Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-19
CONSERVATISM IS TONE OF NOEUR'S
 OPENING MESSAGE
State Land Commissioner in Announcement of Candi- dacy Takes Stand on Many Important Issues.

w. A. Moeur, state land commission CT and former chairman of the board or supervisors of Maricopa county. has made announcement of his platform in seeking the Democratic nomination for the governorship of the state of Arizona Although Moeur, in March. declared his candidacy before a meet ing of the Arizona Cattle Growers as- sOciatiOn. at a meeting in Nogales. nothing had been heard from him until this time.
 The candidate was born in the state of Tennessee in 1865. He moved to Texas i'll 1871 and engaged in stock raising and farming. In 1887 he was married to Miss Mary Wilson and moved 10 Arizona, with his wife, in 1893, settling in the Salt River valley, Maricopa county. He immediately en- gagged in the business of stock raising and farming. which he still follows.
 Prominent in School Work
 During his residence in Maricopa county he has always taken a great interest i'll the public schools, serving as trustee for a large proportion of the
 
 Moeur was interested in the organiza- tion of t!Ie Tempe high school district and has continuously served on it's board since.
 In the first state election he was elected to the board of supervisors of MaricoDa county and was reelected in 1914. He resigned the chairmanship O. the board to accept the appointment as state land commissioner of Arizona in June. 1915.
 Moeurs, statement follows:
 'To the People of Arizona:
 Tn offering myself as a candidate for the nomination of the Democratic ticket tor governor of the state of Arizona, I wish to submit to the vet CTS and citizens of this state the fol- lowing reasons why I am asking for your support to the highest office in the state. and my position on some of the vital and leading questions and pending legislation, which, in my opin- ion should be worked out and adjusted to the mutual benefit of all concerned.
 First
 q pledge my support in any and ev- cry way to the president of the United States iH the vigorous prosecution of the great war in which we are in- volved. to a final and successful con- clusion. t4
 Second
 q am in favor of and will lend my assistance to the development of all the great resources of our common wealth for the benefit of the nation and the citizens of the state.
 Third
 q will encourage and protect, as far as it is within my power to do SO, capi- tal invested and used in the develop ment Of our state and it's resources.
 Labor disturbances in the great mining centers of Arizona with in the past four years indicate that some legislation is necessary to | prevent tho continuance of recurrence | of such conditions. Our country is in l need of every uond of copper our mines can produce and in order to ] secure the best results capital and la ! bOr should put aside their difference. | great IT small, and all work for the l good. to the end that our | government be not deprived of the | useful and necessary mineral com | modities for the successful prosecu- | ton of the war. Upon the shoulders | of the lahoring men and women fall I greater and more difficult burdens; | all the necessaries of life have ad- | vanced in price. and will continue to advance, and to meet these conditions employers of labor must realize the necessity of increasing wages in pro- portion to the increasing costs of liv ing Legislation regulating the com pensatol of working men and women Is a difficult and delicate problem, but there IS no reason why some fair