Arizona republican., 1916-09-07
DEMOCRATIC OUTS IN
 WARM ATTACK ON '|NS'

WHnlW HI lAUR Ulu lluU The opposing team of candidates for the democrtic nomination for state | senators from this county shed an other light on the controversy which is emhittering the democratic primary campaign, at the city hall plaza last
 night. This team is composed of O.
 $. Stapley and w. T. Smith Eugene
 Brady ONeill presided, and Mrs. Neill, candidate. for nomination for
 the house of representatives. briefly
 addressed the audience at the close
 of MT. Smiths rather torrid remarks
 Mrs. O'Neill merely presented her
 candidacy, speaking of no other issue
 than that of prohibition, saying that if elected she would endeavor to se- cure such legislation as would make
 the existing law effective This ut
 terance was warmly applauded, not only by democrats, but by many re- publicans in the audience.
 MT. Smith, speaking of the one sided issue, the mine tax bill, which
 he declared was only nightmare af- fecting the minds of the opposition
 said there was not now ana was not
 contemplated a mine tax bill. The
 present method of assessing the mines
 he said had been accepted by the
 mining companies. But. anyhow
 neither he nor MT. Stapley were in
 terested in mine tax legislation and
 were not interested in mines. He
 himself was interested in agriculture.
 being the owner of about a thousand
 acres of land. MT. Stapley who Was | both business man and a farmer,
 could have no interest at variance
 with that of the rest of the people of
 this county. The interests of both
 of them. he said. were more in har- monv with those of the farmers than
 were the interests of the little fellows who were bouncing around yelling mine tax. They were not, he said. farmers; they owned no farms and l could feel no sympathy with the : farmers.
 MT Smith was diverted from his
 subject to speak of one of his oppon-
 ents. H. A. Davis. who. he said, he had heard had traduced him on that
 platform last Monday night MT
 Davis had spoken much of his own r. record. Of Mir. Davis record he
 would only refer to the first act oi l Mir Davis as a member of the senate
 of the first state legislature Previous Q to his election. MT. Davis, the speaker
 said. wGs the owner of a job printing plant called the Arizona State Press
 MT. Davis secured the position O.
 chairman of the printing committee O. the senate, and he put the printine L plant out of his hands and it wa, II 1 thereupon awarded the contract fol : most of the printing ordered by tn, II legislature. most of the printing or.
 dered by the state government it be
 came. in reality, the Arizona Stat, = Press. After the adjournment of tn, , legislature, said Mir. Smith, Mir Davi t came into possession of the printing . plant again. MT. Smith said that h, Il would like to save MT. Davis thu
 trouble of making another transfe . of his printing establishment again l. and for that reason he asked tha n MT. Davis might be defeated at tn, o primaries.
 = MT. Smith denounced the extrava n gance of the state government, spe
 officially citing the operation of prisoi a labor. Quoting from the report o Il the state engineer. he found that i
 had cost S19.60 an acre to clea e ground this side of the Tempe bridg n when the same work could have beel c honestly dcne by honest labor at S2.5 = an acre: it had cost 34 cents a squar
 yard to remove dirt that could hay 1t been moved at 19 cents a yard b, l. honest. well paid labor. The Temp st bridge, built by prison labor. had cos $ the state S135,000, while the Cente = street bridge nearly 2000 feet longe g and four feet wider, containing jus n three times as many cubic yards c Ie concrete, mad cost the taxpayer
 under the territorial governmen r S105000.
 ii Senator Stapley's remarks consste
 mostly Cf a recitation of his work i
 fha lepiSlaf1lrp his 1 XyOr ,t which was along the line of ecorom l., of government. He quoted first frol m the message of the governor to tn ,- legislature urging such legislation. " substitution of the old slip-sho !, method that had prevailed. Mir. Sta pley said that he was made chairma a, of the appropriations committee no the senate and also of the public a' z. counting committee His first wor a was the presentation of the publ welfare bill, providing among oth, III things. for purchasing agert ar , business manager. That bill was oI posed by the governor because it prt 1o posed to make the state auditor ar S the state treasurer. along with il ;n governor, responsible for the appoin III ment of the agent. The goyern' lI wanted to assume all that respons iS biity himself. to hold that patronag i and his friends in tEe mousse III changed the bill that it became wort s less and was withdrwn.
 .u' MT. Stapley said that his troub = with the governor and his supporte oo followed his report OF the conditi' " of affairs at the industrial scho w where he found that the widest was !. III and extravaganza had prevailed | lss was told by a fellow senator imm l, diateiy after the submission of t al report that no bill he Introduced aft - that would escape the governors vel U" MT. Stapley said he did not belle
 that at the time. but later he learn
 that his informant knew what he W
 talking about. Within three days
 IL of nc session A