Williams news., 1908-10-31
END OF THE CAMPAIGN
The Democratic Ticket Worthy of the Support of
 Every Citizen of CoConino County

dent Cleveland that the bill wa,
 vetoed, and that Mark Smith sat ir
 Cleveland's private office while the
 latter dictated a telegram removing
 from office the then governor O
 the territory, Governor Hughes
 who was seeking to have the bil
 passed over the presidents veto
 This is one of the many debts O gratitude the people of Coeoninc county owe Mark Smith, and nc amount of political buncombe Cal dispel it's effect.
 The following unconscious humol is from the Coconino Sun of the 23d inst.
 "The @ discussion of railroad freight rates, which show great discrimination against Arizona as as well as between local points, il
 might be pertinent to ask our democratic friends what they have done for~the public along that line during the past twenty years or more. all of which time they have controlled the territorial legisla- ture. If they have done nothing in twenty years, why not try some other party for time."
 The Sun spots must have been in evidence on the 23d, and though 1t may not be aware of the fact, by reference to the Journal of the council and house of the 24th leg lslature 1t may easily be ascer- tained that the last council con- tained EIGHT republican and FOUR democrats, while the house con- tained SEVENTEEN democrats and SEVEN republicans. The republi cans therefore had a majority of two in the council; what did they do with it? On the 18th of Febru- ary, 1907, the house passed the three cent fare bill, which provided for a reduction of the fares or all railroads in the territory to three cents per mile. Later. to be exact, on March 3. the council by a vote of SEVEN to FIVE defeated this bill, every democrat in the council. augmented by the vote of Hon. H c. Lockett, republican councilman from Coconino, voting for the bill, while every republican in the council, with the exception noted above. voted against it. The seven and one half cent freight bill, which sous ht to reduce the freight rates on all railroads in the territory from a maximum rate of fifteen cents per ton per mile to seven and one-half cents per ton per mile, met with exactly the same fate. Mir. Citizen, when you get on the cars and pay five and six cents per mile passage, and Mir. Merchant, when you are adding up your freight bills remember who is re sponsible for these conditions, the republican council of the 24th leg istature.
 Every democrat in Coconino county can we'll feel proud of the county ticket that his party has placed in the field this year. The county could have been secured from one end to the other and a better body of men could not have been found. Individually they are representative men. and collect Ively they form a ticket that not only every democrat, bat every cit izen, who votes for the welfare of Eis community, can conscientious ly support.
 At the head of the ticket is
 COL. GEORGE HOCHDERFFER, the candidate for councilman. Col. Hochderffer has resided in Coco nino county since almost beyond the memory of the oldest inhab bit ant, and if there is anything wrong with him nobody has yet been able to find it out. Scrupulously hon. est, man of rare good judgment, and one who can be depended upon to protect the interests of Coconino county and the entire territory with neither the hope nor the de sire for reward by courting future political preferment, the voters of Coconino will give evidence of their faith in him by sending him to them in the next territo- rial council Col Hochderffer has been connected with the militia for many years, and the "boys" who would fight with him should duty call will show their love for the colonel by fighting for him in the battle of ballots next Tuesday.