Arizona republican., 1912-09-19
HARLAN SERIOUSLY
 BEDE HUMOROUSLY
Both, However, Managed to Keep the Audience Inter ested Until They Had to Hurry Away to Carry New Mexico"

It was the hottest and most rapid fire political meeting ever held Tn Phoenix. No other ever called out such nearly continuous applause and such a ripping of laughter from the members of the audience. regardless of their political affiliations. Refer ence is here made to the appearance of John NJ Harlan of Chicago and J. Adam Bede of Minnesota at the Empress theater for an hour and forty minutes yesterday afternoon.
 The remarks of the orators consist ed on the part of MT. Harlan of a constant pulling of the record on the colonel, beginning with his political career and on the part of MT. Bede Of holding him and his policies up to that species of ridicule for which the Minnesotan is famous and which gained from him during his term in congress. the reputation of being the wittiest man in the house
 MT. Harlan Is d man of command ing presence and living likeness of his distinguished father. the late asso- ciate justice of the supreme court of the United States.
 He is a finished orator with d deep. far-reaching and trained voice and thorough command of language, a deep scholar, d graduate of Princeton, and a close friend of Governor Wilson to whom he referred affectiOnately though he did not believe, he said that he was a man of practical ideas. As for the personal appearance of MT Bede, it may be said with refer ence to his pulchritude that if he were entered in a beauty show he would fail utterly, unless it should happen that the judges were blind. But he has d marvelOusly ready wit that kept the audience in an uproar. The speakers arrived on the five o'clock train from the south and inn mediately thereafter. the theater was filled to it's capacity with a rush. No time was lost in the beginning The stage was occupied by the leading re- publicans of the city and MT. Frank NJ Murphy Of Prescott.
 Judge c. F. Ainsworth presided. He took occasion to bring up the joint statehood question and his own campaign for congress on the joint statehood ticket in 1906. He began with the reading of President ROOse velt's message to congress at it's as- sembling in the previous December urging joint statehood for New Mex ico and Arizona, taking the ground that the territories must be satisfied with what was to be given them.
 Judge AnswOrth said he favored jointure because he believed at that time that the territory could be ad- mitted in no other way. The jointure bill was introduced and after being amended against the wishes of the president, in such a manner as tC give the people of each territory the right to decide whether they desired admission on those terms, it was passed. thus precipitating campaign on that issue
 To be sure that the movemen would receive the support of tht president, pr. Mark A. Rodgers O Tucson wrote the presinent on tha subject He received a reply stating that it was the earnest wish of thu president that the territories accep the terms offered them and sayins hat if they failed to do so, in hi opinion it would be years before the, would have another opportunity fo admission and that when it shouI, come ,INe terms WOulu De the same.
 Judge Ainsworth said that he wen into the campaign at the request o President Roosevelt and Senate Beveridge. And what did I get fo it. asked Judge Ainsworth who thel produced an old copy of the Journal Miner of Prescott with headlines i letters an inch high and black as tn ace of spades, calling him a traito to the territory.
 "I was following said Judge Aims worth, that man who now come here soliciting your votes. an arch traitor to Arizona. if I was traitO, and bOlter now from his party"
 Judge AinsWorth said that he wa In New York at the time of the be ginning of the second Lorimer tri; and while there he read a statemeT by Mir Roosevelt given out frol Oyster Bay in which the latter sai that Lorimer should be thrown out the senate whether or not he kne that money had been corruptly use in his election to the United State senate He compared the attitude MT. Roosevelt al that time with h recent admission that Standard O money might have been used in h election in 1904 without his know edge
 Tn conclusion. Judge Ainsworth rt cited an incident which has not " appeared in print with reference the present Roosevelt Archbold- Per