Arizona republican., 1911-12-02
DEMOCRATS L|MBER UP
 THEIR MUD BATTERIES

The feature Of the third week Of the campaign has been the opening of their mud batteries by the democratic press and politicians with concen- tration of their fire on Ralph Cam eron because of his appointment of Stanley Wilson of Prescott to the Naval Academy and on Hoval smith because he is Of Scandinavian eXtrac- ton and because one of his mines failed to produce after he had spent g., ,000. GOO in development work
 When the charge referred to above was made by Mark Smith in his Phoenix speech. ten days ago, Mir Cameron had an abstract of the record made from his correspondence files and read it in reply at Mesa. Tempe and Phoenix and caused it to he sent to all the newspapers of the state but Ashurst continues from the stump to repeat the original charge with fantastic variations while the Arizona Democrat has worked itself into a frenzy giving the matter col Umns daily but ignoring absolutely Cameron's statement of the facts in 
 the record or inform itself from any source except through w. w. Ross a rabid southern democrat whose son failed of appointment and who is now venting his speeches upon MT Cam eron and finding willing abettOrs in Ashurst and in the Arizona Demo- crat.
 Hoval Smith acknowledges that he is Of Scandinavian extraction and that he is proud of it and of the further fact that his father. John HoVal Folkedahl Smith of St. Angsar, Iowa. where Abraham Iincolns call for volunteers first stirred the patriotism of the country in 1861 was one of the first tO respond. His people had all been seafaring so he entered the navy and was assigned to the Hart ford. the flagship of the American navy under the command of Admiral David GlascOe Farragut, first admiral of the United States navy The Hartford was the ship from which he directed the famous and spectacu- lar naval campaign which resulted m the capture of New orleans. ." Tar as is concerned the charge that he failed to make q mine out Of Globe Consolidated after spending $S.o0o.ooo upcn II Mir. smith says il is the first time in history perhaps that man has been attacked for causing vast amour; of money to he brought il'o a state to be spent for labor and supplicS. He acknowledges that up to date he has not been able to make 4 producing mine Ot Globe ConSohc;lt- eel but has faith that when the aSl- taticn which for eighteen months past has been in the spot light m Arizoha arc relegated to the rear ne VIII pe able to induce the capitalists Dack oi him to send more money into the state to be spent in further develop ment work and a great mine VIII Ne' be uncovered there.
 George W. P. Hunt. urged by the dorec,inns in the ranks of his fol- Io,v,rs has again reSorted to abuse' particularly of the newspapers whom he cb,racteriZes as jackals and the editors of which he threatens to pldoe bohind the bars for having hau 'he temeritv to intimate that he is not q, fiji man to he governor of Arlzona- He compares himself with Nashlhs- ion ard Lincoln ana says that thoSe great reformers of the world like nm self we've targets for abuse as ne is while putting their reforms into pr'c- tical operation.
 Hunt charges the subsidized press with -heaping coals of fire upon my | head" he attacks Governor Sloan m terms of persOnal abuse and in the main conducts himself like uis'P-