Arizona republican., 1918-09-10
RIVAL CANDIDATES FUR ATTORNEY GENERALLY
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Wiley E. Jones
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 10 MT. HaWkinS

'renefM Jones uellVered an duuIeSS which like all Gaul was divided into three parts. A. s. Hawkins. prohibi- ton and Friend Hawkins. He spent the greater part of the two hours of his speech in lifting the integument of tho said Hawkins and hanging 1t on the fence for inspection.
 A part of the time the speaker was deadly serious and part of the time | humorous He denounced Mir. Flaw kins as a damnable villifier, a man | posing as a democrat and making re- publican speeches, or speeches which | the republican party would use in the | regular campaign. Hawkins, he said | was in the place of one giving aid | and comfort 10 the enemy. He des- | cribed Hawkins as one with a mania | for office, an unappeasabe thirst. | Hawkins, he said, came running into inc state, carpet bag in hand, and be- fore he had recovered his breath from his long race from West Texas he set up a clamor for office; before he | had ever voted and immediately after his registration as a voter he an nounced himself as a candidate for superior judge. He had been defeated ignominiously but he was still a candidate, a carrier of the disease. It broke out two years later when he was again a candidate for another judgeship, and was again rejected by the voters.
 Now. under the laws, Hawkins has lived in Arizona long enough to be- come eligible to the office of attorney general: for that residence Of live years is required. The five years are up and Hawkins said Jones, is in the field. a candidate of the ever-bloom- ing variety.
 Mir. Jones said that his candidacy appeared nowhere to be regarded with seriousness and that he should never henceforth be regarded as democrat but as a political outlaw.
 The methods fMr. Hawkins as a candidate, said the attorney, were those of villifcation, vituperation and falsehood. He had employed them in his candidacy against Judge Stanford and later against Judge Lyman; they were employed against whoever stood between him and his manical desire Tor office.
 Mir. Jones said that MT. Hawkins can campaign better where he is not known. He said that he had been "spcwed out of Texas" where he had affronted the democracy of that state as he had since affronted that of Ari- zona.
 Jones said that when, at the begin ming Of the campaign. Hawkins sug- gested a joint debate he replied that that might work very well in the south where a nomination is an election but that it was not safe to wash dirty linen in the presence of the republicans of Arizona who were on good terms with one another and every year were gaining strength.
 Mir Jones had suggested that the campaign be conducted decently and at the same time he had letter from Senator Joseph w. Bailey of Texas, disclosing something of the record of Hawkins there, his refusal to stand by the expression of the Texas oemo- cracy for Bailey. He resigned from the legislature of which he was q member to run again on a platform of opposition to Bailey. He was most ingloriously defeated. His resignation, said Bailey. attracted more attention than anything else he had ever done. But neither that nor any other per- formance of Hawkins had been Of gen. eral interest.
 The letter of Bailey closed with a hope that for the honor of Arizona Mir. Jones would be nominated over Hawkins. And said the speaker "to- morrow night at midnight l will send Bailey a telegram informing him that his wish has been gratified.' This letter. said Jones, would never have been given to the public but for the kind of a campaign Hawkins had con- ducted.
 The attorney general indignantly re- futed an insinuation of Hawkins that he had been dishonorably discharged from the service in the Spanish American war. He had declared in a speech. "No one has ever seen the honorable discharge of Mir. Jones. But the discharge had been preserved and 1t was produced last night. It bore the signature of Colonel M. H. Me- Cord.
 On the subject of prohibition, the speaker recounted what he had done for the cause in Arizona, first in Gra- ham county, which he had assisted in making dry long before the state went dry. He admitted that he was moved in that campaign more by a personal feeling against the saloon keepers than by an earnest desire to serve tho cause of temperance. He had consumed a great deal of whisky; he had drunk immoderately though less immoderately than rumor had pro- claimed. "If." said he, q had drunk as much as I have been credited with, the navies of the world might float upon such liquid volume"
 He described his fight to sustain the legality of the prohibition amend ment. It was the most vital thing that he had ever confronted. If he failed with the record he had built up as a consumer, it would have been charged that he had sold out to the liquor in terests. But he succeeded and he had enforced the amendment as the law had been enforced in no other prohi- bition state. After the state went dry, said Mir. Jones, he had accepted the Judgment of the people. Neither had he or any attache of his office ever violated the law as Hawkins had al- leged
 The foregoing Is the faintest outline of the remarks of the attorney gen. eral. So fervid was his language at times that democrat in the back part of the audience said: "The campaign is ending well: the candidates have quit throwing nut at one another and have gone to hurling brickbats."
 There was a fairly good crowd al the stadium. The meeting waa pre- sided over by State Librarian Con P Cronin. At the conclusion of the re. marks of the attorney general MT Niles one of the democratic candidate. for the legislature spoke briefly.
 Mir. Jones through his address wa, interrupted by tumultuous applause but whether in approval of him CT dis approval of Hawkins. 1t is hard 10 say But the audience had two hours of en ioyment.
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