Bisbee daily review., 1922-06-17


e injured when this Ferris wheel
ing his vote Therefore | make this
announcement openly so / may not
be misunderstood. The primary cleo
ton viii be held on the 18th of
September. There is another gentle
man running: Governor Hunt. l want
to say to you that | welcome his can
didacy. He has the same right to
aspire to this office as | have; and
l have the same right as he. Neither
of us has more right than ahy other
Democrat who aspires to office.
Some of my friends think l am go
ing to enter into ascampaign of abuse
against Governor Hunt for running
for the same office. But, let me tell
you, there will fall from my lips no
word of condemnation or abuse; no
word that Governor Hunts most ear
nest friend can take exception to. And
/ will tell you why; | have several
reasons. One. of them is that if we
enter into a campaign of personal
abuse-we men and women candi'
dates who believe IN the primary laws
then we would bring against the di
rect primary the gravest indictment
that could be brought against it.
There is another reason greater than
that why l would speak no i'll of an
other candidate; that is because / be-
lieve that no man or woman ever ben
Gifted by speaking unkindly OF an
other man or woman. And there is
still another reason: have never vet
seen the person-zwhether III business
or politics-who slung mud but was
got more mud on himself than on the
object of his attack Therefore, | say,
in this campaign there will be no mud
Singing on my part, and there will
be no word of condemnation or abuse.
In Arizona IL Years
Il will present to the people my hon
est convictions-and what / think
Democracy stands for' and l will, as
the campaign progresses, make GER
tain pledges and promises to the peo
pie. II those satisfy you'll they ap'
peal to you-thea / will appreciate
any help and service you may render
Now | come to the personal part
My family came to the state is years
ago and lived in Arizona until my
wife died, about IL years ago, leaving
just one little daughter, the other
child having died / bought my home
near the Indian school II years ago
and have resided in your state ever
since. only say'these things because
some of my Republican friends at
Phoenix. | understand, have made the
statement that | have only been here
three years; and some Democrats
have said: Isn't that awful" Some
of the very Democrats who wondered
why I was a candidate for governor
after only three years in Arizona
have been my clients for eight or ten
years in Phoenix.
Il have not been an office-holdeT
except that | held the position of state
senator in Colorado four years, serv-
ing four terms was state chairman
in Colorado from 1906 to 1908. We had
never won a state victory in Colorado
for the same reasons that you have
been losing state elections here in the
past; we had builded upon hatred and
prejudice and created fractional strife
in our party, so that no matter vino
was nominated he would not be elect
ed. There, Just the same as here,
went every year upon the platform,
pleading and praying with the mem
bers of my party, our party, that they
forget their preiudices and work to-
gether for the Democratic party
took charge of that campaign and. in
side of three weeks. factionalism
throughout the state was forgotten;
men who were old and grey in tho
service of the party, men and women
who refused to vote on account of the
trouble. men who had drifted away in
anger and were voting for candidates
in the other party we're back in DEM
ocratic harness. fighting just like they
are going TO fight in Arizona this fall.
We elected state ticket by big ma
iority, and carried the state, national
~, and elected almost every county
throughout the state; that was only
accomplished by an appeal to that
which had been lying dormant within
the voters of our party.
Urges Return of Harmony
That same appeal | am making to
tho men and women who belong to
our party in this great state of Ari-
zona-to forget their factionalism and
differences not to listen to the man
or orator who is trying TO build up
hate or feeling in this state, because
we all must live here as home peo-
pie. The success OF our state cannot
rest upon the prosperity of one coun-
try or one industry--it must rest uuon
the well-being and prosperity of all of
us,
Il announced at the Tucson confer
ence that, If | was chosen at the pri,
maries and was elected to the office
of governor, when my term Of office
expired I would not be candidate
for reelection as governor. nor would
be candidate for the national house
OF representatives or the United
States senate. My purpose in saying