Arizona republican., 1909-03-16
200 GUESTS WERE PRESENT
It Was a Feast of Reason, Wit and Excellent Viands. The Twenty-Fifth, as We'll as Citizens of Phoenix, Enjoyed It.

' punctuated with wild and enthusiastic
 cheers. as one favorite legislator after
 another delivered his little speech, per vaded the complimentary banquet to the TWenty-fifth legislative assembly
 at the Hotel Adams last night. While
 the banquet Jagged bit in the earlier l part Of the evening because there were
 so many courses it took long time to
 eat it, when II o'clock came. and with
 that hour the speeches, there wasn't a dry minute afterNHard.
 Speeches were limited to five min
 utes. and all the smart and witty things the legislators had to say had to be
 congested into those same five min utes.
 About two hundred members of the
 legislature and citizens of Phoenix sat
 down at the tables at S:3O o'clock. fill
 ing the dining room of the Adams
 completely Music was furnished by
 the members of the Phoenix symphony
 orchestra and by Mir. and Mrs. Ralph
 Wylie. who have some charming vocal
 and violin selections. Mrs. Wylie in
 particular received many encores and at last both MT and Mrs. Wvlie re- spOnded with Schuberts "Serenade" as la final encore.
 Dr John w. Foss acted as toast master. Governor Kibbey. whose name appeared first on the program to re-
 spond to the toast Our Territory"
 was unable to be present
 Dr Foss introduced as the first speaker of the evening General A. J.
 Sampson. who spoke on Arizona" It
 was just II o'clock when General Sampson rose to speak. He said. in part:
 q have talked Arizona in Europe, Asia and South America, and the first thing I wish to say is that. wherever it has been my pleasure to discourse on this topic. I have first spoken of the character and intelligence of the people of this territory It may surprise some of you to learn that Arizona Is ranked fifth in order of intelligence by the government among all the states and territories of the Union.
 And after that I have spoken of the immense resources of this terri tory-mining. agricultural and the cat tie industry. Only today we have the report of a new mine assaying s300.- GOO a ton. About one ton of that would be ample for me. With the single exception of Jaffa, have never any where tasted oranges that can com pare with those raised in this valley.
 While wandering in the valley of the Nile. I could but contrast and 1 compare it with this valley, especially | the systems of irrigation 1900 years ! old as compared with the twentieth | century irrigation projects of Arizona. l over there land sells for &, 900 an | acre, and not one acre will raise any 1 more or better crops than one acre in | the Salt River valley. 1 hope that you | that we have here a won | drous country, with enormous re- l sources. Other parts of this country ! are swept by avalanches of snow. by | tornado and cyclone. but we have noth- i ing of the kind. Let us resolve to l make known to the world what we have l here-an empire in itself. But let us not deceive them. Let us tell them | that we are to have a cyclone that will wipe from the map the territory of | and when the sun rises again it will shine on the grandest and rich est state in the Union-the state of Arizona"
 George Purdy Bullard was the next speaker. He responded to the toast, 'Our Guests" He spoke of the leg islatures of by-gone days when he was an infant in swaddling clothes and hardly knew what legislatures were for Then he came down to the present and said kind things about the members of the twenty fifth.
 There is St Charles" said the dis trict attorney; he was a member Of the legislature when I held a milk bottle in my two hands, and he is with us yet. He is one of the few of the old guard who are left, and when I am gone and fittingly buried, St Charles will still be a member. And when he is gone his ghost will still frequent the halls of the legis- ature and wig wag to the other members to sit down on Brady. The banner is now being carried by young ar men. There is my old friend. Sam Webb, for instance. As far I know ne has never been defeated in his life. used to lay it to his integrity and honesty, but later I discovered it was his majestic eloquence of which he is possessed.
 q was once moved to tears by a speech he made. It was out in Peoria. It went something like this: It will not be long before this form Is laid n the sod-the cold, gray sod. And then I hope that you will place a tnp,hcfnna Over my remains