Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-13
WHY CAMERON? IS QUESTION
 VOTERS ASK
That's Easy-The Republican Warhorses of Arizona Were Too Sagacious to Measure Swords With Mark Smith.

The more they trot Cameron around the country the larger will be the vote for Mark Smith. Ralph may be a good fellow, but his address is poor, and mentally he is decided light weight. If the Democrats by some accident do discover that Cameron is in the race, that is mere knowledge than the can didate win have acquired when the vote Is counted next November. After looking the man over, the voters are asking, Why Cameron ?-Arizona Sil- yer Belt
 Why Cameron is easily answered The Republican warhorses of Arizona were entirely too sagacions to at tempt to measure swords with Mark Smith, the victorious plumed knight of the anti-ioint statehood fight, and many other hard-fought battles in the interests of the people of Arizona. The Republican warhorses of Arizona knew that the men of Arizona, re gardless of party, were eager to show their depreciation and gratitude of Mark Smiths grand work by return ing him to an official position which he has filled so ably. The Republican leaders were too wise to waste their time in fruitlesS race; but, for the sake Of appearances, some one must run, and Ralph Cameron was selected to be the seape goat of the sins of his party chief of which is the joint statehood infamy, turned down by q S5 per cent vote in Arizona, and that is the kind of vote Raluh Cameron is up against The old Republican cry of sending a man to Washington in sympathy with the administration is again heard in the land. If this is a good argument. then the Democrats will appropriate it, for their own use, as all indications are that Bryan will be the next president Of the United States, and Mark Smith is in sympa- thy with hisD and he with Mark Smith During the last congressional election, our Republican friends in sisted that a man in sympathy with the administration be sent to Wash ington. As that administration was trying to force oint-statehood on us, in a desperate attempH to wipe pos sible Democratic state of the map, delegate from Arizona in sympathy with the administration would certain ly have been out.of sympathy with go per cent of the people of Arizona, and disastrous to them. ThA people of Arizona did wisely when they sent Mark Smith to Washington; they are keenly aware of this fact; they know that the present is no time to expert ment: that only a tried, true and seasoned statesman can be trusted at the helm, and they know that Mark Smith is that man, When it comes hatxx-aaa thaSn the voters of Arizona may well ask themselves Why Cameron for con gress. And they can do so in the same spirit that a man who seeks skilled physician for his family pre- fers to employ man at the top or a medical science rather than to en- DNoy a horse doctor, no matter how gooez a man or citizen the horse doctor may be Again, for years, our Re publican hriends nave claimed that delegate in sympathy with the admin istration would, secure statehood for Arizona Then iwhy is it that New Mexico. with her Republican dele gates in congress and larger popula- tion than Arizonas has not secured statehood?
 New Mexico aas tsent some very able and eApSTleucecl hepuDicdAs Io represent her in congress, and they have not been able Co secure state hood for their Republican territory from Republican admirtistrations al lied to colonial dependencies and ac' Guisition of distant lands by con quest, where the flag floats with thousand or more miles between It and the constitution, vita Scarcely a hope of the two being united, and over a people who. of necessity and from actual conditions, must look up on it with feelings similar to those oi the gentlemen who threw theftea into Boston harbor and those other gen tImen who saw the Britishi flag ad' vancing up Bunker hill, while they kept their powder dry tS shoot the
 men who bore it.