The Coconino sun., 1920-10-29
ARIZONA!

while at Washington for ArlZona. AS far as I have been able to see, we have been no better off there with two senators and representative than we were with delegate without vote. It is only because 1 honestly believe that 1 can duplicate my per formance of 1908 in getting you state hood that I have laid aside my pri- vate pursuits and again sought your suffrage. If I did not honestly be- lieve I could make good, that I could get the things have promised to work for there I would not now be asking you to send me to the United States senate.
 No Time to Lay Down. + do not pretend, my friends, that I 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. I 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 I 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 more to get it and then 12 years to build it. What chance has a 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 a min ute, I am going to cite you an in- stance of how our senators work in Washington. While the war was at its height, had occasion to take up a matter of business with the war de- partment. was in New York at the time and was told that I would have to see General Bell at Governors isl and. 1 saw General Bell and he re- ferred me to Secretary of War Baker. l went to the telephone and called up Henry Ashurst at Washington. l told him I wanted him to make an appoint ment for me the next day with Secre- tary Baker. He expressed consider able surprise that I should think of such thing, saying that he and Mark Smith had been trying to see Secre- tary Baker for week, but had been unable to do so. He tried to discour- age me from coming to Washington, saying that such a mission would cer- tainly be futile.
 Threw Cold Water on Enterprise.
 T am going to be in Washington tomorrow and l am going to see Sec retary Baker," I replied. "Well, come on then" said the senator, "but it will be time and money lost"
 I took the night train and reached Washington early in the morning. l had breakfast, and, calling a taxi, went to Senator Ashurst's apart ments. He and his amiable wife were just finishing breakfast. l had known them both for years and they receiv- ed me most cordially. l repeated the purpose of my visit. Ralph" said Henry, "you will never make it. Mark and have been trying in vain for a week to see Secretary Baker,"
 of you will take me down to the war department and get me by those three lines of guards, that is all l ask," l replied. The war was on and they had the war department building heavily guarded. 1I 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 sue ceeded in reaching the ante room of Secretary of War Bakers office. There were 40 or 50 people waiting, most of them army officers.
 Don't you see," said Ashurst, "you will never get to see the secre- tary."
 "Just wait and see," I replied, and we sat down right near the door to the secretary's 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. "I am Ralph Cameron, of Ari- zona, and I am here with Senator Ashurst. My time is short, as I leave for Arizona on the 10 o'clock train and I must see Secretary Baker just for a moment" As I surmised, he was the private secretary of Secre- tary Baker.
 q vii see what I can do for you," he replied and he went back into the private office.
 In a few minutes he came out and said: Secretary Baker will see you, Mir. Cameron" So I went in and I took Senator Ashurst with me-"
 Only a Little Nerve Needed.
 "How do you do it, Ralph?" luer- jed Henry as we went through the door.