Arizona republican., 1914-10-31
THROW OFF THE MASK
IN THE ELEVENTH HOUR
After Campaign of Deception the Representatives OF
Big Mining Corporations Come Into the Open as the
Real Leaders of the Fight Against Miami County.
READ THIS SHORT NEWS ITEM FROM THE
PHOENIX REPUBLICAN OF OCTOBER "A.

''MessrS p G. Beckett, general manager OF the Old
Dominion Copper Company; e. W. Rice, attorney repre-
senting the Inspiration Copper Company and the Miami
Copper Company and f. W. Grider manager OF the Solo
mon Wickersham Company who among the proml-
nent ella county taxpayers who over to Phoenix
Thursday present their protest against the DIVISION OF
ella county the board of trade left for home this
morning. They expressed themselves well pleased
with the action taken by the board of trade passing
resolution opposing the proposed division.
The man Rice and all others mentioned in the above
article residents of Globe and do not now, nor have
they ever lived in the proposed Miami county.
The corporations kept ''mder cover during the
first part of the county division campaign While hired
attorneys and campaigners ''gumshoed" around and
made confidential talks to the effect that if Miami
county should be created by the proposed division OF
ella county, the new county would be controlled by the
corporations They succeeded to the extent Of decevng
a sufficient number Of the delegates to the state labor
convention held at Phoenix to have resolutions passed by
that body opposing the creation of Miami county.
THE DELEGATES WHO ALLOWED THOSE
RESOLUTIONS TO BE ADOPTED DID NOT KNOW
THAT THEY WERE GOING ON RECORD AS OPP
POSED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AN JNDEPEND-
ENT COMMUNITY OF WORKERS.
Not until they believed the attorneys and political
tools had the workngmen OF the state deceived did the
corporations into the open and throw off thel
masks. But they into the open few days too
Every voter in the state Of Arizona will know before
election day the trickery that tried. Every wage
will know the truth
Miami is an Independent town. The people own
their homes and business houses The large cOrpor
ations have been able control the town. and if
Miami county is created they will never control it.
The above named corporations represented in
ella county by paid managers The live in their
mansions in the eastern cities and in Europe and have
very little interest i'll the permanent development
Of Arizona. Yet they opposing the fight for home
rule that is being made by people who have dedicated
their lives to the upbuding Of the state in order that
they may increase their dividends.
Ten thousand people want home rule in Miami dis
tlict
They want to govern themselves. They want free
community They want schools for their children hosp
tails for their SICK roads into the agricultural valleys
cut down the high cost of living In fact they want the
things that by right belong to free American citizens
The paid corporation tools visiting every town in
Arizona trying to crush ont the attempt Of the people OF
Miami to secure sef-government They are publishing
broadcast over the state lies that thew are
conradicng themselves every day. order to down the
Miami peoples fight for home rule and an independent
town.
Now that they have thrown off the masks and the
wage ea1nels, farmers and independent business men
Arizona can see the TRUTH ask YOU voters of Arizona
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