The Coconino sun., 1920-10-22

can't wait that long for the carrying out of our reclamation projects, we want these benefits now, not for our grandchildren. This gentleman will never again visit Arizona if he waits for that time to come, during his oc- cupancy of the presidential office.
 "The present representatives in Washington of this state ask you to return them there upon their state- ments that they stand for the Wilson league of nations, and on this and this alone they should be defeated. We want no such doctine in our country. We want free and untrammeled na- tion, and the continuance of the suc- cesss we have enjoyed under the con- stitution of such leaders as Theodore Roosevelt and his predecessors. MT. Hayden and MT. Smith were part of the extravagant administration at Washington and they have assumed this responsibility along with the other inefficients and we need a change all around. We are here to offer the men who can and will make that change, and who will reduce the high cost of living by cutting out the large number of useless clerks and political hangers-on who spend your money and my money"
 Charles w. Fairfield, candidate for state auditor, described the budget system, endorsed it, said that it should be in operation. He showed that the increase in the expense of the present state administration was caused by appropriations made by democratic | legislature, for necessary improve ments for state buildings and insti- tutions and for schools, and in some instances, perhaps, to put Governor Campbell in bad. The increase as a whole was not in the cost of the ad- ministration, but because of perman- ent improvements.
 Edward J. Flanigan, republican can didate for judge of the supreme court, made a short political talk. He called attention to the fact that laws are often made through the decisions of the supreme court. A candidate for the supreme court, he said, should be judged more by his record as a man and ability in the law than by his political belief.
 He was followed with close atten- tion and made fine impression on his hearers.
 Joseph E. Robinson, a farmer of Maricopa county. in an address that held his audience spell-bound, paid his compliments to the present free trade conditions and said that he couldn't understand why state whose prod ucts were chiefly timber, metal, min erals, cattle, hides, sheep and wool, all needing protection, should be lined up with the southern free trade states.
 He branded the league of nations as beautiful theory, but impractical, something that would bind our hands, discredit and overpower our constitu- tion, bring us to the level of the least important members of the league, sac rifce for all time all that our fore fathers had fought for and built.
 He paid a splendid tribute to the candidates present. Of Ralph Cam eron. and Mark Smiths efforts to de- prive Cameron of the credit for hav- ing obtained statehood for Arizona, he recalled how Smith and Ashurst had laid down and voted for the admission of New Mexico and Arizona as one state; how Cameron had forced Presi- dent Taft and through him Congress- men Cannon, Mann and others to ad- init Arizona as state by herself.
 Judge F. w. Perkins, of Flagstaff, candidate for state representative, was chairman of the meeting, introducing each speaker in turn with briefly and felicitiouSly