Arizona republican., 1916-09-03
OLNEY MEETING |S
 4 CALOR|C AFFAIR

It was a caloric affair, the Olney meeting at the city hall plaza last night, the most pretentious meeting of the campaign. Though it had been advertised as d democratic meeting it was evident from the personnel oI l the speakers that it was not a Hunt democratic meeting. But there were Hunt men in the crowd, in the fringe of the crowd, some of them evident ot i the l. w. w. type, judging from the enthusiasm with which they greeted 1 the sarcastic allusions to the gover- nor's practice of spending his Satur- 1 day evenings with the criminals at 1 Florence.
 Captain ]. W. Crenshaw presided | over the meeting. In his introductory remarks. while he called no candidate l by name, there was note of criticism 1 of affairs as they have gone in the state during the last few years. i The first speaker on the program was Eugene Brady O'Neill who did not keep the audience long in the 1 dark as to his preference of the two candidates for the nomination for governor Speaking of the flourish with which the governor and his party were collecting taxes of the corpora | tions, MT. O'Neill said that as mem
 
 ! had taken the first step to put the railroads on the tax roll. He compli- rnented the efforts of Judge Joseph II. i Kibpey, then governor to make the i mines pay their share of the taxes ! and ~he was so successful that the succeeding territorial democratic con- vention endorsed the work Governor | kibbey had done. All that, said MT | O'Neill was long before the present radical element was dreamed of. But now, said MT ONeill. taxes are | higher; not only the corporations are paying more but every man is paying more The aggregate is an appalling sum- dissipated and wasted by the administration in it's countless offici- l als and commissions. It was during 1 Hunt outbreak in the fringe of the 1 audience was first manifested
 Mir. O'Neill was succeeded by W. T. Webb, who said that he had come to Phoenix from his home in Graham county, not at the solicitation of MT. 1 Olney but as the representatives of the old neiehbors of MT. Olney in Graham to do what he could 10 ad- i vance his candidacy He briefly re- cited the life of MT. Olney in Graham where he had come thirty seven years ago, boy in his teens. Since then his life had been an open book. He had heen successful in business; had easily been the countys most sue cessful and most useful citizen and had commanded the respect of all citizens. Mir. Webb deprecated the eleventh hour attacks upon the char acter of MT. Olney, all of which as q
 neighhor who had known him all the
 years were without the slightest
 foundation.
 Judoe Baker Speaks
 The speaker of the evening was
 Judge A. C. Baker. who in the begin
 ming said that he was interested in
 Ire fate of only two candidates Tn the election. He desired the election
 of Mrs. Eugene Brady O'Neill who was seated on the platform. for the
 legislature and the defeat of George
 w P. Hunt. Here there was another
 Hunt demonstration on the fringe
 The speaker was now thoroughly awake and he denounced the goVer- nor as a violator of the laws he hac sworn solenlnly to execute. He re- cited his disregard of the capital pun ishment law until the people had re- iterated their preference for the law and had done something else that th' people of no other state had eVel been hrought by humiliation to do to take the power of saving murderer out of the hands of the governor The governor. Judge Baker sald had prated of humanity, but he ha' exhibited humanity only toward tn criminal element. the convicted crlm t.fnal element, cowardly wife murder CTS. hog thieves with whom it was hi nractice to spend Saturday nights an the Sabbath. He had shown no Tn terest in any other class of society FIa had shown none toward the Tar mers: he had not gone to their. home to study how as governor. he mlgh benefit them He had taken no m terest in the commercial life Of th state. He had heen the governor oni of the worst class of citizens. II their behalf only had the laws of tn state been executed and in their Dc half laws had been disregarded an wantonly violated.
 At the conclusion of Judge Baker ! remarks. Chairman Crensfaw an I nounced that the program had pee I brought to an end whereupon mo ton from the fringe produced a roun I of cheers for Governor Hunt from th a environment of the audience.