Weekly journal-miner., 1922-08-16
WARD LAYS B[lNE 0N THE
 COUNTIES AND SCHOOLS; TAXES
 HUNTS. STAND IN AMENDMENTS

Mir. O'Sullivan was nearing the apparent end of his 20-minute oration in praise of the democracy of Jef- ferson, Jackson and Wilson, when he declared that he was about to in troduce the speaker of the evening. Charles B. Ward, who sat on the platform leaned forward. Mir. O'Sul- livan entered into peroration filled with scintillant and incomprehensible words. MT. Ward settled back in his chair.
 But he finally came to the fore, and for an hour, fluently and en- tertainingly spoke in behalf of his candidacy against George Hunt for the democratic nomination for gov ernor.
 In the course of his remarks, Mir. Ward announced opposition to every constitutional amendment save that providing the farmer. with a cooper ative marketing power, and laid the entire blame for high taxes on coun- ties. cities and school districts.
 He told how he had sought for progressive measures including the direct primary. He was still for the primary. The amendment which would re-refer the primary matter to the legislature, he said, contained no good intent. The people had fought too long to get the primary power away from legislatures, who were not to be trusted with such matters. Mr. Hunts candidacy proved two things to Mir. Ward.
 (a) That the Tucson convention had not obtained the power and pres tige to prevent other democrats from aspiring and (b) that the primary law was great, living thing"
 At this juncture MT. Ward briefly stated that he would not throw mud in this campaign. He had tried to tell Maricopa republicans to stay out of the democratic fight, but they would not listen, and were going to get hurt, just as everyone does who butts into somebody else's family TOW. Men who enter an opposing party's primary to vote for the weak est men were, ill his opinion, dirty crooks"
 As to Amendments
 Having led up to the amendments, Mir. Ward took them up in order. As ably as Mr. Hunt could have done he showed the wrongs and defects i'll them. He did not believe the primary amendment was honestly de- signed to correct the primary law It had defects-the long primary campaign required and the tremendous expense involved. He knew of can didates in Arizona who spent from $2OOOO to $66OO0O to get elected and spent it honestly. He, however would spend only $1,OOO The Ward for-Governor Club at Phoenix is try ing to raise about $500 or $3,000 to send out circular letters to the voters
 So. he said, he did not intend to vote for the primary amendment, be cause he had fought too hard to get the primary out of the hands of the legislature to see 1t now go back into those baleful hands.
 But the audience was not to think he was dictating their manner oi thinking. He wanted each man to go home and talk 1t over with hi, wife and then decide whether the amendments were worthy of support
 He opposed the amendment to raise the $350000 limit on state bonded debt. because he did not know what the people who wrote it wanted to dc with this extra money. He knew ii was not to dam the Colorado or build irrigation systems. He said 4 per cent sounded small, but thai proportion of the states valuation would be $32,OGOOOO, and so hog-wild had the people been in voting bond issues during the past few years, il they had had this debt limit raised they would have bonded the state for the whole darned amount
 Five years ago the county, city and school bonds of Arizona were only S6.OOO,OOO. Now, said Mr. Ward they are S43OOO,OO0.
 The One He's For
 Most coge1t arguments were given for the proposal to permit farmers to form combinations to buy up their produce, warehouse it and feed it out to the consumers as it is needed, instead of accept ing starvation prices when the market is glutted, and having it dealt back by the eastern money powers at high prices when the market is drained
 It is the peoples own fault that tbc sneaker coi1Id uOt yotp for the