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Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-21
WHAT HEARST 10 UP TO.

Tss kassas City Journal is rsspos. sibls for tie statement that it is be. coming more clearly apparent every day that William Randolph Hearst 's position in ths present campaign is merely that of a trouble maker who hopes to find in the spo,ls of the pres. idential struggle some material upon which to feed his own political ambi. ton. The yellow editor would have us believe that he is actuated by high and patriotic motives, and that his on. ly interest in attacking Bryan and Taft is in furtherance of the people E welfare. But Hearst is the carrion bird of evil instincts who is watching the battle with the idea of fattening upon whichever of the combatents may be left upon the field dead or sorely wounded.
 Hearst is doing what he can to kill Bryan politically. This is merely Se. cause Bryan is likely to be defeated. lf Taft were the weaker candidate. the New York editor would not hesi. tate to concentrate the batteries of his abuse upon him. Months ago the Journal ventured the belief that Hearst was seeking the further dis. ruption of the Bryan party and the elimination of Bryan himself in order that four years hence it might be DOS. "bie for Hearst and his fellow con. sp'rators to gather up the scattered fragments of Bryanism and Demoera. ey, Populism and Socialism, and form reorganized opposition to Republi. canism, with William Randolph Hearst as the head of the presidential ticket. The more Hearst talks and the more active he becomes in the present cam. palgn, the 6rmer is the conviction that this theory was well founded.
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-21
THEY CAN'T WIN.

Never in the history of the Demo cratic party has n more earnest effort been made to elect Larrazolo and de feat the Republican nominee, Mir. An. drews.
 True, the effort has not been the work of united Democracy but it has been the undivided effort of few leaders who have spent both time and money freely.
 The result, however, has already shown them that they cannot win and right now, at the time when the Re. publican are really beginning to cam. paign in earnest, there is little doing in the Democratic camp. Larrazolo is still keeping mp the pretense by mak. ing solitary trips here and there, fol. lowing the lines laid down for him by the campaigners at the opening of his fight some months ago and which nave since been found to be entirely mis. placed. '-t
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lG year. he ha. been making the same sort of argument. and there IS abso- lutclv nothing new in them; even his climatic flights bear evidence of age. The tnrin. the trusts. tnc corporations all get theirs.
 But what have we got to do with any of these questions SO long as we have no vote of them' We want state hood -o we can have a voice iu na. tional economic matters. aud Ralph Cameron is the man who can get it for us. After We are full ncdgcd. citizens we will talk about national matters. Smith throws his arms out to the So cialists. but he hands them the wrong bait if they are susceptible, but we do not believe they are. They adhere Co principle. an unknown quality among dcmagogucs, hence Smith makes no effect upon them.
 Mark smiths speech at Globe was that of an cgotist. Fancying himself iu inc vortex of assault upon the floor of the house of representatives, he viv,dly illustrated the impending brickbats that would bc hurled at the new man, and he shuddered to think how even he himself might fail. Turn. ing to he onicebolders on the plat form he shouted defiance at them, nip. ping in the bud any unsposen ambi. tion tha, might have lowered in the breast of Hon. George W. P. llnpt and the other able statesmen present. He impressed his ows great importance with that .loqusncs of speech for which he is famed in Arizona. and de plorsd that he was better known out. side Arizona than here. and better ap. preeisted. Had he remained is Ari. nona more during the last l6 years ns would he better known. Dougla. Dis patch
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not vet recovered their senses, that they were really urging bis cs to stiii greater lengths.
 Not convinced by this verdict of the Democratic primaries, the lndepen' dence party. heartened perhaps by the feet that Georgia mad given the party inc brilliant but cratic John Temple Graves. q candidate for the vice pres, idency. entered the field with a reform program more elaborate than that which carried iIoke Smith to defeat.
 The tremendous majority for Brown may he taken as A sign that the sense less and indiscriminate war against corporations is drawing to close.
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-21
FAITH IN CAMERON.

