Weekly journal-miner., 1916-09-13
FROM ID STATES ELECT
 HIM GOVERNOR
PARTY OF MAROONED
 TRAVELLERS HELPED BY
 THE EREPUBLICAN.CANDI- DATE FOR GOVERNOR.
Special Correspondence.

Speclal CorreSpondence.
 PAYSCN, Sept /. - Fighting its way through the swales of the plateau between Springerville and Flagstaff, the "Favorite Son" auto arrived here covered with florid mud.
 The same storm that stopped the passage of the car through the White mountains, pursued it as it left Springerville and overlook it when but half of the hundred-mile run to Holbrook had been completed. The first evidence of the fury of the storm was large car stuck in the deep mud, which the "Favorite Son" pulled out and sent on its way rejoicing with its load of Texas Democrats shouting three rousing cheers for Tom Campbell
 At the foot of hill Of the magnili- cent highway from Springcrville to Holbrook the Tom Campbell party saw a trailer at the side of the road way and though it had been abaE doned by the owner. A mile farther the Tom Campbell party came upon an auto standing at the side of the road.
 Did you notice an auto trailer or the road back the driver inquired of Tom Campbell
 Yes; it is where you left it at the bottom of the hill. Can we assist you:'
 Left it! Why, the darn thing left us, and we did not miss it until this moment" replied the stranger.
 Such was the fury of the storm rent highway. A little thing like a trailer was not even missed.
 The hcighth of the wreck and ruin of the highway was reached about Is miles west of Holbrook. The storm waters had risen and completely claimed the roadway. Two young ladies travelling from Chicago to Los Angeles defiantly entered one of the swales. and there they were found by the 'Favoritc Son. during the early ! afternoon. The car was completely ! mud-bedded-hubs, axles and differ entials, and the girls were besmearcd with the red mud Of the plateau.
 Gallantly the "Favoritc Son" tied onto the marooned car and began to l tug. Tom Campbell got out the long | handled shovel and set to work to re- ducc the resistance of the mud. ! Doane Merrill rolled up his trousers and barred his lily-white legs in the mud, and George H. Smalley thought of the waste of public money that had gone into the construction of wal low. The three candidates worked until it got dark, and other cars kcp: coming until there were ten. One of them sank in the miro, then there were nine.
 There were about 5 people in the party and they decided to camp. A
 
 marooncd in the swalc sat about and watched Tom Campbell cook fine dinner After eating, the irresistible ! campaigner, Doanc Merrill, brought 1 out some photos of Tom Campbell i and presented one to each member of the party. \ vote was taken and Mir. | Campbell was unanimously elected i right then and there governor not | only of Arizona but of ten different ! States that the cosmopolitan campers ' hailed from.
 ''I have read the stories of Arizona 1 manhood" said matron from Yer I mont, and thought they were cxag- geratcd: but l will believe anything | from now on that Harold Bell Wright | tells in his books, for Tom Campbell i has shown us what it means to travel CTS When a Mans Man
 The next morning the campers sent the two Los Angeles maids ahead re- joicing, and the caravan of cars fought on through the water and mud . until the storm-swcpt area was passed, l and the "Favoritc Son" was given three rousing cheers as it turned south ! through the pines and disappeared in the wilderness of the Mogollons.
 Campbell and party stopped at Pine ! last night and arrived here this mora !. ing. The party met the people of i Pine informally after being entertain I ed by Mir. and Mrs. Pryor Miller al their comfortable home in the pines. 1
 Tom Campbell was welcomed by the people of Payson, not only be- cause they like him personally, and many of them politically, but because Iy of ,,rira Da,-- |