Arizona republican., 1912-09-29
LAST NIGHT
 DEMOCRATIC
Large Crowd Gathered at City Hall Plaza to Re ccivc Account of the Stewardship of U. $. Sen atOr AShurSt

The fine impartiality of the people of Phoenix and vicinity was illustrated again last night in the attendance at the democratic meeting at the city hall plaza. A crowd of not less than 2,000 turned out to hear United States Sen ator Ashurst and Representative Carl Hayden on heir first public appear ance here since their return from con- gress.
 The audience suffered some disap- pointment for AIr Hayden was called out of town after the arrangements for the meeting had been made But the democratic woods are always filled with orators So that there was no diff ficulty in finding somebody to take the place of the missing congressman.
 It was a little before eight o'clock when the committee consisting of Governor Hunt and several other prominent democrats and the speakers ascended the platform and were re ccived with the gentlemanIy and lady like cheers which characterize Phoe- nix audiences. Chairman Lin B. Orme of the board of supervisors opened the festivities by introducing Lysander Cassidy as the chairman of the meet ing one of whose duties was to warn the crowd of the identity of the next speaker. While Mir. Cassidy was about it he devoted some time to euIogy of Governor Wilson and he was the fittest man there for that task for he is the original Wilson man in Arizona MT. Cassidy expressed some disapprov- al of Bull Moosers and republicans as a class
 After this he introduced Judge Ba- ker and at this point there was dis played a lack of team work between MT Cassidy and the band for in the midst of the introduction the band broke in with a musical number. Judge Baker alluded to his last attempt to speak from that platform when a gale was blowing and he could not make himself heard. He had offered one re- mark at that time which seemed to be lost on the general audience but it fell upon the fruitful ears of one gentle man, a minister of the gospel who called on the judge the next day and approved the sentiments expressed. It was that the republican party was going to hell in a handbasket" In the opinion of Judge Baker that was as true last night as when he tried to say it before.
 The rest of Judge Bakers speech consisted of an assault by turns upon each the republican and bull moose parties It was with zest he said that he flayed the coloned.
 At the outset of his remarks. Judge Baker squared himself with the fem mist section of his audience with a strong and even violent declaration in favor of equal suffrage.
 "The next speaker was Attorney General Bullard and in the introduc- tiOn of him there was another exhibi- ton of MT Cassidys and the bands lack of team work for here again the band broke in with the tnspiritine strains of Dixie"
 When MT Bullard got a chance t talk he said that the main part of hi' theme would be non-political and ther he spoke of the subject nearest hi heart-the tendency of the United Yer de to throw off the yoke of taxation He urged that the voters al the neX election support the proposed consutu tionaI amendment giving the stat board supreme control over the count. boards.
 In his vehemence, while speaking O the shiftiness of the tax dodgers, MT Bullard hammered the speakers stan' with such violence that he knocked down a framed and glass covered pie ture of Woodrow Wilson which loving hands had set amid festoons of the na tional colOrs.
 Throughout the earlier speakin there had been demands for the piec de resistance The big top was MI Ashurst. A part of the audience ha