Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-23
PROGRESSIVE OPEN MEETING
 FADES AWAY
Opens With Fair Audience But
 Too Much Cold And 0ptomism Combined To Drive Crowds To HauntS Where Opinions Differ
Young And Alexander Principal SpeakerS-Roast Old Parties And Make Several Startling Statements On Campaigns

Statements On Campaigns
 Although it is generally known that Theodore Roosevelt and Prohibition are the two principal talking points Of the Bull Moosers. neither was scarcely mentioned at their meeting last night at Costello Lot, and when they elicited about as much enthusi- asm as the playing of Die Watch am Rhein" at the convention Of allies
 When the meeting started there was a bunch of Bull Moose chiefs on the platform, most Of them primed to make a speech but there was no time left for the others when the two who spoke got through Neither was there any audience. so the meet ing adjourned When it started there were probably 300 persons present. but when it was over there were 30, by actual count, and they were all Bull Moosers and SO cold their horns knocked together like they had the Buck fever.
 The two gentlemen who regaled the audience with the doctrines of their cult were George U. Young. candidate for governor. and Capt J. l.. B. Alexander candidate for attor- ney general They divided the time about equally. though Young made the first and by far the best speech. He held the crowd pretty we'll but he had to make some rather start ling statements 10 do it One of them was that the Republicans could spend a million dollars and then not even start Cameron on his race for gov ernor, much less elect him This statement was made in the face of the general knowledge on the part of the public that the race is between Cameron and Hunt and that Young will pull up a poor third. Candidate Young also said he believed he was going to be elected. but his looks and tone belied his statement
 Early in his speech someone sent up a list of questions to Mir Young to be answered The drst one was. Have you any solution for the prob lem of the unemployed The speak CT tried to answer the question by telling what he had endeavored to do for the unemployed as mayor Of Phoenix and how it had failed be- cause that state law will not permit a city 10 issue bonds over a certain percent of its valuation He finally wound up by launching into a disser- tation on the efficiency of personal courage in times of distress. that if fellow has it in him and really wants to work he'll get by some way. etc
 To the audience his explanation re- minded one very much of the famous reply made by President Taft in speech delivered during hard times when some one in the audience asked What are the unemployed working men going to do?" And the man whose chief record in history will be that he sat on the lid for four years replied. God knows. ! don't"
 Mir Young then quoted the well known remark of Bismarck to the ef- feet that the state should furnish em- ployment to men who really wanted work and couldn't get it. George IT.. lowed them was his sentiments too but a few minutes later when an- swering a question about the state furnishing work to the unemployed he said he believed in individualism as opposed to paternalism and that great projects conducted by the state nearly always cost twice as much as when operated by individuals He said Roosevelt dam cost twice as much as it would have cost had it been built by private labor.
 ! Candidate Y said there was no real difference today between the Republican and Democratic parties, that neither was true to the interests of the people. yet he exhorted all yot- CTS to come into the Bull Moose fold. saying they could be just as good Republicans or Democrats as they were in the old parties Young said the new party had to draw it's strength from the old parties, and for this reason he seemed to 60 very easy on the ordinary voter though he went after the so-ealled bosses roughshod He admitted be used to cohsort with the Republican party ] (Conunned on Page Three)