El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-23
OFFICIAL CANVASS ENDS DOUBT
CAMPBELL is THE NEXT GOVERNOR

THOMAS Z. CAMPBELL, Republican, IS the next gov
erno4 Of Arizona BY grace of Democratic votes The
official canvass Of the recent election showing Mr. Camp
bell to have been elected by several hundred plurality set
ties al doubt to whether he OF Fred Golfer was tbs
peoples choice for governor
M Campbell eeuId not have been elected by Repub-
can votes alone Normally the state is strongly Demo-
cratic that Republican who polled than the
Of his party would stand not the ghost Of show
Of election While it is true that many Democrats had
gone and many others hsd left the state to work in
war plants other essential occupations il is to be pre-
suned that Republicans also left IN about the ratio
Moreover the Democratic ranks thus depleted were
Strengthened by the arrival of many hundreds of west
Texans who vent to work in the cotton fields engaged
other farming found work in the copper mines Near
y al Democrats. So it cannot be claimed that Mr..
Czmpbes election due any wholesale removal Of
Democrats and influx Of Republicans The fact IS that
Democrats elected Mr. Campbell with some assistance
from the Republicans II another Of ignoring
the party to vote for the man.
People of the neighbOring states, vel those Of
Arizona need to know something of the history OF the next
governor Of Arizona, the who was elected by two
party vote.
Prescott 1873 and graduated from the Prescott high
school and from St Marys college, at Oakland Cal IN
1898 he assistant postmaster at Prescott and after
ward appointed postmaster at Jerome In 1900 he
elected to the legislature from YaTapai county and IS
understood to the first native Of the state
who ever sat in that body In the year he mar
RED to Miss Eleanor Gayle Allen, Of Jerome. Two sons
Early in his career Mr. Campbell made speciality of
problems Of taxation and he is considered authority In
1910 he became Of Yavapai county and IN 1911
organized and became the frst president OF the arizona
Assessors association He left the Yavapai assessorshp
when elected state commissioner IN 1914 he was the
only Republican elected to state office up to that time
At the end Of years of his syear term, he resigned
10 take I'D the govenorshp In the years which had pre-
oeded his goveInorshp he had found time to into min
ing and also into the cattle business and had been sue
cessfuL
On the face Of the returns of the goyernorshp election
Of 1876 Mr. Campbell had plurality vote over the Demo
cratic candidate, Gov. G. W. Hunt At the END OF long
rnFrfo fM
Campbell was sustained and certificate Of election was
issued TO him BY the secretary Of state Sidney osoeIn
The opposition carried the contest to the state supreme
court Mr. Campbell held the ottce Tor ABOUT II MONTHS
during which time he gave the state firm fair business
Ike administration maTred only BY the Bisbee deportation
to restore order there but had no way OF en-
forcing it. the national guard having been taken out OF the
stss service and the peace authorities Of Coehse county,
Who would normally have been called upon trst to stop
the deportation, having taken part N it
The state supreme court In December reversed me sa
peror court and seated Mr.. Hunt as governor M camp
bell vas not allowed pay for his tenure Of oIce OF nearly
year and was even saddled with the costs Of the oppos
Es .1eoesduo Democratic legislature refused to
iburse him to any extent Mr. Campbell did not create
disturbance over the treatment he received, but In the cam
pagn Just ended one idea which took strongly with me
voters vas that Mr. Campbell had bean badly treated IN
being turned out Of the governors chair without pay OF
consideration and made to bear the court costs OF MS
sdvsrsary-sspeealy N view OF the eeneI t9at Ne va
ghtfuv entitled to the office in the first place BY the
votes Of majority Of the citizenship There was elll
cal review By the Of the action ef the state supreme
court reversing the superior courts eessleA anu ~
uniting the votes Of Douglas precinct where score OF
crosses opposite CampbeIs name had apparently eeeA
transferred over 70 Hunts mama To participation IN TINS
decision political observers have asebed partial cause foI
the defeat that IN the primary election TINS year 10
chief justice Alfred Franklin when ne sought Denoau
reconciliation.
Whatever may have been the contributing causes it is
certain that Mr. Campbell has been elected governor AGAIN
ana the chief reason Is the belief amsng Democrats as ven
Al Republicans that be vii make good governor They
know that he VII shcE himself to be governor without
s OF fancisz OF freash noens; that he VIII disregard
srv lines seek to promote industrial welfare and pres
ey and ts draw labeF and capital together instead OF
making the breach greater, and that he VIII be the gov
sTnor sf all the people and not Of any factien.