Arizona republican., 1920-08-14
OF ARIZONA LINING
 UP FUR CONTEST
Members of Party in Gila And Navajo Counties Formulate Platform of Principles and Endorse Candidates

County by county, their official meetings are being held. the Repub- licans of Arizona are lining up solidly for the fight this fall and announcing their full accord with both the national party and the state administrations
 The following is the platform adop- ted by the Gila county Republican con- vention at Globe on Aug. 6:
 The Gila county Republicans in convention assembled hereby ratify the platform and principles enunciated by the Republican national convention held in Chicago, June 8, 1920.
 We approve and endorse the noni- nation of w. G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge as the Republican nominee for president and vice president and pledge ourselves to use every rightful means to elect them, feeling that only by their election can normal conditions be restored to our country.
 We unquaifiedy endorse the ad- ministration of Gov. Thomas E. Camp bell, and submit that by his ability, square dealing and far sighted policies he has brought prestige and honor to the governors office and to the state of Arizona and has awakened and prompted an era of development for the Great Southwest and that his re- election is essential to the progress and prosperity of the state of Arizona
 We believe that government by par ties is an American institution. We submit that the Arizona primary law is destructive of parties and that it should be corrected or abolished The general practice of Republicans and Socialists registering as Democrats in order to vote at the Democratic pri- maries is fundamentally wrong. That as result of this primary law the Republican party is half Socialistic. That these conditions are inconsistent with good government and should be corrected by removing the cause
 We believe ex-service men of the United States army should be repaid Tn land and to that end we favor congress sional enactment opening the Indian reservations and the state lands of Arizona for homesteads by ex-service men
 we favor the early construction of the San Carlos dam and recommend congressional aid therefor.
 ssThe welfare of Gila county demands the election of substantial, constructive and progressive citizens of proven ability and we believe that the nom1- nees of this convention possess these qualifications and so believing we re- spectfully solicit the approval of the voters of Gila county
 At a meeting of the Republicans of Navajo county on Aug. the following TGSOl1OOuS W6T0 uIi<1AllAAAOdSAJ ct~okSeO
 we. the Republicans of Navajo county, state of Arizona, in meeting assembled this 9th day of August 1920, approve the nomination Of Warren c. Harding as the Republican candidate for president of the United States. ana Calvin Coolidge as candidate for vice president, and pledge them our support at the coming election
 -~We view with satisfaction and ad- rniratfon the administration of the Hon. Thomas F. Campbell as chief ex- ecutive of this state, and place our selves on record as endorsing same We approve his constructive policies and are impressed with the marked improvement in the conduct of the af- fairs of this state which are exempli- fled in the efficient administration ol the state highway department and ths institutions of this state which are II striking contrast to the extravaganza and incompetence of the last Demo cratic administration We are als particularly gratified to note the ab sence of class friction in our state a rhe present time when that conditio exists so extensively elsewhere