Arizona republican., 1911-10-21
Democratic Candidate for
Congress and Leader of
His Party in This County
is Thrown Down by the
Gazette.
MANY WANT TO
KNOW THE REASON
And for the First Time it
is Told How the Tricky
Winsor Has Been Able to
Put One Over on His Op-
ponent Here.

One of the surprises of the present
campaign is the action of the recently
converted democratic paper, the Ga
zette. in supporting Mulford Winsor
for congress as against Carl Hayden,
the practically unanimous choice OF
the party in Maricopa county.
The ostensible reason for this rath-
er surprising action by the Gazette
is the fact that WinsOr was a MEM
Der of the pee pulls" convention and
supported the "pee-purs" constitution
of course nobody has taken this as
sertion seriously. Hayden was not
member of the convention-they
couldn't very we'll all be members of
the convention-but ne has, as is well
known. at all times supported the
constitution So that could not pos
sibIy account for the Gazettes thinly
veiled antagOnism.
There are other considerations that
make the Gazette's course all the.
more puzzling. Although The Repub-
lcan is not in sympathy with Mr..
Hayden's policies and will do all ii
can to beat him at the polls if he
should get the nomination. it must
be said in all justice that in the
matter Of qualification there is abso-
lutely no comparison between him
and WinsOr
Hayden is a man of real force of
character.
winsor is an absolutely negative
quantity.
Hayden is broad minded and well
educated.
winsor is narrow minded and Of
indifferent education.
Anyone who took the trouble to
watch Mr.. WinsOr's course through
the constitutional convention. of which
so much cheap bOmbast has been
written. would have little difficulty In
sizing up this embryonic Gladstone.
In that convention he was simply q
creature of Hunt in helping do the
machine work: and so far as con-
structive constitution building is con-
Cerned Winsor was wholly at sea. AS
a matter of fact. everybody who
knows anything about it knows that
our constitution is simply made up
from pieces of other constitutions.
with such minor changes here and
there as suggested themselves,-so
that there was very little original
work for anybody to do. And as to
the original part it is quite certain
that few had as little TO do with ii
as did the redoubtable Mr. winsor.
Now. taking all these facts-that
Carl Hayden is an hOnOred member
of the democratic party of Maricopa
county; that he is in thorough accord
with the constitution as adopted; and
that in every desirable quality he is
head and shoulders above Winsor.
why has the Gazette espOused the
cause Of the Yuma man?
1t is very simple when you know
the reason. And the reason. as given
to The Republican by a leading Phoe-
nix democrat. is as follows:
Some years ago Mr.. Winsor was
editing a paper in Phoenix. That
paper was the owner of an Associated
Press franchise. one Of the most val
liable assets of the publishing busi-
ness. The Gazette did not have an
A. P. franchise and could not get one
without the consent of the paper for
which WinsOr was working.
There came a time when the paper
for which Winsor worked was about
to be -Organized-when Winsor him
self was leaving Ana it is said thai
one of the last acts he did as
editor of that paper was to give in
writing his assent to the granting Of
a franchise to the Gazette. thus do
ing an irretrievable injury to the pa
per for which he had been working
and whose employment he was about
to leave. Just why Winsor sacrificed
the interests of his employer to the
Gazette owner has never been ex-
planned
This is said to be the real reason
why the Gazette is supporting Null
ford Winsor. Regardless Of the lat
ter's trickery and utter unfitness for
the position to which he aspireS the
'pee-pul's" paper has swallowed his
whole record and is boosting him