Arizona republican., 1911-12-11
That is the Way the Demo cratic Campaign Looks to a Good Many People Who Have Given It Some Attention.
STATEMENT MADE
 BY RAILROAD MAN
Says Performances Like That Billed for This Ali ternoon Are Entertaining but Will Hardly Fool the People.

The visit of Frank Murphy. pres iGcnt of the Santa Fe. Prescott and Phoenix Railway company. to this city Saturday. threw the local democratic press into d paraXysm of politica' rage. one Of the papers arose on its journalistic tiptoes to shout out that Mir. Murphy has thrown off the mask and is supporting the repub- lican ticket in this campaign.
 The discovery of deep, dark plots. where masks and things Of that sort Flay an important part. is a speciality Of the paper referred to. It is per fectly true that MT. Murphy is sup porting the republican ticket; but where the mask business comes in nobody but Sherlock Holmes could discover
 It would seem that Mir Murphy's politics should be pretty well known 10 everybody in Maricopa county and in the territory of Arizona by this time. He is a republican and always has been a republican. He has never masked his political belief and everybody who knew anything about il at all has known that from the in ception Of the present campaign Mir Murphy mas been an earnest sup porter of Judge Wells and the rest of the ticket
 But throwing off the mask looks good to-the Journalistic mind of a certain class This. of course refers fr hn Dick" and other highly colored liter ature of the same sort.
 But speaking of the democratic pro- gram for today. MT Murphy said he was sorry he could not remain for the show
 T am sorry I cannot stay over to see the spectacular parade the dem ocrats have billed for Monday" he said to Republican representative
 Like most Arizonans I like to be amused and l don't object to spec tacular entertainment. or even to vaudeville: but when it comes to putting mp spectacular. flamboyant radicalism for the purpose of catching the votes of conservative people. in cluding property owners and taxpay- CTS. somebody is going to be disap- pointed. This is a time when people think of their homes, their families and of good government They are rot likely. in my judgment to be in- fluenced against their interests by spectacular entertainments.
 Citizens Of the Salt River valley have too much at stake to treat lightly the Importance of the coming election" Mir. Murphy continued. With Wells Tor governor, and Smith. Cameron and Williams in congress we have a right to expect the farmers of the Salt River valley will get wha. they are entitled to receive from con- eress without delay; and other parts O. Arizona will receive appreciative and helpful consideration The voters are doing great deal of thinking just now and I am sure the result will be quite satisfactory"
 One of the afternoon democratic Iapers sees Ted every time Mir. Mur- phys name is mentioned. The onIv reason that any one has ever been able to discover is that Mir Mur- phy is successful business man and declines to accept the rather peculiar political beliefs to which that paper iS committed And since Mir Mur- phy has thrown off the mask and given his support to the republican candidates it is altogether likely that the republican candidates will be quite willing 10 accept his vote just as readily as they would the vote of any other man. And the news that MT Murphy is really and truly "a repub lican" will hardly work any harm to that party.
 The statement given above sizes up the political situation in Arizona in probably as accute man Ter as could be imagined. The campaign is pure vaudeville on the rart of the democrats: and while vaudeville is very well in it's way there comes a time when beefsteak and potatoes are nightly acceptable And the people are learning from ex- perience that the only way to insure a satisfactory menu is to vote the republican ticket