Happy indeed Is the circumstance wnen a political party welcomes can didates in whom it has the absolute confidence and for whom it has the anbounded respect. the Republican party feels for it's standard bearer Ralph Cameron. With the enthusiasm, interest and delight bred from such situation, Prescott Republicans await the appearance of the Highland Chief On the streets and later on the plat. form.
 Tae confidence rises from belief in Cameron s sincerity of purpose and ability to accomplish things. Both these qualities have been proven al. ready by the candidate, even if a questioner goes no further back in the Cameron career than his present campaign. These have been far reach. ing, energetic. lt has accomplished things for Cameron just as Cameron when elected will accomplish things for Arizona.
 Of Cameron it mas been said he is no orator. Just what this means we are uncertain. No man is m orator until he speaks for something in which he believes, something he desires ar. dently. Then any man is an orator. If it is meant that Cameron is not a declaimcr, "speiler" on any subject and principle, for any motive, thrown to the tip of the tongue, then we are glad to say he is not. But Gamer. on can talk statehood, anywhere he talks it nc is an orator.
 Consequently it Is with no feeling of distrust either in the ability of the speaker or the sincerity of the man that Republicans will turn out tonight to do honor to their candidate, both m the parade that precedes the meet ing and at he huge gathering sure to | assemble to hear the next delegate | to congress-
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-21
ADOPT NEW TACTICS.

Az compared with the consistency of the Republican territorial campaign and campaign arguments, those adopt ed with successive rapidity and kaleid- oscopic change of hue by the Demo. crais are udicrous to say the least. The lack of system ur organization of the Democrats is hes, shown in the manner of conducting the campaign by the various Mark Smith editors, each of whom has his own ideas of arguments which will best appeal to the voters.
 Heretofore. Kelly editorials brswed in Douglas have been considered good enough for the Kelly paper in Tucson, but the Smith campaign managers in. sisted on A change, believing that sdit. orials for Bisbee and Douglas con sumption wonld not sPpesl to the peo pie of Pima conafy. .Iohno Duabar was ssst to Tucson to niY up Smith dope for Tncsos coasumptiou and JOhno, though he has lived losg is Arizona and mas run sll kinds of nswsps DOTS. Republican, Democratic, Independent and ioist statehood, seem. 10 he in bad.
 He has started out by accusing Gov. ernor kibbey and other federal ofiei. als of heinz opposed to any kind of statehood, when all Arizonans know that Governor Kibbey has for years led The fight against joint statehood and for single statehood. Jobno for. gets that it was Governor Kibbey who protested against the passage of Coun- cil Concurrent resolution No. 13, fay bring joint statehood, introduced by Senator Ives at the instance of Mark Smith. Johno forgcts that it was Gov. ernor kibbey who jeopardized his con. tinuation in office by opposing Presi. dent Roosevelt, and he likewise for. gets that it was Governor Kibbey who went south to meet the president and persuaded the chief executive that Arizona was entitled to single state. hood and obtained Roosevelt's prom. ise to do what he could to get sepa- rate statehood for Arizona.
 In accusing Governor Kibbey and other prominent Republicans of dis. loyalty to Arizona, Johno has bitten off more than he can masticate and his attempts to create Mark Smith senti. ment by such insulting attacks on Ari. zona's most loyal citizens, will proba. bly result in another move on the Democratic editorial ehessboard. -- Bis. bee Miner
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-21
ANTIoUATED sKULDUGGERY.

When thc present campaign began we bnl no thought of admiration eitb. CT for the Democratic standard bearer or the hcrarchy of corporation hcneh- men who were to plan and direct the mancu,crs of the political fight, But wo secretly hoped that somewhere ID the Democratic organization someone would show spark of intelligence. or ecvcrncss, perhaps originality. and oenorn,e little attrnctivcncss into the Democratic campaign, otherwise nnuseating on account of what it is seeking to do.
 For that hope, mnnifestly go utterly absurd wnen one considers the make. up of that Democratic hierarchy, we apologize first to ourselves, since the hope was clandestine, and second to the citizens of the territory, insomuch a. ws have made the confession. How anyone with intimate knowledge of the Prescott fountain head of Dsnoe- rscy, could have countenanceI such s hope passes understanding. That cIev' srsess, originality, any attractive word or action could come from such sources. is beyosd the Night of imag'. nation. But hope takes some danger ous ehsnces.
 Yet is the most disconsolate mo neuts of our disappointment we never expected such hackneyed, obsolete tactics ss the publication of an snony nous letter, attempting bit of "muck .rsking" of the opposition can didate. Asiounded mildly expresses our feeling when we saw that Hard Rock Miner communication. It wa' ss though some shell. game mau walked lup Co us on the street and asked us tc take A chance on the "what the eye sees the mind must brlieve.' We can not think of this latest idiOcy of tho Democratic headquarters with anger only sadness, q deep sadness that ir these days of wireless telegraph ano divided skirt, such A thing should oe cur.
 The anonymous letter was antiquat cd 10 the Homeric days of mock.rsk ing. Even the Egyptian would have attached an identifying hisroglypbi' ts any communication be dscme, worth consideration. The only valu, of any expose is the ns'Rs that pro duces tue revelations.
 Sad are we that anyone could have thought Prescott voters were cut {, tsa pattern of aes who could b, duped by sH anonymous letter. Sa, are we for our misplaced hope at thu begiasing of the campaign. Yet wha better could bs expected, than liar, Rock MiSer" letter. from A soft boile, politician.
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-21
A CONTRADICTORY RECORD.

