Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-18
MARK SMITH MEETS BISBEE DEMOCRATS
 AT HE ORPHEUM
Accounts Accomplishments in Long Service as
 Delegate
POPULAR GOVERNMENT

Without previous announcement from any source. Hon. Mark A. Smith, candidate for the democratic nomina- tion for the United States senate, ar rived in town yesterday afternoon from Douglas, where he addressed a large meeting the night before. Nasty arrangements were made for a meet mig here last night.
 On account of frequent addresses at open air meetings. lar. Smiths voice was in bad shape. and there fore the Orpheum theater was se- cured. Notwithstanding the lack of advertisement. it was comfortably filled sCon after eight o'clock, when Mir. Smith made his appearance and was introduced by Chairman Wal lace Of tha 2i@b0e a=.'.acratic club
 After describing himself as a par ticipant in a little democratic, but friendly rivalry. and saying that af- ter the republican and democratic forces were lined up for battle there would be some hair pulling, the speak CT entered upon his subject. He first replied 10 the charges of his oppon- ents that in his score of years oi service he had accomplished noth- ing. This, he said he would show was an unfounded accusation, though he would say that he had never been in congress; a delegate is not in con gress in the sense that by reason of his position he can exert any ini.u- cnce
 However Mir. Smith recited many accomplishments, beginning with the legislation he had secured relating to the Peraltareayis claim, result Ot which was the dissipation or that Reavs 10 the penitentiary after it had appeared that his claim had been securely fastened upon the heart of Arizona
 The next Important act of Mr. Smith was the setting in motion of the machinery which effected the capture of Geronimo and the cessa- tion Of Apache murders in Arizona. MT Smith also had prepared the first bill looking to national aid for irri- gation, and though that bin did not become a law. it was largely iuc0rpor- afed in the Hansbrough-Newlanos reclamation act under which the des ert stretches Of the west are now be- ing reclaimed.
 Mir. smith recalled that he had sue ceetel in puttiug four statehoOc bills through the house, only to meet de feat in a republican senate. These ard many other things he recOunted, 70 show that in the long service he had rendered in congress he has not leen idle, and that his efforts had not been without result.
 lie denounced the iniquity of the present enabling act. whose purpose, happily defeated, had been Co secure the admission of New Mexico and leave Arizona a territory.
 The constitution which had been adopted for the new state, Mir. Smith said, was a lCug step toward a re turn to the principles of Je1ersOnian democracy from which there had been a wide departure in the last half century. It was the theory of Jeff. eTsun that the farther the govern ment is removed from the people, the farther they are removed nom liberty. The restoration to the peO- ule Cf the power that belonged iC them was in accordance with the Jci- fersOuian doctrine. The recall of the judiciary received the hearty enGorse- mCHt Cf the speaker As to the ini- tiative and referendum. he believed that that was a guaranty, not onl> Of the rights Of the people, but also Of the just treatment of capital.
 The speech Of MT. Smith was in terrupted with frequent applause, as he referred to his own record, and S.s he gave his approval of the theory Of popular government.
 AIT Smith will address usc. .as at Lowell tonight