Mohave County miner., 1918-05-18
Phoenix, Arizona, May 2, 1918.

Mir. George Jay,
 Warren, Arizona.
 My dear Sir: Yours of the 18th inst, asking whether or not I am or intend to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Arizona, and if so, where I stand on various matters of great public importance, re- ceived. In reply thereto, permit me to say, most emphatically, that l am a candidate for my party's nomination for that exalted office, and in an nouncing my candidacy, l do so sen sible of the great honor such a noml- nation and election will confer, and realizing the grave responsibilities at tached thereto.
 1t has been said by some that there are no issues or principles at stake at this time, and that the only reason a candidate can give for his candidacy is that of personal ambition. This cannot be true-is not true. One who is 9 candidate for the great office of governor solely for personal gratltl- cation and honor attached thereto Is foolish, and anyone who seeks the of flee to represent any individual or group of individuals other than the whole people is worse-he is a knave.
 This is the most serious and critical period in our country's history, and the paramount issue is and must be Americanism as opposed to all dis loyal and semi-disloyal people, whether individuals or organizations, who lm- pede or hinder, or attempt to hinder our government in any way In carry ing on this way to an ultimate and complete victory. The time when one could be passively loyal has passed. One must now be one hundred per cent American or a traitor. There IS no halfway ground. We must either aid the boys in the trenches or stab them in the back. That there are those who would hinder the govern ment in this hour of national peril, there is no doubt, and it is against this element, whoever they may be and wherever they may be, that the forces of law and the forces of public opin- ion must be directed. cannot, do not and will not, for a moment, counten- ance the organization known as the I. w. Wan organization that be- lieves in and teaches destruction or life, destruction of property, opposl- tion to law and order, and which de clares "that the question of right and wrong does not concern it in its ac- tivities."
 Is it not of sinister significance, or at least a sinister coincidence, that both the Imperial German government and the I. w. w. base their policies on the principle that the question of right and wrong does not concern them in their activities? An organl- zation whose principles are such IS a menace to the progress of this na- tion at all times, and particularly so at this time, and must not be permit ted to exist, but in combating its ac- tiyities and eradicating its influence, we must move quickly-we must act fearlessly-but always in a lawful manner. Arizona is and must be a law-abiding state, and individuals can not be permitted to take the law into their own hands.
 The Hohenzollern, master of propa- ganda, has his agents at work in every state sowing the seeds of discord and discontent, stirring up strife whenever and wherever possible, retarding pro duction, destroying crops, blowing up munition factories, setting fore to shipvards, and in every other conceiv- able way hindering and delaying our government in its effort to do its full part in the prosecution of the war aqainst the Central Powers, and ii the