Arizona republican., 1920-10-31
EDITORIAL
WHAT CAMERON
 SENATOR WILL MEAN TO STATE OF ARIZONA

Ther, are two kinds of representa- tion which a state can have in the United States senate. One type is vocal and the state that has that kind of senator fills up many columns in the Congressional Record and gets no substantial recognition from the fed eral government of its needs or its possibilities.
 The other type is the working type. It is that sort that expresses itself in committee work. drafting bills. attend ing to appropriations. and regards service in the senate as a business proposition, rather than an opportunity to make speeches.
 Since statehood, Arizona has per sistently stuck to the first type. One of 1ler senators has been chosen be- cause he is good natured and the other because of his vocal facilities
 which have never been known to flag.
 This state has never had worker in the senate.
 The result has been what might have
 been expected As Senator Ashurst said in urging Mark Smiths re- election. .sHe has made 3o2 speeches" l a statement which is repeated in smiths own election pamphlet. Prob
 ably Ashurst has made more than
 that as he is younger and more
 vigorous.
 But several million words has been
 all that Arizona has gotten out of this class of representation There
 have been no public buildings to
 speak of. no consideration for the ser
 vice Of the customary federal agencies in the state. But worst of all there
 has been no concrete result along the :. line of irrigation and reclamation since statehood though both parties in the senate have been committed to it. This year the state has a chance to
 change her style of representation in
 the senate. She has her choice be-
 tween vteran talker and a young
 and vigorous doer.
 There is no question of Smiths abil- ity to talk. Cameron. the republican
 nominee who is offered to the state aa
 a man who does things. has been be- Titled as q man of accomplishment. $ Starting on the theory that vast ma , jority of the republican voters of Ari-
 zona think the time has arrived Nher this state should have business agent in the senate at Washington, let us , see what the Cameron record is. 1 It is a fair assumption that If he 3 has done his job we'll heretofore. he 7 can be expected to do so again.
 Recall then that exactly twelve D sears the republicans nominated for r delegate to congress this same Cam l eron. He was running against this , same Mark Smith and the burning
 issue then was statehood as reclama- - ton is now Smith had been unable l to get statehood as he now confesses . he is unable to get for instance, the e San Carlos dam
 Cameron in 1908 went about the then
 territory and made this one promise: 2 Unless get statehood for the peo U pie of this territory, l will never ask t for any office in this territory again" ;"
 In 1908 every democratic news ' paper in the territory derided that : promise. They said that Smith had I not gotten it and. if he could not, with II his many years on the payroll, what - chance was there for Cameron? The
 whole burden of their argument or
 Cameron and statehood was exactly
 their argument on Cameron and recia . n nation now when they say that he Q can't do it and he promises too much. a But in 1908 the people of Arizona V took Ralph Cameron at his word and
 gave him a chance. Ralph Cameron o proceeded to make good and he got e statehood before his term expired. n The people in 1908 had grown tired r of inaction, excuses and talk and they - hired a man to go to work. it The people in 1920 have had eighi v years of talk and inaction and excuses @ about reclamation. They are offered 1t again a chance to hire man to go to e. work for them and, luckily, it is the
 same man, Cameron, who delivered the 1t goods when he was employed before l. On the one hand Mark Smith, whose ,s rrecord is talk and whose promise is F T can't"
 in On the other hand, Cameron, whose .' record is statehood obtained and whose m promise is I will"
 lg The one never produced; the othel IS produced BIG.
 y On the simple basis of efficiency le predicted on what Smith didn't ge r. and Cameron did. on what Smith say ce there is no chance to get and he won as try, and on what the state wants t' le get and Cameron says he will ge tv sure the common sense voters of tn K state will support Ralph Cameron fo Y election as their next BUSINES. 4 = AGENT IN WASHINGTON FOR THf