Arizona republican., 1911-10-30
Party Record and Person nel of Candidates Are a Distinct Asset in the Campaign Which Has Just Started.
DIVISION OF THE
 DEMOCRATS HELPS
Just How Members of That Party Can Support Both Smith and Ashurst is one of the Problems Not Yet Solved.

With the settlement of all primary contests and the aligning of the can- didates for the coming campaign the paign are becoming a subject of gen. eral discussion. Gradually the issues are outlining themselves; and it Is coming to be recognized that these is- sues are three in number. They are the conduct of National affairs. the conduct of state and county affairs and the personality of the men who have offered themselves as candidates
 As to national questions Messrs Smith. Ashurst and Hayden. democrat ic candidates for the upper and low CT houses of congress, and Messrs Cameron, Smith and Williams. the men who are seeking the same positions as republicans will be judged largely by what their respective parties pro- pose to do. And in this connection the republicans have a singular advantage.
 Part of this advantage comes from the fact that the democratic candidates are hOpelessly divided in their person. al views of matters of policy affecting the nation at large. Henry F. Ash urst. the younger of the democratic nominees for the senate. is a radical of the radicals, a man who is hope lessly out of touch with the middle of the road democrats of which Champ Clark is a type.
 Marcus A Smith, the other senatorial aspirant of that party, is distinctly a reactionary-a man to whom radical ism is anathema and a reproach. Just how the democrats of Arizona are go- ing to reconcile the fact that in vot- ing for these two men they will be voting for men of opposite economic beliefs. is one of the puzzles that re- mains to be solved.
 Smith IS the only man among the democrats who has any legislative ex- perience And that experience is of a rather unfortunate character since. after twenty years service as a dele gate to the lower house. he failed to achieve the boon of statehood, which was scured by his successor in his first and only term. Smith. however, is an absolute low rate tariff devotee and he may be depended upon. if elected. to vote for the most radical tariff ''re- form" bill that may be presented in congress.
 As to their opponents it is quite in teresting to note the discussions in which the people are indulging. Des- pite all that has been said by the dem ocratic press, t is plain to any one that the splendid services rendered by Ralph Cameron in the house of repre- sentatives are not forgotten. And there is almost no one who believes that statehood would have been possible at this time if it had not been for his work in Washington.
 Also. Mir Cameron carried the state in 1908 on a promise to secure state hood. It has been pointed out that he should carry it now with much less difficulty since that promise has been made good.
 Then. both Mir. Cameron and Hoval A. Smith are in close touch with the best and most advanced thought of the day on all governmental questions. They are in thorough accord with their party on the subject of the tariff, which will be the leading question at the com ing session of congress. And they are right on the other great questions that will affect the people of the state which they aspire to represent.
 The same thing may be said for Mir. Williams. candidate for the lower house Also. MT Williams, it is point out. is a man of fine legal training, a close student of the law. and man in every way fitted for the position to which he aspires.
 His opponent. Carl Hayden. has been county treasurer and sheriff. At the best. it can hardly be said that train ing of that sort fits one for service in handling questions of policy which af- feet the people of the whole United States.
 A big factor in favor of the repub- licans in the fight for control of the state government is the record already made by the party in that matter. Ev- eryone knows that Arizona has made marvellous advancement in recent years: and everyone knows that that advancement has been made under re- publican rule This record of effici- ency will be a splendid asset in the fight which is just starting.
 Some of the democratic aspirants say they are have taken the constitution as their platform and that they pro- pose to make their fight along tha line Bu the democrats are rather unfortun- ate in that statement, since at least one of their candidates. C. M Roberts, of Cochise county. a man who helped