Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-25

undertaking stirs up stench. but so did the efforts of Hercules in cleansing the Augean stables.
 The people have been nightly in terested in the incidents of the ses- sion now concluding. While it has been long and tiresome to the ac tors. the great gallery of specta- tors has been somewhat amused and somewhat edified. and is likely to greet with applause the curtain as it drops upon tho show.
 RALPH CAMERON.
 The republican press is now de voting much space to lauding the HoE. Ralph Cameron for his success in making good his promise to se- cure statehood for Arizona. made during the campaign of 1908 This paper is willing always and glad to see credit go where credit is due, end We are quite willing to join u republican press in saying that Mir Cameron did his level best to get Arizona into the Union from the first day he entered congress until the Tlood-smith resolution finally passed the house and was sent to the president However. We are not going to say that Ralph Cameron's olSction to congress caused the passage of the statehood bill. nor admit that he is entitled to any sps cial praise for statehood. over many others who did as much as he for the success of the desire Of all.
 Before Ralph Cameron was nomi- mated for congress in lses, the re- publican national convention in the city of Chicago had by resolution pledged that party for the 'imme- diate admission of Arizona and New Mexico as states" The nomination of Mir. Cameron occurred more be- cause none of the better qualified men in the party would accept the nomination, so hopeless was the outlook when the nomination was made, than because of his qualified tions for the place.
 Cameron rau DeeII sheriff aIiSi 8; .reryisor of Cochise county, but he had never been regarded by even his most arden political admirers as congressional timber. His nomina- don for congress must have sur prised Cameron as much as it did the public. But, his selection as the republican standard-bearer soon came to be recognized as no joke, and as the campaign grew older and Cameron warmed up to the job set for him, he became more de- termined in his efforts for success. He did not act like any other can didates for congress had acted in Arizona While his conduct was gentemanly always, there was little dignity in his methods of vote-get- ting. He was down in the mines and in the smelters> most of the time. on occasions when he visited Bisbee and Douglas and he would rhase the humblest voter from one end of the smelter to the other to get a chance for a shake Of his hand. He hardly took time to eat and it is said that he could hardly remain in the hall while Joe Morri- zen and other republican spoilers reddied the statehood dope.
 Raiphs first attempt at speech making was after he had been nom mated for congress and when he first appeared in Douglas he quite naturally made mess of it, but he did not mess the job of hustiins among the boys and making himself solid for their votes.
 Aside from the statehood business in congress. Mir Cameron has ac- complishcd considerable for Ari- zona; he secured aIaropriations for purchasing sites for public buildings in Douglas, Tucson and Globe. be- sides attending to a great mass Of detail business for his constituents, both on the noor of congress and In the departments. AT this was his duty, and Tn doing his duty he