Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1911-11-30

eyed by Delegate Ralph Cameron, a
 the Yuma theatre, in Yuma, last Sat
 urday night:
 MT. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
 men: I am glad to be with you tc
 night; l am always glad to come t.
 Yuma, because at one time I lived il
 this town, and have always liked tht
 people of Yuma, and I am still witl
 them and for them, and for anything
 I can do for them.
 I came before you three years ago
 and asked the people of Yuma, and o1
 this valley and elsewhere in the terri
 tory to elect me as your delegate to
 Congrss. I made certain promises at
 that time, and my platform was:
 Cameron and Statehood. I also
 said from this platform, that if I was not successful in securing statehood at my first term, I would never ask the people of Arizona again for their votes. It is now up to you, ladies and gentlemen, to say whether I have made good or not I also made other promises in my campaign.
 promised public buildings at Globe and Douglas and I got them.
 secured a building site for the city of Tucson, and I can say tonight that every promise that I made during the campaign of 1908 was carried out to the letter, and now come before you again, to ask you to support me, and elect me, as one of your United States senator's I do not claim, ladies and gentlemen, that have any more right to ask this of you than any other citi- zen, but have represented the people of Arizona, and I believe that I un- derstand the conditions of Arizona, and I think I know her wants as well as any other man, and also contend that I know the conditions at Wash ington.
 Forty-seven years ago the legisla- ture of Arizona passed a resolution, asking congress to admit Arizona into the Union. I think every legislature from that time down to the last one, made a similar request and resolution.
 You have had men come before you, and stand upon the same platform that I now stand on, and make the same promises, but none of them made their promises good.
 The people of Arizona have waited forty-seven years for statehood, !! and my argument is that we have been so persistent, and waited so long that we should not wait any longer i for any benefit that we should re- ceive from the United States govern ment.
 As so many of us travel around ask ing you to vote for us, and as I have been before you so many times, am going to give the other candidates an to be heard at some length, but I feel that I owe myself a duty, and I believe there has been some criticism made against me, not only in this section of the country, but m some other parts of the country, and perhaps, generally.
 But want to say to you, ladies and that I do not come before 7ou to offer any apologies for my acts n congress.
 and impartially, and I have 1een through five sessions of con- yress, and have been "on the job," as t is termed out west, and have work ed night and day, and I do not think hat the criticism that has been made lbout me throughout the territory is ounded on any just cause.
 When the enabling act was signed, ( think I had paid my obligation to the ( people, because I did not from this [ platform agree to get statehood upon { my certain conditions, or of any par 1 icular form, but I agreed to get state lood, and I have done so When the 7 convention was called to draft a con- titution, it was selected by the peo- le of Arizona, and it met at Phoeniy ( nd they framed our constitution. ( It was ratified and sent to Washing I on for the presidents approval.
 It was sent to me, and to make sure { hat each member of congress, and t ach senator should receive a copy, S delivered them personally for fear t hey might get lost in the mails or Y nnn cnnrptaru fhrOW them in fhn F