wings or Lawrence Eigholz; every. enc Tn Los Angeles and all California calls him "Larry" for short, and he is one of the whole. souled newspaper. men who like that sort of thing. So sespite his mission, "Larry" Eigholz Is entitled to the warmest kind of welcome during his stay in Prescott and favapai county. He has for many years been connected with the Hears. papers in very responsible positions, but has been promoted to the position of Independence League organizer for California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. His great political virtue Is that he believes with all his soul in the Hearst doctrines. Not a man in Cali. fornia, where Larry Eigholz is known from San Diega 10 Siskiyou, and from the Sierra Co the sea, but believes he would seorn to occupy the position be does simply for the pay there is in i,. Eigbolz isn't that kind of q man.
 "we are going to give the old par. ties big surprise when the votes are counted next November" said Fig. holz in his rooms at the st. Michael last evening. "The forty thousand votes we boiled in California two years ago aren't marker to what we will do there in November next. We are the second party in massachusetts,, boiled an immense vote in tue states of New York and Illinois, and in the coming election the Independence League will vote on full tickets in ev. cry state and territory in the union.
 "There is a very mistaken idea abroad that William Randolph Hearst is the whole of the Independence League, and that he is 70 be the party nominee for president. l gay mistaken advisedly. Hearst Is not a candidate for any office any more than Roose. welt was a candidate before the last national republican convention. The League was born for n purpose. lis l Ahtl ID itfttV' if any difference between the demo. cratic and republican parties and that the time has arrived for the formation of third great party, whose success means the death of one of the old parties, just as the whig party died after the organization of the republi. con party. The nation is at crisis in its history, just as it faced the great slavery crisis in 1860. Lincoln and the republican party were thrown into tbe national breach 10 heal it, and though it cost tens of thousands of lives and billions in treasure, the republican par ty accomplished its mission.
 "That was forty odd years ago. The bloody shirt no longer appeals to Amer ican voters. Sec.ionslism is dead. Tbe people as q whole face the great so' eiological problems. Democracy and republicanism are practically eobtrol cd by the same influences. The people as a whole are Houndering in the great sea of political and social disconten' because of the injustice which has cen tered the wealth of the nation m toe hands of a few individuals.
 "The Independence Leagues mis sion is to champion the cause of the people against the aggressions of the predatory powers which have the gov ernmsnt by the throat. Senator Ls Toilette, who was placed in nomination before the national republican eoAven ton, rightfully belongs 10 tae lndepen dencc League. The party, its conven tion and its delegates would have non' of LaFollette. 1 have heard mention oi LaFollette in connecton with the In dependence League presidential nom' nation.
 "You can say positively tha, the In dependence League is not going to sup port William Jennings Bryan or an! democrat for president or any otbe ofce," Eigholz continued. "we ar l, not inuhinR war on h'"v''"'' ""y "'N' than we are making war on republi cans. have found the people every where in q receptive mood. Nevad
 received ns with open arms, and l be :, lieye beyond doubt we will carry tha state. In Arizona conditions are slm |. liar 10 those in Nevada. We are goih i, to organize the territory thorough . and expect to poll big vote for dele
 gate to congress"
 Here are the principles of the lhd' pendence League, which expects
 supplant the democratic party;
 Direct nominations to end bo'
 rule and clique controlled convention L. Severe and effective legislation again'
 all forms of corrupt practices at ele' c tions. The election of United State g, Senators and judges by the people "