The Coconino sun., 1920-10-22

ernment could assist in the develop ment of her most promising baby state, the third largest in the Union, the greatest mining state, producing thirty per cent of the copper of the world, besides her precious metals, containing within her confines the most wonderful valleys with the greatest agricultural possibilities in the land, the largest belt of standing timber in America and in the Grand Canyon the greatest potentialities for the development of power on the globe without in any way impairing the scenic features of that greatest of the worlds wonders.
 Benefits Still Far Away.
 All of these benefits you and I have looked forward to for nine years now but we have waited for them in vain and with our present representation at Washington, they seem no nearer than when we were admitted to the Union, in fact they appear farther away, for we had high hopes then. Our senators themselves extend no hope. They tell us that mans ser vice at Washington is not to be meas ured by what he gets for Arizona but by his service to the nation. If they mean by this sticking by the presi- dent at all cost, and that is to be the measure of success, then they are both heroes and should be sent back.
 No Time to Lay Down.
 l do not pretend, my friends, that l am any super-man or that it takes such an one to get results at Wash ington. You could do it yourself if you would go after it. Henry Ash urst says that anybody can get ap- propriations at Washington. l agree with him, but neither he nor my op- ponent have done SO and I will tell you why. They do not go after them. They lay down and admit that they have lost before they start. At Casa Grande the other night, Mark Smith told an audience that it was absurd for me to claim that l could get fed eral aid for that great project. He said that he had fought for it for 32 years, that it would probably take 10 years more to get it and then 12 years to build it. What chance has man in that frame of mind to win the San Carlos or anything else for Arizona?
 How Our Senators Work.
 If you will bear with me minute, l am going to cite you an instance of how our senators work in Washing ton. While the war was at it's height, 1 had occasion to take up a matter of business with the war department. l was in New York at the time and was told that l would have to see General Bell at Governors Island. I saw General Bell and he referred me to Secretary of War Baker. I went to the telephone and called up Henry Ashurst at Washington. told him l wanted him to make an appointment for me the next day with Secretary Baker. He expressed considerable surprise that I should think of such thing, saying that he and Mark Smith had been trying to see Secretary Bak- CT for week but had been unable to do so. He tried to discourage me from coming to Washington, saying that such mission would certainly be fu- tile.
 Threw Cold Water on Enterprise.
 q am going to be in Washington tomorrow and I am going to see Sec retary Baker" I replied. "Well come on then," said the senator, "but it will be time and money lost"
 l took the night train and reached Washington early in the morning. I had breakfast, and, calling a taxi, went to Senator Ashurst's apart ments. He and his amiable wife were just finishing breakfast. I had known them both for years and they receiv- ed me most cordially. I repeated the purpose of my. visit. Ralph" said Henry, "you wilInever make it. Mark and I have been trying in vain for a week to see Secretary Baker,"
 If you will take me down to the war department and get me by those three lines of guards, that is all I ask" 1 replied. The war was on and they had the war department building heavily guarded. q will agree to that" Henry replied, "but will not promise to get you farther" and so we started out.
 Showed Ashurst How to Do It.
 We passed the guards, by the sen- ator presenting his card, and suc- ceeded in reaching the ante room of Secretary of War Bakers office. There were 40 to 50 people waiting, most of them army officers.
 Don't you see," said Ashurst, "you will never get to see the secretary"
 "Just wait and see," I replied, and we sat down right near the door to the secretary's private office.
 In a little while the door opened and a man came out. Before he was hardly out of the door I grabbed his hand. q am Ralph Cameron, of Ari- zona, and am here with Senator Ashurst," I said. "I am leaving for Arizona on the ten o'clock train and l must see Secretary Baker just for a