Williams news., 1910-08-27

delegate to Washington. For many successive terms Arizona had been represented at the National Capitol by Hon. Marcus A. Smith, a Dem. ocrat, lawyer of distinction and an orator of the first class. First and last he had served the territory for 20 years. Scarcely any of the opposite party wanted to go against the veteran, but Cameron had made up his mind that the psychological time had come for a change in the complexion of Arizona politics and that he would go out and get the necessary number of votes to win Mark Smiths seat. Then came on a wonderful campaign. Few of Smiths supporters felt the least fear of their champions defeat and the latter did not especially exert himself. Cameron, the hustler, started in to capture the voters with his usual smiling confidence. He did not indulge in long-winded speeches, but he employed far more effective methods. He went out into mining camps, descended shafts, shook hands with the grimy la borers and asked them point. blank for their votes. Not a soul did he overlook, either of miners or cowboys or farmers. His pleas, ant face, genial bearing a n d straightforward talk caught the people. But there was something more at stake than the mere per- sonality of the candidates. The people had been longing for state hood for a generation. The sug- gestion was made that it might be a wise move to send to Congress a man who had always made @ sue. cess of his own business, and who could be trusted to gain for the public the same good results he had achieved individually. It sounded logical, and so when the ballots were counted, Cameron was found in the lead by over 700 majority. It was the biggest jolt the opposi tion had ever sustained, and it was a complete refutation of their claim that the new state could always be counted in the list of reliable Dem. ocratic commonwealths.
 The passage of the Statehood Bill by Congress and the signing of the measure by the President were graphically told in the newspapers, but in the East little was known of the boundless transports of enthu- siasm that marked the reception of the tidings in the country directly affected. The people simply went wild with joy; cannon were fired, bonfires kindled and the skies were reddened with the glow of fireworks over an area of country twice as big as France. In the midst of the celebration the name of Ralph Cameron was on every tongue. He was the hero of the day. Having made good as delegate, what more natural thing than to elect him one of the first of the United States senators who will be sent to Wash. ington on the consumation of state- hood. That this will be the final outcome of the matter is thoroughly believed here in Washington, where dwell the shrewdest political proph- cts. Cameron has made tremend- ous hit according to the unbiased verdict of expert judges, handi- capped though he YVES by being only delegate, and he can be im- mensely more serviceable to his people in the Senate.
 Arizona" said MT. Cameron, to an American representative, just before leaving for his Western home. lis going to progress by leaps and bounds now that statehood is an assured fact. The new state comes into the Union under the happiest auspices, and our people