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NUMBER 24JJ
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THE REPUBLICAN ADVOCATE
The Democratic Messenger
EDITED BY THE COCHISE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE
CONDUCTED BY THE COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE
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REPUBLICAN TICKET
NATIONAL
For President
WILLIAM MoKINLEV
of Ohio
For Vice-President
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
ef New York
TERRITORIAL
ror Delegate to Coiigre
HON. N. O. MURPHY
'KKVUBLICAN COUNTY TICKKT
For Ooimoiluiiiii
C. C. WARNER
For Asieinblyuicin
H. M. WOODS
P. R. O'BRIEN
A. H. NAROROSS
.For Sheriff
DAYTON GRAHAM
For Treusuvur
0. L. CUMMINOS
For Kocorrtor
11. C. STILLMAN
For District Attuinuy
G. W. SWAIN
For Probate Judge
W. P. BRADLEY
For Aesor
C. A. OVERLOOK
For Surveyor
J. A. ROOKPELLOW
Tor Supervisor
G. B. REAY
, A. V. NOYES
T. ALLAIRE
For Superintendent of School
P. C. WILLARD
PRECINCT.
For Justice of the Peace
S. K. .WILLIAMS
V. W. WEED
For Constable
MICHAEL DOYLE
F. W. OLIVER
Did you ever figure it
out that no mine of any
Importance in Arizona
was ever affected by the
SILVER
IN
ARIZONA.
slump in silver? Look it
all over and you will find that not a sin
ele silver mine of importance was in
operation !n the territory when silver
i j i jh . r
Ifub UUYVU iu u uuuai au uuuec. xic-
to a dollar an ounce
member all you can the Tombstone,
Quljotoa, Mack Morris and Silver Nug
get in Richmond Basin, the Stonewall
Jackson at McMlllen, the Silver King,
"the Gunsight, the JlcCracken at Sig
nal, the Peck, Tip-Top and a dozen
other once great Bradshaw mountain
properties all of them quit whon sil
ver was up in price. But the minors
didn't starve. They drifted into even
better jobs in the copper and gold
mlne9 that began to come Into
production about that t time. The
individual who tries to make it appear
that tho Republican party ever injured
the Arizona miner is a blatherskite
who either wilfully misrepresents, or
who knows not whereof he speaks.
Somewhere in the
Good Book is a truism
MARK'S
CREATE8T
CASE
that roads: "No
man
can serve two masters."
Mark Smith doesn't be-
lleve in such old-fashioned philosophy,
Once upon a time he was a delegate to
con rres3 from Arizona, drawing 85,000
" . ,.,,,,.
per
annum, with auueu cierK nire,
mileage, stationery, stamps and
"pefks." It was "a daclnt, alsyjob,"
the way he took It. There was a lot
he might havo done, of course, but sev
eral congressmen had worked them
solves sick and Mark was solicitous of
ll- 1 I.L IT. 1 1 1 I. !..J .
SiuSpeo 1 Z IIS.
ZZ :ytT ,L , wM there. HQ
was a servant and officer of the gov-
eminent, as well, and owed it and his
territory his fidelity and cntlro service.
Out in Arizona about that tlmo u band
of outlaws held up a paymaster, Major
Wham, upon the highway, shot saveral
ef bis guard of United States cavalry
and stole something less than $30,000 in
jrood. United States greenbacks. Whllo
congress was in session In Washington
h post of duty, Mark Smith remained
in Arizona for months and acted as
loading counsol against the govern
ment, his employer, in the defense of
these men whoso deed had blackened
the fair fame of Arizona and had con
firmed the eastern idea that Arizona
was a land where lawlessness ruled.
