Arizona republican., 1910-03-04
THE BRAOFlEID CO.,, ATLANTA, ca.
GOVERNOR MARSHALL
 TALKS ID DEMOCRATS
"A STRONG AND WITTY ADDRESS BY THE GENTLEMAN FROM IN- DIANA.
A Banquet Was Rendered Him Last
 Night By the Local Democracy.

In a speech last night before q large
 gathering Of the local democracy,
 1 Governor Thomas Marshall Of Indiana
 valiantly upheld the reputation of that
 state, which has been the home of
 more geniuses in literature and men
 Of scholarly atainments in the past
 generation than almost any other of
 l the middle western commonwealths.
 The gentleman from Indiana dis
 played keen wit and a marvellous
 fund of anecdote and q regular genius
 for epigram. Some of his more face
 tious apothegms reminded one Of the ! ayings of Sis Hopkins" but Of l course they were in immaculate Eng
 fish. while over the whole of his dis course Was spread soft blanket of : rare humor. the sort that one finds ] in the "Hoosier Schoomaster. Many 1 of his statements were strong and ! serious and worthy of deep thought Some of his pointed paragraphs were as follows:
 i On government: 'I believe in | self government down to the bottoms l of my shoes: and I've got no right to 1 call in my neighbor to help me lick my wife till l find out that 1 can't TICK her myself
 i on trusts: "I do not blame the steel trust; l cannot blame the Stand ard Oil trust for their methods; l blame you, yOu-every man of you for it lies within your power to put stop to their depredations; and if you won't stop it. then don't growl. but grin and bear it"
 On socialism: I'm against social ism, because I understand the per cap ita wealth is about s246. and l have s25O"
 On government: "The public must get the government they want or they will get the government they de- serve"
 On Arizonas constitution: Before l would permit the people at Wash ington to dictate the form of the con stitution for this coming state. l would knock at the doors of Washington with my own constitution till the stars grow dim and the leaves of the
 Judgment Book unfold
 On public office: "I believe in the good old doctrine that a public office | is a public trust and that he who
 holds it is the servant of the common 1 people and not their master On conservation: The secretary of the interior once asked me for my views on conservation. I told him hadn't any. as we have nothing to 1 conserve in Indiana except the demo- cratic majority"
 | On wealth: When the old man in the 'Hoosier Schoolmaster' asked Mandy where she was going. she said, ! -To camp meetin'.' What fur?' TO get religion And the old man said. When you're gettin' it, get a-plenty. And so I say in regard to money while you are getting it. get plenty. i but have every dollar so clean that your infant son can bite it without : getting microbes all over himself" [ The banquet was held at the Knights | of Pythas hall. Selim Nicholson. ma i tional committeeman. presided He i introduced Judge \. C. Baker. who in | Judge Baker referred to the distin- guished guests that Phoenix has wei comed in the past few months. begin ming with Col Bryan. and then the ! president, and then Folk of Missouri, ; and now he said. Phoenix desired to extend the same warm welcome to the governor of Indiana.
 The governor referred to the con- stitution of Arizona. 'l am not here." he said, to give the people of Ari- | zona advice on the sort of constitu- ton that should be adopted. It is mo : business of mine to tell you what you