Arizona republican., 1916-11-02
MT. Campbell and Prohibition

The voters of Arizona have no doubt as to where MT Campbell stands on the prohibition ques- tion He has stated his position without the slightest equivocaton:
 ~I am for prohibition and wrote the plank in the republican platform endorsing it. although It was siightl, changed afterwardsl And if am elected gov ernor I will try to enforce the prohibition law as IL should be enforced. Let also add that the prom bltion amendment the ballot is going to carry
 Meanwhile the friends of Governor Hunt who has never raised his voice for prohibition; who has never taken the slightest interest the enforcement of the law: who declined to recommend needed supplemental prohibition legislation continuing their silly attacks upon MT Campbell by of fictitious letters from imaginary Arizona bartenders Of whom nobody in Arizona has heard. These let ters represent the writers be members of oaren- ders organization in California, working with the knowledge and consent of Mir Campbell for his election.
 The Republican has printed two of these fake letters from copies pretended originals which lie on the desk of the governor to be shown with feigned casuaness to visitors the executive offices copy of a third letter well photographic copy of 1t has come into the possession Jf The Republican The photographic copy. told was made at the state prison which appears to be the headquarters of the governors publicity bureau, the convicts being em- ployed as amanuenses and in addressing and mailing these fictitious letters campaign literature
 II is A curious circumstance that all these bar tenders letters sent from San Francisco, or Los Angeles to bartenders in other points of California or Nevada all find their way the office of the governor Here is of these fake letters we have seen
 Los Angeles, Oct. 4 Frank Murlock
 Dear Sir; Grover Hayes told that you in Reno and I thought would write and ask you If you wanted job doing political work in Arizona
 An the saloon men and bartenders who used to live in Arizona have formed organization to help elect Campbell governor. He is running on the rep. ticket and if he is elected get some favors of hm-we might get bill through the legislature that will help us and Campbell will sign it all right
 Bert Flames told me in a letter you were in Reno on a paper so I thought I would write and ask you if would like to Tucson and do some writing for us and help get out some circulars Telegraph me and will telegraph you ticket to come here and we VIII go to Tucson together There will be a months work for you and hope you can take the 1oo
 Let me know quick you get this and will tee- graph a ticket and money for expenses coming down. nere is of the old saloon bunch clubbed to- gether and some of the wholesale cigar and whiskey houses on the coast have put up some money for us Go use have got quite a lot of money and your money will be We got to elect Campbell If we can
 Re sure and let me hear from you just you get this HENRY T. ROGERS.
 telegraph care Hollenbeck bar Los Angeles. Be sure and keep this under your hat as we are doing thls work secret and working under cover Campbell don't want 1t public He says it will lose him a lot of the church
 Addressed: Frank M. Murlock,
 Reno Nevada
 Reno Commercial Club
 The reader cannot fail to observe that the letters are s framed present to the public just such facts the political enemies of Mir. Campbell would suppose be the damaging to him. These facts are aborously and unnecessarily incorporated All details of alleged bartenders' organization forth and particular is laid upon the neces- sity of secrecy. The letters plainly fake if The word FAKE printed them in red ink
 The names of Henry T. Rogers, Bert Flames and Grover Hayes appear in all these letters As we have said nobody in Arizona has yet been found who has heard of them They not the lists of any of the old Arizona bartenders unions which embraced the of every member of that trade who has oper aed in the for the years. It is suspected that if these living men, they paroed convicts who have lent themselves to this despicable work Flames in of the letters is addressed a barten- der and in the foregoing letter a working news paperman
 The whole fraud Is transparent, uninten- uonslly innocent, guileess foolish and idiotc that fraud appears to be harsh word for the desg nation of 1t. An idiot cannot commit fraud.