The Coconino sun., 1922-10-13

state treasurer over the protest of
 Governor Campbell!
 And thus all the tumble of phrases
 amounted to positively nothing, net!
 Let's stop here a minute and yawn. ] Such a sleepy, tired feeling!
 Hunt ignored the damaging com
 parisons made the preceding night by Governor Campbell between the former Hunt and the present Camp bell administrations. He didn't even do that deftly. He clumsily alluded to them at intervals bv saying he would not try to answer them. Why?
 Because it was beneath his dignity!
 We will venture to say, however, that many of Hunts statements Fri day night and more of his curiously constructed phrases and the whim- sies they revealed-that they and dignity, as the term dignity" is us- ually understood-were incompatible.
 To summarize in six words what Hunt intended to convey would be his policy if elected governor:
 He will cut down state eXpen- ditures.
 That is, he will reduce the expen- ditures for public improvements and schools. You'll have to take it that way or not take it at all. For the public improvements and schools got 80 per cent during 1921 of all the money spent by the state. If Hunt doesn't cut down the expenditures for public improvements and schools. but cuts off all of the other 20 per cent, one-third of which is for agriculture and another third for charitable and penal institutions, the total he will save will be negligible.
 On the other hand, if he really hopes to cut down the states expen- ditures appreciably no progressive person in this state dare take al chance on him.
 But the funny part of it, after all the talk, is that it does not rest with him at all, but with the legislature to decide whether the states expendi- lures shall be reduced.
 So. the only saving he can promise with any hope of making good his promise is his saving on gasoline. And whether he can do that now that there is no longer fund for the public de- fense for him to draw the expense of his junkets from, as there was-and as he did--when he was governor be- fore, it is hard to see how he'll even save on gasoline.
 Congressman Carl Hayden made a good talk. He, of course, worked up a burst of applause for former pres- ident Wilson. He claimed, as demo- crats love to, even though they have no right to, that his party was re- sponsible for the bankers reserve act | He dallied with the tariff question. He talked as a democrat should talk | on national issues.
 But when it came to the question | that above all others is of paramount importance to Arizona-the develop ment of the Colorado river-he was inasmuch as he indi- cated that he stands with the U. s. reclamation bureau in the building of l the dam at Boulder Canyon or below, accepting the Glen Canyon site only in the event the others prove unfeas- ible, and also that he favors building of the dam by the government; which means that if it ever is built it will take years longer and many millions more than it would if built by private and that Arizona instead of receiving taxes from it will have to contribute to the expense and waste of building it.
 The other speakers who briefly oc- cupied the spotlight were: Richard H. Ramsey, candidate for state audi tor, who admitted he is highly quail flied for the job because he came from Texas and has been a banker for a few years; James H. Kerby, who wants to be secretary of state and put the money he got into an unsafe bank, which, though he 1idn't say so, would because he would nave nothing to do with depositing ,he money, the state treasurer attend ng to that little detail; and Charles R. Howe, present state state tax com