Arizona republican., 1911-11-30
Sheet Prints Daily Attack
on Ralph Cameron, Which,
it is Presumed Will
be Continued in Our
Next"
ALSO MAKES ITS
REGULAR BLUNDER
This Time, in Attempting to
Discuss Tax Payments, it
Shows Absolute Ignor-
ance of the Entire Sub
ject.

The Arizona Democrat. in its des-
perate efforts To make amends for
the abuse it heaped upon Hunt. As
hurst, Ives. O'NeiH and others of the
so-called democratic candidates dur
ing the pre-primary campaign. and to
divert attention from its own political
shortcomings as well as those of it's
party candidates. which it has SO
thoroughly exposed during the past
year, IS pursuing Ralph Cameron with
vindictiveness worthy of a better
cause and malignancy only equaled
by that with which it pursued men
whom it now holds up as models of
political propriety.
In its issue of Wednesday. Nov. 80.
under the caption, "UntruthfuI State
ment Made-NOrris Wilson Not on
Tax Rolls in NOrth-Father of Lad
in Annapolis Doesn't Pay Taxes in
Arizona" the Democrat says:
Norris 5 Wilson. New England
representative of the Standard Oil
company, whose son. Stanley Wilson,
was appointed 10 Annapolis by Dele
gate Ralph Cameron, is not a tax
payer in MOhave or CocOninO county.
as Cameron has claimed in replying
To the charges made against him by
Henry +. Ashurst'
And in alleged support of it's con-
tention. publishes kilograms from
Flagstaff and Kingman to the effect
that Wilson's name does not appear
on the tax rolls of the counties of
which those towns are the seats of
government.
To begin with, Wilson is not. nor
ever was. so far as known, New Eng
land representative of the Standard
Oil company, and that his name does
not appear upon the tax rolls is not
evidence that he is not a taxpayer
in those counties. If the mining COM
panies or other corporations in which
Wilson is or was a stOckholder pays
or paid taxes. he pays or has paid
his proportion of the taxes and is a
taxpayer in precisely the same sense
that thousands of the solid men of
Arizona are taxpayers.
George W p. Hunt, the Democrats
candidate for governor. and in praise
of whom it now strains it's adjectival
vocabulary in atOnement for the abuse
il heaped upon him but a few short
weeks ago, is one of the heavy tax
payers of Arizona, yet a search of
the tax rolls of Gila county will find
him assessed in his own name for a
comparatively infinitesimal amount.
The taxes paid. however, by the Old
Dominion Commercial company and
other concerns in which he is inter
ested and of which MIR. Hunt, pre-
sumably. pays his share. are heavy.
To say that Mr.. Hunt was not a
heavy taxpayer because his taxes are
paid through or in the name of the
corporations in which his money is
invested would be To malign him and
on a par with the charge brought
against Norris S. Wilson by the DEM
ocrat in its efforts to damage Ralph
Cameron in the interests. presumably.
of the man to whom it referred in
its issue of Saturday, Sept. 16. when
it said editOrially:
There is one man on the demo-
cratic state ticket who is seeking Of
nee uDutT itiSt tOipiS, anu tiidI bAStSN
guard will be exposed in due time.
The party cannot afford To take
chances in sending a blackguard to
the senate of the United States, and
they will never do it
That Mr.. Cameron did everything in
his power properly to fill Arizonas $
quota in the naval academy is patent
To every fairminded man and news
paper in Arizona who has read MI
Cameron's statement of the facts IN
the case. except possibly the Arizona
Democrat and that that sheet does
not see il is because it would be IN
consistent with its well known policy
of unfairness to see any good in any
thing or any man upon whlch OF
whom it has once put the seal or lts
disapproval and has set out To de-
| fame.