The border vidette., 1916-01-15
HUNT STRIKES BACK.
Arizona's Chief Executive Calls 8
 Spade a Spade"

1 In a folder, entitled 50 the
 People May Know now being
 distributed broadcast in Arizona, | Governor Hunt says:
 If the hired agents and con
 trolled ne wspapers, who are
 now seeking my recall. should l throw aside their cloak of hypo-
 crisy, they would be driven to | the admission of their main l grievance, the illustration of the
 organized effort of special in | terests to escape their just pro- | portion of taxation and mean
 while exploit the natural re
 sources of the state at the ex-
 pense of permanent residents,
 who, after mineral deposits are
 exhausted, will lemain here and
 hand down their heritage to pos
 terity.
 'The charge that I have disre- garded order and decency' is | presumably an illusion to the fact that I have SteadfaStly re- fused to order militia to shoot down hungry men and helpless l women and children in the Cliff ton Morenci district. Such is the conception of order and de cency' harbored by such serpents in human guise, as is MT. Ray, the former clergyman, who is
 now deplorably prostituting his doubtful talents by furthering a selfish political conspiracy which is the direct antitheSiS of that benevolence and humanity ac- 1 Il
 gy.,
 dictatorship of this foreign element under penalty, other
 wise, of having it demand my
 recall and use it's money power
 to make good it's threat is the ultimatum which I, as Governor, confront. To those who have
 known me we'll during my thirty five years of residence in Ari- zona, no declaration of my posi- tion is necessary, but in fairness to the thousands of citizen whose personal acquaintance I have never had the pleasure of mak- ing, I may, without equivocation, give the solemn assurance, that having my choice, I would cheer fully accept recall at the hands
 of these special interests rather than yield in the measure of one
 iota to their clamoring for un
 usual privilege, compliance with which would render me false to my duty toward the people who elected me to office.
 "To further disprove the ridi- culous contention that the pre- sent State administration dis
 courages capital, I may point, at this time, to the unparalleled prosperity of the mining, live stock, agricultural and other in terestS which support the lead ing cities of Arizona.
 "The charge that unneces- sary commissions have been created doubtless rela tes to the Tax Commission and Corpora tion Commission by means of which the tax burden was equit- ably distributed and the policy of corporate laissez faire was in great measure discouraged It is, moreover, worth while to Ob- serve that the creation of com missions and officers is solely a legislative function in which the Governor has but slight part. It may be further stated that the creation of the Tax and Corpor- ation Commissions was pursuant to a mandate of the Cons stitution
 ratified by the people of Arizona | in an election held for the pur- pose. The Governors reponsi-
 bility for these Commissions, l therefore, is difficult of discern
 ment, unless it be through the 'jaundiced eye of corporation
 tax dodger.
 Ut has been charged that ex- travagance has resulted from my policies as governor, that
 the veto of certain sections of
 the appropriation bill has result
 ed in litigation and huge ex-
 pense' that unnecessary commis-
 sions have been created, that a
 state automobile has been main
 tained; that because of my alleg-
 ed association with radical 'ele-
 mentS' it has become unsafe for
 me to retain the governorship;
 that my policies and acts have
 rendered it impossible to enlist
 foreign capital in attractive
 propositions which the state has
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