Arizona republican., 1911-12-06
DEMOCRATIC PRESS
IS ALL FUSED UP
Bourbon Papers Are Just Getting In
Touch With the Truth Regarding
Cooperation Control.

The democratic press is much fused
VI because OF the revelation or rather
exploitation Of the fact that the copper
Queen company or corporation will not
ne subject To control by the corporation
commission owing 10 the peculiar
phrasing of that clause OF the conSti
tuition which prescribes what corpora
tions shall fall under the control Of
the commission. The democratic
newspapers hold that the charge can
not be true because ii il werv true il
would have been made public weeks
oI months ago The fact is this pc
Culiar weakness Of the corporation
commission clause was made public
months ago by n newspaper in Globe
and has been referred 10 frequently by
republican speakers and newspapers
since the opening of the present cam
paign.
Section of Article VX OF the COnstitu-
tion provides as follows:
Sec. 4-The corporation commits
sion and the several members thereof
shall have power To inspect and inveS-
tigate the property. books. papers.
corporation whose stock shall be Of
.fered for sale TO the public. and of any
public service corporation doing busi-
IN, - within the state"
The Copper Queen Company does
not offer AMI has not offered its stock
Tor sale 10 the public and il is not a
public service corporation as defined
by Section of Article Ky of the con-
stituriOn. therefore il does not come
under the control Of the corporation
commission.
The singular position Of the Copper
Queen in the financial wOrld.-that it
was a closed corporation with not dol
lars worth Of stock on the market was
well known To George W. +. Hunt an
Others who took part i'm the framing OF
the constitution and ii those men had
been paid 10 frame constitution
which would render the Copper Queen
! immune they could not have done q
ineater job.
| But while the pig Copper Queen is
immune from surveillance by thr cor
poratiOn commission every local cor
ip0ration formed by local men To de
vvlOp mining prospect or an irriga =
ition project which might add 10 the
wealth of the state and which must
dt pend upon sales of stock with which
| I, provide the necessary funds must
submit 10 being overhauled by the
commission.
In its perturbation caused bv the eX-
ploitation of the immunity bath
granted the Copper Queen by Hunt AMI
his fellow constitution makers Mr.
Hunts newspaper asks:
Why have they (the republicans
waited a week before election tn spring
this sensation? If it were true. il would
be perfectly legitimate campaign ma
terial. and every republican lawyer in
Arizona would long since have eagerly
asserted il. Will any lawyer of good
repute now come forth and back up
the assertion of Williams"
As shown above this matter was eX-
plotted long ago and the voter need not
ait for the opinion of a lawyer as to
the operation of the law as prescribed
BY. the constitution and quoted in exact
language above. 1t is plain as Il pike
staff ami any voter who can read the
constitution can decide for himself and
will decide that the great Copper
Queen. which has not a share of stock
70, sale and which is not u public ser
wee corporation. is absOlutel-- immune
from interference by the corporation
commission.
Is it out of gratitude for this favor
that the Copper Queen papers are so
srdently supporting Mr.. Hunt in this
'ampaign?