Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-17
A FLOW OF WORDS
 BUT NOT OF COIN

The Phoenix Gazette has the fol lowing interesting account of the Democratic pow-wow in Phoenix last Thursday:
 How IS money going to be raised to pay off the indebtedness of s1,992 incurred by Chairman Dillon during the campaign which ended in the de- feat of Mark Smith and the election of Ralph Cameron, and what became of the money that was raised7
 How is the Democratic party going to organize to wrest control of the new state from the Republicansf How can anything be done when the Re publicans of the east. are planning to spend a million dollars to elect a full set of Republican officers as soon as Arizona is admitted to the unionf
 Who was to blame for Mark Smith s defeat, anywayf -.a.
 These are a few of the questions that were hurled by Democrat at Democrat at the party love feast held las night in Lamson's s hall. Only one had been answered when the love feast was ended at Il o'clock. This was the last question in the list. Everyone answered that ques- tion in these words:
 "I'm not: you are"
 E. E. Ehnwood wanted to Anow why it costs so much more to con duet a campaign now than when he was chairman of the central commit tee, and he looked at Chairman Dil. lon.
 Wiley E. Jones of Graham county couldn't understand why the Republi- cans had learned the lesson of or ganization before the Democrats. They were guilty of a grievous breach of good manners in thoroughly GOV ering the territory when the Demo- crats thought it wasn't necessary to do anything at all to elect Mark Smith.
 Chairman Dillon presided. Among the first speakers was W. D. Bell, the wild, untamed orator of the Salt River valley, who. is always willing to crate. Bell had another attack of the alarm he has been feeling for some months over the Cameron state hood bill. He demanded to know why Cameron had drawn up his bill along the same lines as those bills under which all the western states were ad- mitted to the union, and the eduea- tional qualifications bill passed by the twenty-fifth legislature not en- bodied in its provisions.
 Bell Thundered.
 "We must see that the bill Is amended, that an educational quanAl- cation clause added,' thundered Bell. "If it is added the Democrats will carry the new state of Arizona"
 Bell was followed by another ora tor who began with a plea that the dead past be permitted to act as its own undertaken, and then launched into a tirade against Ralph Cameron. Cameron was referred to as "that prince of buneo steerers," because Arizona was not granted statehood within a week or two after his elee' tion. Overlooking the fact that Ari' zona is now nearer statehood than il ever was while Mark Smith was dele. gate to congress, the speaker demand ed that somebody walk up to Com eron and ask him why he had not kept his promise.
 "The people of Arizona will repudi ate the Republican party at the first opportunity" he said eneouragingly Whereupon he was applauded wildly for here was a grain of comfort tC
 the faithful.
 ''It seems to me that our campaign: are now conducted with too many brass bands and too many fine sing , ers," said E. E. Ellinwood. "I un [ derstand that we came out of tht last campaign, not alone defeated bu , something like 1,992 in debt. Nov l where was that campaign fund spent . Why, in the old days, when I wa t chairman of your committee, it didn ! , cost over 5000 to conduct a terri torial campaign.
 ''Fellow Democrats, we are ul g against the hardest fight of Ou I lives. The Republicans are layini s plans to spend a million dollars t D carry the first election after Arizoni
 becomes a state. They realize tha s if they are to have anything at al - to say in later years they must drav Q mp the constitution and have the frs n set of state officers Republicans. T. - do this they are willing to spend an,