Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-21
From wedne sday.s palIy)

southern portion of the territory as his private preserves, capable of roll. isg up any majority necessary 10 over come Cameron strength in the north, he is going Co experience jar on elcc ton day that will make his teeth rat tle for the period of office that remains to him after November 2.
 The southland is no longer smiths balliwiek. If it is counted his citadel, there surely is turmoil and trouble in the one Smith stronghold.
 All reports from that part of the territory point 10 this conclusion. Kv' cry person who has given the political situation in the south any notice, whether he is Democrat or Republican, brings from the south the same news. All word is alike. Smith is fading away before the heat of diSapproval. He is the snowman of Arizona poll tics.
 The most emphatic first hand infor nation of the smith defectionS in the south that has yet reached Prescott i- the report of Robert r.. Morrison, who has just returned from a week s cam paigning with Cameron through the so. called Smith country. Morrison, who himself has made rattling campaign for delegate. fight that is still spok en of in Arizona political circles. is probably better able to judge accurate ly the situation than any other man in Arizona.
 "I joined Cameron and his party, = said Morrison yesterday, "at Douglas just previous to meeting in that won. derful shelter town. 1 was utterly un prepared for such large and enthuSias tic meetings as we had there and all during the week 1 spent with the par. ty.
 "The Cameron sentiment along the southern border in counties that have been usually attributed to Smith for time dazed me. It was so surprising, too unexpected to one who had been schooled to look for something differ. ent in that portion of the territory.
 "Thc antagonism to Smith is not local to any one place. IL is scattered over the entire southland. You find it where you least expect to find it.
 CT attribute this in addition to the fact that the entire territory is tired of Smith to the work of Hoval A.. Smith, the territorial chairman. Smith not only has n wonderful personal fol lowing in Cochisc and ncighboring counties where men young and old hold him in the respect of warm, tried friendship, but he has exceptional ex. ecutive ability and has the sponta- neous enthusiasm for Cameron and an. tagonism for Smith welded into per feet organization. The young men of those counties form the backbone of the sentiment against Smith. Among this element Iloval Smith is heroic figure
 But let it not he thought that Cam. eron K not doing his part. He is the most magnificent campaigner I have here twenty-five years. Wherever Cameron goes he throws spell of magnetism that wins, whether he is addressing large gathering from n platform or talking ,o few miners in the face of n drift.
 ''l have never seen such campaign. firm, hc Is just as fresh as he was the day after his nomination.
 "At Douglas the day joined the party we had a monster meeting that indicated the tenor of the feeling in the south. The way the remarks of the speakers were received by people whc six years ago would have hissed at the same criticism of Smith, showed the drift of southern sentiment. Ref. erences to the "Tearful Canddate' with his "Dear old Cochise" were always hailed with laughing applause.
 When we moved over to Bisbcc the same scenes were repeated. \ monster meeting preceded by strik- ing torchlight parade showed that His hce was Cameron as well as Douglas.
 "Thosc who are in n position to know the drift in Cochise and arc OK. ccptionally conservative assured the party that smiths majority would be thnned down this year to thread inc county.