Williams news., 1916-08-24
RED LAKE BARBECUE DRAWS
 LARGEST CROWD EVER, BOOTED
Visitors Flock to Barbecue From Four Quarters Dinner Great Success Many State and County Candidates Present and All Orate-Games and Sports Entertain and Delight.
Everybody quit work last Thurs

Everybody quit work last Thurs day and took day off to attend the Red Lake barbecue and mo- body regretted it. It was a great day. Red Lake people sent word far and wide and people came hocking in from Williams, the Grand Canyon, Flagstaff, Ash Fork, Seligman, Prescott, Phoenix and even from far distant Tucson. Every sort of conveyance was used to get there, from railway coach to to burro< back. The day and the crowd furnished an opportunity for the office seeker to meet a great many voters and give them the glad hand and they sure took ad- vantage of it. Many saw sure en- ough election as a result.
 As far as could be seen by the guests of Red Lake people. Red Dake is pure etymological fab- rication. There ain. no such thing" But had there been it would have served merely as a distraction and wovld better have been absent. There was grove and such grove. The groves of history, real or fabled, had nothing on the grove which Red Lake people claim as their own. An aggregation of stately pines in the center of large prairie girt by mountains of greater or less degree made picture to satisfy the de- mand of the most exacting in poetry and romance. What scenes of love and tragedy may not have been enacted midst the whispering pines of Red Lake grove? What deeds of valor may not have been inspired by the encircling noun talns? These imposing sentinels looked down upon pigmy man and awed him into a state of hu- mility. Each of the speakers of
 the day dlsclaimed being an orator
 while giving tribute to the oratory of his predecessor. Each in his turn, however; waxed eloquent and
 belied lis humble asseveration.
 The visitors at the barbecue
 could be accounted for but whence
 came Red Lake people. In tha
 whole valley there was not hab
 itation, as far as eye could see
 Whence came those hospitablt
 people who insisted on their rights
 as hosts and, virtually, compelled
 all to partake unsparingly of theil
 bounty. They were not myths for
 they are known to man but doei any man know their place of habi tation? The question is not pert. inent to this story and it may well be left unanswered.
 The Candidates Hour
 At HOO a. m. when the speak CTS were advertised to begin their part of the program an expectant crowd of more than a thousand was on the ground. The chairman of the day, H. D. Boulin, Red Lake man of very certain corporeality, announced that speaking would begin and then introduced Geo. w. P. Hunt, Arizona's governor. Governor Hunt, like Mark Antony, is not an orator, but his lack of oratorical accomplishments did not dampen the ardor of his political friends who hold that less oratory and more work is very good slogan for this campaign.
 Governor Hunt was followed by Hon. Tom Campbell, the portable candidate for governor. MT. Campbell disclaimed oratorical powers but professed to have been | moved by governor Hunts elo- 4uence. Maybe he was sincere. One should remember. tho, that the age-old mountains were listen