The men accused were impecunious,
worthless range rustlers, but, somehow
nt. t.hfi trial and in the Procurement of
alibi witnessos good new greenbacks
werefreolv distributed, to the extent
of many thousands of dollars. Mark
Suiith waxed opulent without even the
escuse of a successful poker Hession. It
was said at the time that for Mark
Smith to take service against the gov-
eminent that paid him, to accept coin
of doubtful honesty from men accusod
of robbery and robollion, men who had
shot at the flag he had made oath he
would maintain and defend, was some
thing that looked very much like de
sertion, with added treason.
We would advise Mr. Bryan, now
that he has dropped silver, to take a
look at the price of coppor in these
years past. It has been up very nicely
lately, hasn't it? And the miners who
got it out of the ground are making
thoir little $3.50 a day, with steady em
ployment, aren't thoy? And tho cop
per companies are employing more and
more men, are they not? Tho coppor
companies are doing- well, but the la
boring man has no kick cotninir. has
he? But do you remember tho days of
1885, when a democrat was president?
Coppor went down in that administra-
tion from 17i to 8 cents, didn't it? And
the Copper Queen almost closed down
ut that time and had to reduce wages
for a while in the second depression
that followed the election of Cleveland
in '92, didn't it? Have you ever noted
that republicanism means copper smoke
and overworked shaftmen, and that de-
mnnrnnv mfianR cold furnaces? Do vou
prefer cold furnaces?
The Republican 'candidates have gone ed fifty feet in a shaft while the big
forth ou t,he warpath and will return in piunp made a twenty, minute stop for
a week or so laden with the spoils of repairs. There is plenty of good gold
political victory. They are at Tomb- silver ore below the water level in the
stone tonight. Friday night thoy will Tombstone mines. The camp is bound
take in Turquoise, Barrett and Black to arise again in added strength The
Diamond. On the 27th they will be at other day E. B. Gago and Prank M.
Middlemarch and Pearce, on the 28th Murphy visited Tombstone and closely
at Dos Cabezas, on the 29th at Willcox investigated the conditions. Both are.
and Cochise, on tho 30th at Johnson, keen business men and, incidentally,
on the 31st at Benson and St. David, strong republicans. They are cohsid
November 1st at Fairbank and Hua- ering the advisability of forming a
chuca, and, lastly, at Bisbee on tho 3d, heavily-capitalized syndicate to take
to wind the campaign up in a grand over all the Tombstone mines, to drain
rally that will curl tho whiskers of the
participants. Remember the dates and
get out and extend the glad hand to
the boys as they travol. They are a
good lot and they are talking good
doctrine,
Ono of the misrepresentations of the
Jfn conce9 the, 'm of.on;
C. C. Warner on the eight-hour bill of
Ight-hour bill of
thelast legislature. Mr. Warner had
nothing to do with the bUl, nor did he
have u chance to vote upon it any stage.
The bill was introduced in the house
by Mr. Sanders of Yavapai county, and
uevor got out of that body. It was
taken out of the house committee on
mines and mining, a week after intro
duction, and killed by indefinite post
ponement. P. C. Willard has made a model prin-
cipal of tho Tombstone schools. Ho
knows the business of running schools
from the ground up. There is nothing
narrow about him. He fills the bill as
"a gentleman and a scholar." Be sure
and honor the county by electing him
county school superintendent.
Bisbee people best know tho bravery
and ability of "Dayt." Graham. This
Is why ho is going to carry the precinct
by a majority that will serve as a vote
of thanks for his services as a peuce
officer.
Hoiim Willis, who will nfklress Mia
who will address the
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people of Bisbee Saturday night, was a
demoorat till this election. Como out
and hear him tell why he couldn't be
a democrat any longer.
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If you put your mark under the
American nag on your Dauot election
dayyou will show that you stand for
Itrlotl8ia and for a continuance of
If you miss tho meeting Saturday
night you miss a treat. Col. McCowan
is one of the most eloquent of speakora
and his words aro always carefully
weighed.
