Weekly journal-miner., 1910-10-05

~-- Marieopa county leaves little doubt in ones mind that the recent cleo tion for delegates to the Arizona Con- stitutional convention was largely non-political in it's alignment of the people of what is the banner county of wealth and population of all Ari- zona. At the present time, Cochise county alone is accredited with more population than Marieopa, but little doubt remains that the census re- turns of 1910 will place Maricopa well in the lead.
 In the past five years a large out side population has found its way to the fertile lands of the Salt River valley. The influence of this immi- grafton was manifested in the cleo tion for Delegate to Congress in 1908. At that time Ralph Cameron was the candidate of the Republican party, and running upon a platform which could not be regarded as other wise than distinctly Progressive. The outcome was a Republican majority in Marieopa of 229. The Republican party, had it come before the peo- pie of this county on September 12, advocating the sole Progressive issue of the initiative and the referendum, would have carried Maricopa by a much larger majority than was given Ralph Cameron two years ago.
 The county is not distinctly Demo cratic, as the vote in the election for delegates would seem to indicate. Maricopa is moving ahead with rapid strides. Much of the develop ment and activity, in fact, a very large part of it, is due to just such a class as went into Southern Cali fornia, twenty or thirty years ago, and made that country, so similar in its natural resources to the Salt River valley, the paradise that it is today. The Phoenix and the valley vote largely dominate the political complex ion of the county. It is made up of the very best classes of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and other great central western Re publican states. The new population Is both progressive and aggressive, and therefore distinctly Republican. Unlike other counties in Arizona, the outcome of the election has left no bad tastes in Phoenix and Maricopa, The people are going ahead with their work, thoroughly imbued with the idea that Statehood is certain to be accomplished within the coming six months. They are still Repub, lican at heart, decidedly SO. But they believe in the Lincoln idea of bringing the government just as close to the people as possible, without the sacrifice of the constitutional rights of the individual There arc many former Southern CalifOrnian' here, men who have played a leading Tart in the development of that pres ent paradisieal spot of the Union The political situation in Maricop; county is identical with that of Cali fornia. The people are, as I stated before, thoroughly imbued with Lin coin Republicanism. They believ, that the rank and file of the party made careless by the great waves O prosperity which have swept over tn, country under successive Republican administrations, allowed their lead CTS to pervert the party into DO litical instrument of privilege The, are determined that the party shal come back to its moral mOorings That is what has happened in Cali fornia. That is what must happen the only thing needed, to make Ari zona Republican for all time to come
 The people of Maricopa are O the highest American intelligence Ten years from now the whole Sal River valley, I predict, will be on vast park of not over ten or twent
 acre farms. The land is wOndrousl
 fertile. Seven months in the year tn valley is a climatic paradise. So
 and climatic conditions must in then selves necessarily attract a class reI resentative of all that is best i American life. The people of th valley and of its Capital City req
 and think for themselves. They al
 no longer concerned in the persons political fortunes of any individua