Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-11-30
HUNT RECALL
COMMITTEE
ACTIVELY
ENGAGED
Organization Is Perfected Which
Will Attempt to Secure SuffiCi-
ent Signatures to Bring About
Recall of Governor.
CLAIMS 1000 PEOPLE
HAVE SIGNED PAPERS
Formers of MariCOpa County Are
Prominent in Organization
Which will Extend Over Entire
State in Due Course.


PHOENIX. Nov. 29-The first or
aanized steps looking to the recall of
Governor Hunt were taken today
vheu am executive committee of TWEEN
ty-oue was organized under the name
of the Recall Committee" and opened
headquarters i'm Room 229 at the
Goodrich Building. this city The
chairman of the committee is Senator
o. IT. Stapley, of Mesa. secretary,
Rev. J. A. Ray pastor of Bethel NJ.
y Church. treasurer Henry Mitchell
Only committeeman from Naricopa
County have been named so far but
county committees are TO be named in
each of the fourteen divisions of the
state. The executive committee is to
assume charge of the circulating OF
the recall petition, to which over
1000 names have already been secured
in this county. How many names have
been attached to the petition I'm other
counties is not known hut it is known
to- have already been literally signed
wherever presented In opening the
statewide campaign the committee to-
dav issued the following statement:
"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
Oruor. is untitled 10 hold that position
and has. by his so-called policies. de
graded his office. stullifed his party
and disgraced the state, have united
10 form q committee 10 demand his re-
cali.
I'VE believe that Dis continuance in
office would De fatal TO the best inter
ests Of the commonwealth and that
the damage ne has already done can
be miuimized and corrected only by
his early removal from office We
specifically charge that his admins
tration has been grossly, wantonly
and necdlessly eEtravagant and that,
i'm condoning such waste of the money
raised by the taxation of the citizens
of the state, he has been derelict to
the obligation he assumed when he
took his oath of office
eve charge. further that much Of
this eytravagance and waste is direct
ly charaeable 10 the personal policies
OF the governor and that the conditions
nreyailing IN the government of the
state are of his own personal creation
and are not 90 be laid al the door Of
The legislature or of the party he is
supposed to represent
1--WE charge that when FIRST elected
I... D. hrr u
constituency which believed ina his pre-
election promises of all due economy.
I'VE charge that his historic walk
10 the state capital and his assump-
tion of Jenersonian simplicity were
but blinds intended TO delude the cleo
TORS and We're to an intenst and pur-
poses nothing but cheap and taudy
advertising
His policies have forced the tax
payers talking, and his observations
of the state since that day have been
made from the soft cushions Of a
state-maintained automobile driven by
"a state-paid chauffeur and run by gas
oline and OH paid for by the taxpayers
of Arizona.
NJ t cudIEc ltal he mas attlllllEl9 y
caused legislation to be enacted
whereby utterly needless and unnec.
essary offices and commissions have
been created and that it appears "a
the undersigned that this has been
done with the deliberate intention OF
building up political machine and OF
strengthening that machine when
built by CORPS OF stalwart and hun
cry hangerson who may be counted
on at an times to further his persona
ambitions on penalty Of being deprived
of their sinecure Jobs
eve charge that apparently forget
ting his duty and obligation TO the
state al large 10 the welfare of hii
constituents and 10 the protection o
their RIGHTS he has used his high Of
flee solely for bis personal advuntag'
and for the building MP Of persona
machine.
We charge that the Hdnt admins
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