Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-28
PIMA CO. PR|MING ROUGH REbUKE
 F0R SMITH Will Roll Up Cololsal Majority For Ralph
 Cameron

TUCSON, Oct 23. Pima county is preparing 10 administer a final and lasting rcbuke Co Mark Smith. The registration of the county has incrcas cd from 32gO in 1906 to 37O0 in 1908. The voters in 1906 gave Cooper q plu rality of Gl3 over smith. and that was iha year that smiths emotional cam. paign about single statehood carried tae voters oG their feet and gave him plurali,ies in ten of the thirteen coun ties.
 In l9Ot Pima county gave Fowler only l34 plurality and Fowler was beaten that year by only 630 in the whole territory. Pima is Mark smiths home county, yet in the past two cam paigps his neighbors have voted heav. fly against him. There is a reason fer it.
 The Pima county bond contract in which Smitn fgurcd So notoriously in 1908 has become a steuch in the nos. trils of his ncighbors. For term after term before his temporary retirement in 1902 Smith made no effort whatever to relieve the people through congress of the s3OO,O0O bonded indebtedness which mad been uniustly saddled upon them, yet during all these terms in con gress Mark Smith was drawing his sj000 a year from Uncle sam for act ing as the guardian of the Arizona in terests.
 The Democratic syndicate papers are making great howl about Mark smiths ,Jugscss!0na! record, vet in the apology for something done that i' being published in these papers semi. occasionally. not one mention is made of any effort to relieve his neignbors, while a member of congress. of the in terest burden on the bonds. For twelve years or more he sat in his seat in the lower house or browsed the blue grass of old Kentucky as though oblivious of the narrow guage bonds and his duties to his neighbors in con. nectiou herewith.
 But it was not alone of Mark smiths failure to make an effort prior to 1902 to lift the bond burden, that his neighbors of Pima have admins. tered the stinging rebukes at the polls. It is fact that in addition tc doing nothing while he was a member of con. gress and in duty bound to take the matter up, Smith had the brazen eff. frontery during his two years layoff Co admit the probability of securing congressional action to lift the bonded indebtedness.
 But to take the matter up as lob. byist he demanded of Pima county q contract allowing nim 25 per cent, of over s75,O0O, for doing what his neighbOrs believe he should have tried to do, and what he was paid for doing while he was a member of congress. Pima county rejected Mark smith, the wouldbe lobbyist.
 In 1901, baked in his efforts to earn fee at the expense of his neighbors and constituents, Mark Smith again ran and was elected delegate to con. gress. But Pima county, which nid consistently voted with Democrats for delegate prior 10 1904, went l34 against Mark Smith. In 1906 Pima rcpudiatoi i him by over GOO.
 The heavy registration is signi6cant. Territorial Chairman Hoval Smith has made an unusual effort. it is true, to yet out full Republican vote, and this in a measure, accounts for the in. crease, bst it is tho purpose of the people of Pima, the tax payers who might have been rid of a heavy inies. est burden long ago mad they been rep. resented in congress by a man alive to their interests. to rid themselves once and for all of Mark Smith, the con. grsssional barnacle, which is at the bottom of the increased registration.
 Pima county has met Cameron and believes in him. He has come to them out of the north, with the reputation of man who always wins. He has promised the taxpayers of Pima to use all his energies toward securing con. gressional action on the funding of the bonded indebtedness.