The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-09-04
MARK SMITH
SPEAKS To
CLIFF TON
VOTERS
Managers of Reece Ling's Campaign
in this State Are Hauled Over the
Goals for Circulation of Scurillous
Matter.
600 LISTEN TO SENATOR SMITH
Spoke for More Than an Hour and
Dealt Largely With National Cues
tions Disposed of by the Democrats
in Congress.

Hon. Marcus A. Smith, United
States Senator from Arizona, was ac-
corded a hearty welcome in Clifton
on Tuesday afternoon, when the train
pulled into the depot. Surrounded by
a score of warm personal friends the
Senator was escorted from the de-
pot across the bridge to the Clifton
Hotel, accompanied by the Clifton Con-
cert band, where he held an Informal
reception, shaking hands and reminisc-
ing with old time friends in this sec
ton.
Arzona's Senator appeared hale and
hearty and was in jubilant spirits over
the cordial reception rendered him In
different parts of the state where he
has been making speeches for the
past week.
At S:15 o. M the Princess theatre,
which seats six hundred, was crowd
ed from the front row to the top
most seats in the gallery and a large
crowd stood in the rear aisle of the
opera house determined to hear Ari-
zona's popular senator. AS the Sena-
tor entered the opera house and
walked down the aisle to the stage,
accompanied by Ben Crawford, Hon.
George Chase, Judge Lally and Post
master Roscoe of Morenci, G.. c.
Berault, o. J. Cotey and Duncan Nc
Neil, of Clifton, he was accorded an
ovation. Ben Crawford, a supporter
of Senator Smith for thirty years,
presided at the meeting and introduced
the speaker.
Senator Smith dealt largely with
national questions and referred to the
important measures he had succeed
ed in passing through the House and
Senate during his term of office, and
referred with justified pride, to his
defeat of the joint statehood bill
which passed the House at one
time linking Arizona with New Mexi-
co.
In vigorous language he denounced
the managers of the Reece Ling cam
paign in this state who had caused cir
culars to be sent out charging him
with having appropriated money for
clerk hire to his own private account.
Ths Senator stated that while in Phoe-
nix he had written Reece Ling let
ter which had been delivered by per-
sonal carrier holding him Greece
Ling) personally liable for the libel
Gus articles and that he had been in
receipt of a telegram from Mr.. Ling
disclaiming responsibility for such
statements and had ordered this por-
tion of the circular eliminated before
further distribution.
Picking up a postal card recapitu-
lation of the amount of money that he
had received as Representative in the
House and as Senator, the speaker
said that the money he had drawn
had been paid to him as the salary
allowed him by law as the represen-
tative of the people of Arizona and
that during all that time not single
dollar from any other source had
ever crossed his palm.
He said that the senate is no place
for inexperienced men and that it
takes a man some years in congress
to be able to properly serve his con-
stituents. He exploded the myth that
places on senate committees are as
signed to states, and that a new man
going into office would step into the
seats left vacant by his predecessor.
1t is, he said, a long journey from
the bottom to the head of the i'm
portant committees, and added that
in his position as chairman of the
committee on the irrigation and rec
lamation of arid lands he was able to
do much more for Arizona than could
a new man.
He said that there was no small
jealousy among some of the eastern
senators because they conceived that
the west was getting too much con-
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told how some of them wanted to at
tach an interest clause to the new
extension bill. But" said he, this
is all over now. We have the bill as
we asked for it and have breathing
spell in which to adjust ourselves to
settled conditions"
To the charge made against him
that he was somewhat advanced in
years, he retorted that Arizona can
not afford to start kindergarten in
the United States senate, but needs
a man of some experience, even If it
did take few years to acquire it.
He spoke of his membership on
other senate committees and said that
no legislation that could directly af-
feet Arizona or its interests could get
to the floor of the senate without go
ing through one of the committees to
which he belongs.
Leaving personal and local matters,
he spoke of the splendid patriotism