Arizona republican., 1918-09-06
SIDNEY OSBORN
 WELL RECEIVED
 AT b|G MEETING
Secretary of State Makes
 Strong Appeal for Sup port In Candidacy for Nomination for Governor

In point of numbers the audience of Secretary of State Osborn at the Y. M. c. A. stadium last night outpointed that of MT. Sutter the night before. There were the same benches, the same lights, the same band, much of the same music and the same crowd and more. Coming so close together a large part of the audience was given a chance to institute a comparison of the two aspirants for the democratic nomination for governor.
 The speech of Mr. Osborn was rather brief but earnest and he took a definite position. though not quite so decided a one as Mir. Sutter had taken, against the I. w. w. MT. Suter was no stronger against this reasonable organization in principle than MT. Osborn was last night but he a little more plainly To- calized the evil In Arizona.
 Mir. Osborn also declared himself against the present administration; not directly against Governor Hunt but the things that the governor stood for or permitted. He found that the commis- sion of state institutions was an ex- pensive and, inefficient body and that it was taking a part in the present campaign to perpetuate itself and the influence of it's members on the public affairs of the state.
 | The speaker recognized the admis- sion of socialists into the democratic party and to places of preferment in the state. In consequence the party itself as a party had languished to such an extent that it was almost without par ty organization in the state or the counties. If he should be elected, Mir Osborn said, the socialist party would be rejuvenated-the socialists now in the democratic party would be driven out Of 1t and into their own. Mr. Os- born specifically mentioned Leroy Ladd and Frank Brown as individuals who had been marked for prescription.
 His opponents for the gubernatorial nomination, said MT. Osborn, repre- sented the extremes of society, the ul- , tra conservatives and the ultra radi- calls. These, he said, constituted about 20 per cent of the population. He him. self proposed to represent the other 80 per cent. the great middle class which In the fight for supremacy which had kept the affairs of the state in confu- sion for the last five years had been without representation, had been neg lected
 The speaker declared his good feel ing for both of his opponents with whom he had been on friendly terms 1 TOT many years and even as a candi- date he said nothing against them to which their adherents could offer ob- jection. Mir. Golfer though he inti- mated, was the champion of things as they are. Mir. Sutter was not always self-contained and conservative for in 1904 he was active in Cochise county In securing delegation from Arizona for William Randolph Hearst for the presidency of the United States That of course, was a crime, of which any one should be ashamed but it must be recalled that the principal champion o1 MT. Hearst in Arizona at that time was the now United States Senator Ash urst; that Maricopa county sent 2 Hearst delegation to the convention But it is presumed that all of then except MT. Ashurst have repented 1T sack-cloth and ashes. Mir. Ashurst however, not many weeks ago was guest of Mir. Hearst with other choser members of congress. In 1904 ther, were many callow politicians.
 MT. Osborn said that he would b, willing to stand on the record he hat made as secretary of state ever sine the admission of the territory to state hood, the efficiency. economy and tn courtesy with which the affairs of tn office had been administered. He ha, always held the expenses of the of flee to a minimum and had every yea turned back into the treasury a part o the appropriation which had beel made for it's maintenance. He ha, saved the new state $7.500 a year a the outset by providing at inconveni ence to himself, quarters for the su preme court in the capitol building
 AS to what kind of men he woul surround himself with if chosen gov ernor, Mir. Osborn pointed to what h had done as secretary and he believe that his future conduct might be req sonably 1ugded by his past. There wa MT. McGillen his assistant; there wa w. A. Moeur. land commissioner fo whom he had cast the deciding vot and there was Judge Frank H. Lyma who as acting governor, he had ap pointed to the newly created divisio of the superior court of this count, The last named appointment was mad he said, in the face of threats by tn Arizona bolsheviki, of his own polite; death. With such a record, MT. Os born believed that he might be CT trusted with the appointment of thos assistants and advisers with which tf governor surrounds himself.
 
 Mir. Osborn took a fling at Lal Ladd. that placid expanse of wats which spreads itself in the rear of u capitol building and which has stoc there for weeks while the members the commission of state institution had been gallivanting about the sta in state cars at the state expense assist in the nomination of MT. Colte
 Near the close of his address M Osborn replied to an attack upon hi by Hugh Callahan in the Arizona Lab, Journal recently in which he ws charged with unfriendliness to labo with double crossing the minimu wage law and with associating vii persons of known hostility to labo Mir. Osborn declared that the alleg; tions in the article were untrue.
 In the course of his address MT. O born as a native son who had dol nothing to shame his nativity claim, support of the people of the state al the county where he was born. H peroration was a ringing patriotic al peal for considerateness and calmne in this trying time.
 It was very creditable effort al throughout was well received and fir quently applauded.
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