Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-09-17
CHAF|N AND WRIGHT EXCHANGE COMPLIMENTS
 IN FIGHT OVER PROHIBITION AMENDMENT

TUCSON, Sept. 16.-Eugene Chafin, independent candidate off U. s. sena' tor and prohibition advocate, went after Alfred s. Donau and John B. Wright, president and secretary of the Arizona Local Self Government League in speech which he delivered to about 500 people at tn Military Plaza Saturday night.
 Chafin spoke of having issued chal- lenge to Donau and Wright to meet him in debate and read from letters which MT. Donau and Mr. Wright wrote to him declining to meet him on any platform. He said that MT. Donau had good excuse because he was not educated in debate but he could hire his attorney, Mr. Wright, who would talk every time he got a chance.
 The challenge which MT. Chafin ad-
 September g, 1914. Hon. John B. Wright,
 Tucson, Arizona.
 Dear Sir: A copy of the circuIa. letter which is being mailed to the {. voters of Arizona on the official let ter head of the so-called Arizona Local Self-Government League is before me. . Your name appears as the secretary, and you have placed yourself against the prohibition of the legalized liquor traffic in Arizona, and declare your self to be in favor of the perpetuation of this financial, social and moral curse of our state.
 Your attitude, of course. is perfectly satisfactory to every brewer, saloon keeper, bootlegger, thug and bum in cur state and to every other man and woman who prefers drunkenness to decency.
 But, since you have taken this posi- tion on the side of the saloon and it's long list of infamies, of course, you are ready to defend your position.
 Now, as a citizen and taxpayer of Arizona, I deny the statement you make pertaining to the benefits aris- ing from the legalized liquor traffic. and furthermore, I deny the statement that everywhere prohibition has prov ed an economic, financial or moral failure.
 Inasmuch as arrangements are be ing made for monster mass meeting to be held on the Military Plaza, Tue son, next Saturday night, September 12th, at 500 o'clock, at which I am to discuss the economic, social and moral destruction caused by the Ii Quor traffic, and because I do not desire anything but the fullest and freest discussion on this question, l hereby challenge you to be present at the meting next Saturday at the above mentioned place to defend your position as set forth in this circular letter, and in the resolutions adopted at your meeting in Tucson, and in your statement as made in the pamph- {. let enclosed with this circular letter You may take all the time you desire in stating your defense. If the legal zed liquor traffic is a good thing and you can prove this, 1t surely is your duty as a citizen of this state to do so. And in the name of the friends of the Prohibition Amendment, I as sure you of a most respectful hearing I trust also that all your friends and all the friends of the saloon will come and give respectful attention to my defense of prohibition.
 l am writing to you, not as an out slider, but as a resident and taxpayer and voter of the state of Arizona. A letter of acceptance of this challenge will reach me if addressed to 11O Olive Road, Tucson, Arizona
 Yours faithfully,
 E. w. CHAFIN.
 To MT. Chafin's letter, MT. Wright : replied as follows:
 Hon. Eugene w. Chafin,
 Ill Olive Road, Tucson Ariz ? Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 9th inst, containing a challenge to meet you in debate on the question of statewide prohibition. Even were not for the fact that have a previous engagement to make an ad dress on that date at the Old Settlerr