Arizona republican., 1916-09-29

Senator Henry F. Ashurst proved easy for a large audience to listen to, wien he opened his local campaign at the Y. NJ. C. A. stadium last night.
 Before he had gone two sentences land they were long ones) into the opening peroration. the little excerpt from the annals of liberty and consti- tutional government on this continent, he proved to his audience that train ing with the senators in Washington had put polish on his diction and a smOothness on his delivery that made him positively enchanting to hear.
 The senator had a beautiful crowd, and he made beautiful address. aug menting it with clever points. turned to the benefit of the democratic party when several Of his hearers rose and asked questions.
 Tie record of the democratic party during its three years of power was presented With eloquence Woman suffrage. farm loans, good roads, fed eral reserve banks shipping income tax and many other measures were described and ascribed 10 the "domin- ating. pulsating. humanitarian demo- cratic party" the party Of progress. peace prosperity and a few other all literative things that sound scrump- tious when enrolled from the end of practiced tongue. with appropriate gestures and a heaming countenance. When it comes to beaming. the sena- tor has something that even William ] Bryan might envy-and. anyway, the senator is growing to look more like MT. Bryan every day, and maybe he will take that stalwart's place when the nation has been provoked to mirth at him a few more times.
 The senator accused the republican party of having been in power for ages. and never having constructed anything that Wall street didn't care to see built. He accused Mir Hughes of resOrting to a campaign of criti- cism. and offered the kindly sugges- tion that if he wanted to get any where, he better change his way. Pe- cause 2 supreme court justice did not l leave Washington to take part of a hopeless suffrage fight in his own state of New York and because a president did go down to New Jersey and vote-nobodv knows how-on the suffrage bill. the speaker said the neople ought now to distrust said justice and vote for said president And all this in spite of the fact the president refused to chase his some times unwilling. but usually plumb obedient senators out into the open On tie suffrage amendment.
 Sorry for Miss To+5
 The senator made good deal of capital out of the address of Miss Helen Todd the night before. He shlfully explained away the pres- dents action or the Anthony amend ment, and lubricaated the situation copiously with words. Finally, chap hnd refused to make the senate jump through hoop on this matter, when he had so successfully performed that circus stunt on so many other mat ters Hugely pleased at single handed opposition in an overwhelmingly com placent crowd, the senator did q, power of more explaining saying that | THIS was Q constitutional amend ment. and tfat a chief executive dare | NOT lay his hands on the dear rights of the doubly darling people.
 Mrs. E St. Clair Thompson. a suf- | frage worker, and q constituent of MT. Ashurst's then asked if MT Will son had compelled congress to pu. the chidl labor bill on his record of l fine constructive things, why he hadn't also done a little quiet urging on the suffrage question. Isn't it true that if women had the vote, It would not be necessary to have a child labor bill?" she asked. Again Mr. Ashurst quelled the too-insistent applause, and said that it wasn't so Men were so cursed with greed that they would grind up little children into profits. It was a bully answer.
 The Funny Prologue
 Chairman George J. Stoneman, fresf from victory in the state central com
 mittee. first introduced w. l.. Bar rum. He said mean things about the republican candidates who spoke iron the same rostrum Monday night, at
 tacking them with a savageness tha
 smacked of desperation. The bes
 thing he got off was this: I've take,
 too long," at which the crowd burs
 into uproarious applause, indicatin'
 complete approval of the closing re