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(Continued From Page One) nearly as possible equal representa- ton in the state democratic advisory conference. { 5. The delegates to assemble in a representative state advisory confer ence on the 18th, day of May, 1922, are to take similar action relative to the selection and endorsement of candidates for state offices to the ac- tion provided to be taken by the coun- ty conferencein relation to candidates for county offices.
 C. The state chairman of the state democratic central committee be and he is hereby empowered and instruc- ted to take all necessary steps, adopt rules and regulations, and do all other things necessary for the car ryingt into effect the plans herein recommended.
 T. Resolved that at the first op- portunity. or at the next organiza- tion of the democratic state central committee, there shall be appointed or elected a woman as vice-chairman.
 "A Republican Tragedy
 The state democratic central com mittee, in session assembled, repre- senting the democracy of the state of Arizona, declare that under the present republican rule in the state and nation, a condition of business depression and general hard times has been foisted upon the people never before known in the history Of the country Never in the history of our government, local or national, was there to be found such lack of statesmanship, business integrity and regard for the requirements of the people.
 The legislative record of the repub- Iican party for 1921 is a legislative tragedy; it is a story of unnecessari- Iy large appropriations and extra vagant expenditures; of promises wholly disregarded or wilfully broken: of legislation so badly con structed that it failed in it's purpose; of the common people deceived, and the business interests of the coun- try betrayed; of an attempt to serve only special few; of a leaderless majority, groping in the dark, and displaying on every hand it's lack of understanding of the problems con l fronting it, and it's inability to solve them. Onkept PromISeS
 Republican candidates for office | during the campaign of 1920, with l uplifted hands, promised that if the l government of the nation and the several states of the nation. was en- trusted to them, government would be conducted at a reduced cost to 1 the people and that taxes would be | reduced Loud were these republicans | tr fhni f0 hn efficiency would abound everywhere, and that the interest, of all the peo- | ple would be regarded as never be- 1 fore. Although every branch of our 1 federal government for the past eight ] months has been under the control l of the republicans, these promises have not been fulfilled,
 Evidence is found on every hand to | substantiate the contention that at | the election of 1920 the people, both national, and local, voted against their
 own interest: it is no less evident
 that a majority of those who SC
 voted now see and by a little educa
 tion all will realiEe-that these un
 fortunate mistakes must be corrected
 or we will have to face conditions
 even worse than those with which
 we now have to contend.
 Since the election above referred to. conditions have grown steadily
 worse until today the country is ir
 the most distressing condition of it's I history. These conditions, brought I on by unsettled foreign relations
 political prejudices and lack of leader ship, might easily have been avoided
 had the people realized then as they do now that the republican party js
 not the party of the masses, and thai
 it's leaders seldom concern them
 selves over matters that affect tht
 welfare of the people. The acts ot
 tho republican president and con- gress, as we'll as others in charge
 of the public affairs of the state an(
 nation, emphasize this fundam enta truth
 Burden of Taxation
 As a fulfIIment of promise to re duce the burden of taxation, the re publicans in congress have enacted revenue law that was conceived il the iniquitous purpose of specia : favors and born in the secret cham hers of a congressional committee The purpose of this law are vicious and inequitable: its enforcement vii
 be disastrous to the common people
 and the means adopted to force it
 enactment are perniciops and not i becoming the dignity of the Amer
 can congress; it shifts the burdeI
 of more than $500, 100000 in taxe
 from the shoulders of the rich to tha
 of these who are less able to pay.
 They propose a tariff measur
 that, of enacted into law, will brin
 disaster to the producer and highe
 cost to the consumer. Our countr
 is today manufacturing and producin : far in excess of our capacity to COT sume. yet even in the face of thi ] condition. the attitude of the repui Iican party. since the close of tn World war to the present time, ha been one of isolation and unintell gent selfishness. No nations capahl of producing more than it consume can afford to cease commercial inte course with other nations. or { adopt policy that makes this inte s course difficult without bringing di aster to itself and loss of trade to il people. A political party who's S leaders cannot see the truth of tb