Mohave County miner., 1918-05-25
Te the People of Arizona:

IT. offering myself as a candidate for the nomination on the Democratic ticket for governor of the State of Arizona, wish to submit to the voters ard citizens of this state the follow ing reasons why 1 am asking for your support to the highest office in the state and my position on some of the vital and leading questions, and pend ing legislation, which in my opinion should be worked out and finally ad- justed to the mutual benefit of all concerned.
 First-I pledge my support in any and every way to the president of the United States in the vigorous prose cution of the great war in which we are involved to a final ana success ful conclusion.
 Second-I am in favor of and will lend my assistance to the develop ment of all the great resources of our commonwealth for the benefit of the nation and the citizens of the state.
 Third-I will encourage and protect, as far as in my power to do so, capital invested and used in the development four state and it's resources.
 Labor disturbances in the great min ing centers of Arizona in the past four years indicate that some remedial legislation is necessary to prevent the continuance or recurrence of such con ditions. Our country is in need of ev- cry pound of copper our mines can produce and in order to secure the best results, capital and labor should put aside their differences, great or small, and all work for the common good, to the end that our government be not deprived of the useful and necessary mineral commodities for the successful prosecution of the war. On the shoulders of the laboring men and women fall greater and more difficult burdens, all the necessaries of life have advanced in price, and will con tinue to advance, and to meet these conditions employers of labor must realize. the necessity of increasing wages in proportion to the increasing costs of living. Legislation regulating the compensation of working men and women is a difficult and delicate prob lem. but there is no reason why some fair and equitable basis may not be reached, whereby those who produce the wealth of the state will in a great CT measure share in its profits.
 Strikes and labor troubles being dis astrous to the men who strike, as well as to the business interests of the state, deprive the government of the copper products of our state, which IS essential to the successful conduct oi the war. With a view of adjusting these matters so that capital will be protected in its investment, and the laborer be given a just and equitable wage, in order that he may be able tC meet his obligations, take care of hl' family and thus remove the cause ol discontent and put an end to strikes and labor troubles, I promise the peo' ple of Arizona, if nominated and elect ed governor, that will support prop or and constructive labor legislation and the administration of the same, tf the end that our laboring class of peo ple receive proper compensation ana consideration.
 A just, equitable and uniform com pensation or liability law should b' placed on our Statute books. Int present makeshift is not satisfactor! to either employer or employe.
 would favor the appointment of join committee of employer and employs with power to jointly formulate such sustem of laws as would fairly ana reasonably compensate the injured