Arizona republican., 1911-11-24

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 | Messrs. Cameron. Smith and Will
 jams of the congressional ticket deliv-
 cred short addresses, as did Judge
 Doan. F. s. De Pass. George A Mauk l Claude Jones, J. F. Cleaveland, George D. Christy and w. T. Sturgis of the
 state ticket and w. B. Dorman. ]. C.
 Phillips and Barnett F. Marks of the county ticket.
 During the progress of the barbe-
 cue. the candidates and the populace
 fraternized. meeting old and making
 new acquaintances and indulging in a | general good time such as only can be 1 had at an old fashioned barbecue of
 the variety put up by the Glendale committee yesterday.
 Fen s. Hlldreth. H. L Latham. w.
 w. Cook, Wesley Hill, Phil Ensign, Oscar Roberts, I. T. Hosey and others of the county candidates didn't put in much time on the speakers platform. | but they didn't waste any time at | that.
 | Wesley Hill was bit handicapped as hand shaker by sore hand | though he did fairly we'll He didn't know what caused the soreness of his shaking hand. but he said he inad- vertently shook hands with a democrat day or two ago and he feared that it had struck in.
 The meeting in the Tempe opera | house in the evening was a record breaker and the speech of John $. | Williams, republican candidate for l congress the hit of the occasion | Tempe is the birthplace and present | home of Carl Hayden the democratic candidate for congress and MT. Will Hams opponent and for that reason the latter was particularly on his \ mettle and reaching into empyrean, pucked number of rhetorical bOu quets. metaphorically speaking. and presented them to Tcmpes illustrious son, all of which had the effect to put the great audience in humor to listen to the more argumentative DOT tions of the Cochise county orators discourse which followed.
 The meeting was preceded by an open air concert participated in by the Tempe band and a bard which accompanied the Phoenix contingent which journeyed to Tempe by special train.
 It is estimated that 600 people crowded into the hall which had been tastefully decorated for the occasion. l J. F.. Price presided and that he was in full accord with the animative spirit of the meeting was given ample eXemplification in his opening address and in his introductiOns of the several speakers.
 Ralph Cameron was the first of | the candidates to be presented and in | his usual forceful manner launched at once into q statement of his work at Washington. He believed he had made good and he believed further that by making good he had earned the right to ask the people to elect him to represent the state m the United States senate. In his judgment the affairs of state should be con ductCd along business rather than political lines and the men entrust- ed with the conduct of those affairs selected, not because they wore the label of a political party. but be- cause they were qualified to get for the state what it needed.
 As in his Mesa and Glendale lspeeches MT. Cameron reviewed the fight for statehood and told of the conditions prevailing at Washington and what he had to overcome before congressional and executive approval
 was finally secured. With regard tO
 the charge that he had connived at
 the disfranchiscment of 1000 voters of
 Arizona. |. he denied it absolutely and
 made the counter charge that if any were disfranchised the blame should
 be laid at the doors of those who, by
 their insistence upon putting into tho
 constitution features which they knew
 would he refused approval by tho
 president had delayed statehood.
 Chairman Hubbell of the state cen-
 tral committee addressed the MeXicanS
 pounding the principles of republican
 ism as laid down in the party plat
 form with particular attention to wha
 the party offered workingmen and thu
 owners of land He called attention | to the proposed exemption laws, {,
 the proposition to furnish textbooks free, to the danger to the fruit grow CTS. farmers sheep men and cattle mel of Arizona which would follow th'
 inauguration of the democratic polio
 of free trade and expatiated upon tn
 yeoman service rendered Arizona b | Ralph Cameron He discussed tn , tariff and it's bearing upon the lant
 and it's tillers in the Salt River Val ley. and warned them to think twice before sending to congress senator: ; and representatives who would line III with the free trade contingent in tha body. who believed in buying cattle
 fruits, grain. wool, and everything th' lcattle men, farmers or sheep men pro- , ducc when they can be bought for thu least money, whether that be America ; or Mexico or Timbuctoo." to quote th'
 Douglas International. one of the lead ing democratic papers of the territory The need of revision of the minin; laws. an extension of the work of tn I geological survey and of the bureau
 of mines, the throwing open or tn great coal fields of Coconino and Ma : yaio counties. and the reclamation Q 7 now arid lands by irrigation by pump
 operated by cheap power were dls cussed.
 George A. Mauk told of the work h' |, I,ad accnnn nlished in the way of equal