Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-18
SOCIALIST Ivorg IN ARIZONA POLITICS.

IN ARIZONA PpliTics.
 The Douglas Dispatch. republican, is exhor,ing the socialists of Ari. sona to stai,d firm and vote their own ticket; Lnd. A.doing 50. uses the argument of the ordinary demagogue appealing to class prejudice. It at. tempts to excite sentiment against one democratic candidate because ne has taken a healthy interest in the improvement Of the national guard Ii attacks MT Hunt. the democratic candidate for governor. because he is a banker: because by his indus try. good business judgment and fru- gality he has amassed a competence For these reasons, thinks the Dis patch. the socialist vote should he east against them.
 We would compare ihe sentiment expressed by the Dispatch denuncisto- ry of achievement, of honestly ec- nuired wealth of Special Privilege and the corporations with a sensible editorial in the Arizona RepublicaL, another republican paper which also came to hand yesterday. It would not appear that the Dispatch and the Republican were working toward a common end; at least, it would ap- pear that they are addressing them selves to readers or two different de grees of intelligence.
 Under the head of ''Demagogy' the Republican says.
 This talk about special privilege is, for the most part, born of envy and malice and greed. If some man throuEh dishonesty enjoys a special privilege it would be much more to the credit Of a real man to dispos. sess him than to try to make pOliti cal capital out of that fact.
 Such denunciatiOn is both puer- ile and coWardly; and it is indulged in for the most part by people who are either too stupid or too lazy to think for themselves. lt !s iHdulged in bv people who take their mental paLulum from such exalted aUthori. ties ss Lincoln Stefiens and Miss Tarbell.
 Now. what about big business?
 Where are you going to draw the line? How large must business he before 1t becomes dishonest? V a million dollar business is dishonest. isn't the peanut roastsr's business dishonest in proportion? It is a difference in degree and not E. kind.
 The truth Is there is no such thing as dishonest business. Dishonest men nav be engaged in business, just as dishonest men may write political platforms. But business itself is al ways honest.
 The howl about 'big business has had the effect of bringing a hundred thousand honest business men under suspicion"
 The democratic party Of Arizona has made no Did for the socialis: vote. Theresi is 11otbing in its plat form more attractive to the social ists than thepo. is in the republican platform. according to the Dispatch's own showing No more open appeals could be made for socialist support than have bsep made by republican candidates in the course of this campaign.
 IT the Dispatch writer were less of tenderioot. he would know several things that he does not know. He would know for instance, that social isis vote for their own candidates al most solidly. He would know that the socialist vote in Arizona has grown steadily during the last ten years. and that 1t has never contributed, in all that time, to the success or the democratic party. He would know that in 1904, the social ists east 1864 votes. when the demo cratic majority was 639 votes. He would know that two years later the .sosiaIist yvots had increased to ls9l ana at the Same time that the head Of toe democratic ticket was elected by a majority of 2ts2. In 1908 though inc democratic ticket was defeated that was not accomplished in any part by the socialists. for again thes increased their vote to 209s