Weekly journal-miner., 1911-11-01
BRILLIANT OPENING OF REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN

The recall of the judiciary. Do
 you know how it operates. I will
 tell you. A judge on the bench rem
 ders a decision which is unpopular
 He commits misdemeanor, or any
 other crime which is malfeasanee
 in office which should subject him
 to recall Jones writes a petition.
 He charges in 200 words that John
 Smith, did then and there do SO and
 so. He goes out and gets twenty
 five per cent of the voters to sign
 it. He files that petition with the secretary of state, and thereupon the
 secretary of state issues a call for
 an election, and John Jones, the
 judge who is to be recalled, has his
 name placed on a ballot and the op-
 posite political party puts another
 name on the ballot and the next poli-
 tieal party puts another name on the
 ballot. Suppose he is charged with
 malfeasanee in office. Now there is
 a ballot with three names on it. He
 goes before the people of Arizona
 and they vote not to settle the fact of whether. or not the man is guilty but they vote for their political pre- ference, and if there is another man elected the judge that was is re- called - disgraeed convicted of the highest crime known to soeiety-ths violation of the trust that was re- posed in him as the arbiter of the peoples rights. That is how it works.
 Now I will tell you how the re- publican recall works. This man is judge, and a petition is filed to re- call him. And that question of fact goes out to the great jury of the. state. If the verdict is Yea the man is recalled. and they then hold an election to fill the vacant office. That is different.
 It may be that I do not measure up to the standard. If I do not, l say to you citizens that if do not measure up to your standard, and the other fellow does, I warn you to vote for the other fellow. But if you want a representative in congress who will 20 to Washington honestly and fear Iessly. who will expect to follow the example he has already set before you in Coehise county, I will go to Washington and be on the job from seven in the morning and be there until the janitor puts the lights out, and will not be afraid to fight any foe of Arizona who will stick up his head from any quarter. Then I say to you that if that is the kind of you want vote for me, for I am that man.
 Do you understand why I as a republican, as a prosecutor knowing the penal code, object to a political recall of the judieiaryl I agree with YOU that we should hame some form of recall and if I have a voice in the making of that platform there will be a plank in it unequivoealiy declaring for the republican form of .he recall of the judiciary.
 Now last but not least, I am going 70 talk about myself. I know as well IS any man my shortcomings, for tod knows for the last few years of nv life I have had a man on the ,ther side of the trial table, throwing t into me necessarily. I know what ,ind of a man I am, because I have lad the greatest talent in Arizona rrayed against me, the venerable Mark Smith and Eugene Brady l. ,neel.
 After Williams speech the crowd .owled with delight and wound up with three rousing cheers for the andidates.
 Owing to the number of Prescott tes who were desirous of shaking ands with their friends among the andidates they were forced to hold n informal reception in the lobby rhieh was enthusiastically attended " members of both political parties