Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-08
HUNTS ENEMIES GIVE
 REASONS FOR RECALL

PHOENIX, Dec. IA formal state ment has just been issued by the re- call organization formed to oust Gov ernor Hunt The organization has opened offices in Phoenix and will in augurate a Statewide campaign to circulate recall petitions and support them when they are filed. The state, ment which is signed by large num- Der of citizens of the Salt River val ley and is headed by Senator o. s. Stapley of Mesa, is as follows:
 We, the undersigned citizens and taxpayers of the State of Arizona, be- lieving that George w. P Hunt, the present occupant of the office of gov ernor, is united to hold that position and has, by his so-called policies, de- graded his office, stultihed his party and disgraced the State, have united to form a committee to demand his recall.
 We believe that his continuance in office would be fatal to the best in terests of the commonwealth and that the damage he has done already can be minimized and corrected only by his early removal from office. We specifically charge;
 1. That his administration has been grossly, wantonly and needlessly ex- travagant and that, in combining such waste of the money raised 5y the taxation of the citizens of thc State, he has been derelict to obliga- tions he assumed when he took his oath of office. We charge further that much Of this extravaganza and waste is directly chargeable to the personal policies of the governor and that the conditions prevailing in the government of the State are of his own personal creation and are not to be laid at the door of the legislature or of the party he is supposed to represent.
 2. We charge that when first elect cd to his office he was so elected by a constituency which believed in his prediction promises of all due econ orny and avoidance of waste, We charge that the electors of Arizona believed in his earnestness and in tegrity of purpose and that the econ ony he preached ne intended to prac. flee We charge that his historic walk to the State capitol and his as sumption of "Jeffersonian simplicity" were but blinds intended to deludc the electorate and were, to all intents and purposes, nothing but cheap anI tawdry advertising. We charge that since that historic occasion, he has had all too little to do with the means of locomotion inis policies have forced upon the taxpayers walking-a1d that his observations of the State since that day nave been made from the soft cushions of State-maintain- ed automobile driven by State-paid chauffeur and run by gasoline and oil paid for by the taxpayers of Arizona
 B We charge that he has seem ingly caused legislation to be en- acted whereby utterly needless and unnecessary offices and commissions have been created and that it appears to thc undersigned that this mas been done with the deliberate intention of building up political machine and of strengthening that machine when built by corps of stalwart and hur- gry hangcrs-on who may be counted on, at all times, to further his per sonal ambitions on penalty of being deprived of their sinecure jobs,
 4. We charge that, apparently for getting his duty and obligation to the State at large, to tne welfare of his constituents and to the protection of their rights and property, he has used his high office solely for his personal advantage and for the building up of a personal machine.
 5. We charge that the Hunt ad ninistration has been marked by d disregard of the plaiuest provisions of the law, Federal and State. As ar instance of the former we would cite his complete failure to obey tue terms of tne enabling act and his creation of a land commission which has done little but afford an outlet for the money of the oppressed tax payers into the pockets of Hunts personal pets. As an instance of the latter, we cite the litigation and huge expense that has followed his actions ill connection with the appropriation bill. To repeat instances is needless. Every taxpayer in the State has felt them, in his pocket.
 6. We charge that, in the year rrior to his last election he caused, d tax levy to be authorized that was too small to pay the legitimate ex.