Weekly journal-miner., 1920-10-13
CAMPBELL DISCUSSES ISSUES
 OF LAND BOARD BEFORE BIG ASSEMBLY AT ELKS THEATER
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| Imanding Moeur's resignation and
 then backed out of it, along with
 Harry Ross, the state treasurer. so that Jesse Boyce alone stuck out for Ia cleanup in the land department. After the primary, with the lines ;drawn hy the democratic nominees to irer@in control oi the land department
 ny rhs simple e>pedienr nj shifting
 Sinms 10 the governorShip, Ross to the secretaryship of the state and add ing Pete Munch as auditor, the gov ernor declared the doings of the land boar became a matter for commen- dation and not only the candidates but great political party-the do- minant one-had endorsed the land department for campaign purposes
 It had retained the cleverest lawyers to defend it. Nothing that is right needs such a defense, the speaker concluded.
 Governor Campbell's challenge to his opponents came after he had re- viewed in considerable detail, the history ct the land department fight In explaining tie Burton matter, and alter having said he had at tempted to rectify any wrong he might have done to J. H. Moeur in his address at Mesa the night after he had talked with Mir. Burton in his office at Phoenix, the governor said Dr. Perrin was the man who had told him Burton had told him about the alleged bribe. It was at this juncture that Dr. Perrin cried out that Mir. Burton \had told him this story.
 And now they are resorting to threats against my life" the gover- nor cried. Many of you here have seen me grow up from boy, going around this town with milk pails in my hand, to what I may be at this time, and in all that time, in all my public life, have you ever heard of
 me being mixed up in shady deal or making untrue accusations?
 storm ce "NOL NOp came from all over the house
 q am glad this paper" he cried, shaking copy of the democratic paper-"has brought this matter to our attention in my home town. These questions are catch questions, intended to trip me" He went on to describe how the opposing party organization had provided all the papers on its "string" with heckling questions to be printed on the eve of his appearance in various cities and towns. Further paying his com pliments to the paper, he congratu- lated the city on now having two dailies and wondered if the newcom- CT would remain in the field follow ing the present campai"n.
 That it cost the state $lOl 900 to administer state lands from which total revenue from sales ard leases of but $7OOOOO or $SOO,OO0 had been derived and that Ben Clark, assist ant to Commissioner Moeur had on one proven occasion known that bid ding on lands was restricted to keep the price down and that cat tie barons could not be expected to pay the value of land if they could lease it at a tiny fraction of its worth and be free from payment of taxes, were points brought out by the speaker. Adding to his fire on the Les Hart deal, he declared that the improvements which George Taylor said cost $3U,750 out of the alleged $AO,OOO payment for a lease on Queen Creek land, had been de- clared by Taylor for tax purposes at S1575. He added that anyone who knew George was well aware that he did not "take loss of $15,OOO to S20OOO." That was not Georges style. The governor declared for of lands, preparation for reclamation so that when other are worked out, the state will not be in the sad plight of Ne 1ada which is impoverished and des- oerate. In answer to a question in the democratic press, he speaker named a score of big ! cattle outfits in this vicinity, who lold around 75OOOO acres of leased and.