Weekly journal-miner., 1911-11-01


 town and county was greatly appre ciated by me-it was cheering news
 "When I arrived home I found 8 letter from my worthy opponent and old friend George U. Young, saying that the contest had left no sting of bitterness with him and that he in tended to support me to the fullest extent of his power and ability. He is a good loser and still my firm friend
 "This is the opening of the most eventful political campaign we have ever seen because it will fulfill so many of the promises.
 "This is a most eventful campaign because it holds so great promise for us all. Success awaits us all. Success comes to us from the best material to be found in the territory. If we must go down let us go down sus- taining and advocating our principles from beginning to end.
 ''It is a particularly eventful period to me because almost half a century ago I was present at the first public 1 gathering of citizens in this territory and we passed a resolution asking ] President Lincoln and congress to grant us statehood at the first favor able opportunity-and that opportun- | ity is here at last.
 "The question now before you is are we presenting timber qualified for the high positions3 Let us follow the American way of framing an answer and base it upon the results which I these men have accomplished. If we follow that, no person can claim a greater margin of success. (Cries and wild applause).
 "CamerOn is not an orator, he is not fluent trained public speaker but he is a Westerner and he has made good" At this juncture the audience again broke into a burst of unbound ed enthusiasm and Cameron sat there blushing in a manner which appeared to amuse the rest of the speakers. Turning to the shouting assemblage the Judge continued:
 ''I have known every delegate which has erer represented us in Washington and know that he has accomplished more in three years than any other representative we have ever had. I will not enter upon a discussion of the vital issues of the campaign because we have visitors with us and I know that you are anxious to hear from them"
 Who Got Statehood?
 Ralph Cameron was then introduced and if there was anyone in the audi ence who did not shout in manner to frighten an average Apache In dian he still remains unknown. For at least five minutes Cameron found it impossible to make himself heard until finally the noise died down enough for him to ask, "Who got statehood7" and again the audience burst into cheers.
 "Various persons from this very platform, have told you how they did it-haw they and they alone ae- eomplished this task. I will not bore ! you by telling you how in 1908 you elected me to congress on my promise to bring you statehood.
 "I leave it to the people of the territory whether or not I have full ] filled my pledge. want to say to you that when came before you in . 1908 I believed in my heart that I was possessed of the ability, the en- ergy and the strength of purpose to carry them through and if I have not made good I will not ask for your vote.
 'l have been severely criticised by some of the people of Arizona for not getting exactly the kind of state hood they wanted. I have no apolo- gies to make-I have no excuses to worked hard and I did the best I could for all of the people of The delegates framed the constitution and did my best to get the constitution which the dele gates of the people framed. Above all, it was up to me to make my promise good. I was on the ground floor and I had been there all the time and I think that knew how