Arizona republican., 1916-09-26
RECORD CROWD HEARS REPUBLICAN, DECLARATIONS
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES TELL
 OVER TWO THOUSAND PERSONS
 WHERE THEY STAND IN ISSUES

over two thousand people. the larg- est crowd assembled anywhere during this campaign. heard members of tine republican state ticket discuss the issues of the day at the Y. M. c. A. stadium last night. From 7:30 till long after ten o'clock, the throng remained, many of them standing, until Judge J. Fl. Kibhey had con cluded his address, closing the meet ing.
 That Governor Hunt has Just two policies. was the statement of Tom Campbell. candidate for governor, in his splendid address. Aside from prison reform and his appeal to one class as against another, the chief executive has practically no other in- tcrest in state administration. Speak ing as a member of the state govern ment. Campbell said that instead oi exercising close watch on the state departments, as the head of a great organization should, the departments uf the state are neglected by it's head. In no other way, did the speaker refer to the governor. He said that the big question to be argued in the campaign and fought out at the polls, is Co pe industrialism. and while on the subject, he would explain his stand.
 In no uncertain terms, Campbell laid his policy before the auditors. It was 'be fair 10 labor; be fair to capital; be firm with both. Special privileges to special classes is not my speciality
 There are so many angles to the campaien as it is now being waged that The speaker was at loss to know where to begin. He believed the state was like great corporation, with every tax payer a stockholder, and interested in dividends. If you think it's management has been good for these five years. continue it. That is good business If You think it has been bad that if contains the seeds of destruction then change it. That's good business and you will find. that good politics is good business"
 l'ifty-two per cent of the money raised hv taxation in Arizona goes Co schools Campbell explained why. therefore. the people should be in terested in the campaign of Harrison F. Matthews, for state school super intendent
 He charged that the present sup crintendenf gets but little help in his work from the chief executive
 He displayed m advertisement con- tained m a local Hunt organ, eXpatiat- ing on the reduction of taxes in Maricopa county. since the state ad- ministration took power. The ad- vertisement asked the question. Has Hunt raised he taxes"
 In reply. Campbell pointed out the falsehoods contained in it. It not only argued cirCuitously. drawing con clusions in favor of the administra tion from all angles, but it actually distorted the figures with which i sought to prove it's points.
 "Wc spend upwards of three mil Hons year to maintain government Bnt how2 There is no audit of th state departments. no check upon thi cNuenditWe"
 The speaker told how the apologists for Hunt are using the reduced tal noise for his benefit, and asked the crowd in which were hundreds O tax payers. if their cards bore les, in assessment than they did two. four five years ago. The state tax ha doubled in five years. Tho schoo funds are 64 per cent greater burden with no assurance to the payers tha thore k G. per cent greater efficienc,
 MT Campbell related an incider which t0ck place in the Truax rest