The Coconino sun., 1924-11-21
SOME REPUBLICAN, PINToING' AS IT WERE

Now that the smoke of Arizona's political bat
tie has cured and waited and faded into nothing
ness one may glance back upon some of the naked
truths the clearing atmosphere is exposing. Inere
are lot of them, and some strange ones, so II
would be consistent to pick them out one at time
merely for comment and observation.
One of the outstanding incidents of the cam
paign-and d very tragic one from the viewpoint
of the loser-was that the republican nominee Tor
governor found himself the victim or the same
kind of ''pintoism" in his own party that prac-
ticed by the democrats, enabled him to poll thou
sands of democratic votes and almost elected hlm.
1t might be said and with truth that Dwight b.
Heard received enough pinto" democratic votes
to win but he lost because he failed to get the full
strength of his party.
The ant-Heard brigade IN the republican party
was kept in motion during the campaign by us
ever alert and often reSOurceful leaders, Thomas
Maddox and United States Senator Ralph Cam
eron and it did good work for democracy. AS
suredly it can be said that these two men were
responsible for the defeat of Heard and the re-
election of Hunt.
Just before the election the Phoenix Republican
published a statement which appeared to be from
Maddox and in which an endorsement OF Heard
was intimated. The statement, however, was in
tended as boost for Coolidge only, since the fol
lowing day Maddox was quoted IN the Phoenix
Gazette as asserting that he never said the peo-
pie of Arizona should elect Heard governor. 1t
seems Maddox not only never said such thing,
but he did not even think 1t.
Maddox was a contender in the primary cleo
ton for the republican nomination for governor,
and Heard defeated him. That coupled with the
publicity given in the Phoenix Republican to the
report of the joint legislative committee which m
vestigated the administration of the state high
way department under Maddox caused him to re-
gard Heard's candidacy as entirely out OF order.
Heard owns the Republican as most everyone IN
the state knows.
About week before the election Governor
M
son a letter relative to the Colorado river question
that was printed in the newspapers OF the state
to the advantage of the democratic nominee. 1t
is well known that Stetson is very close to Sena-
tor Cameron, that the senator has tried to get a
concession for Stetson to build dam across the
Colorado somewhere, through money borrowed
from the government, hence, any person assoclat-
ed with Stetson might also be, and probably is, an
associate of the senator. The connection is quite
obvious.
Senator Cameron could see no sense. In Heard 5
candidacy for two reasons: (1) Mike Cassidy, for
mer federal prohibition director of the state, was
managing Heard's campaign, and CD the election
of Heard might have made of him formidable
candidate for the republican nomination for the
United States senate in 1926, and against cam
eron. which wouldn't do at all. The democrats will
be satisfied for Cameron to run AGAIN..
It is likely that the combined strength OF Mad
dock and Cameron in their own party is sufficient
to control about 1900 votes-certainly not many
more than that-and these, had they been turned
TO Heard instead of to Governor Hunt, would have
elected the republican nominee by tar margin.
Prescott Courier.