Arizona republican., 1922-04-25

morning and every morntnS hHSIs
after during the week.
fit Of the whole country. Our Meek
lenburg Declaration Of independence,
May 20. 17T5, our Resolutions at Hall
fax, April IL, 1875, ordering and di-
recting our delegation in the con-
tinental congress to vote for 1nde-
pendoce, whether any other colony
did or not. Our Regulators VINO
famed the flame of resistance 10
British authority. The battles OF
Alamance and Moor's Greek in which
was shed the first blood in America
the battles of Kings Mountain and
Cowpens which crippled the British
SO materially as to make our fight
ing chance more equal so that when
Light Horse Harry Lee turned the
tide of American success by killing
30 Oof the Tory regiment raised at
Hillsboro. and dispersed the other
700. he thereby made Guilford
drawn battle instead of victory Tor
Great Britain-and Guilford made
Yorktown possible, to this western
country has received the benefits de-
rived fro mthose trials and tribula-
tions that brought liberty and free
dom to America. And 1t was that
distinguished Virginian, Thomas Jef-
ferson, my next door neighbor. VINO
wrote the Declaration OF Indepen-
dence, and made the Louisiana pur-
chase by which we got so much OF
this western territory from Napoleon.
Added to that was the acquisition of
Texas, New Mexico and California.
But my friends it remained for dear
old Hillsboro,@ our colonial capital, to
furnish the man who did more for
the DEVELOPMENT of the Mississippi
valley and the trans MISSISSIPPI
country than all others-Thomas
Hart Benton, who secured transpor-
tation for this great Western empire
by building the great transcontinent-
al railways to the Pacific coast, so
following In his footsteps we are try
ing to secure for you a great trans
continental highway. on which you
can use motor power instead OF
steam on rails.
In 1911 we organized the Quebec
Miami international highway from
| Quebes, Canada, to Miami, Florida,
before We had any federal aid and
very little state aid in any OF the
states. and we thought it would take
| Is or 20 years to build it, but in 1922
we got 1t into the Baltimore platform
for the establishment of federal aid
to the states, and on the twelfth OF
| October. when Mr.. Wilson was a cam
didate before the American people
| for president. he said he stood square
| upon that plank I'm the platform, and
we got It under his administration on
| the nth Of July, 1915, While in At
lantic City at the American road con-
gresS q delegate from your state,
| Col. Dell M. Potter of Clifton, heard
our discussion in regard to that por-
| ton Of the Quebec and Miami high
way between the cities OF Richmond
and Washington, which was the weak
point in our route, as that country
| had been devastated by war and
never had fully recuperated, and only
one town of any size in 1t. Fred
ericksburg, we sought to make the
memorial which congress was to es-
| tablish to President Lincoln joining
! the capital of the nation to the cap
| ital of the confederacy, thus binding
| the two sections together for Linz
/ coins best days was in the cry "On
| to Richmond and this was the op-
| portunity to carry out his wish and
| to be a memorial to him through all
! time. Just as the Apian highway,
| bearing the commerce Of centuries
| still. carries the name. But the COM
mission only gave us two votes, while
| the other three went to the estab-
lisment OF the Greek temple in Wash
ington-but this idea that we ad-
Iivocated caused the friends of Mr.
Lincoln in the north, especially the
| manufacturers Of automobiles to es-
tablish the Lincoln trans continental
| memorial from New York to Sar
Francisco through Chicago. So youi
distinguished citizen. Colonel Potter
introduced himself to me and walked
up the board walk at Atlantic City
and made me the suggestion thai
while they were building highway
along the Pacific and we were build
ing one along the Atlantic we woult
connectd the two together by route
sufficiently far south to prevent i
from being blocked by snow and ict
in the Rockies.
told him, agreed" that we were
then building the Central highway o.
North Carolina, from the Atlantic
ocean at Morehead City, through
New Bern, Raleigh. Greensboro, Sal
isbury and Asheville to the Tennes.
see line, and the Tennessee people
were building on through Knoxville
Nashville to Memphis, that therefore
he could meet me at the Mississippi
,
he went home he organized the Tri'
States route through California, Ari.
zona and New Mexico to Ell Paso
and wired me that had better han
die the whole Of the south and joii
him at FL Paso instead of at Mem
phis. l 60 Governor Craig as tn
. first official act of his administra
, tion to invite the governors of tn
Southern states to send commission
, ers to Asheville, where on the 1Stl
day of February, 1913, we selected
, the route by congressional represen
, tation, and in 1915 we made our frs
trip across the continent from Sal
, Diego to washington. This was be
! fore we had any federal aid, as
{ have said, so I got a resolution
] through the legislature of Nortl
Carolina sending greetings to each o
{ the states through which the nationa
/ highway passed, and the legislator
. of Arkansas happened TO be in ses
! sion and replied that they woEl'
! build from Little Rock to Memphi
through the swamp section of Ar
| kansas provided the counties woul
! vote bonds, and that was done, an
! provided the federal committee ol
levees would raise the levees on tn
Arkansas side of the Mississippi 3
that the road would not be damage
by overflow, and that was done, bu
! there was the Father of Mighty Wa
/ ters rolling his majectic course t
! the sea that we knew not how I
! contend with, so Colonel Potter, Il
! his wisdom, finding there were thre
, railroads on the west side of tn
Mississippi that were anxious to G
into the city of Mempsis, went t
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