Weekly journal-miner., 1920-10-27
GOVERNOR IN SIMMS' HOME
 TOWN RIDES LAND DEALS
(From Thursdays Daily)
Especial to the Journal-Miner)

ing the home of his political oppon-
 ents. Governor Thomas F. Campbell
 in addresses at Pima, Thatcher and
 Stafford tonight told his audiences
 that Nit Simms stood for a contin-
 uaucc of the present administration
 of the state lands whereas he, if
 elected would clean out the land de- partment if within his power and
 administer the state lands in behalf
 of all the people, to the end that the small cattle and sheep raisers,
 the homesteadcr, the returned soldier
 and the public generally might share
 in this heritage other than as in the past and at present.
 My opponent told you when here a few days ago that was trying to dam the Colorado with my hat" said the governor in his discussion of reclamation. Here in his home town I want to repeat what I told another audience, that it isn't the hat but what is under the hat that counts" he said amid laughter and applause.
 That the same administration of state lands which has dissipated in great measure this heritage the past few years would be continued if Mil Simms were elected was apparent said the governor, and the fact that Simms, Wiley Jones and Harry Ross, present members of the board were seeking election to offices that would continue their control of the land board was evidence that the present land commissioner and his subordin- ates would be retained and the past system of administrating these lands continued if this holy trio were elected" If you want a continuance of that kind Of administration vote for them" Governor Campbell told his hearers. "If you want these state l}nds, ten and one-half million acres, turned over to the cattle interests nd land speculators, to be exploited in their sole benefit, vote for Simms, for if l am reelected I shall petition the legislature to abolish this supinc land board and make the land com missioner either appointive or cleo tive, as you choose, but directly re- sponsible to the people instead of to a few chosen politicians"
 Governor Campbell cdmplimented Simms fer voting right the many times he voted as did the governor on land matters.
 But there were two times when he was not right and when he voted against me, said the speaker, "oncc when he voted to sell hundred and fifty thousand acres on the Gila that Secretary Lane wanted to keep for the soldiers and again when he voted to whitewash the land department ! and drop the public investigation Ithat had been launched. There were i other times also, but l mention these as he makes a point of telling you how many times he voted on land .mattcts as I did. The main issue is whether these lands shall continue to be turned over to the land grabbers and cattle oligarchy or whether they shall be administered so as to afford opportunity to all the people and to bring to the state treasury for edu- cationa1 purposes something more near their real worth. It is cattle against children, livestock against men and women, ranges against homes. And I tell you again I am more concerned with men and wom- en than I am with sheep and cattle ; for it is men and women who make the state, who furnish the soldiers in times of danger"
 The speaker also pointed out that during his administration, for the first time in the history of the sttac, the institutions of the state had been administered within the legislative . appropriations and surplus trrned . back to the general fund. That the state now enjoyed industrial reace, where chaos had reigned for seven years prior to this administration. That the future of Arizona was de- pendent upon reclamation which had been revived as a national issue by the League of the Southwest of which he is president. and that i: he did not think he could carry to successful conclusion the construc- five policies inaugurated under his administration he would not he !.
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