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

The speech of "Jack" Williams, Re publican candidate for congress from Arizona, at the Yuma theatre Saturday night, was easily conceded to be one of the best ever heard in Yuma.
 To any man who desires to think before he votes, it will prove revela- tion, and it made some of the Demo crats present Sataurday night, who knew the inside of things as Jack" Williams knows the inside, hang their heads.
 As Chairman Clymer introduced Mr. Williams, he came to the front . I the stage, took a drink of water and then remarked:
 You must think it takes a tot o. water to run politician.
 Ladies and Gentlemen: I trust that you will bear with me on account of the condition of my voice. 1 have been 7 going about the country since the first day of last month, into the north, into the south, all over the territory, sleep ing in strange hotels, speaking from improvised stages, eating at strange places, eating strange food and drink IuS all SOIJS- -Ol WdCSA. AAduSuIO1 and applause).
 have caught cold, and it stays with me, and tonight, ladies and gen tlemen, have dragged before you all that is left of my voice and form, to explain how I came here.
 Down where I am best known, they call me Jack-just plain, every day Miner Jack. Most everybody calls me Jack, but not everybody, because there are some there-well, the pres ence of ladies prevnts my telling yoFl just what they do call me. have been prosecuting there for something like three years. I went before the people asking for a job and they jobbed me. They made me district attorney I promised them nothing more thar taat I would do my level best to enforce their laws I told them that I would be impartial, that I would hit every head that arose, and that 1 would tack one sign on my office and that would be: "All politicians look alike to me
 I have been there three years and that is still tackled to the wall. That banner is one you can always read.
 I have left the footprints of a dis
 
 Cochise county that all can follow as plainly as a beaten track through for feet of snow. During that time l have made enemies, many enemies, thank Godi I believe that the officer who has not the ability to make enemies IS either a krave or fool. am a& proud of my enemies as I am of the fact that I have cleaned up old Go chise county. I am as proud Of tGe fact that I have made enemies of the mayors of cities, aldermen and coun- cilmen of cities, horse thieves, mur- dererS, and all sorts of crooks, as I am of anything in my life. They will tell you that Jack Williams is one Of the worst murderer5 in the world. They will tell you that he used ytc steal hogs in Missouri, and before De cen'ber 12th, they may prove it to you.
 Those fellows will tell you these things, but friends, no one, no mat ter of what political faith he may 3e, will tell you that Jack Williams did not have the courage of his convic- tions, but they will tell YOU that he he had fixed and determined conv;c- tion in every position he was ever in.
 That is the position that I am proud of in Cochise county where I am best known.
 l have been going out over the ter ritory listening to the Democrats understand. I do not mean the man who casts the Democratic vote-the whose beliefs characterize him as being of a certain political party.
 Pecauee I believe that if each of us were thrown under the X-ray and all our parts looked at, it would be almost impossible to tell what we were politically. But what I speak of is the Democrats going over the coun- try asking for the votes of the people, and who talk to you from the plat | form. have been going over the ter l ritory and I have attended their meet | ings, and listened to their arguments. |
 I have found that nowhere in the territory have they offered anything, | except two things. The constitution, this constitution of Arizona, and the recall of the judiciary. Let us look this thing straight in the face. Let us look it up one side, and down the | other, as the devil did the skunk
 Do you know, they accused me of a | horrible crime in Maricopa county they told the reople that Tack Will | Hams was against the recall
 They said: There is the man with | the temerity to stand up before the people of Arizona and say he is against the recall"
 They lied only half way. I was one of the first men to ever advocate the recall in Arizona. In a convention where I stood alone and voted alone, I advocated the recall, which was a re- cali which gave every man a square deal That recall I put before the members of the convention for the framing of Arizona's constitution At