Williams news., 1911-12-30
IT WAS, AFTER ALL, A VICTORY FOR REPUB-
 LICAN PRINCIPLES


 who thinks and attempts to be honest with himself.
 The number of scratched ballots should be sufficient proof to any thinking person that the feticism of the terms Democrat" and "Re- publican" is fully exposed and un- derstood by people who do their own thinking, and the majority can no longer be made subservient to party, if that party's intent and method are wrong.
 Man is but an atom in the gen eral plan. Before God made man, He made q natural law to govern him. The law was thoroughly tested and found to be perfect be. fore Adam was created and made a subject of it. Adam violated that law and natural death was the pen alty. God preserved Noah and de- stroyed all others. After this de struction he promised not to do go again while the earth lasts.
 Humanity again descended tht scale to that ebb where divine Tn. tervention had to come to the res cue. God, in His patience and mercy. sent Christ to live the life man should live, and give man of the earth a practical and visible lesson. That life was lived, noted, copied and initiated, resulting in improved conditions until the elev- enth or twelfth century after Christ when selfshness again gained the ascendency by withholding learn. ing from the masses and allowing 1t to ths few only. This minority contained it's good, and this good was given a Tremendous impetus by the priesthood and by Luther. 
 After them came Abraham Lin coin, who, ss Henry Watterson says, was of and from God. Lin coin, the real teacher; the best in politics and government and the real founder and originator of the Republican party, it's platform and principles.
 The victory recently was no Democratic victory. It was a peo- ple's rebuke of political methods z obnoxious to an as intelligent and independent electorate as Arizona possesses. The Democrats made their campaign strictly on Lin coin Republican platform. The reeult would have been the same under any other name advocating the same principles. Stating the truth, in other words, it can be said that the Democratic position was inconsistency, but hiddsn to even majority of their own party, while the sole cause of the defeat of the Republican party was incon- sistency, but so glaringly exposed as to make it impossible for anyone to mistake the brand.
 Careful consideration of the gen. eral vote proves it tC be a rich sub- subject for analytical deductions, and prime subject for many in structive political essays It is the last contest in Arizona between democracy and republica nism, from the standpoint the average voter in the past has been taught to con cider the subject. The minimizing will term it Democratic victory, while in truth it is Republican victory.
 It is absolute truth that ma chine politics" is dangerous text in Arizona. Machine politicians in Arizona were standing upon their last leg. The hip joint even cannot be perceived at this time by the most penetrating vision. This vote is a tremendous blow at per sonal selishness. It should teach all intelligent men self examina- tion, and should make them stuff ciently acute, big and broad enough mentally to know when the time is