The Democrats are howling over the without a flaw and their ability is roc
poll tax law. They ought to tako their ognlzed. They will worthily repre
owu medicine moro quietly. Tt was sent Cochise county in the Twenty-first
thoir bill. They pasicd it.
In Bisboe the other
WHY night, Democratic pil
TOMBSTONE grim spellbinders over
QUIT shot the mark in the
virulence of their an
tagonism to the party of prosperity,
patriotism and progress. The princi
pal song they sung was that the mines
of Tombstone had been closed by the
"demonetization of silver," and sought
to fasten on the republican party all
blamG for the idle stamps in the mill?
of this county. The Democratic apeak-
ors, to put it mildly, erred. It is pos-
siblo they intended no prevarication,
Maybe they knew no better. Possibly
they sought to pull the wool over the
eyes of the sturdy miner and then
irritate him by a recital of things 'that
were not. But in the audience at the
Democratic meeting we,re scores of
men wno couio. nave corrected me
blatant orator. Hundreds there are
in Bisbee, pioneers of Cochise county,
who know why the Tombstone mines
closed, for when they closed the great
er number of the skillful nilneis came
here, across the range. Let them be
asked the question and they will tell
jou that the Contention and Grand
Central shut down when silver sold fori
$1.08 an ounce, in December, 1884. Now,
$1.08 isn't exactly "demonetization,"
is it'
The truth, plain and simple, is that
the ore in the Tombstone mines above
water level had been worked out.
Chloriders have found slender pickings
iu the upper levels since that time.
The mines closed when the Contention
got tired of doing the pumping for the
entire camp. In tho midst of uogotia-
tions looking toward mutual action for
the pumping of all the properties, the
Grand Central works burned down,
Later the Contention plant also went
p in flames, It was too severe a blow,
So the camp quit. But the owners
didn't blame their misfortune to "six-
teen-to-onc." It was a tough proposi
tion to tackle a flow of water that rais-
them by the most improved modern
methods and to take out the silver and
gold of the lower levels. But you heard
nothing of this from the democratic
orators.
Next to the interest fund the heaviest
expense in Arizona is in connection
with the territorial prison. That in
stitution is supported irom tne gener-
al fund, an improper method. However
economical tho management it is wrong
in prinoiple to lay the entire territory
al treasury open for the use of tho
public institution. In the last legis
lature Messrs. Warnen and Woods both
strove for the establishment of a defin
ite Territorial Penitentiary fund, to be
raised by a percentage taxation exactly
us other funds are raised. This same
view of the snbject was and is taken by
Governor Murphy and Territorial
Auditor Vlckers. But the bill seeking
this economy was defeated in the last
Legislature by Democratic votes. The
leader of the democratic side in the
council opposed it, tooth and toenail,
V hen asked to explain his position, he
admitted that the bill was the most
meritorious measure brought before
that session of the legislature but added:
"It's a republican bill and I'll bedamn-
ed if I do a thing that will serve to
strengthen thid administration." Might
it not be well to have a republican
Legislature in Phoenix next January?
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n, W1U uc uu ohiuu. .. . t
p0 0; Cochise county to re-elect Messrs.
Warner and Woods to the legislature,
Thev havo been there before, and the
record thoy made was good. Both are
safo men, and both know well tho needs
of theJp constituenl(1. Both stand for
. ,. conomv ln the administration of
"Ic afialrs and for a lowering of the
excpssive taxation t0 which the county
:nid territory now are subiect. Both
sun of the neonle. both have hammered
,., w r
a drill head, and both today can do a
man's work In tho ugliest of stopos.
