The border vidette., 1911-12-02
HON. HENRY ASHURST.
Tells of Few Things Mark Smith
 Has Done for Arizona.

Prescott, Democratic nominee
 for the United States Senate. ir
 reply to the Republican question
 What has Mark Smith done fol
 Arizona. when in NogaleS Mon.
 day night told near thousand people some of the many things
 Mr. Smith, who is running with
 him for the United States Se-
 of Arizona during the many
 years of honorable, faithful ser
 vice in Congress.
 AShurSt'S answer to the Smith
 question and his startling pre-
 -entation of the records of some ! of the leading Republican candi- dates have become features of the campaign. He charges Ralph Cameron present Delegate to Congress, with having engineer ed the disfranchiSement of TOGO Arizona voters, who are shut out of the December 12 election be- cause the Arizona Enabling Act under which the election is to take place bases the voting un- der the registration of 1908, upon which Cameron was elected to office. That there are 1000 per sons in the State who should be permitted to vote in the coming election, but who are kept from voting because they were not registered in 1908 or upon sup plements to that register kept open until a little more than a year ago, is the charge nightly made by Ashurst.
 AShurst further charges that Cameron, instead of recently ap- pointing an Arizona boy to place in Annapolis, gave the ap- pointment to the son the New England agent of the Standard Oil Company, the boy having lived in Arizona six days at the time of the appointment.
 What has Mark Smith done for Arizona :'' said Ashurst I pres ume that there is no man who really knows all of the things MT. Smith has done for this State and for it's people. Proba bly, he does not remember all of them himself, in the mutt itude of his activities for all of us who live here and want to see Arizona prosper.
 ''But I can tell you of few of the big things he has done Every Arizona school boy ought to know of the faithful service MT. Smith has rendered in the eight terms of his service in Washington, in Congress and between sessions.
 "One of the most dramatic stories of Arizona history, and there has been much that is dramatic in that history, is the store of Mark Smiths fight to save the Salt River and Gila Valleys-these broad acres that are becoming an empire within zona and the settlers whose com ing was but a dream when Smith made his fight.
 You all know the history of the PeraltO- Reavis claims. An adventurer appeared in Arizona "a plausible, well financed ad- venturer Under the guiSe of an old grant from the open hand of the rulers in Mexico and Spain, Reavis convinced Roscoe Conk-- ling and Robert G. Ingersoll and John Broadhead of St. Louis, president of the American Bar Association, that the grant and claims were genuine. These | eminent men the attorneys for ReaviS.
 But Mark Smith was for the | people, and Mark Smith proved | that the documents presented by | the claimants were forgerieS. | He had commissioners sent to | Mexico and to Spain to look up 1 the records. In the end ReaviS l went to jail and the broad lands that he and his mysterious back CTS sought to grab remained the of the people. Mark Smith did that.
 Mark Smith made the first speech ever made in Congress in favor of the irrigation of arid lands. He is the father of all of this marvellous fertility that is being developed upon our irTi- gated lands. He secured the first | for the survey of the Salt River and Gila Valleys,