Arizona republican., 1905-05-02
THE CITIZENS REST
The Last Meeting of the Campaign al
 the Doris Last Night.

The most extraordinary municipal campaign in the history of Phoenix closed last night. There has been nothing especially spectacular about it but there has been a wonderful earn estness There has been a general dis regard of political lines. that is demo- cratic political lines. it being reason ably predicted that J. C. Adams will receive many more democratic votes for mayor than the democratic candi- date himself.
 The women and children Of Phoenix ] have been led excitedly into this strug- ! gle so that at the democratic meetings l there have generally been far more la l dies than voters. That was true of the meeting of last Saturday night and al- so of last nights meeting.
 At the last gathering the Doris the after was we'll filled in anticipation that some great thing was going to ] happen; a last card was going to be l played; somebody or something was l going to be exposed in such a manner that he or it would never dare show its |. face here or some place else. Thus very large crowd was obtained by false |. pTetenses. a crime of which young man was found guilty in dis trict court yesterday. After the very tame meeting some disappOint- ed persons asked if an indictment would not lie against the promoters of that assemblage.
 The first speaker of the evening was MT. Powers, the candidate for mayor Leaving the theme of gambling he took up his own affairs and as president of a smelting company alluded to an ar ticle in the Republican last Sunday in l which letters were printed from an in- vestor in Illinois saying that he had invested $40 in a shelter company of which Mir Powers was president.
 The Republican printed vOluminOus correspondence between the investor and MT. Powers on the subject of the smelter which never seemed to get any closer. At last the investor complained that Mir. Powers neglected to reply to his inquiries about the shelter. Con corning this MT Powers said that there had been such a correspondence but it had never occurred to him that the in : vestor wanted his money back. He had rever said so in so many words; 5 having confidence himself in the frui- tion of his several year old smelter pro- ject, he couldn't conceive that any one else should lose faith in it. It has seemed to him that the investor might have been slightly impatient on ac-
 
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 Shelters are not built in a day. They are largely the outgrowth of time and there will be plenty of time until eternity sets in and then, smelters will be found where they are needed if the biblical description of hell is literally accurate.
 The other speaker was MT Cleary, the chairman of the meeting. MT. Cleary kept himself pretty close to the main issue though at one time there was a shiver of apprehension lest his tory repeat itself. MT. Cleary read Q telegraphic dispatch in which it was stated that the king of Siam had issued a decree prohibiting gambling within his kingdom. The king also gave his reasons fer doing away with gambling. | Mr. Cieary wanted to know if the Phoenicians were going to permit themselves to be out done by the Siamese. The speaker described Siam