Mark smith Is all tnings to all me' In the sheep country he is n wool pro teetionist and down here he is A Bryan free trader. In the south he claims to have secured the passage of the bil' taxing the Santa Fe $l75 per mle while up in the towns on that line ne Keeps mum on that point, because a" the people up there know that me der
 egate failed to get the bill passed anu n lobby sent to Washington ITO"
 Flagstaff succeeded in doing $" Down here the delegate is given cred' Tor securing the appropriation for 'n' Federal building at Phoenix, bn' iH that city there is n stack of telegram' signed M. A. Smith and dated WasD' lngton, telling the Phoenicians tha' " would be impossible to get the appro priation. Marcus keeps mum about the federal building while in ManeoP' county because all the people up fne'' know that the board of trade and nV' M. A. Smith secured the approprla''O' for the public building. Bisbee Mine"
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-21
THE GEORGIA SIGN.
Says the Republicans;

Says the Republican;
 The election in Georgia discloses that those who rode on the top wave of reform were thrown high and dry upon the rocks of defeat; that the wave has reccded and that there is an indication of the old time health. ful calm that prevailed before the era of trust busting set in.
 Brown, the Democratic candidate for governor, was elected by the unprecc. tented majority of l05,00O over tae Independence Party candidate, who stood for all and more of those ro. forms which brought about the down. fall of lIoke Smith nt the primaries, Brown was then the candidate of what may he called the reaetionarics, those who had grown weary of the senseless assault upon railroads and corpora. iions generally, resulting in the sus pension or curiailment of operations ihroughoutt ne state. MT. Smith be ieved, until the count of the primaries was announced, that the people had
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SMITH QUITS.

ss the veteran delegate has quit. Marcus "Aureolc" Smith has aban' sssed the sinking ship. the very first sf the rats to go. The man who began lis political fight with au arrogance shst looked upon the candidacy or h' exponent ss joke. ha. run away with est shame.
 In view of inc political indications throughout the territory smith. m abandoning Arizons and his campaign, has doubtless done the logical thing. Nc ha. seen the handwriting on th" wall, read it accurately, and taken the warning. He has decided ;0 waste ao sore time upon a hopeless cause. Foresceing that few months hence he win no longer be a parasite upon the government. he has gone east to court is any way possible the favor of Bry. as and other Democratic leaders in srder that he may he looked after in event of a Democratic victory.
 Gloomy indeed must be the outlook fer Smith success in Arizona if he ssasps SO franticzlly al the unsub.tsn. Sai Bryan hope. Truly the man ia des' psrste. With every political prophet predicting tse election of Taft, Saith tsrns iron a battlefield where ks has wss many a fight io see what spoil As ess pick up from the victory of ss. stber.
 Yet futile ss seems this eastern trip, it is logical enough, logical sa it is esld blooded and white fsathered. xsaith by leaving Arizona can relieve himself of much useless hard work. Plnce himself away from tae sting of jvst criticism, though we have our sksptieism about this hurting him se- verely, and enjoy himself in laziness at the expense of the Democratic "bsrrel" Now and then he can de liver an address to people who do not know him, to whom he is not q thread. bare figure, a nackneyed metaphor and source of irritation. Perhaps he may create some interest in those new fields, draw n little attention and thereby salvc his vanity made raw by the rubbing it has received in this Arizona campaign. Yes, this flight is logical.
 But somehow Arizona cannot help Feeling the regret of shame at seeing one of it's sons "quitting," abandon. ing even a hopeless fight. The men sac mas produced have always. if they had no other virtues, the courage to stay by the colors. But after all, nothing could more ftly brand the man who so long misrepresented the territory in congress, than this last act of his DO. litical career. It stripes him with the yellow streak.
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-21

