The Coconino sun., 1920-10-22

James h. Duneath, republican can- didate for congress, spoke in part as follows:
 "We have been taught from our earliest school days that sometime in our lives, opportunity knocks at least once at the door of every person, and if not promptly recognized passes on, and the person or community that fails to grasp it, forever afterwards bewails the failure. Tonight, the people of Arizona are being offered an opportunity that in my honest opinion will not again be offered them in many years, the opportunity of talk ing the most prominent part in the affairs of this nation. An opportun- ity of again bringing into use and operation the constitution of the United States of America, and again taking up the rebuilding of our pros perity upon lines laid down by Wash ington, and followed by Lincoln, Mc- kinley and Roosevelt, and discarded by Mir. Wilson.
 "The plain, old-fashioned Americans Of this state are again going to put country before personal interests and preferences, and send back to Wash ington men pledged to sound plan of government; men who will measure up to the responsibilities that devolve upon them, and these men bear the re- publican banner this year.
 Understand, however, that it is and would be height of folly upon my part to appeal to you voters upon strict party vote. The man who in Arizona, today asks to be elected on the republican ticket by strict party vote, is foolish. He does not know his people and he does not know the line up in this state, but I do appeal to you as candidate to represent you in congress for the next term up- on a policy of sound business sense that you have shown in the upbuild. ing of your own business.
 "The government of the United States will spend during the next year upwards of four billions of dollars and you people who help supply this enormous fund, should see that every dollar of it will be spent for your ben. eft and the benefit of the state of which you are a part. am asking you, in this campaign, to, if neces. sary, sacrifice your good friends, and neighbors, on the altar of unselfish. hess for the great good to the nation and state.
 "The trend of thought and events prove to us beyond any question that 1920 is year of reconstruction, a year in which to set our house in or der for greater America and a greater Arizona under the leadership of Senator Harding as president of the United States. This does not mean that voters are going to per manently change their political affili. ations. It does mean, however, that they are going to forget the q" in this movement for a better govern. ment and incorporate the Eve" in. stead.
 "You have had an example of the utter incompetency of the Wilson ad- ministration to properly manage big things. This nation when called up on freely gave to the government to the limit of it's resources, and plac- ed in the hands of MT. Wilson pow CTS that were never intended should be placed in the hands of any one man. We expected that he would use this power with discretion and sense but instead he has assumed to himself an omnipoeent power that is hard for him to surrender, and his candidate for the presidency has assumed to himself this importance.
 We have had an example of this in the assumption of the Wilson can- didate that the only manner in which this nation can be maintained on the face of the earth. is to elect him to the presidency. He has undertaken to make spread eagle campaign throughout the length and breadth of this nation and has promised to you voters everything under the sun, but has failed to show one reason why he should be placed in office. He is tar red with Wilson incompetency and the candidates for senator and congress have aligned themselves with him and the Wilson administration. They have adopted the Wilson platform in its entirety and by that you should judge their qualification to represent you in Washington. If you believe eh"C VIC Viloou SdIuItidtc TUT Ine presidency is going to be elected, then l do not want you to send me to congress for if this was the situation l could be of no benefit to you. be- lieve that I can get for you many of the benefits that you have been look ing for and expecting to have receiv- ed from your present senator and congressman for years. You are still looking for them, and you will con- tinue to look for them for the rest of your natural life, unless they can de- velop greater energy than they have heretofore shown.
 eff you send Ralph Cameron to the senate and myself to the house of rep resentatives, with a republican pres ident in Washington, you will receive for Arizona benefits that you may not have hoped for in your fondest dreams.
 "The many reclamation projects, the aid of federal government for good roads are possibilities that can be made facts. The democratic candi- date for congress is a fine fellow, and he must assume their irrespon- sibility even as he has adopted the