The copper era and Morenci leader., 1911-12-01
CHEAP DEMAGoGIC CAMPAIGN
 MARKS FIRST STATE ELECTION.

Cheap demagogic politics marks the first state campaign in Arizona. Both
 parties are more or less guilty of the
 offense chrged, but for tricks that are
 vain and ways that are dark, the Re
 publican press bureau with it's head
 quarters in Phoenix and with it's Re
 publican newspapers at Globe, Doug
 las, Tucson and Prescott make the
 heathen Chinese sit up and take no
 tice. This Republican press bureau is
 the rankest kind of demagogy edited
 and managed by an arch demagogue
 who has no interest in Arizona-an
 imported article who is daily making
 himself and his party the laughing
 sock of the intelligent voters of Ari- -ona. The attempt of the Republican
 bureau and some of the Democratic
 candidates to drag the industrial cor
 portaions of Arizona into this state
 campaign is a palpable farce. A long monotonous howl, mighty kicking up of the dust and amidst the fog the ridiculous and assinine attempt is made to have it appear that the in dustrial corporations of Arizona, their managers and directors, are malefac- tors of great wealth; menace to the community in which they have their
 being; typical representatives of dis honest government; seekers of special privileges-in fact, all the arguments which have been brought to bear against trusts and monopolies in the
 T,-
 penny statesmen and are hurled reck- lessly at every legitimate and honest corporation within our boundaries
 Could any course be more assinfne? Could any course be more detrimental to the welfare of Arizona? We see in black type across the front page of so called newspapers in glaring head lines, The Copper Queen" The Old Dominion" The United Verde" Ac- cording to the Republican press bur eau men connected with these great enterprises are to be summed and des- pised. Candidates are advised to give these corporations, their managers and directors a wide berth. The great political issues of the campaign upon which democrats and republicans divide have been sunk into oblivion. So far the campaign has been devoid of intelligent discussions and argument of ntaional political is sues Candidates on both sides ap- pear to have thrown political discre- tion to the winds and are engaged in made race with demagogism and so- cialism as the ultimate goal to be at l tained Judging from the tenor of the l campaign the only votes worth while ! are those controlled by the Socialists i Western Federation of Miners and both parties seem determined to have them or die in the attempt.
 This vicious, unfair, blind, dema- gogic howl against Dur industrial cor pcrations can have but one result in the end. It will mean a scarcity of such corporations in the immediate future. Copper mining in Arizona is an expensive and hazardous occupa- tion and investment at the best. It means the employment of millions of dc''~TF and a long hard fight before retLI1-5 ny be expected. Arizona needs capital for the development of it's mineral, timber and agricultural resources, more so than any other state in the union. This ignorant and unjust and continued attack through the newspapers and from the stump upon the corporations already here engaged in the development work can not help but deter additional capital Instead of slurs, inuendos and false charges made by irresponsible dema- gogues and selfish politicians the time has come for the fair-minded people of Arizona to swat the demagogues and politicians and to encourage the capital already here and extend a cor dial invitation to the capitalist to give us his assistance.
 If the wheels of industry in Arizona controlled by the corporations were to cease, their benefit and prosperity to the new state would be fully real ized. They are the business backbone of the new state and are deserving of a helping hand instead of a ceaseless volley of abuse and vituperation by ir-