Mr. Woods has lived in Cochise county
slnco April, 1879, and Mr. Warner since
March. 1880. Their oharaotors are
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET
NATIONAL
For President
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
of Nebraska
For Vice-President
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
of Illinois
TERRITORIAL
For Delegate to Congres
MARCUS A. SMITH
of Pima
COUNTY
. For Councilman
JAMES S. ROBINSON, of Tombstone
For Assemblymen
STEPHEN ROMER, of Beuaon
EDWARD BROWN, of Bisbee
MICHAEL GRAY, of Pearce
For Sheriff
ADELBERT V. LEWIS, of Bisboe
For Treasurer
M. D. SCRIBNER, of Tombstone
For Recorder
FRANK HARE, of Tombstone
For District Attorney '
E. W. LAND, of Tombstone
For Probate Judge
(J. R. BOSTWICK, of Huachnca
For Assessor
WALTER T. FIFE, of St. David
For Surveyor
GEORGE C. CLARK, of Bisbeo
For Superintendent of Schools
E. A. NICHOLS, of Wilcov
For Supervisors
THOS R. YORK, of West Huachnca
P. J. DELEHANTY, of Benaon
B. F. GRAHAM, of Bisbeo
PRECINCT
For Justice of the Peace
GEORGE B.. WILCOX
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.1. W. WRIOHT
For Constable
A. KUNZ
JAMES PAGAN
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY' CENTRAL
COMMITTEE
B. A. PACKARD, Chairman. '
C. P. NICHOLS, Secretary.
For BUbe James Letson, H. E.Conlon.F. A Sweet,
J. S. Taylor. J. N. Jonas. V. R. Stiles, Al. J. Cun.
ntnghara and F. S. Douglas.
For Tombstone H. J. Gray anJ J B Allano
For Wlllcox-Dr. R. A Atton
For ProeJosaph Blgnon
For Fairbanks and St. 'David Charles Nojes
Fw Benson, Trs Alamos and Pool's S. Friedman
For Naco and Herford-B. J. O'Reilly
For Fort Huachuca, Huachuca Sldlnif, West Huachu-
ea, Cnrr's and AltJIer's Canyon D. K. Wardwell
For San Simon and Tevlston Jesse Hinley
For San Bernardino, Four Bar and RucNr John H.
Slaughter.
For Brannock, Wllgus, Dos Cabejas J. J. Rlgg
For Turquoise, Allddlemareh, Barrett, Hardy. Black
Diamond and Copper Bullion George Land
For Russsllvllle, Cochise and Bennett A. H. We In
Democratic Dates.
Hon. .Marcus A. Smith, candidate for
delegate to congress, and the various
county candidates on the Democratic
uwtotjvrm Bpmi iu ,Uu.B ,
on the following dates:
Willcox Saturday, October 27th.
Pearce Sunday, October 23th.
Tombstone Monday, October 29th.
Bisbee Monday, November 5tb.
Statehood.
Two years ago Oklahoma and New
Mexico, each a democratic territory
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and each with a population lurge rich.
enough to entitle it to two ropresent- For the lower house of the legisl
atives in congress, listened to the same mre, the Democratic party of the eoun-
arguments that the republicans gave
us and are giving us tnib jear, auu
elected republican delegates to Wash-
ington.
You know perfectly well that
thev did not get statehood, any more
than we did. The nearest Arizona
ever came to statehood was in theo3d
conpress. Mark Smith eot a Statehood
1.111 HifnntrVi tV,n r,nt,Krt enrnmiltW! nn
u v4VUg,t V4W 4V- wVM..-fc w --.
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territories, got It passed by
tho house
of representatives under a suspension
nf 1.1m Kiiloe rannlplno hm.lhli'iK vnlrt
w v.t iMivnvvpuMb ..w .....-.- .-,
and got it through tho senate commit-
! teo
on territories. It would have
passed the senate during the short ses-
slon but for tho hostility of Orvllle M.
Piatt, republican senator from Connoe-
ticut, who declared mat, it uecessiirj,
lie would talk tho bill to death; that is.
contlnue to debate the question and
provont Its coming to u vote until the
senate must by law adjourn. This once
and for all answers th quostlon
lion as to
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which political party really favors
statehood for Arizona, and also what
particular man has the ability to get it
for us if it is possible to get it at all.
