Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-12
OUTPOUR|NG AT LOWELL
 LAST NIGHT
First Important Meeting of the Newly Formed Lowell
 Democratic Club.
CANDIDATES THERE
 IN LARGE NUMBERS
Themes Were Praise of the Constitution and Denun- citation of President
 and Cameron.
"Woodman. spare that tree: Touch not a single bough." 1"

Touch not a single bough."
 Every speech that was made at the monster meeting of the Lowell Demo cratic club at the Lowell club last night contained denunciation of President Taft for daring to trim the Arizona constitutional tree of it's jul dietary recall limb and endorsed the idea of giueing the severed limb back to the tree with amendment glue. Ralph Cameron was denounced by Hon. George Neale as a traitor to Arizona and the messenger boy to the soft-footed Hitchcock and republi- cans were characterized as reaction aries who sought 10 reach the pie counter in progressive raiment.
 The meeting was attended by demo crats, many of them candidates. from all portions Of the county. The har- mOny of the Lowell band that played before the meeting hour was kept up when the meeting began. The meet ing was presided over by Mike Han non. the president of the club. The membership committee reported that there were at present 250 names on
 
 tive committee reported that meet ings would be held every Monday night at the Lowell club, which had been rented on that night for three months. Other routine business was postponed until the next meeting in order that the voters present might hear from the candidates present
 W. G. Gilmore of Tombstone, a can didate for district attorney, addressed the meeting as Fellow democrats and fellow candidates" He referred to the record Of Lowell as being the ban Ber democratic precinct in the county, saying "as Lowell goes, so goes. the county" and comparing it with, the Mecca of the Mohammedans. He call ed attention to the harmony in the ranks of the republicans, saying that their silence was so deep that it is suspicious. 1e lauded the Douglas platform, calling t a platform Ehat meant something" and said that the members Of the constitutional con vention who ran on it made good when they offered to the democrats Of the county the most progressive con stitution in the United States. He warned the voters present that the man elected in the coming election must be in sympathy with the consti- tution and perpetrate it's principle in laws otherwise, he declared, they will be scattered to the corners of the earth" In closing, Mir Gilmore said that the platform on which dem ocTats should run should be: 'The constitution, laws to enforce it's prin- cipies, enforcement of the laws, and a square deal for the millionaire and the paeper alike"
 A. C. Lockwood of Douglas, a can didate for superior court judge, said that there were two ways of carrying an election, with sack and with an issue. He commented on the lessons 10 be drawn from the elections of 1908 and 1910, saying that the issue in the coming election was that the people should govern themselves. He told of how the young progressives of Douglas had started the work for the recall, and the Initiative and referen- dunn, and recounted the fight that re- suited in those principles being placed in the consultation.
 Fred Sutter of Bisbee, a candidate for superior court judge, declared that men and not platforms should be q the issue in the coming elections. He declared that platforms were like those on a street car-they served in getting on a car, but they were for gotten when once on the inside. His conmendation of the Douglas plat form brough, cheers, as did references 10 that instrument He urged that the recall be eliminated at the coming election and that candidates for the legislature be pledged to use their ef- forts to have it reinstatet in the or ganie law of the territory at the earE fest possible moment
 l. F. Ross Of Douglas, chairman of the democratic central committed, de clared that he was not a candidate for office and that he was not even fin the hands of his friends He de- voted his time to an attack on the republican county administration and on Delegate Ralph Cameron. Never in history was a free people so in- suited, he said, as Arizona has been insuIted by the republicans since Cam eron has been in congress. No man who has the interests of Arizona at heart can conscientiousiy vote the re publican ticket after the bunch that they have handed Arizona in the last three years. Cameron win tell you that he got statehood. He was elect ed on 6 promise to get statehood, but when Bailey had forced bill through congress to give us an enabling act, Cameron slipped in clause that would give the president and con .--e.so fh,s rtgat 10 accent or reject our coaatitutioa. and then, contrary tol the demands Of the people of Arizona, he advised the house 10 vote down the Flood resolution. Tae house pass ed the bill over his objections and he then went before the senate commit fee on territories and argued against the resolution. but the committee re