Arizona republican., 1910-09-06

! In his opinion there was no doubt that congress would reject a constitution
 containing it. Tt would be regarded as | not only an attack upon representa-
 tive system of government but as of | doubtful constitutionality. If it was
 the desire of a majority of the voters | of this territory to incorporate this particular folly into the constitution. wait, advised Governor Geer, until statehood was assured. Do not. he urged, throw away at this supreme ! moment the fruits of a twenty year i struggle for admission.
 The speech of the governor was well
 received and it was evident that a strong impression had been made. The ! following is a synopsis of the govern 1 or's remarks:
 oREGoN's ERROR.
 By reason of having loaded itself up during the past few years with a
 choice assortment of political idiosyn-
 crasies, impracticable vagaries, impos- l sible governmental stunts, haphazard populistic nightmares and a complete 1 joblOt of other crazy quilt half baked isms, oregon has frequently been 1 termed by eastern critics as The Fool of the Family of states, but, being a native of that beloved commonwealth I demur to that designation and prefer
 to say that it has been imposed upon in an hour of its good nature and good
 intentions, and has become, for the
 time being only, let us hope, a favorite ground for the unstable visionary and ! the designing demagogue upon which to work their theories for both selfish satisfaction and personal political pref erment. The time was when oregon was a perfectly sane state on political matters and as it was the only one in the Union whose general election was in June its verdict commanded
 universal attention and was regarded as an indication of the trend of public sentiment regarding such questions as were of national interest and signifi canoe.
 But, unfortunately. that time and condition have passed and about the
 only interest outsiders manifest in the result of our political contests is an
 unrestrained curiosity to see what we will do next, for there is nothing
 going which is not likely to be adopted by our people if its shall smack of
 
 theories or wild innovations into the accepted field of conservative govern mental principles, the fundamental
 foundations which the experience of mankind for centuries has found to be
 the most beneficial for all classes of people. And still the crazy work goes
 on the pending campaign presenting
 new array of wildcat propositions at tacking the results of ages of study with as little thought of their absurdi
 ties as if they were mere suggestions
 relating to the best method Of winter
 ing a stand of bees. During this ad-
 dress I shall present some of them to you with the hope that the people of Arizona will take warning and reject the first dose of medicine which is now being presented to them, as the Metho dist exhorters are wont to say before it is eternally and everlastingly too | late
 ITS FORMER HIGH ESTATE. AS I said a moment ago, there was | a time when oregon was regarded, and l rightly, too, as an especially sane state on all public questions. Its peo-
 pie were and are now intelligent up to ! the standard of those of any other
 section of the United States, but they ] have stumbled into a trap laid for | them by a coterie of visionary dream
 CTS whose apparent motive is based
 upon an inordinate development of ! vanity, aided by a group of schemers l who have taken advantage of the tenn | porary lapse from the safe mOOrings
 of experience and have exploited their 1 ;g. hoe | been, in it,-and then some
 l "One of the hardest political contests | ever .waged in this country was that of 1896 when Oregon was carried for | Mir. Mckinley against MT. Bryan, who was then at the very height of his popularity and influence-the only state west of the Rocky mountains, l | believe, which cast its electoral vote for the republican candidates-the sup 1 port of California having been divided |, between Mckinley and Bryan. All the
 other western states were carried by the peerless leader of Nebraska. At ! that time the strength of the pOpulistic movement was at its fullest develop ment and it's membership was especial | ly strong in our state, an assertion l which appears to directly oppose my other statement that the people of Ore | gone have all along been noted for intelligence, but many good men were l carried off their feet by certain plausi- | ble representations, a weakness which has been noticeable all through the history of the human race, as it should be remembered that even Adam lost his head completely upon the mere as | surance that there could be no harm | in an invasion of the realm of hOrti- | culture.
 T SWALLOWED THE PoPULISTS. But after the failure of the popu-
 lists to get anywhere as a result of the strenuous effort of '96 their organiZa-
 ton proposed to disband in our state as they did in many others, and as a
 vast majority of them had originally
 been republicans-another reluctant admission-there was at once an ef-
 fort made bY the two leading parties
 to make the first and most satisfactory
 overtures to them by way of incorpora-
 tion into their creeds of the leading or many of the leading-tenets fol which they had been contending. The offers of the republicans were at once
 accepted, since that party was in tho majority and it's promises were tn, more willingly taken up. Here was the beginning of the troubles of the repub- lican party of Oregon. It was a germ
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