Arizona republican., 1908-10-18
ENTHUSIASTIC
 W|CKENBURG Visit of Kibbey and Cameron
 Event of the Year ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT
First Incandescents to Glim- mer Along Hassayampa. Power Project Progressing. News of the Town and Nearby Camps.

(Tom Shultz, Staff Correspondent) Wickenburg, Ariz., Oct. 17.-Hurrah
 for Cameron! Whether he goes to
 congress or not, his arrival in Wick
 enburg, Wednesday morning, occa-
 stoned such a gathering of the citi- zens that it was a source of won derment as to where they all came from. When the train arrived at 10 a m. there were nineteen vehicles waiting at the depot to take aboard
 the distinguished guests and their
 friends for a drive through town.
 The advanced information that
 Governor Kibbey was accompanying
 Mir. Cameron and that the Industrial l Liberty band would also be in at | tendance, led the school trustees to dismiss school for the hour preceding moon, to permit the children to
 take part in the parade. Three large wagons filled to overflowing with l Wickenburg's future promoters, each ! with a flag in hand, led in order the parade, and the enthusiasm they l displayed was amply sufficient with
 out any outburst from their elders. | There were a few in advance who criticized the board for permitting | the children to enjoy this brief hour of respite from the monOtOny of the school room, but after seeing 3the
 enjoyment it afforded them there was little occasion for further adverse comment on that line.
 After parading the principal streets of na r,rAaGggfpr, q Taa
 at the Vernetta hotel, where Mr.
 during the afternoon.
 At o'clock D. m., the hour set
 for the speaking, every seat in the
 opera house was occupied. as well
 as most every foot of standing room
 including even the porch in front. 1 Certainly there were very few people in Wickenburg who were not present l Under this most pleasant condition
 J. ". Witherly chairman of the even | ing, introduced Governor Kibbey to
 the audience. The governor in the i beginning 'showered well deserved compliments upon Wickenburg, and | owned up squarely that he was sur prised to know that we are so numer- i ous. He addressed considerable of his discourse to Marcus Aurelius 1 Smith, and no doubt convinced the major portion of the audience to his ! belief that Marcus Aurelius is not | the whole cheese in Washington, as | he and some Of his friends would like
 to have the voter believe. The gov
 ernor's speech was void of person. alisms of harsh character, and he | said nothing to which MT. Smith could have taken exceptions if he ! had been present. The governor was ! the recipient of hearty applause | throughout the course of his ad- dress, and especially so when he
 proved the fallacy of the statement
 made by Marcus Aurelius and his | friends, .tRat he, Smith, was the | savior of Arizona from joint state i hood. When the governor showed that Marcus Aurelius lost in the
 house, the only place where he could 1 have any influence, and that the re- | publican senate actually put the | "kibosh" on the proposition, he | showed the claim of Smith ct al. as
 being decidedly punk" The gov
 ernor closed with a strong appeal
 for MT Cameron, believing, he said | that if MT. Cameron was elected, l that statehood legislation would be
 taken up by congress this December and more than likely Mir Cameron | if he wants to sit in congress will | have to canvas for the honor under
 the provisions and conditions of the
 new state of Arizona" At any
 rate" said the governor, Mark | Smith has promised statehood to us
 for twenty years, now give Cameron | this one chance and if he does not
 make good I for one will not support him for reelection
 At the close of the governors I speech a quartette sang an appro- priate song entitled statehood Next Year." which brought forth applause T and encore. Miss Browning reciteC Il "Camerons Ride" at the conclusion Il of which Mir Cameron was pre-
 sented. If the audience was looking .l for a silver tongue orator. a dealer
 in bouquets of rhetoric and higF
 rounding periods of rib-eXpanding | sentences, it was disappointed. IT | good, clear, distinct voice he told a: Il concisely as possible who he was what he had been and what he be I lieyed he was going to be. namely | delegate to congress after November 3rd The last statement elicited ap- I plause, and, while there may have | been some dissenters to the propO- sition, yet there was sufficient evi-
 dence present to warrant the gentle man in the belief that he wa! V strongly. seconded. Mir Cameron be-
 lieves that if he is elected congress