Arizona republican., 1918-09-09
CO[TER'S CAMPAIGN
 ENDS, II HAS BEEN
 CLEAN AND STRONG

As the primary campaign approaches a close and reports from all the coun- ties of the state are coming in, it is easier to measure the work done by Senator Golfer in his campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor
 This campaign has been remarkab ble in many features. From the first day of the campaign Senator Colter has been his own campaign manager, keeping even small details under his own charge, displaying therein the same executive ability, originality and independence that has won him sue cess in his business occupations and raised him from a poor wage earn ing boy to one of the leading business men of the state.
 His management of his own cam paign has been marked by the same ireless energy that he devoted to his private and business and public af- fairs, as well as the management of Wilson's campaign as national com mitteeman. It has also been marked by cleanness freedom from mud singing that also is to be attributed to his own supervision and to the nat ural character of the man.
 His belief is that the people of Ari- zona are entitled to know the charac- ter and qualities of the man they elect governor and that they are more in terested in having his views and his record on vital matters placed before them than in hearing abuse. either of candidates or of persons who have no connection with the campaign and whose past or future conduct cannot affect the administration of the incon,- ing governor. Thus he has gotten away from the bitter feuds of the past, and running upon his own merits has placed them before the people frankly and freely that they might judge of him as they would of anyone else they were employing 10 render them service Born on the Arizona frontier, he | has the advantage of thorough knowledge of it's conditions and a long l acquaintance with it's people. Ills genial, democratic manner has won 1 him hosts of friends who have xelun- teered their services to aid him in his campaign and who supply that lack ot political machinery upon which the other candidates depend.
 From the beginning of the campaign he has been recognized by each of the other aspirants for the office as the most formidable candidate they would have to face. This is due to the char acter and to the qualities that have been heretofore referred to. Nor was this view of the matter confined to his opponents, nor to the members of his own party. Albert Sames, chairman of thY Republican state committee weeks ago prophesied in an interview in Prescott paper the nomination of Senator Colter, and the Republican campaign is based upon the theory that he must be beaten. So too, the leading Republican editor of the state not only expressed the opinion that Senator Colter would be nominated
 but that he would carry Maricopa county in the primaries.
 MT. Golfers supporters declare thai in his election the people of Arizona
 have before them the prospect of united democracy where exact justice
 will be done to all; where taxes vii
 be honestly and justly distributed fac
 tionalism destroyed and anti Ameri
 canism and dsloyalty crushed and al ] the people united as all red -bloodet