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 Bu, The fact is apparent that the Democratic party is not in the pres ,ut hgh, \ large percentage of Dem ,,r,iIr voters are stating openly that ibr, arc for Mr. Andrews. th" Repuh li.,n nominee, and statehood, for which hc stands, in prcfcrcnr" io Lar rlolo.
 Take for instance the county of Fer r,liIlo. where the Democratic tcrrl'or. aI rcalduartcrs are maintained.
 lu tha, county, Mir. Andrews VIII pr,bably receive over one half of the prm1ra'r votes in addition to the -aiI Republican majority. What can inc Democratic campaigncrs expect when they can not hold ihe Democrat il, .,n,,s in the very county from which tbcy are directing their campaignf
 Tho leaders realize very clearly that laralolo has no chance and during trc past few days, there has been n decided slump in Democratic cnihusI' a.m.
 On the other hand, the Republican campaigurts are openly claiming tbe election of Mr Andrews by safe ma ,oriiv. In fact, the only question is how large they can make the majority
 |, tI.,r candidate
 A. stated by Governor Curry Chair. man Bursum and others who are tax ing au active part is the Republican campaign. there |. only one issue be fore th. people at this time and it is Andrew. and statehood. L.arralolo would got nave made ' strong race uadsr any condition, but when confronted with the present sit nation he is absolutely incapable of offering snv genuine reason why he should he elected. That he would be powerless to secure the admission 10 th. union of New Mexico, is admitted by even some of his Democratic sup portcrs who, however, have fought un. der its banner simply out of party reg ularity and for uo other reason.
 The Democrats cannot win aud as the campaign progresse. and taeir methods of procedure are noted, the impression is created that they are merely going through the form of cam. ia igHibg because ,i is n presidential year, and not because they now have or have ever had any chance of elect ing their candidate.
 Their strongest argument IS to point to the race made by MT. Andrews in his last campaign. When it is remem' bcred. however, that the present terri. toriai administration is ' Republican administrative and not q fake reform one, secretly plotting against iis party candidate, then that argument sinks into insigniasanes.
 MT. Andrews will be elected sssiIy ' and so one knows it better than the men who are supposed ts bs rnsaing the Lsrrazois campaign
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-21
WAKING UP.

Ihe Democrats of Arizona are inst tnmbling to the fact that there is , political campaign on and that the '''e ido' Marcus Aurelius the Lacary. nose IS about to he consigned back to the blue grass.
 m saying so the Miner may he g"''ty or lese majeste, but we still he. heVe that there are at least n hundred Ar'zonans of both parties who arc suf. nclen'ly educatedand mentally eouip. ped to represent this territory in con. gress. Bisbee Miner.
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-21
CAMERON IS HEROIC SIZE.


