Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1914-08-22

day the bill admitting Arizona as a
State was passed, the following speech
was made by Mr.. Stanley, of Kentucky.
The speech appears on page 242O Of
volume 4S, part 8, of the Congressional
Record. The statehood bill being under
consideration, Mr.. Stanley said:
"Mr. Speaker, l think it entirely fit
ting that in speaking of these Terri
tories we should speak of the gentle
men who have represented them. My
love for Arizona has been increased by
my admiration for her good judgment
in sending Mark Smith to Congress.
lApplause.]
'No Member of the Sixtieth Congress
will retire from it more universally
beloved or more universally regretted
than my dear old friend the gentleman
from Arizona mr.. Smith. Applause.
81 might be tempted to question the
appreciation and the wisdom of Ariz-
ona in permitting him to return to
private life were | not aware of his
sensitive and intense devotion to his
people and his unwillingness to hear
them questioned or criticized, even
though in that criticism there should be
implied compliment to himself.
81 can say, however, that his re-
trement at this time is the cause of
genuine surprise among those who have
followed his career with interest and
with admiration. But short time ago
it seemed morally certain that Arizona
and New Mexico would be indissolubly
bound in union that to the people OF
Arizona appeared nothing less than a
loathsome and abhorred miscegenation.
Then it was that Mark Smith displayed
mis- tireless devotion to his people and
his marvellous tact and resourcefulness
in saving them from the impending
catastrophe. [Applause.]
"a Delegate without vote, with
nothing to give and nothing to ex-
change, battling among several hun
dred cool, calculating politicians, I'M
daunted by the desperation of his cause,
determined to fight as long as there was
a ray of hope, and die, if need be, in
the last ditch. In the committee rooms,
in the House, in the Senate The was
everywhere; he saw everybody. Moth
ing could be done or said or attempted
tnat he was not there to answer, to
explain, to checkmate. Almost twenty
years of distinguished service had won
for him the respect of the House and
of the Senate, and his generous, genial,
and winsome personality had attracted
to him every man capable of a generous
impulse or disinterested emotlon. In
the presence of those who knew him in
that trying hour, can unhesitatingly
say, without being charged with ex-
aggeration or fattery, that it was to
the efforts of Mark Smith and to his
personal influence more than to any and
to all otner causes combined that Ariz-
oaa owes her escape from the irksome
saackles when she so much dreaded.
lApplause.]
"Had any member of the House of
representatives, on either side of the
Chamber, been asked 'wnat would be
tie inevitable result, 50 far as Mark
Smith was personally concerned the
reply would inevitably have BEEN
Mark Smith Will remain in the House
as long as Arizona is Territory, and
he will be the first to wear with dis
tinction the senatorial toga wnen she
becomes State Prolonged ap-
plause.] 1t was indeed with pain and
amazement We learned that after more
than 20 years of distinguished service
this tired and valient champion of his
people, with his deathless laurels still
fresh upon his brow, was retired by
the Territory he had redeemed, and
that Arizona, on the very threshold OF
the promised land, having been led out
of this wilderness by her brave sponsor,
seems to have forgotten him in the hour
of her brightest hope.
''His colleagues, without an excep.
ton, still cherish the fond desire that
he shall receive the reward which he
so abundantly deserves, and that his
name shall be indissolably linked with
Arizona the State as it is forever
emblazoned on the brightest pages Of
the history of Arizona the Territory