Arizona republican., 1911-10-01
Could Hardly Breathe

measure of joy and happiness in this
 world is the knowledge of duty well done towards helping our fellows. The
 fact that the position of governor
 opens a wider field for doing good I
 say again. is my first and greatest reason for making the race for the po-
 sition.
 Another reason for entering the race
 is to satisfy the many friends who
 insist that they are dissatisfied with
 the two candidates already in the field:
 who look upon one as the candidate of
 the Western Federation of Miners and
 the other as the corporation candidate. and a sworn enemy of every other sec
 tiOn except his own county as shown by the scurilous articles written by him and distributed at the ogden meeting of the Reclamation congress m which
 he charged the people of the Salt River valley especially of buying up the Y. s. engineers and inducing them
 by our gold" to report on the RoOse- welt project instead of the san Carlos.
 AIr Weeden while in the council of the last legislature voted against the
 Pace bill and was the principal op-
 pOnent to the passage of that bill
 which was intended only to restore our fellow citizens to an equality at the ballot box. No man has a right to pose as a Democrat who will use his legislative position to disfranchise a fellow citizen because he does not see fit to vote as another man does. 4 majority vote, equally at the polls. is right and one of the fundamental doc trines of the democratic party and there is no defense for such action and it only goes to show that if a man would use his power to thwart the will of the people in the interest Of special privilege classes what would he do if placed in a position of greater power.
 Mir Hunts record as a legislator places him in very much the same atti- tude while in the legislature. He vot- ed for the segregation law" which enables a town to heap up unneces- Sary expenses taxes on the rest of the county regardless of the wishes of the great majority of the voters of the county Also as president of the con stitutional convention he, by his un- fairness in the appointment of the committee on separate submission. pre- vented the submission of a prohibition clause and woman suffrage clause which could have been done without any additional cost to the tax payers; the same now would cost the state at least $40,O00. The submission of these questions would have been the referen- dunn pure and simple without expense, showing his lack of faith in the will of the people. MT. Hunt is the con- didate of the Western Federation of MT. Weedens record while in the legislature puts him as the cham pion of the whiskey interests which, as w. J. Bryan has we'll said, stands at the head of the special interests with which the whole country is now in a raging conflict and in which I am proud to say the grand old demo- cratic party is in the front rank and behind the big guns. Hence t seems to me that between the Western Fede- ration and special interests there is a place for d democratic candidate for the people. I am well aware that my will call down the wrath of the subsidized press of the terri | tory and some will say that I have brought discord to the party by show | ing the legislative records of Mir. l Weeden and Mir. Hunt. We are taught | in Holy Writ that the books shall be | opened and out of the books shall We | be judged. Now I am sorry the rec ord it as it is but I did not put it | there: the question is whether it would | be loyalty to the party to let these | books remain closed until a republican breaks the seal and calls to judgment | our candidates after their nomination