Arizona republican., 1920-12-30
Biggest Problem Settled

From the beginning of the business part of the evening it was apparent that the biggest problems involved in the bond election tomorrw had come up for settlement. The first intima- ton that definite stand was to be taken concerning the bond issue came when Judge Richard E. Sloan declared that unless he had a positive assurance that bids for contracts under the pro- posed new issue would be let competi- lively and on a basis of lower costs he would vote against the bonds I'm mediately Mir Heard produced signed statement from Twohy Brothers. which l had been given to him yesterday after noon. and which placed the contract ing firm clearly on record concerning 1 it's participation in any new ontracts. This statement is published in full in an adjoining column
 The reading of the Twohy letters was followed by Mir Hackett's deelazznu1z tion of the position of the hlgi1way
 commission and this, in turn, was foi
 lowed by the opinion of Judge Sloan. These two latter statements are aIsr published in full in this issue Of The
 Republican.
 The meeting was opened by Guy p Nevitt, chairman of the program com m.ttee, who introduced Thomas c Reynolds as the chairman and toast
 master of the evening. Tn outlining
 the purposes of the dinner and his own. position with regard to the preposesl
 bond issue, Mir. Reynolds said Ia part
 as follows:
 "Must Work for Common Good,'
 T have accepted the honor of chair
 man tonight only because in project
 as Important as faces the people of this
 county on Friday feel that I must do
 my share without question. In just
 such a time as this, when pessimism
 and depression seem to be our por- ton, we should pat our heads together
 and do something for the common
 welfare
 . -Four and a half million dollars
 seems a large sum- Many of us have
 wondered why the assuming of such a
 debt should be undertaken at the pres
 ent moment. I have thought of this,
 too. and 1 say in all earnestness that I would not add what little may havs A to assisting this proposal if did not ! think that the proposed bond issue is 5 to the ultimate good of every man,
 woman and child in this community. 2 and if I did not believe that the day will soon be here when we will smile at our difficulties of the present.
 "A year ago we were asked to vote
 bonds for a highway program, and We A did so. Then everything went against E us-the cost of materials and labor \ scared until it seemed the very climax E had been reached: other difficulties } presented themselves, and now we are
 laced with the necessity of completing
 the work undertaken then. We have # therefore, a moral obligation to those S who supported the first issue, and this e is particularly true of those who will q get roads from that issue who will fai 9, in tl,eir bounden duty if they do nor IT assist their less fortunate neighbors IS through their unqualified support ot 'e tl,e new bonds.
 l. T was against the bonds a few
 weeks ago. Why? Because of viclou. t- propaganda throughout the length anC '- breadth of the Salt River valley to tn, le effect that the present contractor. 'o would benefit solely by the new issue The contractors themselves have show Do the falseness of this claim. And in tn, > same strain, the object of this me stin,
 is not to logrolI the election through Se but thoroughly and conscientiously |, 'I examine the matter and by right. no t by might, to reach a conclusion" i The first speaker introduced b. ~. Chairman Reynolds was Edward F ~ Parker, vice president and genera @ manager of the Southwest Cotton com ao pany His address was in the form h as he said, of a vaudeville sketch and ~, despite the humor in his speech, -' was declared afterward to have bee o- perhaps the pithiest talk of the nigh -, l. was in the form of a speech deliv ,,, cred by fictitious Patrick Hoole, of who, in making political speeches to hi 5e followers, would ehd every paragrap lv by saying:
 a. Am l right boys?"
 To this the crowd would answer: in You're right. Pat."
 he And then Hooley would cIinch tn g- declaration By asserting:
 in You bet your life I'm rlghti"
 Dlsregarding the dialect, MT Par