Arizona republican., 1911-08-31

people he indicated that it should be l voted out of the constitution that l statehood might be secured. He took
 the ground that there is enough left
 in the document to keep a brainy man busy for a long time leaving the
 audience to infer that if Arizona want
 ed the recall. there is plenty of time
 yet in which to get it. He gave credit | to all who have assisted in making statehood possible, and spoke words
 of wisdom as to an assumption of the ! new responsibilities that now confront
 the people.
 The other speakers took occasion to
 emphasize beyond question their ad- herence to the recall. Mir Bullard, who spoke first as an American citizen and a democrat, secondly from the same standpoint and thirdly without change of viewpoint, insisted that Ari- Zona should eliminate the recall. then put it back at the earliest favorable opportunity. He said that Arizona had for twenty years been knocking for admission, each time to be admitted only to a poker game. where it was necessary to call bluff. But with statehood, he said, the people will rule and Arizona will cease to be a suppliant and will walk over the threshold with a chip on her shoul- der"
 F. s. Ives of Tucson surpassed even Mir. Bullard in his endorsement of things as the constitution left them and as he believed they should be He said he regretted that it was a non-
 
 such that he could speak much better if his thoughts were not under a mar tingale In giving thanks. he said no one should be forgotten, but most of all the credit should be given to the band of men who stood like a wall and formed the constitution the peo- pie wanted" He said he endorsed every word written in the constitution and believed any other part of it could be better dispensed with than the recall of the judges. He said it must be voted out, for Arizona cannot be deprived of the other benefits of the constitution, such for instance as the corporation commission and the abolition of the blacklist. But he would suggest that every candidate for the legislature should be forced to enter under his name on the pri- mary ballot, T favor an immediate constitutional amendment reinserting the recall of the judiciary"
 Mulford Winsor delivered we'll | rounded and well-worded speech that ! had evidently been prepared for the | occasion, and would have been lis l tened to with much greater favor had | the hour not been so late or the speech | so long. Many had left the grounds | and others were too polite to do SD. | but rolled back on the grass after the | speech was well under way, deter | mined to stick it out and hear F.. E. ] O'Neill. who was to tell them how it | all happened in Washington. It was | not that they were tired of Winsor | for he made the better speech of the | two, but they wanted tO hear a little I from both of them. While Mir Win Sor was talking two gentlemen strolled | by who had not been attending the meeting. and noting the tired look of | many in the audience, one of them i remarked that there seemed to be a lack of enthusiasm in the reception of Mir Akers' speech. He had inno-
  speaker
 MT. Winsor took his text from the gospel of St. Mark, 19:30 Many that are first shall be last and the last ' shall be first" He applied the thought -O Arizona. which is last to be ad- nitted. but thereafter will be first in lt | great many things. not only in in .elligence and in prosperity. but as m exponent of the truths of the Dec 1, aration of Independence leader of he people of the whole country out Ii ,f the wilderness in which they are ,roping under the rule of political posses.
 Mir ONeill was introduced as the nan who for five months had been on r he firing line in Washington, and would tell how it all came to pass. Nnd he did so with a frankness that vas almost overpowering It was ap- parent from his remarks that had it ( not been for his efforts Arizona would lI lot now be in line for statehood. He , old of a standpat plot among the II republicans to admit I lew Mexico by presidential proclama- ion and keep Arizona out until a z ucceeding congress. For time even , e lost heart. and as he said was ID against it" William Alden Smith T lad held back the report on the Flood esOlutiOn. but he advertised in the Washington Times for the where q bouts of MT Flood, and brought him d ack in a hurry and mad at that ! 'hen came a long catalogue of events N hereafter which MT. O'Neill thwarted ust in time, and finally his pleadings / sere taken note of. MT. O'Neill gen V rously divided honOrs with his wife. I rho. he said. joined him and worked r iligently with him in the fight against i that seemed to be an Outnumbering { DC; but he had counted noses cor r ectly and knew how the senators IT 'ould all vote two weeks before the V ction was finally taken.
 HELPED A LITTLE.