The border vidette., 1922-09-09
HUNT VS. WARD.
Former Governors Friends Say He
 Will Defeat Mr. Ward.


 "Goaded to desperation by the unmistakab swing to ex Cover nor Hunt of voters of all shades of opinion, the supporters of Charles B. Ward have resorted to veritable barrage of mis- leading and false propaganda. l The greater portion of the recent efforts is devoted to crying from the house tops about "republi cans registering as democrats to vote for Hunt" charges that this is an organized effort to disrupt the democratic party and other such nonsense.
 Propaganda has been spread
 by some of Mir. Wards support CTS during the past week which is so silly that even the men sponsoring it must realize how false and jasmine it is. The in. terestfhg part of the matter is that a great deal of it has origi- | hated from some of the so called leaders of the party organiza tiOn.
 "Mr. Ward himself has been emphasizing that he is conduct ing a clean campaign, which is conceded, but some of his sup porters in their desperation are stopping at nothing. MT. Hunt has not mentioned MT. Wards name in any of his speeches ex- cept to say that if he is nomin- that he will support him. 'The latest effort made to bolster up a lost cause was the publication of estimates, of the vote of various counties, which were said to originate from MT. Wards headquarters. A study of the estimates and compari son of the actual sentiment among the voters indicates that the figures were put out to try to sustain life in candidacy which is already CD the shelf. There is going to be a land slide for ex Governor Hunt in Arizona this year. In the pri mary and in the general cleo tion. It is the sentiment every where, except in professional circles, that MT. Hunt is fight ing the fight of the common peo pie, the small taxpayers, the workingman, the farmers aud the small shopkeepers of Ari- zona.-
 "Mr. Ward who started out an unknown quantity has made some friends. It is admitted everywhere that Charles Ward is man without an enemy in the state of Arizona Why :? Men who progressively fight for basic principles make enemies. Mir. Hunt has many enemies and the common people love him for the enemies he has made MT. Ward, who was classified as conservative, has gradually stepped from one position to an other on the questions involved in the present campaign. He thought at first that the consti- tutional amendments were ques- tions which concerned the voters in the primary election and were not a political issue. He is not fighting the amendments. He said in his early speeches that he would not promise to reduce taxes. In his Yuma speech be indicated that he had changed his mind. He has refused to dis cuss some of the questions he was invited to talk on in the cam paign.
 ''Mr. Ward has conducted a negative campaign. MT. Hunt has stood for and advocated positive issues. He has said taxes will be reduced if he is elected because they must be re duced. He has fought the amendments to the constitution from the beginning and has de- fended the direct primary as the keystone of our political liber | ties.
 "The people know MT. Hunt, and know him as 'scrapper' in their behalf. It is admitted that everyone who is acquainted with Mir. Ward is his friend. The people of Arizona know there is fight ahead to put Arizona on it's feet and they have turned to | MT. Hunt in such numbers that his election will be one of the largest majorities be has yet re ceived. An interesting aspect l of the campaign to date is that