El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-31
HUNT ASSAILS
: HIS ENEMIES
Says Men Back of Recall
Effort Should Cast Off
Cloak of Hypocrisy.

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are now seeking my recall, should
throw aside their cloak of hypocrisy,
they would be driven to the admission
OF their main grievance, the frustra-
ton Of the organized effort Of special
interests TO escape their Just DropOr-
ton of taxation and meanwhile exploit
the natural resources of the state at
tn expense Of the permanent residents
who, after mineral deposits are ex-
hausted. viii remain here and hand
down their heritage to posterity.'
This involved but forceful sentence
appears in a folder entitled so the
People May Know" signed by Gov.
George W P. Hunt and now being dis
tributed broadcast in Arizona
Gov. Hunt assails senator O. s
Stapley, Of Mesa; c. H. AlSers, Rev. J.
II. Ray and others who are at the head
of the Hunt Recall association" He
answers each of the charges brought
against him by those who are seeking
his recall
Says Conspiracy Exists.
At the outset he expresses doubt that
more than one or two daily papers OF
Arizona, owing to their unfortunate
financial connections" will give his
statement any mention. but hopes that
the independent weekly journals will
accord to it necessary space as mat
ter relating to the public welfare" He
then says a conspiracy has been set
on foot with view of ultimately de-
throning representative government
and of establishing in its stead a HER
archy Of special interests who, by plac-
ing their puppets in power, might
straightway set about the revision of
the Arizona constitution, the transfer
ence of the main burden of taxation
from the large corporation to the indi-
vidual freebooter. and the eventual ex-
ploitation Of the states resources for
the further enrichment Of organized
greed
Attacks Foreign Mining Companies.
At the opening Of the regular ses-
sion of the second state legislature. de-
clares Hunt in his statement, the min
ing companies established a lobby
characterized by such pernicious de-
vices as are known to political corrup-
tonists for the purpose OF enforcing
the enactment of a mine tax law" He
reviews the sessions Of the legislature
at some length, placing the blame for
the necessity of an extra session upon
that lobby. He criticises in unmeas-
ured terms the general appropriations
bill finally passed, asserting that it
was designed to cripple the state gov
eminent He refers particularly to the
attempt of the legislature. which failed
because Of his vote. to cut the annual
school fund from 100000 to $780, OOO
That measure Of mock economy (
was conceived in a state senate
where tTo-thirds Of the members were
strenuous supporters of the Ubiquitous
mine tax bill and where the number Of
clerks employed with state funds was |
greater than had been sanctioned by |
any other senate in the history OF the |
territory or state. Three men. for ex- |
ample, were employed by this same /
economical senate TO discharge the /
onerous duty of opening and closing the /
doors of the legislative chamber"
Scores CaIIaShan.
AUDITOR }. c CaIaghan is taken to /
task for refusing to issue warrants ]
against a number of appropriat lions :
which were in doubt after the governor |
got through with the bill, and for pro-
longing the dispute by appealing. to the
supreme court after writ Of manda-
mus directing him to do so had been
issued
The governors big white automobile
has often been pointed TO as proof Of his 1
extravaganza Hunt declares that it is
the practlce OF nearly every state in Il
the union to maintain an official car.
Another charge is that the Hunt /
policies have made il impossible to at 4
tract foreign capital TO Arizona. He I
quotes the Century dictionary TO prove /
that foreign" means allen" and con-
tinues:
The choice Of this word then is most |
felicitous for the reason that the seri-
Gus industrial situation now existing at /
ClIton ana Aorenci. where thousands 4
OF helpless women, children and work
lngmen are in woeful want, is a product |
Of foreign methods of industry. con-
ceiyed by foreigners and supported 1
mainly by foreign capital If for /
eign' capital brings feudalistic condi- /
tons and misery in its wake. and ex- I
hausts the natural resources Of Arizona 4
to enrich people, who, while evading 4
their just taxes, expend their i'll gotten
gains in Edinburgh. OF London, I must 4
confess my inability TO see the ad- 4
vantage of encouraging II to suppIant \
honest American capital in the indus i
tries Of Arizona
may modestly suggest /
that when people employing foreign /
capital in Arizona show marked indif- !
ference toward a settlement OF the Cliff /
ton-Morenci strike, contemporaneously
with the levying of a heavy income tax !
by the English nation, their disloyalty /
TO their own country becomes manifest,
and the measure Of their loyalty to Ari- ?
iona is laid open TO conjecture"
Gov Hunt vigorously denies that
the business Of the state can be ad-
ministered for a fraction OF what il
now costs, and with infinitely greater
He claims that of every
dollar raised in Arizona by taxation, |
only four cents is expended in the I
capitol
The literature Of the Recall assoei-
alton is characterized as unjust and /
1nwarranted statements couched in
such phraseolOgy as constitutes an
evasion Of prosecution for criminal Ii
bel, or a personal suit on the ground |