The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-21
GOVERNOR ASKED
TO BACK UP HIS
CHARGE OF PLOT
Former Legislator Asks if Duncan
Refugee Camp Is Not Greatest
Blot on Hunt Administration


PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 20. = Evi-
dence to back up his widely cir
culated charges of "a great conspir-
acy against representative govern
nientv has been requested of Gov
ernor Hunt by General Thomas F.
Wilson of Tucson. former member of
the legislature. In letter received
by the governor this week, General
NTson asks the executive to lay
before the public the facts to sub
stantiate his charges, and also to
eAplain why hundreds were COM
PEELED to flee from the Clifton Nor
enci district to safety at Duncan.
rs not the refugee camp at Dun
can a greater reflection on your
administration than anything your
traducers in the state can say or
do?'' asks General Wilson, who de-
clares that the people of the state
have not taken the governors state
ments seriously. The reason for this,
the general says, is that in spite o4
their gravity, the governor Offered
no evidence to substantiate them.
If the charges were founded on
fact, he declares, they should arouse
the people to sense of impending
danger but no facts have been forth
coming.
One paragraph in the communica-
tion, which it is said is causing the
governor much annoyance, refers to
the statement that the governor
"steadfastly refused to order the
militia to shoot down hungry men
and helpless women" in the strike
district. In this connection General
Wilson says:
Asked to Kill Strikers?
IF this means anything, governor,
it means that you had to steadfastly
refuse the opportunities of some das-
tardly miscreant or miscreants who
asked you to order the militia to
shoot down hungry men and help
less women and children in the
Clifton Morenci district. Is it fact
governor, that you were asked to do
this horribly criminal thing? If so,
why did you not cause the arrest
and prosecution of the person or per-
sons for attempting to induce you to
commit murder, or great bodily harm
on hungry men and helpless women
or miscreants could not be criminally
punished, the people have the right
to ask you to expose the dastardly
act by naming the miscreant or mis-
crenats, that the people may inflict
upon him or them their eternal scorn
and contempt What are the actual
facts, governor? Having intimated
such an occurrence in your state
ment you owe it to your self ana 20
the people of the state to give all
the facts in the case"
What .Hunt Overlooked
General Wilson'S letter concludes
as follows
"In connection with the trouble in
the Clifton -Morenci district, there is
a maete- to which you have not re-
ferrod in your statement which is.
however, of great importance to the
good iepute of yoIr administration.
Is it true, governor, that a large num-
Der of law abiding, inoffensive men
who resided in the Clifton -Morenci
selves, were unlawfully and unmerci-
fully beaten and inhumanly abused
and forcibly compelled to abandon
their families, homes and property
and flee from the Clifton -Morenci
district and seek refuge in the neigh
boring town of Duncan, without en-
ployment, homeless refugees?
'If this be true governor-common
public rumor says it is true-permit
me with all respect to ask what you,
as chief magistrate of the state, under
your solemn oath of office-to which
you refer in your statement-have
done. officially or otherwise, to pro-
tcct these injured people in their
sacred rights of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, and to restore
them to their homes, families and
properties? If they are not law
breakers. why are they unlawfully
compelled to be refugees under your