Arizona republican., 1915-10-28
THE SHORTER
 TERM PASSED
Governor Hunt Qualities Speakers at Mesa Meet ing as Liars Makes a
 Caustic Statement Re garding Recall Movement

Regarding the movement to recall l executive had some caustic remarks
 to make last evening. In presenting
 a representative of The Republican
 with a statement which is here re-
 produced. his eXcellency passed the ! short and ugly term in characteriz- | ing statements made about him by i speakers at the Mesa meeting Tues | day night. sM@
 Naturally the Clifton Morenci in l dustrial trouble is deemed by mer- 1 cenary individuals and newspapers to afford an exceptional opportunity | for a political sortie against the | Governor of the State who has all ! ways steadfstly refused to extend | them special privileges where other ! classes of citizens sought only jus tice and square dealing. The latest plot of this class of back-room poli- ,icians has recently been unfolded to public view in the guise of re- call petition which is known to have originated in Phoenix. but which for special political reasons was carried to Mesa and there delivered for cir
 culation into the hands of H. F. Johnson, a disappointed office seeker
 who is soliciting signatures, has ap
 parently found opportunity to vent
 his chagrin at having been refused,
 (because of disqualifications) the
 Superintendency of the Industrial
 School for which he mad applied.
 Seeking further narrowly personal
 reasons as the motives actuating the
 circulators and signers of this in
 famous recall petition, we find that
 the first sicner is O. s. Stapley, of
 Mesa, who during his inglOrlous career as State Senator, was the humble lackey of certain big interests and champiOned in close succession | q number Of legislative measures de l signed to cripple or embarrass those | State departments which were not | directly under the domination of his l political masters It may be inter | polated, parenthetiCally, that my veto 1 of these measures introduced and | abetted by MT. Stapley was based solely upon their failure to embody | anything of a soundly constructive | nature, and. is now, according to MT. Stapleys own utterances in Tuesday nights meeting at Mesa the chief source of his present animus in fos- tering this abortive, instigated at tempt at recall.
 While the part which both MT. Johnson and Mir. Stapley have played in connection with the Mesa recall petition is unworthy of any self-re- spectinE citizen the heights of con action have. been reached by C. II. Akers of Phoenix, wlo had the combined audacity and hypocrisy | to stand upon q public platform at Mesa according to this mornings and assert that II stood with Governor Hunt two years ago, but cannot now, since I have found that he is dishonest
 "Although. ordinarily, I can regard with mingled amusement and con- tempt the ridiculous efforts of sucn men as Akers and Stapley to play personal politics with every situation hat arises and to pervert the columns of newspapers to that end
 am for once. moved to denounce n the strongest terms permissible | n the public press the action of Akers. the abject tool of a few corporate interests. That this lespicabIe turncoat and timeserver, l should use the word dishonest in | with my name, constitutes 1 an insult too serious to be over ooked, either by myself of by my