The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-03
rrF FCUBERNOTORIAL CAMPAIGN
By Clio Harper.

.s. M middle of June. The political Snh;rxes % are expected to talk hy that .;r,o Flirtations with goddess of .honce in the guise of Democratic s.;marv. will be succeeded by the aost persistent and energetic wooing
 no,bt will begin to give way to de- .;sion and the nine months long con- tsst will be finally started. Who will k, in the race when it actually starts The people of Brinkley propose to ,ove the riddle if they can. They have arranged to have a Chautauqua +bo week of June 9 introducing Sena- tor Robert M. LaFollette, who will lecture on Representative Govern mont" Frederick Ward, the New York Marine Band, Chas Zueblin of Boston, loon Fraser of Columbia University, and other oratorical and musical mo- tables.
 But that is only the sauce for the real piece de resistance in this great entertainment menu. The Civic Im- movement League of Brinkley, always with an eye to the main chance, has desicnated June 15 as Statesmen's Dav. Senator LaFollette will be there that day, but the great Michigander g be only a side-attraction to the real show. Invitations have been ex- tended to Gov. Hays, Secretary of State Earle w. Hodges, Dr. c. H. BrOugh, Hon J. W. Crockett, Mayor Charles E. Taylor and other candi- dates for governor, to attend and de- liver addresses. Politics would not be tarred ,--indecd, they would be ex- pected to take the dear people into their confidence, and tell what they each and severally propose 10 do to save the state-and what it is to be saved from, if anything.
 June 15 will therefore probably mark the opening of the campaign, which will grow in intensity until it eliminates in the primary election in March. The public may be prepared for any development in this race. There has never heen a larger class of graduates in the University Of State Politics who are seeking the guberna- tOrlaI degree. 1t is a great hurdle race for which they would qualify, and the most annoying obstacle in the course is the financial requirements. few years ago q popular banker. since deceased, said that he had $5000 which he would willingly spend for the honor of being elected governor, to be 0eQueathed to his children. Rut that day has passed. It costs money now 10 run for governor It costs almost So,OO0 to circularize the state once, ana few are content with only once. II has reached period when no man can expect to get back in salary what ne spent In campaign expenses. Ard ne does not win the election he is just that much worse off than when he started It Is current talk that there nave been candidates for governor who nave spent $25,000 or more,-and then been defeated. With all these con- nuorS confronting them. it is not sur ~iSlhg that poor men hesitate about getting into the race. It is a great gamble There are men n Arkansas wno asr'red to be governor who have not yet finished paying for the cost of their defeat.
 LHorts have teen made to remedy u'lS growing evil, so that man of %OuefAte means, or one with friends VI moderate mears, may aspire to the sO'efhorship t7ith some hope of suc- VeSs' The Corruption Practices Act 1915 was directed toward the evil, 0u' It Is so elastic that it has not ,e'ehed the root of the trouble. That s @" provides that "It shall be unlaw- ~ .~ TOT any candidate in any primary s.''on e., for the nomination. for any ''a'e office to expend or s1'e to be expended in aid of his "NHpalgn for such nomination. any "'n' or amounts exceeding the az s'egate, exclusive of his actual per sun "' travelling and hotel expenses, a oa equal to one years salary of the l. TOT which he is a candidate." C. 'urther expressly provided that .a Va' dldate for governor may spend l.. amount exclusive of his actual coas. ei'hg and hotel expenses, not ex-