The copper era., 1911-10-20
STATE CANDIDATES APPEAR EN MASSE
 BEFORE VOTERS
The Liveliest Meeting of the Pri-
 mary Campaign Monday Night
SHORT SNAPPY SPEECHES

Clifton was treated to a flood ot oratory on Monday night last. The voters were given an opportunity to see and hear Hon. G. w. P. Hunt and Dr. H. A. Hughes for Governor; Sidney Osborne for Secretary of State; Carl Hayden, for Congress; c. M. Short and w. P. Geary, for Cor. poration Commissioners. John H. Robinson, candidate for Secretary of State, was also present, but owing to the number of speakers declined to take up the time allotted to him. A large audience listened to the speak CTS.
 Dr. H. A. Hughes was the first speaker of the evening. Dr. Hughes is Texas democrat with prohibition tendencies. As temperance lectur- CT he can't be beat ane his pathetic stories of his experiences during his long practice of his profession form- ed the greater portion of his speech. pr. Hughes stated to his audience that he was demoerat first and a prohibitionist as q side issue. The Doctor made a feble attempt to cast rejection upon the candidacy of Hon. Thos. F. Weedln for Governor and had intended to throw some mud in but evidently thought better of it as Hunt sat directly behind him on the platform.
 Having been president of the con- stitutional convention, Mir. Hunt nat urally devoted much of his time ro the work of that body and it's results as expressed in the constitution which, he said, was the ablest work ever >hrown from the brain of mza. Its merit had been recogniz-o not only by eighty per cent of tte voters who attended the constitutional cleo tion. Its fame had spread far be- yond the confines of the territory and had penetrated foreign lands. Missiona rios whom be had met on his various journeys to Washington had told him that it was almost a house hold word in China, carried thither by bright young men of that country who had boen sent all over the world to seek out the best things in the way of government.
 MT. Hunts tribute to the pioneers was well received and his description of his own struggles struck a symPa- thetic chord. Mir. Hunt advised, as most of the members of the conven,- tion, who are candidates for office do, that the carrying into effect of the principles of the constitution be left to. the men who are most familiar with it. A man who makes a tool ought to know better how to work with it.
 Sidney F. Osborne a born democrat addressed the audience in support of his desire to be the first secretary of state. Mr.. Osborne too, had been member from Maricopa county of the convention and earned the name of Recall" Osborn by introducing the recall provision into the convention against the protests of most of his colleagues.
 Following MT. Hunt, E. L. Short of Yuma county, also a member of the convention presented his claims as aspirant for the office of corpora tion commissioner. His claims were based not only on his record in the conveR- tion but on his eighteen years of railroad service where he got onto many of the curves of the corpora tions.
 Carl T. Hayden in very pleasant speech said that he desired to be re- presentative in congress. He did not believe that in his first term be could settle the tariff ana monetary ques- tions but he could help some by in- creasing the progressive strength to the extent of one vote. He would en- deavor to engraft the principles of the Arizona constitution upon the laws and constitution of the nation especially with reference to the re- call of the federal judiciary which had become altogether to frlsky with the people.
 The last speaker of the evening was W. P. Geary of Winslow an at torney who had had intimate rela- tions in the course of his efforts to make the Santa Fe pay it's taxes in Navajo county.
 Altogether, it was the liveliest meeting so far, in Clifton.