Arizona republican., 1911-12-09
And for That Reason They Have Resented the Mud Singing Methods Adopt ed by Democrats in This Campaign.
FIGHTING TRIO AS
 GOOD AS ELECTED
Policy of Subterfuge and Evasion Has Character ized Democratic Methods from First Day of the Fight.

The Boosters and Builders with
 Brains and Backbone" as someone has Ialliteratively termed the candidates
 upon the republican state and 'con- gressional tickets are virtually sweep ing the state in their whirlwind finish
 of this memorable campaign. For a week or ten days after the Phoenix
 bright for the ultimate success of the
 republican ticket as sanguine repub- liCans believed they should be but the
 tide has turned and were the election
 to be held today the entire ticket would be swept into office of surpris-
 ing majorities.
 When the campaign opened there
 was a general feeling that the consti tuition would be the only issue and the so-called democrats sought to make it such but the republican speak CTS soon disabused the public mind on that score.
 A discussion of the platforms in which the constructive features of that issued by the republicans were con- tTasted with the meaningless blanks of the democratic declaration made it clear to the voters of the state that rot only was the constitution not an issue but that the republicans prom ised to do much that the best interests of the people demands shall be done while the sO- called democrats seemed to have but the haZiest ideas of what ! is necessary to be done to restore pros rerity to Arizona and cause her to take her rightful place as one of the greatest states Of the American union. The republicans made it plain that tC the republicans should be given the credit for the passage of the enabling act without which the constitution would have been impossible. They al- So made it plain that the constitution vas an accomplished fact. that it can not be changed in the slightest unless Q majority of the voters of the state will it do so and that so far as that instrument was concerned as an iSsus it was up to the people to fill the of fees with men who will carry out its
 provisions and at the same time re- store prosperity to the state by guar anteeirg in their personality a square deal to capital and labor
 The charge that the republicans in general and Delegate Cameron in par
 ticular were responsible for the so- called disfranchisement of thousands or voters and upon which the hopes of the so-called democrats were builjed | high was so conclusively proved to he work of the so-called democrats them | selves that they quickly dropped it l
 particularly when the damning evil 1 dence of the part they played in bring ! ing about the disfranchisement was | laid at their door.
 Tn their efforts to make it impos- | sible for any but the so-called demo- | crats who were elected delegates to the constitutional convention to be chosen to fill the state or congression- | al offices at the first state election the | sO-called democrats manoeuvered to the end that only those electors who i had voted for delegates to the consti- tutiOnal convention could vote at the first state election. But they over reached themselves. As they had majority in the delegate election they | thought they would have a 'cinch' on 1 the state election but their greed for office disgusted the electorate and to counteract the effect of that disgust MT Hunt and his followers including | his newspapers resorted to msrepre- sentation but to no purpose The rec ord was against them, the despicab ble trick was too transparent and they dropped it to try islander and vlifica- tion with equally disastrous results.
 For time the democrats urged free trade but the cattlemen. sheepmen. farmers and fruit growers who knew that competition with the cheap lands and cheaper labor of Mexico would drive them out of business and retard the development of Arizona or force it to the Mexican standard of wages and living refused to be won oyer by free trade talk and free trade with Mexico was dropped as an issue.
 The development of the vast areas Of arable land which can be irrigated by means of pumps operated by cheap power as urged by Hoval Smith was pooh poOhej" by the so-called dem- Ocratic candidates and newspapers as vas Cameron's plan to establish an American port of entry on the Gulf of California and as was every other idea of constructive legislation urged by the republican boosters and builders of brains and backbone
 To the so-called democrats who are seeking office for the sake of the emo- luments thereof and who have no iss- ues of their own every constructive
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