The copper era and Morenci leader., 1922-03-17
OLD FRIENDS AT DINNER WITH EX-
 SENATOR SMITH

A party of twenty friends of ex- Senator Mark Smith sat down to a dinner Wednesday evening which had been prepared at the Club Social de Agua Prieta in honor of the ex-sena tor, who is visiting in Douglas for a few days. The menu was an excel lent one and was preceded by ct martini cocktail, concOcted by Jack Neary, the manager of the club and accompanied with some high grade French wine, it was thoroughly ,en- joyed and during the service many "reminiscences of the old early days of the state were recounted by all those who were present. As the din ner came to a finish, J. NJ. Sparks pro- posed a toast to the guest of the evening and recounted his long and faithful service to the state of Ari- zona.
 Mir Sparks was followed by Geo. H. Kelly, who told of meeting Mark Smith first in 1888, when he and Uncle Ben Goodrich were defending those tried for robbing Paymaster Wham in the Graham mountains when he was en route from Fort Grant to Fort Thomas with mony to pay the soldiers at Fort Thomas and San Carlos He told of being present in the democratic state convention at Tucson when Mark Smith was nomi- mated for his second term as dele gate to congress and he declared that Arizona never had a truer friend and how Mir Smith extended his ac- quaintance over the country during long service in Washington and pie tured the advantages and resources of Arizona and of the character of the trusty pioneers who first inhabited it in such persistent and glowing terms as to result in the bringing of capital for the development of our big min eral and other resources.
 PACKARD SPEAKS
 MT Kelly then called on Hon. B. A. Packard who told of being in Tombstone when Mark Smith arrived. young man seeking his fortune and opportunity to help the advance ment of the west and of his fellow man. Col. Packard has had longer intimate acquaintance with MT. Smith than. anyone present at dinner and declaredt hat in all the: years since 1880 he had never heard Mark Smith accused of doing a dishonorable act or neglecting any public duty as signed him. -. .4 J..S. Douglas was another of the party to pay tribute to the guest Of the evening. MT. Douglas said that he considered the retirement of MT Smith from the senate as a calamity to both Arizona and the country at large. coming at a time when the country needed tie service of the .-hI Cof fo hn TnnTd and perienced in public service. He said this is a time when men are rceded not only equippd in mind. but pos sessin9 hearts which beat fo" thG welfare of markind throughout the world. Hc .'..: rdtd tie eX-s, .f:tor as man DO ;:essirs mind and heart such as are today required in the senate of the United States.
 Accounts Early Experiences
 Mir Smith. being! introduced. re- counted some of the, interesting eX periences of his early days in the state, telling of how he, soon after arriving in Tombstone, fell sick and how when he recovered, it required the last cent which he possessed in the world to pay the doctor bill and hotel where he was sick. Then he told of the Gements of sue ceeding months until finally he got a commission from cattl9man i'll a legal suit for which he had in tended to charge about forty dollars and how bis client came to his of fee drunk one day and counting out three hundred dollars in gold. in uuired if "that would l'a enough: :' Mr. Smith said t;2at # w"a 0u;e* s7!f- ficient. Speaking of his Iong seTTif q. in h n C-fn in and in the senate MT. Smith said that n1 defied any one to find eittor T Sc@a- tor or congressman with whom ha had served that would say that he had ever neelected the i''ternstg nt Arlzoua and faltered ia the fight fol it's nr-0gress. He said t5at tho pHn- uIart~ If seratnr derended on his IoraIi~ to his home state and ecu stit-rc-'+ a~d 'ha! --:.r- a'." Ya'""S"~'t memory remains wit:> him of tho frierff=hips rr e--i--'-N'i aTT".ar' h.; scr- s.ny-vice in "raGnie'~+"r. Mir Saith expressed his qualification in -f<,=-{c- .-er-raitted tn arHi'' 1p"Ht ''' P.a-,. rf Fia cld f"iend9 in E'>-'"''' 2 and tNHs he hoped that this would not f.e tE.c last visit ;,n would i:e ah'e 'tn paY Arizona. He will remain Ill Tle,I~Ese for several da"s and then return to his home in Tucson tor q few days before ieaViRg for Wash fngtou. where he is due on April
 T. ". Gaire= related some interest ing F=storicaI facts connected with MT Smiths public life in Ariacna. It seems that when Mr Goodrich left Tombstone MT. Gaines fell heir to the safe whlct had previously belonged to the law firm nf Goodrich and Smith. lh thls safe MT. Gaines found letter from the democratic territorial committee dated in the fall of 1886. notifying MT smith that he had been no;ninatH' as the democratic candidate for deie gate to congress. requesting that h' immediately start a campaign An other relic found in this safe was leave of absence for 90 days for M smith as county attorney NIT C.aines said there never had been an! law providing for longer leave O absence for public officials for nor than sixty days. ,o4 ,o.