Williams news., 1922-11-03
HUNT REPLIES TO MAJOR KELLY

HUNT REPLIES TO MAJOR KELLY Last week Major George H. Kelly,
 publisher and editor of the Douglas Daily International, called the atten-
 ton of former Governor George w.
 P. Hunt, Democratic nominee for
 governor, to the charge of some lead CTS and newspapers of the Repuo-
 lican party in Arizona that MT. Hunt
 was in sympathy with the l. w. w.
 The former governor last Wednesday addressed the following reply to Major Kelley:
 My dear Major Kelly: Your communication of October awaited my return to Phoenix yesterday. l note from your letter that certain propaganda is being used relating to the l. W. w. and the allegations ot certain Republicans that l am in sympathy herewith. l thank you for your letter and your sentiments in connection with this propaganda
 s.It is my usual policy to ignore such and to continue in my humble way to do what consider to be right. It should be needless for me at this
  that being used by certain Republi- can politicians. All of the charges and innuendos which they are now making were filed in the shape of charges with the foreign relations of the United States Sen ate by certain Republican politicians in an effort to prevent my confirma- ton as United States minister toSiam. The charges were fully investigated oy the United States senate and dis missed as unworthy of consideration by a unanimous vote of the foreign relations committee of which Warren G. Harding, then senator, and now president of the United States, was a member.
 My life has been lived largely in a mining community. I started life in Arizona working for wages, and up to the time of my election as governor of Arizona,I had been en- gagged in the commercial and banking l business l. was president of the | Did Dominion bank nzGlobe, and the1I Old Dominion Commercial company, | wo of the leading institutions in 1 heir respective lines in the county | :eat of Gila county. l was in daily contact for a generation with tho | miners and working people of this | ,tate I know and sympathiZe with heir problems and it was my pleas Ire, as well as duty, as lawnaker and IS chief executive of this state to do what was possible to tighten the bur len and make easier the lives of those burden is indeed leavy.
 'It, to me. appears bordering on he ridiculous for anyone to seriously il that I, a former banker, nan with investments in property ill lany counties of the state of Arizona, you'd consider or sympathize with ny group or organization of men those philosophy of life would lead 0 the destruction of property values.
 'fYou may rest assured that 1t ever was my policy to encourage or or individuals who would eek to remedy industrial conditions y the destruction of property, or the oIicy of the violent overthrow of our onstitution and laws. However, E have always been, and will continue , be, in sympathy with the legitimate 'pirations of organized labor ''You will recall that during my s such properties as the s aspiration, the Magma, the United < erde Extension, the Ray Consolida- d, the New Cornelia and the United astern were developed and put on basis, an that our agri- I'tural and livesto"t industries were rgely increased.
 "And again thanking you for call 2 this matter to my attention, and tn kind personal regards, I am
 Respectfully yours,
 "GeOrpe w P Hunto