Mohave County miner., 1916-10-07
REPUBLICAN PARTY STATE CAMPAIGNERS
 VOICE THEIR VIEWS

The Republicans last evening held their second rally in Mohave county. Judge Kibbey, Judge Baughn and Joe Prochaska holding the stage at the Elks' Opera House for an hour or more in the discussion of state and national politics and policies.
 A free picture show attracted goodly crowd to the theatre. and after a couple of reels had been run off the curtain arose on a setting of Repub- hcans. R. W. Wilde presided and, in his introductory remarks became so enthusiastic that he elected the whole Republican ticket from president down to township constable.
 Joe V. Prochaska of Miami was the first speaker introduced to the aud fence. He told the listening world that he was "Joe V. Prochaska; that he came from Nebraska; that he was there to ask ye to vote for Joe" We'll, he did; but the response from the audience was not overwhelmingly in the affirmative. Mir. Prochaska is a candidate for secretary of state, and is a really good fellow, although he has been identified with either one or the other wings of the Republican party in Arizona for the past sixteen years, which wing of the bird we are at present unable to state.
 Judge Otis J. Baughn of Pinal coun- ty was the next speaker. Judge Baughn plunged at once into the sub ject of a non-partisan supreme court for Arizona. He believed that this court of last resort should be of mixed politics, or better still, non-partisan. He said he was qualified, and no one in the audience controdicted him, ac- cepting the statement in silence. Judge Baughn was elected superior judge of Pinal county two years ago, his election being due to democratic votes. He has made an excellent judge and is now asking the suffrage of the people for supreme judge. He has a hard opponent to beat in that of Judge Ross, who has also made an excellent judge during the past five years.
 Judge Joseph H. Kibbey was the last speaker to be introduced. Judge Kibbey is one of the best known of the Republican politicians of the state, having been a justice of the old ter ritorial supreme court, governor of the territory and served several terms in the legislature. He is a candidate for United States senator. Had Judge Kibbey confined his remarks to his record in Arizona he would have won much commendation, but he went far afield and took a crack at Presi- dent Wilson. In this, he got into deep water and brought little applause from the audience, which was appar- ently nine-tenths Democratic. He left the audience to guess what the Re publican party would have done had it been in power, glazing over the fact that the Republicans had been in power three years after the outbreak of the Mexican revolution. He told of the terrible times Americans had in the war-ridden republic, but failed to state that more than 50 Americans had been killed on the American line near Fl Paso, during the presidency of Taft, without bringing out one word of protest or the slightest action. This was really what the Republican party did, not what it is going to do should Hughes be elected.
 Judge Kibbey told how the in imitable Teddy scared the Japs out | of war notions by sending the big | American fleet into the harbor of | Yokohoma, but he failed to tell the audience that that great fleet of war vessels was the result of four years of | Democratic control under President l Cleveland. He did not tell his audi fence that when the reins of govern ment fell into the hands of Roosevelt l the United States was the second | naval power of the world, that when | Teddy relinquished the throne to Taft 1 it was the fourth, and when Taft l went from office it had descended to i fifth place. He extolled Wilson as a | schoolmaster, but did not believe that | schoolmasters could have a grasp of i great public questions. He tried to |