Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-28
LAMAR COBB BIDS FOR STATE FAVOR IN FALL ELECTION
Candidate for Governor in Primaries Suggests Defeat cd Ones Enlist; Bases Race on Past Record.

This is not a platform; platforms are never read-sometimes fulfilled {; it is an announcement with a few oD- servations upon men and measures, % says Lamar Cobb in a public letter just issued.
 Tn announcing my candidacy Tor governor l am confronted with a dOu- bly annihilated l. W. w., and claims to one hundred per cent Americanism prompted; therefore, to avoid d charge of plagiarism, will give these two subjects but brief mention.
 The American BOlsheviki being about as popular generally as the 'ue facto governor among his erstwhue democratic supporters, I pledge my self to eliminate both the l. w. W. and the "big sombrerO." The 'Ge facto governor in office pleads help lessness to maintain order; the can didate one year later boldly annOune- es his detestation of the red card gen try. Being inflicted upon us about the same time, it is fitting that they should make their exit together.
 Realizing that the percentage scale, with a maximum of one hun dred (reCently chosen to measure the patriotism of candidates for governOrJ is unfair to retiring natures slow to rush into print. 1 suggest that the thermometer be substituted so those who may follow will not be forced to crowd perfection in their chosen places; and there being no limit to Ge- grees of patriotism, the boiling point may be reached with consequent In- crease to the army in France.
 There is no class of citizens who can be more easily spared, nor whose presence in the community is less Ge- sirable. than defeated candidates tus- after election. l. therefore, suggest to the other aspirants for political honors that We pledge ourselves m case of defeat to join the real one hun dred per cent Americans--IthOse i'll the trenches, or get as near them as possible To be perfectly fair, I will have to admit that I volunteered my services one year ago, and later tried to enter the officers training camp, but was rejected; however, the age limit may yet be raised.
 Having been one of the few OrigI- nal supporters of Woodrow Wilson in Arizona it will be safe to assume that l will back him to the limit 1T the conduct of the war; and I leave my patriotism to be judged by my actions.
 'I gather from all sections of the state that it is the opinion of a large majority of the party that our nomI- nee fer governor should represent something more than brass. brawn buncombe or embOnpOint; not thas these qualities are entirely devoid or merit, but that they should be supple mented by others not less pronounced but tending more to quality for eS-
 '1 subscribe to the old fashioned
 "I subscribe to the olt fashioned theory that a public office is a pubiic trust-not a private snap. Economy and efficiency in public office shoulU square with prediction pledges. There is greater need at this time than ever before to limit state expeE- AAAAANo NO AAAN AANNAo VI AA4N AAOuAf AAAtAl every dollar may be conserved 90 back up our men and women at the front.
 The official record of a public ser want is public property, always a prop CT subject for constructive criticism; and as l expect during the campaign to go into the record -of others, l in vite attention to my own. stand squarely on my record of over five years as state engineer in charge or all state highway and bridge con- struction. eXpending and accounting for in every detail over two miiIion dollars.
 "The work speaks for itself, and of its class is eXcelled by no state. The highway department Is by far the most important and the most difficult to administer successfully of all the departments of the state, operating in every county and expending one million dollars annually-One fourth the total state expenditures. The most important function of state gov ernment today, as regards the outlay of capital and direct benefits received therefrom, is that relating to highway improvement. Every increase in the state road fund since 1912 has been due to my efforts before the legisiaI- ure. rendered successful by the quail ty of work done under my direction.
 q appeal with confidence for the support of all who believe in the econ omical and efficient administration of the state road fund, and am ear nestly desirOus of seeing a completed system of state highways. which will not be accomplished if the highway department is made political foot ball
 Having begun life as a machinist apprentice. working from ten 60 twelve and a half hours a shift at sev- en cents per hour | studied the ies- sons of social justice in the school or experience, and was converted at an early age to the doctrine Of reasona- ble hours of work with a fair wage. He who would secure the most har- mOniOus working relations between capital and labor, employer and em- plOyee. must neither truckle to the one nor be Ow-beaten by the other. but must know the aspirations ana view point of each and win their nut ual confidence by fair and open dear ingS Such will be my endeaVOr