The Legislative Ticket.
'in at least ten years, and probably
never, has a legislature assembled in
Arizona whose acts have been of the
degree of importance to the territory To secure the legislation that the
that those of the Twenty-first or next county demands and to havo the county
legislature will be. The sjtatutes of represented at Phoenix by men who
Arizona are to be completely revised, will reflect credit on the' honorable
No present territorial law will be a law name of old Cochise, vote for all the
after the next legislature has adjourned democratic nominees.
unless re-enacted. Avery competent
commission has been working on the The Great Reformer.
problem, and will recommend to the enrv Labouchere, the great En
leglslature what law should be re- lish wl.Ueri 8tatesman and reformer)
tained, what ones should be dropped sajs in his paper "Truth:"
and what oues should be more or less
changed.
The various .statutes will be moulded
Into a harmonious, non-conflicting sys
tem or code. The commission can only
recommend, the legislature must net.
Think of the importance of the work
in store for that honorable body. In
telligent, representative men will be
sent to the territorial council from most
of tho counties, but among those prac
tically sure of election, including Fin
loy of Pima, Shannon of Graham.
Blair of Pinal, Claypole of Gila, Ford
of Maricopa and Iveb of Yuma, the
only lawyer is Ivos.
It U manifestly impqrtuut that, un
der the circumstances, Cochise should
be represented by at least one able,
conservative, broad minded man thor
oughly learned in the law. This has
been thoroughly thought out. The
principal reason that the Hon. B. A.
Packard declined his party's nomina
tion this year was his belief that with
all his experience in the territorial
council he was not sufficiently qualified
In this particular sense to deal with
these important matters.
Dr. Sweet and many other Democrats
favored the nomination of Judge Reilly
for tho council on this very ground.
Hut for personal reasons the judge de-
clined to make the run. Morgan and
Upton were spoken of, but finally the
county central committee, to whom the
selection of a candidate had been left,
hit upon the right man. That man is
JameB S. Robbinson o! Tombstone.
The master mind of the legislature,
whlch adopted our present code of
laws, was Ben Goodrich of this county.
Judge Robinson was at the time closely
associated with Mr. Goodrich and is as
familiar with our present code as am
man in the territory and has closely
observed the effeets of thooe laws dur
ing the time that they have been in
operation. Judge Robinson was born
in Virginia 64 years ago, and when a
mere boy studied law In the office of
his father who was one of the leading
legal lights of the state of Texas. He
has been a respected and prominent
practitioner of his profession all his
life.
For many years he was a member of
the Republican party, but in '96 he re
fused to follow that party in the de
partures that it made from the repub
licanism of Lincoln and Blaine and be
came a supporter of Mr. Bryan. In
Pnlifnrnlfi ha win bnsv ns nn nrHtnr
aiJd writer on the slde of democrat
dnring the campaign of thut yeiu.
g. tjme fae hag be(m jn fo(Jt
accord with the political policy of that
great champion of the people' rights,
On questions that particularly concern
our county, he is perfectly sound. He
is opposed to the proposed bullion tax,
to county division and to woman's bull-
rago for the present. History can i o-
neat itself in that Cochise can furnish
the leader in revising our code of laws
just as It did In the time of Ben Good-
ty have selected three representative
men of ability and integrity.
Stephen Roeraer, of .Benson, was the
man chosen from that section of the
countv. He is tho agent at Benson for
Wolls-Farso Express company. Only
smart business men and those, too, of
ti-ind nnd nndnuhted honestv can on?
1,1.1 c.,V. o W,,ir.
tJVUVl OUUi tt SU11lilS
umu BUUll tt IJUSIUUU.
To especially ropresent Bisbee and
the oottle luterests, Mr. J.E. Brown, of
1, .., ,.. .-,!,.f, nn rl, t inl.-ot Ho
uu ia tun If) 11 ". jmvvu .. . -
)jnS lived In the countv over twenty
yours acd was for nine vean foreman
0( the Chlricahua Cattlo company. He
g familiar with every section of tho
county and its needs.
