Arizona republican., 1908-09-11

egate to congress at this time The territory had never profited by demo- cratic representation. Referring to a statement made by Chairman Smith a few minutes before that Arizona had been without representation. Mir. Morrison said that it was probably meant by the speaker that nothing had resulted to the territory from representation No accomplishment could be pointed to.
 This, said the speaker, is a repub- lican year throughout the United States; the election of Taft is an ac- complished fact for what excuse could be offered for a change The only difference between the parties is the matter of the tariff. And here, said the speaker, is the difference in the attitude of the two parties toward the workingman whose condition has been improved by a protective tariff which the democratic party proposes to remove. MT. Morrison briefly al luded to the effect of such a policy upon the woolmen, the cattlemen, the farmers and those engaged in other pursuits in Arizona.
 Has the republican administration for the last twelve years met with your approval?" asked MT Morrison; If so you represent the strong senti- ment throughout the. country for it's continuance, and as to statehood, we are assured that the party will stand by the promise that was made by the national convention for the republi- can party has always kept it's prom ises."
 Abiding to the late democratic bar becue at Lewis Springs in which that waving haired orator from the north, ," meaning thereby Henry F. Ashurst, had declared that Mark Smith had saved Arizona from joint statehood, MT. Morrison who was in Washington with many other Arizonians while that saving was in process spoke of his personal knowledge of it and de- clared, as all Arizonians have long known. that to Senator Foraker alone the territory owes it's freedom from partnership with New Mexico.
 We are again. said he, lon the threshold of statehood of a different kind, the kind we have long sought. It is within our grasp. Drop fantastical politics; elect a delegate in accord with the administration and we may be admitted at the coming short session. We will anyhow be ad- mitted at the next congress because the republican party has promised it. But we may get it earlier if we ex- ercise judgment in the coming cleo tion."
 Having eloquently eulogized MT. oe;,, the famous lines of Conkling in his speech nominating Grant in the con- vention of 1880:
 You ask what state he halls from;
 My sole reply shall be,
 He comes from AppomattoX
 And its famous apple tree"
 MT. Morrison said:
 He comes from Coconino
 Where the giant pines do grow"
 Mir Morrison spoke of the postal card campaign. An Arizona farmer had received a post card on which was printed: Consider yourself slap ped on the back and your babies kissed"
 That" said he, "is not Ralph Cam eron's way. A hearty and convincing handshake and an honest request for support is his way It is the way of the pioneer, an Arizona sheriff who has made good and whose campaign is to be of the whirlwind variety.
 Mir Morrison concluded with an elo- quent and sentimental allusion to statehood. He was in New York on the Fourth of July last and late at
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