The Coconino sun., 1926-10-15
JUDGE CLARK TO SPEAK
HERE MONDAY NIGHT

Hon. e. S. Clark, republican guber-
material candidate, accompanied by
other candidates on the republican
state ticket, is scheduled to arrive in
Flagstaff, Monday, Oct. 18, for the
purpose of addressing Coconino coun-
ty voters at a mass meeting to be
held here on that date under au-
spices of the local county republican
committee.
Judge Clark was in Flagstaff brief
ly Wednesday night, coming here
from Winslow, where he addressed a
political rally, and continuing on to
Phoenix Thursday morning, in order
to be in the Capital City in time for
meeting scheduled there for Thurs
day night.
In an interview with a represen-
tative of The Sun, Judge Clark de-
clared that the present campaign
was struggle between a minority
faction of the Democratic party and
for the people, or by political ma
chine for the benefit Of few profess
sional office-holders. This machine,
he declared, had for years maintain
ed a strangle-hold on Arizona, re-
tarding Colorado river development
and increasing state taxation to a
point where it is becoming ruinous
for the farmer, cattleman and every
other class of taxpayers. The only
hope of independence in politics, re-
duced taxation and progress toward
development of the river for the
benefit Of all Arizona, he added was
to oust the present regime from the
highest executive officer to the low
est.
Party lines are being ignored in
this campaign, Judge Clark went on,
because the people are too liberty
loving to permit a political auto
cracy to continue its ruthless rule, and
he denied that the machine IS
Dembocratic one, but is merely
parading under that title for cam
paign purposes, he said.
Speaking of the Colorado river
problem, Judge Clark said the pres
ent governor was presiding officer at
the constitutional convention that
gave to the Federal government.
through acceptance of the enabling
act, every actual and prospective
dam and water power site on the
Colorado, and most Of the other
streams of the state, and Cow
ernop Hunt, was also governor, he
said. when the Federal government.
through a democrat, Franklin X.
Lane, secretary of the interior under
Woodrow Wilson, withdrew these
valuable water power sites from
Arizona filings, and again no protest
was made or a change OF conditions
asked.
Governor Hunt continued to ignore
the possibilities of Colorado River de-
velopment, he said, until he made
campaign issue of it in 1922, his
first mention of the river being
found in his message to the leglsla-
ture of 1923, although Governor
Campbell, republican, had pointed
out the possibility Of river devoip-
ment as far back as 1919, in legls-
lative message
'sAnd yet Governor Hunt tells the
people, in paid advertisements, that
he always recognized the vast pos
sibilities for Arizona in development
| Of the Colorado river If he did so
recognize them, why did not he pro-
test at the taking from Arizona by
! the Federal government of every ac-
tual and potential dam and water
site on the Colorado for its full
length through Arizona?
! Judge Clark also denounced the
present administration as wasteful
and extravagant, and pointed to the
| 1925 state tax rate of 78 cents, high