 Naturally after the risi, of the cen. tral figure of z political campaign to a community that has heard much of him, the morning following his sp' pearapc- is s morning of criticism. Every person if he is not asking oth' CTS, |. asking oimself: "Did the big fellow measure up to heroic sizef'
 Ralph Csmsrou has come and gone The morning of criticism desls with the personality be has left behisd. What is the verdict of Prsscott You can rese the auswer in ths ca thusiasn and confidence of every Re publican you meet. Those of the faint heart who had misgivings about tse result of the approaching election have east those misgivings by the wayside, perhaps lave forgotteS they ever existed.
 Such is the widespread effect of ! tCancron's visit to Prescott, The mes " Nf', rhae'u V''"f esP talked to nave fallen captive to the personality of the Republican stand ard bearer.
 To begin, the sincerity of Cameron is as manifest as his open. handed good will toward everyone he greets. This is not good will and faked friendli' ness put forth in au angle for votes. lt is n natural, spontaneous attitude toward the world in general and the man to whom he is speaking in par 1 ticular.
 But friendliness alone is not suf. iicient height to reach heroic size. IL , is Cameron's sincerity in the things he is going after that brings nim into the class of the "big fellows" No one who met him and heard him has any distrust in Cameron desire. for statehood and his intention to do all in the power of human endeavor to secure statehood.
 That brings Ralph Cameron to he roic size for Arizona at least. We are on, for statehood; we want it bad and anyone who is cut to the pattern of n man who can obtain tht state hood is heroic size for us.
 Let ms put it down right here that we distrust not a iot or little Cam eron's ability as a speaker, judgmen, as n thinker, and his success as a doer
 In the red fire and black words of the present campaign, among all tb, editorial and clocutionary' absurjitie, of the "tough footed' press, nothing quite SD absurd has been brought forth as the attempt to discredit Cameron :, fitness for delegate to congress. Tn, absurdity of this, Cameron himself with excellent good taste free iron brazcn cgotism that was the featur, of n speech little over n month before on the same platform, showed to tn, amusement of his hearers.
 We do not know what particular ability needed for delegate to con gross that Cameron lacks. Those h., opponents have mentioned are too ri diculous to bear attention. But we dc know one quality he has, n delegate must nave to secure statehood, and that Is energy. And we may as vel add that we have never marked any
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Mining location notices for sale ~ tae Journal Miner ofIice.
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DESERTS FIGHT AS HOPELESS WASTE OF
 EFFORT
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game once too often and that aefs,, was staring him in the face. He e,i,i cizcd Dillon and Robinson, for ,bs, assumed ovcr.c confidence and decla,.l| flat footedlv that SO far nothing n,,, tical had been done to assist him ;, his campaign. He confessed that ,b. promise of pamphlet to be issusa later in the campaign, setting forth aa the things he had accomplished a Congress, had fallen flat.
 "That was op Saturday sigst u.. cejipg the Monday when Smith ssa his meeting at the Elks Theatre. M day Sunday hs- remained at the &, Michael Hotel, practically alone. wIm hs arrived at Prescott 10 one wss 4, the trsis to meet hin but Dillon. Tl, old crowd of admirers was nissips Monday the meeting at the Elks Tbu. ter was only fairly attended, despi,, some sforts. put forth by Dillon spl Robinson. When Smith was introdv,. cd he wss greeted very silently h comparison with the ovations of pr viou' campaigns. Then be proceeded to give an exhibition of childish ten. per which sent scores out of the lsu and disgusted hundreds who renainsd plying the wreck of the former mag netic Mark Smith.
 "Smith left Prescott in A rage. Hi, meeting at Wickenburg was ano,aer frost and when he reached Phoenir and had his conference there with Dil lon, he opened up his batteries on ts. kellyr and their syndicated news papers. smith, ] am informed on the very highest authority, declared angri ly that the influence of the Kelly pap i CTS was nil. He said that the whole outfit bore the stamp of s newspaper and that sspired to the dctatorship of the Democratic party of Arizona He. said such an idea wss distsstefsl to Democrats and demsnded a ehasp is the editorial policy.
 "Thss it was that John Dunbar ws, Isssooed by the Kellys and ssn, hsrs ts write few original editorials for the Star Duabar is still on deck s Tscson, himself disgusted vita tts conduct of Smith's campaign and CT csedingly doubtful about the outcOss of the election.
 Following the conference with Dl' Ion at Phoenix, Sraith came to Tucson, and here admitted to ny informant, . very prominent Democrst, that Li' campaign had been wofully msmar' aged and that he was beaten msn. He repeated his account of the frgia receptions met with in the north and admitted t0at in all probability Coco nino, Navajo, Mojave and Apaes' counties would go for Cameron"
 In order that the desertion of Smith should not appear too barefaced, is was arranged here to send Frank Cor, the attorney and lobbyist of the South ern Pacific, to Yavapai county and act as spell binder, and if possible procure the assistance of powerful in terests in the north. Cox left here early this morning. Some of tho strongest supporters of Smith are dis gnested with him and say that ne hs' shown "the yellow streak" and they admit today that the fight is hopeless for the Democratic ticket when dives' cd of Smiths personality on the plat form.
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-21
DEMAaoaIo SPEECHES.

Mark smith is a demagogue for the reason that he charges up all the evils against the Republican party, the old, time'worn talk of the Democratic ora. tor. His speeches take one over the
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startling demonstration of this quality in Smith
 Ralph Cameron is gone on his win ming way lIc has left behind n per sonnlity of heroic size.
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Editorial Comment
STATEHOOD FOR ARIZONA.

admission the territories of New Aeos ad National Psor.