Arizona republican., 1918-09-08
FRED I. T.COLTER ADDRESSES B|G
 MEETING HERE
Claims of Candidate for Support of Democrats Are
 Presented by Candidate and Some of His Friends

IreSenleu Uy OdHuludle
 and Some of His Friends Before the largest audience brought out in the course of the primary cam paign arguments were made at the '. M. c. A. stadium last night to demo- cratic voters for the nomination of Fred T. Golfer for governor. The crowd was perhaps not indicative Of the stronger Colter sentiment in this community. But it was Saturday night and Saturday night brings out Phoe- nix crowds.
 Attorney T. W. Nealon presided and addressed the audience at length in behalf of. MT Golfer. Judge Dial of | Prescott who has taken an active part in the campaign of MT. Colter made final and eloquent plea in his behalf and in conclusion. MT. Colter pleaded his own lack of oratory for which in
 his private and public career he had substituted works.
 l Judge Nealon at first addressed him.
 self to the subject of campaign man. agement. MT. Colter, he said, had had
 no manager; he had managed his
 fight himself and it had therefore been | led to something else, the campaign of
 Sidney P. Osborn which he declared
 was under management of Ned Creigh-
 ton, a republican campaign manager
 who now aspired to the direction of the
 democratic affairs of Arizona.
 In the course of his address, Judge Nealon referred at various times to the
 subject of the l. w. w. which so far
 as Arizona was concerned. he believed
 to be largely a myth. At any rate there were state and federal laws
 which provided for the handling of and 50 far it had been handled. Judge Nealon also went over the record of
 MT. Colter. his business record and
 his political record. made since he be-
 came a member of the constitutional
 convention.
 He paid his respects to MT. Sutter
 whose democracy he was inclined to
 suspect; at any rate, he suspected the
 quality of it and he suspected the in-
 fluences behind him. Anyhow, said
 Judge Nealon. he represented only
 faction of the democratic party and
 what was wanted. was a governor and candidate for governor who represent
 ed the whole party and enjoyed the confidence of all. Neither of the other
 candidates for the nomination, said
 MT. Nealon occupied such a position Judge Dial elaborated this idea in an address of three quarters of an hour. He also attacked. not personally though. Mr. Sutter and MT. Osborn. The Sutter, people, he said. were mak- ing a double use of the Hunt influ- ence. In parts of the state where MT. Colter was strong, they declared that he was the candidate of the governor | n ncbo peared to have a lead he was declared
 to be the favorite of the governor l It was also claimed by them that the nomination of Coleer would cost the democratic party the 5000 democratic votes that had been cast against Gov ernor Hunt. This claim, Judge Dial said. was really made in the interest
 of the republican party; that the pur- pose was to hold those votes within the party.
 Judge Dial ridiculed the declaratio
 of Mir. Osborn the other night, that he
 represented the 80 per cent of the vot-
 CTS who stood between the extreme
 radicals and the extreme conservatives
 and also the assertion that his election
 would mean the revivification of the
 socialist party: that he would drive : the socialist element of the democratic . party out of it.
 Judge Dial attacked a statement MT
 Sutter had made in his speeches, re- e flecting on the management of the I state prison. That statement was that : a few days after he, sitting as superior Q Judge Of Cochise county. had sentenced . man to the prison, met him one day
 on the streets of Tombstone. The late
 convict told him that on his arrival al the prison his case had been gone over
 again and he had been found not guilty
 and was turned loose.
 That said, Judge Dial, was improb. able for the reason that the governor
 nor the prison authorities had the al power to turn men out of the prison:
 that that was a function of the board
 Of pardons and paroles. and inquir,
 made at the office of the board ha(
 disclosed the fact that no pardon hat :, been granted to a convict from Cochis, .d county except on recommendation b, m the superior judge
 ,5 Now it is no business of The Re IS publican, this question of veracit, - which has thus been raised. It's onl,
 interest is in setting the recor, t straight. Judge Dial has not long beel n resident of Arizona and so, is un if familiar with many events of the las 10 few years. The fact is that during tn ar flrst two years of the service of Judg ,d Sutter on the bench. there was n
 board of pardons and paroles At tn
 end Of his third year he resigned s nv that the board was in operation onl ,- a year of his incumbency of the bencl s. This correction however is not mad
 in the way of confirming the statemen <pof Mr. Sutter.
 The address of Judge Dial was en livened by many numerous and pointe anecdotes. He rather causticallv at tackled the supporters of MT. Suite and in conclusion he went over in record of MT. Golfer, his work for pro hibition. for woman suffrage for tn red light abatement bill and for tn anti-sabotage bill
 In the course of his remarks, Juds Dial 1amented the degeneracy of tn democratic press of the state and a the same time he paid a complimer to The Republican and this papt would be guilty of gross remissness 1t neglected to make the most of th advertisement. He said that it wa the greatest, the most decently edite paper in the state and made the nc blest stagger at the truth. It WA with shame and regret, said Juds Dial, that he must make a compariso | SO odious to the democratic press | Arizona
 l II MT. Golfers remarks were brief. F | spoke of his early struggles and u | hard knocks he had encountered in h | career as a boy, a stockman, a bus l ness man as a legislator. He had di covered early that there was som, | thing of far greater importance ths | words and phrases. that he could m