Arizona republican., 1920-10-19
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL ADDRESSES VOTERS
 IF YUMA DISTRICT
lspeeiaI to The RepubIicanl

YUMA. Oct. 1S.-Speaking to a large audience here tonight, following ad- dresses to big crowds at Gadsden and Somerton during the day. Gov. Thomas E. Campbell pointed out that the staIS land department now had three or fouF high-priced criminal lawyers out publicly defending it. and added that if there wasn't something wrong the land department would need no such defense.
 And Wiley Jones is now defending the very conditions he denounced in writing last May as deplorable and the cause of numerous complaints and dis satisfaction throughout the state" the speaker added. If my opponent must have such men to speak for him now. who would be his mouthpiece if by chance he should be elected governor?
 T want to add that up to last May. when I discovered how the peoples heritage. the 10,J0O. 900 acres of state lands. was being dissipated and ad- ministered in the almost exclusive be- half of the cattle barons and land spec ulators, I was as culpable as the rest of the board. But it was through mis- placed confidence in the land commits siOner. I assumed he was working in the best interests of the state and not solely for the cattle interests and spec ulators. When Wiley Jones. Harry Ross and Jesse Boyce. all members of the land board. demanded the commis- sioners resignation. in writing, because of these deplorable conditions, l did not join with them, because I wanted the department investigated publicly If I had known then what I do now, the land commissioner would be out of job. The investigation was under way when 1 went to Chicago to secure | the incorporation of a reclamation plank in the Republican national plat form. While I was gone the secretary of state, my present opponent. called the Democratic members of the board together whitewashed the land com missioner and dropped the investiga. ton. I tried to renew the inyestiga- tion and found myself outvoted four tt one. so now I am taking the case direc
 to the people. If you want the presen
 and past administration of these stat' lands continued, so that the state get but a pittance of the real value of thes'
 lands; if you want your state land
 leased for 3 cents an acre. and released
 over and over. so that only the origina leasers, these big cattle barons, eve
 have a chance at them, then cleo
 Simms governor, for that is what h. stands for. If am reelected I shall d |
 department and inaugurate a new pol
 icy so that every man and woman ma,
 have an equal opportunity at thes
 lands, and so that the state may re ceive for them something more nea } their real worth"
 Governor Campbell also told hi
 hearers that there had been but 19 es capes from among prisoner trusties tn ] past 20 months. as against 66 in lik period under the former administra
 tion; that the state institutions for tn first time in the history of the stat
 had been administered the past fiscs year at a saving of $11S.000, comparabl
 with the record of the former admins tration; that scandal was no longe heard about the state normal or othe educational institutions. and also spok of his work for reclamation. good road 1. and projects now under way which T. 3 hoped to carry to completion during h ? next term of office.