Arizona republican., 1911-11-12
Like the Arabs they Have Silently Folded Their Tents and Just as Silent ly Have Stolen Away From Phoenix.
BOTH THE PARTIES
 ADOPT PLATFORMS
And Now the Campaign is on in Earnest and There Will be Work Every Min ute of the Time Until Day of Election.

The shouting and the tumult cease
 The captains and the host depart"
 The politicians of all parties who have battled. figuratively. all the week land who. when not battling, filled the corridors of the hotels and other pub lie places have folded up their tents and stolen away. The republican lead CTS went to Tucson yesterday where
 they opened their campaign with a
 great rally last night while the demo- cratic candidates are speeding north
 ward and westward toward Winslow
 where they will open their campaign
 Monday night
 The republican and democratic party councils held perfunctory meetings at noon yesterday and each promulgated party platforms which will be found in full elsewhere in this issue of the Ari-
 Zona Republican to give opportunity for the newspaper reading public of Arizona to study them and. by com pairing them. determine which party profession is calculated to best ad vance the interests of the state.
 It is said above that the meetings of the party councils yesterday were per flmctory: that is not altogether true of the democratic meeting. It had a feature not down on the bills, as they say in theatrical parlance. w. R.
 Hearst was in the meeting by proxy and as a result resolution laudatorv of that gentleman's efforts in behalf of the cause of so-called progressive democracy throughout the country but particularly in Arizona was introduced by George Purdy Bullard and unani- mously endorsed by the council.
 That in itself was not so bad but it had a tendency to arouse the ire Of those editors of so-called progressive" newspapers in Arizona who have been on the firing line for many months past and who. without reward or hope of reward. fought the battles of the men composing the party council and put them where they are, yet were wholly ignored while all the praise went to an outsider.
 Those members of the council who were asked why they ignored the of Arizona while lauding a rank outsider said that the matter was sprung upon them so suddenly that they were carried off their feet All admitted that grave mistake had been made but one of the Councilmen said that the council felt that the pro- gressive editors of Arizona would be ! with the ticket anyway and by passing the Hearst resolutions the Hearst pa pers will possibly do for the progress sive cause what they had done for if 1 in New Mexico.
 The Hearst democracy is making 1 desperate efforts to create the impress sion that the democrats have been won over. that the sore spots have been | healed and that there will be a lining | up on election day which will result in | victory on election day The fact is | that Mir. Hunt is weaker today with | his own party than he has been at any | time since he set about to organize it | and the democrats who have seemed to | line mp with him have done so mainly ! for the purpose of saving the party | name and to have the nucleus of an | organization around which to rally | when the party shall have been freed l from the taint which now clings to it | because of the misuse of the party | name by Mir. Hunt and his fellow ex- tremists.
 The defeat of c. M. Zander of Mari | copa county for the chairmanship was really a rebuke to MT. Hunt and MT. | Flanders followers in Maricopa county | so regard it and blame Mir. Hunt for | having led them into an ambush and
 deserting them. It is said that Mir. | Hunt was present at a conference Tuesday night at which the chairman | ship of the state central committee was
 discussed and after much talk the nomination of J. J. Birdno was agreed | to by all present Hunt among them. | In spite of that it is alleged that Mir. | Hunt did not have the manhood to eX- plain the situation to MT Zander or | his friends but let them go on solicit
 ing support up to the last moment on |
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