The border vidette., 1911-10-07
MARK SMITH.

Of h0nUucky ul)OIl UIIS HUI Oi the House of Representatives before the adjournment of the l Goth Congress in which Mark Smith served his last term. 1t l was generously applauded by Democrats and Republicans, all of whom valued and appreciated the labors that MT. Smith had so brilliant performed in their company:
 MT. Stanley: MT. Speaker, think it entirely fitting that in speaking of these territories we should speak of the gentlemen who have represented them. My love for that fair land has been increased by my admiration for it's good judgment in Arizona sending Mark Smith to congress- (Applause.)
 No member of the SiXtieth con gress will retire from it more | universally beloved or more uni versally regretted than my dear old friend, the gentleman from Arizona, MT. Smith. (Applause.)
 I might be tempted to question the appreciation and. the wisdom of Arizona in permitting him to return to private life were l not aware of his sensitive and intense ; devotion to his people and his unwillingneSS to hear them queS-
 toned or criticism. l though m
 that criticism there should be
 implied a compliment to himself.
 I can say. however, that his . retirement at this time is the 2 cause of genuine surprise among F those who have followed his
 career with interest and with
 admiration But short time
 ago it seemed morally certain eI that Arizona and New Mexico z would be indissolubly bound in ?. a union that to the people of II Arizona appeared nothing less
 than a loathsome and abhorred
 miscegepation. Then it was that
 Mark Smith displayed his tire ?. less devotion to his people and 'e his marvellous tact and resource ;c fitness in saving them from the IT impending catastrophe. (Ap-
 plauSe.)
 A delegate without a vote,
 with nothing to give and nothing te to exchange, battling among sev- 1H n1 eral hundred cool, calculating le politicians, undaunted by the
 desperation of his cause, deter
 mined to fight as long as there
 was a ray of hope and die, ii
 need be, in the last ditch. In 10 the committee rooms, in the of house. in the Senate-he was
 everywhere, he saw everybody
 Nothing could be done or said Ol
 attempted that he was not there
 to answer, to explain, to check n. IT. mate. Twenty-odd years of dis lie tinouished service had won fol
 him the respect of the house ano
 of the senate, and his generous
 genial and winsome personality
 had attracted to him every mar n capable of a generous impulse tic or distinterested emotion. II
 the presence of those who knev him in that trying hour can un
 hesitatingly say without being
 charged with eXaggeratlOn O ny fiattery. that it was to the effort Sf "f of Mark Smith and to his persona to influence more than to any an' ,he all other causes combined tha he Arizona owes her escape fror 'n' the irksome ShackleS which Sh :. so much dreaded. Applause
 Had any member of the hOus
 of representatives on either sid e. of the chamber, been asked 10. What would be the inevitabl v1i m result so far as Mark Smith wa ,ri- concerned?" the reply WOul
 inevitable have been: Mar
 Smith will remain in the hous
 as long as Arizona is a Territor eo- and he will be the first to wes o :. ef with distinction the senatori will toga when she becomes a stat nty (Prolonged applause.) It ws on indeed with pain and amazemel
 we learned that after more tha
 twenty years of distinguishe an service this tried and valial ant. champion of his people, with h the deathless laurels still fresh upC
 his brow, was retired by u
 territory he had redeemed ar am. that Arizona on the very thre ri1z hold of the promised land, ha the ing been led out of this wilde fth' ness by her brave sponsor, seen ' to have forgotten him in u
 hour of her brightest hope. NIT. His colleagues, without an e ,an ceptiOn, still cherish the fO1