Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-29

grand old man deserves his suff- rages in this election?
 Arizona will make history in the next congress. We must have our very best representative there. Mark Smita is that man and the thought of displacing him with Ralph Cameron, totally incompetent, unknown, and without influence. is abhorrent.
 Mark Smith and the candidates for the legislature on the Democratic ticket are the representatives of the Democratic party in Arizona. They are running on a platform which en- dorses the national Democratic plat form. Mark Smith in Washington will be heard in the defense of those principles. Eighty-hye per cent of the workingmen of the United States are supporting the national Demo cratic platform and it's candidates in this campaign. Mark Smith repre- sents that party in Arizona, and as a matter of political principal and be lief every loyal Democrat should rally to his support. On the other hand Ralph Cameron represents the G. O.. P He represents Injunction Judge Taft. He represents the big stick" " In Washington he would be dominated by Joe Casnon and the special inter , ests which he represents.
 What inducements can a Republi- can campaign worker offer a Demo crat to forsake his party in this cleo ! ton when the grand old party of the i people is again coming into it's own? We hear the Republican sheer that Mark Smith has been on the job long
 enough. Yes, at great personal sac rifce, this great statesman has been kept on the job. The people of Ari-
 zona tried one Republican experiment
 and the experiment cost the taxpayers of Pima and Santa Cruz counties al most S500,000 in fraudulent bonds passed by congress while Republi. can represented Arizona. Since that
 time the people of Arizona have in
 sisted in keeping Mark Smith on the | job Because an employe has been a | good and faithful man; because he 7 has grown gray in service; because | he has never been called upon and ] found wanting, IS THAT ANY REA' l SON TO FIRE HIM and place a strip ling. incompetent and inexperienced ] in his place, especially just at the time when Arizona needs it's best blood and brains at the national capi tai?
 You Democrats, don't you know the Republican spielers and paid emissa ries who are in your midst will laugf
 up their sleeve at every Democrat who was influenced to forsake his | candidate during the last few days o the campaign?
 What are you going to gain by it. Why. you wouldn't get a pleasant 1 look the morning after election. While Mark Smith is talking to thousands and thousands of Democrats in the east every day in the interest of your candidate for president, uphold ing the principles in which you be lieve, see to it taat in his race fol . congress in Arizona Mark Smith get' every Democratic vote. You owe i to yourself and your party.
 ! As a rule there is very little DO | litical argument which can be effec tually used why a voter should vote a straight ticket for county and pre- cinct candidates. The especial fit ness of candidates for county and precinct offices carries more weigh
 than the fact that the candidate is {
 Republican or Democrat. But in this Y election the Democratic voter has nc good reason to scratch his county ticket. The nominees for county anC precinct offices are competent men
 Their character is above reproach
 They are entitled to the votes oi Democrats and Republicans alike by
 reason of their especial fitnes, but ir