The copper era and Morenci leader., 1922-09-01
Ward Holds to Cold Facts In EConornv Plea

While the Republicans have this year made great to do about re. duding taxes over last year. they s,nl are higher than in 1920, he de ;;lared.
 If elected governor. he pledged himself to get on the lid and sit tight, keeping down taxes and expenses. There has been too much absence from office, and hired hands can never run a farm, an office or any other business as well as the head
 A tribute was paid by him to Will son which brought ringing applause from the house. fWilson, the man so abused and villified, most sacred ly kept his pledge to the people. He promised America would not go into the world war for spells, and took none. He promised law to protect banks, and the great reserve sys tenn was built up. Yet. Wilson was villified as few men have been,- but-"Mr. Ward paused" when the voices of the villfiers are stilled and forgotten, the memory of Woodrow Wilson will live on forever"
 The Republican party, with it's false promises, has not accomplished a single constructive act, Mr. Ward said. They promised soldiers com pensation, a protective tariff. and many ether things. but are unable to do anything. caught in the back wash of their own wave of hatred. Their own members fight every measure put up, and stop it's passage. "'The nation this fall will right the great wrong it did itself. turning the Republicans out,' he said, in closing.
 MT. O'Sullivan, Tn his opening ad- dress, declared that after the cleo tion this fall. the Republicans would have to invoke the game laws for their own protection. ''The great party of the people, the Democrats" he said. "are coming back. He characterized the party as the hope of patriots and the terror of tyrants, a party which stood for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to vote, and a great educational system open to all.
 Thomas Jefferson was the first great Democrat, he said while An drew Jackson was the second. a both of them were instrumental in laying the conerstones of American liberty. Woodrow Wilson, he de CldG6u IOllOWGu well upward OH InS path started by them. making Amer ica the brightest jewel that ever flashed on the skeleton hand of time.
 Mir O'Sullivan declared that MT. Ward would be elected this fall by an overwhelming majority to free Arizona from the blighting curse of Republican misgovernment." "No state since the days of the southern carpet-bag government has been so robbed and pillaged as Arizona to- day" Mir, O'Sullivan asserted. With something like 10 commissions, tax ation has become almost confisca- tory, while the cost of the state gov ernment has mounted to five times more per capita than that of other states
 'The sombrero decked governor, known as Travelling Tom he de clared, 'is known in every part of the country. Never ill the history of the state has the Democratic par ty been confronted with a more ser ious duty to free the state of the party of plutocracy."
 Republican leaders of Arizona are already booked at the Hotel Mephis- topheles," he asserted, while the audience roared it's applause and laughed heartily. ''The people are gathering from north, east south and west. demanding a change. and woe to the political barnacles that stand in the way" he concluded.