Bisbee daily review., 1920-10-27
Osborn, in Masterly Address, Lays Bare Campaign Charges of Governor Campbell;
 Answers Indictments Made By Executive

owns. and that more than 100000 acres of the 750,0OO acres of land that. was sold,- was either county bond lands, C.. the farmers leased and that, under the law. had to be sold? How can the state have lost its land heritage if the state still owns it?
 No Long Leases
 Governor Campbelrs fourth charge is that the perpetual leases for greater part of the land, have been ~tven to a few large cattle owners. No lease has ever been granted for longer period than five years, and the constitution provides that the lessee has the preference right to i lease again, for one term only. That is a just policy that will be contin- ued under a Democratic admin.stra- tion. No cattle man could afford to take the land for less than five years and make the necessary improve ments on it. It does not mean hold l ten years at the most and when that time Is over, any Of us may bid on it. Rented At High Price | The fifth charge is that the lands were leased at too low pr.ce. When these lands were first leased the board had no way of judging their value except by comparing the charge | to be made with what the United States forest reserve charges. For est Reserve lands, as a rule, are l timbered watered and better grass 1 ed, and the reserve charge at that time was 50 cents per head of stock. Where the government, at that time, get from $7.50 to S12.50 section for the use of it's lands, the state land rdepartment was getting more than | $19 a section for far inferior land. Later, in 1918, the Forest Reserve raised it's price to S1.00 per head. securing from SIS to S25 a section, but remember prior to that time the greater part of the state lands had l been leased, and Governor Campbell now wants to break valid lease.
 Sold At Auction
 His sixth charge is that lands sold in 1917 were sold at too low a price, and in some cases by fraud. Does he not know, and don't you know. that land values were not high in 1917 that desert land was prac- tically unsaieable; that the lands that were sold were put up at public auction, after ten weeks advertise ment, and that everybody had an 1 equal opportunity to bid? If the lands were so tremendously valuable l as he now claims they were. would there not have been plenty of bid ders to bid that land up. In spite | of the general rise in values, much | of the land sold in 1917 can be pur- chased al about the same price paid | for it.
 q believe that this proves that | Governor Campbells charges are without foundation. I believe that he ra.sed this issue for purpose. He is shrewd politician; has been one all his life. When the people of tho state find that these charges are without Foundation. I believe that ! Governor Campbell will receive very i few votes on November Z. Like Oil Prospectus | GALLEY 2- OSBORN IN Osborn then referred to Ralph | Cameron's promises as reminding him of the glowing reports of an oil prospectus. He paid tribute to the accomplishments of Mark Smith in securing the Roosevelt and Laguna ! dams for Arizona The speaker con- cluded with a plea for the League of 1 Nations.
 | On National Issues i Charles Ward of Phoenix gave nosterly presentation for the nation i al issues of the campaign, declaring that the League of Nations was false issue, raised to obscure the progressive policie- of President Will son and the Democratic administra- tion. He referred tc. the constant attempt of the Republicans to con