Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-10
FINAL WORD LAST NIGHT
 REESE LING
Urged the Democracy of the Warren District to Stand
 Firm Next
 Tuesday
SUPERIOR CLAIMS
 OF CANDIDATES
Arizona Democrats Thougli Progressive Really Returned to the Doctrines of the
 PartyS Founders


 The ringing voice of Reese M. Ling, of Prescott, one of the ablest eampaigners in the southwest. sound ed the last note for democracy in this district in the campaign which ends tomorrow night.
 There was not q large crowd at the Orpheum, but it was an earnest one. and throughout the address of the speaker was punctuated by cheers.
 While it was a final appeal for the candidates, it was. more than all. an appeal for democratic unity at this time, when the eyes of the coun- try were turned upon Arizona, which had taken the foremost steps in popu- lar government.
 Democrats, said Mir. Ling, have been called progressives. The term Is meant to be complimentary to us, but l wish to correct the expression. The democracy of Arizona has not progressed, but rather, it has re- turned to the democratic doctrine of our fathers, which contemplated that the people should rule.
 The democratic candidates and the platform, the speaker added, had en- thusiastieally pledged the enforce ment of the principles and the man dates of the constitution, which the people had so warmly endorsed. On this subject, the republican candi- dates and platform had been strange iy noncommittal.
 Mir. Ling paid a tribute 10 the re- publican party. the party Of Lincoln and Grant, which an emergency had called into existence, but, said he, for forty years it has wandered in the political wilderness. has adopted strange doctrines. and has set up and worshipped the Golden Calf, the pow erful trusts.
 The speaker addressed himself to the charges by republican newspa- pers of yilification. There had been none, said Mir Ling In the course of the campaign he had heard no word Of criticism of the private life or the personal character of any re- publican candidate. But of the pub lie career of some of them there had been proper and warranted criticism. He spoke especially Of the record Of Delegate Cameron, with respect to the constitution.
 Mir Ling warned his hearers against eleventh hour attacks, saying that the campaign had now proceed ed nearly three months, and in that time any charge that might have been made against any democratic candidate should have been made.
 The rest of the speech was devot ed to the claims of the candidates, especially supporting that of Mark Smith, against whom the batteries of the enemy, of late, had been chiefly directed. 'Threle years ago." said MT. Ling, the republicans issued pamphlet whose title page bore the inscription, What Mark Smith Has Done in Congress- The next page was of white blank paper. They have found nothing 10 blot that unsullied page"
 Thereupon the speaker proceeded to relate in hurried detail what Mark Smith had done. Through his efforts, the Peraltareavis claim was disposed and a great agricultural empire was preserved to Arizona: he had also been the means of the dissipa- tion of the Algonones grant; he had iIsL duNctdleu AdliOudl dlu TOT uIl- ! gation, and he secured an appropria- | ton for surveys; he had passed laws securing compensation for Indian dep relations. and for the compensation of counties for the expenses Of InQan 1 trials. He had compelled the Santa ! Fe Pacific railroad company to pay taxes to the counties through which 1 t runs. He had secured the passage i of the refunding act. and, lastly, he was responsible for the defeat of the ! iniquitous joint statehood bill In l this effort he had the indispensable ] support of Senator Foraker, of Ohio, l whom the republicans of Arizona re. | pud- ated in the last national republ- i can convention.
 Mir. Ling concluded his remarks l with a strong argument in behalf of l the entire ticket.
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