Arizona republican., 1910-04-30
ELECTION OF CouNc|lMEN
Official Statement of the Royal Arch. Puncture of So-C Called Municipal Own ership Issue. Campaign Misrepresentations

! Proofs multiplied in an emphatic cans of the Second ward are becom
 ing very much irritated by the cam paign of islander and misrepresentation which is being engineered by profess | sional ''reformers'' against Dan Me Dermott. the republican nominee for i councilman.
 There is not a citizen of the ward who has lived there a year who is un | familiar with the fact that Dan Me- | Dermott is one of the cleancst and squarest men in the world.
 1 The campaign of misrepresentation ! has undergone some mutations since it began. but its purpose has remained I the same-to mislead the voters into | the belief that the present city gov | ernment is incompetent. that Dan Me Dermott is an unfit man for council
 man. and that Charles Davidson, the 1 candidate of the bolters and profess i sional reformers. is the one man who 1 stands between the city and damnation
 The facts are, of course, that Mayor | Christy is giving the city one of the cleanest, one of the fairest, one of the most economical, and one of the most
 business-like administrations it has ever had. In this work he has the 1 loyal cooperation of the republican
 councilmen.
 The fact is also incontrovertible that the charges made against Dan Me i Dermott are absolutely without founda-
 ton. It was charged at first that he 1 1I1 s-s.. lsr.l,t
 pany. It was quickly shown that MT.
 McDermott never in his life had any
 relations whatsoever with the light
 company: that in fact he has been
 saying for years that the city should
 light its own streets.
 The fact is also incontroverible that
 no member of the council, whoever he
 may be. can do the slightest thing ! toward advancing or retarding munich
 pal ownership. That question is out of
 the hands of the council absolutely.
 These facts having been made plain
 to the voters of the ward, the reform
 CTS hastily lined up on a new charge namely. that Dan McDermott had been
 endorsed by the Royal Arch. which. it
 seems is a more or less dormant or
 ganization of liquor dealers. It is in | cidentally true that the city council
 men have absolutely nothing to do
 with the question of local option or prohibition. have no power in that re-
 gard-ail questions relating fo local
 option elections being in the hands of the county supervisors-but the re-
 formers thought they might mislead somebody into thinking the city would ! la inn ! question unless Relormer Davidson
 was elected The republican city cen
 tral committee took enough notice of i this Royal Arch story yesterday to look
 into the facts. They ascertained that the saloon men have been taking no
 hand in the politics of the Second
 ward and that in fact there are some men engaged in the business in the Second ward who have not even regis
 tered The republican committee was furnished the following affidavit from the secretary of the Royal Arch. F. C.. i ConneIley. MT. Connelley is one of the best known men in the city. and those i who know him would take his word on any question as the flat truth. whatever they may think of his bus- ness. His affidavit reads:
 Statement of E. c. ConnelIey. ! This is to certify that l. F. C. Con- nelley, am secretary of the organiza- | ton known as the Royal Arch, of the city of Phoenix. I am reliably in ! formed that during the present cam
 paign to elect officers to the city council. statements have beeh made | that the Royal Arch have held meet | ings and indorsed certain candidates for election to the city council
 , I wish to state that such reports are absolutely untrue and that this order has not discussed or indorsed any of the candidates now running for the of flee of councilman of this city. Dated this 29th day of April. 1910. F. C. CONNEILEY. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of April, 1910.