Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-06-12

l uIld, Al lAOhdy
 Sir:- Tn your issue of yesterday there appeared the following article:
 SOCIALISTS IN ARMS"
 "The Socialist party of Yuma are III
 in arms against the board of Super visors and will, some of them say seek revenge for their imaginary grievanc es through the means of the recall. | At a meeting held by them on Sat urday they discussed the matter pro and con as to why their party emblem was not printed on the ballot in the late recall election. The fact that the law expressly states that no party device shall go on the recall ballot does not satisfy them.
 "In order that the board might have chance to square themselves with this organization the Socialists sent them word that they were in session and invited the board to come down and explain. The board courteously declined to visit the hall of the an nointed and invited them if they had any grievance they wanted to air to visit the office of the board.
 Not being able to inveigle the board into their parlor they discussed the advisability of the recall as a method of squaring the account. Some of them were hot for the recall while others were hot against it.
 Those who were in favor of putting the recall into motion were in the ma iority and the minority walked out. Sonic of them seem to think that by joining hands with the Hess outfit which has been talking recall that they might secure enough signatures to call an election. Judging by the number of votes received by the So- cialist candidate in the late election an attempted recall of the supervis- ors by them would be more or less of a joke.
 Now sir, it becomes our duty to tell you plainly what you are and we propose to do it, and we are going to prove you to be just what we say you are.
 There is a little harsh sounding word of four letters which exactly de scribes you but we'll, for the present recognize Col Roosesvelt's exclusive privilege to the use of it and not use it. The fact is, however, your article is a falsehood AND YOU KNOW TT.
 The law in existence at the time the ballots were printed and sent out ttc the various precincts expressly com handed that each candidate run under some POLITICAL NAME. The law you are talking about was not signed by the Governor for more than week after the time when the ballots, under the law had to be printed. The law provided that the ballots MUST BE PRINTED TEN DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION AND THE LAW YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT WAS NOT SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR AND DID NOT BECOME A LAW UNTIL THREE DAYS BEFORE THE ELEC TON. YOU PERSONALLY KNOW THESE STATEMENTS TO BE TRUE AND YOU KNOW YOU WILLFULLY THE COLUMNS OF YOUR PAPER TO THE PUBLICA, TON OF A PRIESTHOOD WHEN YOU PUBLISHED THE ABOVE AR TICLE.
 Furthermore, the new law provides among other things, that the square for the voting cross shall be placed UNDER EACH CANDIDATES NAME and that the words Vote only for one candidate by placing an K in square under name" shall be printed on the ballot Now then, sir, stand up and tell the people why you printed the square at the left of the names and why you omitted to print on the bal lots the words quoted? YOU KNOW THE BALLOTS AS PRINTED BY YOU DID NOT CONFORM TO THE NEW LAW AND YOU KNEW THIS WHEN YOU PUBLISHED THE A. BOVE ARTICLE. DON'T DENY TT, YOU DID.
 The Socialist local did not hold at the time stated by VOL nor did we send word to the supervis ors that we were in session and in vite the board to come down and ex- plain. Your statements in this re spect is absolutely false
 We did discuss the advisability of aiding in the recall of the supervisors and the county attorney and there was some opposition to it but a reso- lution endorsing the recalls was pas sed by a overwhelming vote. This resolution will be published in the next issue of the Arizona Socialist Bulletin. When this resolution was