Arizona republican., 1910-09-08

he could from present adVices, and | said he was filled with pride at the i sort of d meeting he was then ad- | dressing and was certain of victory 1 in this county if each one present did | his duty He told d funny story or two, described the attitude of the 1 democratic party on the initiative, ! told why and what the geniuses that control it hoped to accomplish, and also told who some of them are.
 P H. Hayes said he had been filled with disgust ever since this campaign opened, to see how many people there are, some of them honest and well meaning, but apparently thoughtless, who are so ready to cast aside the system of government that has served the nation so well for so many gen | erations. Then he made most inn | pressive talk in which was recited | the conditions at the foundation of ! the government the perfect knoWl- | edge of systems of government held l by the makers of the constitution, and | Who after the most careful thought, 1 had produced the greatest instrument | of the kind ever written as a founda- | tion for a representative government 1 that has served it's purpose so satis- | factorily. The remark that it is no- | bodv's business what kind of a con- | stitution Arizona has was shown to i be most unpatriotic and untrue Arf- | Zona is a part of the nation and 1t is | of the greatest concern to the nation
 at large what kind of a constitution | is adopted He assailed the cOnsti | nationality of the initiative and refer | cndum and gave sound reasons for
 his views.
 Like all the other speakers, he paid
 the highest tribute to the president, to
 the delegate in congress, to Colonel
 Roosevelt, whose attitude has been made known so clearly, to Judge
 Lewis, who is known to be an honest
 man and who has reflected the senti-
 ment of Mir Roosevelt and the half
 dozen senators he recently inter
 viewed.
 B. F. Marks talked along the lines
 of statehood first" Time enough for
 the isms afterward if we want them,
 at a time when we can adopt them
 and use them. He also combatted
 the idea that Arizona's conduct is the business of nobody else. and dwelt at . length on the fact that our present ; form of government has been tested for much more than a century, while
 the isms referred to are yet but an
 experiment of the most doubtful na- ture.
 H. B Wilkinson was the last speak
 CT. He started with a story that it. l lustrated the point that the present
 outlook is a fine one and if things [ keep going until Monday night the
 ..-sHl l.. l.. l-a nF s charge that the republican platform , is a "stand-p pat" platform and denied [ it strenuously. It is conservative and Q sound, but it is yet more progressive r than any of the so-caIled progressive g platforms of the east. It is true thai { it opposes the initiative and referen- I dunn, and no experienced statesman l can be found who ever favored it D Some people might call Bryan .
 statesman. but every issue he fathereC e died after his defeat. If the New Q York progressives had seen in the ini- s tiative any hope for the reformation ,. of their legislature, they would cer- Q tainly have seized it with avidity, bu f they are too wise in statesmanshiI . to undertake a system that destroys % the representative form of govern e mcnt the nation is bound by the con- 8 stitution to uphold. He said 1t can n not be expected that all the ideas S that demand attention can be settled c in this short campaign or in tho Q making of the constitution. Then h' @ spoke of prohibition and other ques n tions with which he has no contro- [. . versy, but insisted that it is futile e to attempt to handle all these ques T tions at once or incorporate every q thing in the constitution.
 II EASTERN STAR MEETING
 Phoenix chapter. No. ,. e. F.. S