Col. Miko Gray has repeateiil.v iep-
resented this countv in tho legislature
ttd has always been elected by large
majorities. Ho alwavs plays an impor-
taut part in the work of that body when
he U a member and will probably bo
V
cho-,en speaker when the new legisla
ture convpnes.
These men are pledged to repeal the
obnoxious poll tax law. The republi
can county platform is silent upon that
subject, but as It ha endorsed the ad
ministration of Governor Murphy who
signed the bill making that law, its
nominees are presumably in favor of it
"Were I in America I would vote for
Bryan. T would vote for. Bryan be
cause he it more democratic than his
opponent. Bryan's crusade against
trusts means that he objects to pluto
crats ruling the country in their own
interests. His opposition to the enter
ing on a scramble for outside territory,
is merely the doctrine which, uotil
within a few years ago, was heldV.by
every American. It is this. doctVitiw
which hat. made the United mates o'
prosperous. "Capitalists and imperialists arojactu
ated by the same. They wanSffo, di
vert attention from the maintenance of
democracy at home by Haunting before
their country the glory of an increas
ing empire. Semi-civilized lands ac
quired by the sword are their best
hunting fields
"Never jet has a people or nation
benefitted by such acquisitions. Im
perialism has made our plutocrats, our
masters for the uonce. They will
remain the master until imperialism is
exploded
"The Americans have an excellent
constitution, but it won't stand the
strain of military adventure abroad."
Irishmen everywhere in America
will be delighted to learn from Senator
Beveridge, who boasted last -winter
that he was the spokesman in the sen-
ate of tho administration, that Ireland
is peaceful, prosperous and happy un-
der the imperial rule of England and
that it is the intention of the Ameri-
can administration to make other Ire-
lands of our purchased dependencies
and colonies. Of course, if imperial
ism has made Ireland happy it should
bring content to the Philippines. It
hasn't done so yet, and undoubtedly
every Irishman can tell why. He cas
explain also how long it will require to
reconcile the Filipinos. The Journal.
"I read in tho morning paper a
speech made by Mr. Hanna yesterday
in which he said there are no trusts.
Whon I used to want humorous reading
I would go to those books which con
tained a collection of the writings of
humorists. But now when I want to
read something funny I read Mr.
Hannn'b serious oampaign speeches
There are no trusts; can you expect
the Republican party to destroy the
trusts when the leader of the Republi
can party says there are no trusts?"
Bryan,
While in Benson, we called on Steve
Romer. the nominee of Cochise county
democrats for tho assembly, and found
hini one of tbose pleasant fellows who
their fellow citizens delight to honor.
Mr. Romer has 'been a citizen of Co-
chise county for several years, and a
trusted employee of the Wells-Fargo
Express company, as well as of the Ari-
zoua ltnd Southeastern Express com-
imnv. A little talk with tho business
mtn of the town convinced us thatSte'e
will be elected Star.
AU small enterprises are boing crush
ed out. It tlilb state of affairs is per
mitted f o continue, avast majority of the
people of this'country will be depend
ent for occupation and the necessities
of life entirely upon the will of a few
trust magnates. These trust magnates
in the business lines which they have
captured and control, are more abso-
At their
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whim tllOUands Upon
thousands of
- it 1
,
work-men can can u ium.. "-
out oi employment aim uiuuimi auu
tneil' MtlUlieS leifc illiuub mo
neoess
ities of life. At their will wages can,
In a moment aad without notice,
be greatly reduced and man a
home made to suffor want. At the
more caprleo of some trust magnate
an honest employe eun bo dismissed
and deprived forever oi any op nirwiu-
ty to follow that business which alone
he understands and In the inwtery of
which he has devoted most of his life.
Swamon of Virginia.
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