Arizona republican., 1920-10-22
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL
 INVADES THE HOME.
 TOWN IF MT SINMG

Invading the home of his polltlca- opponent Governor Thomas E. Camp bell in an address at Pima, Thatcnei and at Stafford Wednesday night tolo his audience that Nit Simms stood TOT continuance of the recent admins tration of the state lands whereas, he if elected, would clean out the land de- partment if within his power and ad- minister the state lands in behalf Q all the people, to the end that the small cattle and sheep raisers, tn, homesteader, the returned soldier ane the public generally might share IT this heritage rather than as in tho past and at present a single vested in terest, the big cattle outfits.
 My opponent told you when her a few days ago that I was trying t' dam the Colorado with my hat" sait the governor in discussing reclamation Here in his home town 1 wish to re peat what told another audience; tha it isn't the hat, what is under the ha that counts" he said amid laughter and applause. That the same adminis- tration of state lands which has dissi- pated in great measure this heritage the past few years would be continued if Nit Simms were elected was appar- ent. said the governor, and the fact that Simms, Wiley Jones and Harry Ross, present members of the board were seeking reelection to offices that would continue their control of the land board was evidence that the pres ent land commissioner and his subordi- mates would be retained and the past system of administering these lands continued if this "holy trio" were elected
 If you want a continuance of that kind of administration, vote for them" Governor Campbell told his hearers. If you want these state lands, ten and l one-half million acres of them. turned over to the cattle interests and land | spectators, to be exploited in their sole benefit, vote for Simms, for if am reelected I shall petition the legis- lature to adopt this supine land board | and make the land commissioner either appointive or elective as you choose, but directly responsible to the people instead of to few politicians who are thinking more of office than the peo- ple's interests"
 1 Governor Campbell complimented l Smms for voting right the many | times he voted as did the governor on | land matters, but there were two | times when he was not right and when | he voted against me-" said the speaker. | .Once when he voted to sell 150,0O0 acres on the Gila that Secretary Lane wanted to keep for the soldiers, and 1 again when he voted to whitewash the land department and drop the public investigation that had been launched. There were other times also, but I
 mention these as he makes point of telling you how many times he voted
 on land matters as I did"
 The main issue in this campaign ?
 said the governor. lis whether these lands shall continue to be turned over
 to the land grabbers and cattle oli- garchy or whether they shall be ad Sministered so as to afford opportunity to all the people and to bring to the
 state treasury for educational pur- poses something more near their real
 worth. It is live stock against chil- dren; ranges against homes, and I tell Il you again. l am more concerned with
 men and women than am with sheer
 and cattle, for 1t is men and women
 who make a state. who furnish the soldiers in times of danger"
 The speaker also pointed out that | under his administration, for the first
 time in the history of the state. the
 institutions of the state had been ad-
 ministered within the legislative ap- ! propriations and a surplus turned back
 to the general fund; that the state
 now enjoyed industrial peace where
 chaos had reigned for seven years
 prior to his administration; that the
 future of Arizona was dependent upon
 reclamation which had been revived as
 national issue by the League of the Southwest of which he was president
 and that if he did not think he could
 carry to a successful conclusion tho
 constructive policies inaugurated under , his administration he would not be q candidate for reelection.