Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-20
CAMERON AND THE COLORADO
HIS REPLY

trimmings given 10 lHOSe WIN lawn
their special interests.
Mather Once Poor
1t has been said that one stephen
T. Mather was at one time poor
like the rest Of us. Possibly he could
not play the role of the western
pioneer. but having a place of con-
fidence in the well known Borax COM
pany of Nevada, it is said that he
learned of certain defective titles
to certain lands held by the com
pany for which he was working,
that he tipped this confidential in
| formation to others, who jumped the
claims Mather resigned from the
1 company and the borax corporation
was made to pay until "'it hurt"
Thus, 1t is said that this same
Mather could well afford to expend
these enormous amounts under the
guise of his personal fortune, which
it was said, were obtained in the
manner just related.
No wonder he can build gilded
apartment houses in Chicago and
ride In. palace cars over the country,
crush the underlings at the first
sign, of opposition, play in the head
| lines Of the various fantastic or
ganizations of the United States,
curry favor with powerful persons
in authority, all because in his. Doc
| tor Jekyll. and Mr.. Hyde makeup
he has through his power turned
lover to monopolistic control great
concessions in the national parks in
| this country. The shoe that pinches
Mr.. Mather, that makes him the
leader of the stage at the moment,
lis the fact that the senate commit
| tee on public lands, under resolu-
| tion which 1 secured, went to the
VERY roots of the corruption and
rottenness of the national park ad-
{, ministratfon, and it is now thought
by the shrewd Mather, if he can be
| the leader in using such a powerful
| newspaper as the Los Angeles Times
to come forth with such culpable
and .scandalbus attacks on me, that
he can thus save his own hide. Far
from it, Mr.. President. We have
| only begun to fight this bureaucratic
system Of monopolistic control.
Mather Always Busy
1t is a peculiar thing, Mr.. Presi-
dent, that every piece of constructive
legislation that 1 have initiated, the
passage of most of which into final
law have secured, has met some
where along the path the daggers
of Mr.. Mather and his cohorts. 1
dislike to refer to certain gentlemen
in high authority as the representa-
tiyes of the people, who have tuned
in on the program of Mr.. Mather as
now coming from the Los Angeles
Times. Mather and his kind mean
nothing to me or to the future of
Arizona. We are used to fighting
"copperheads' all along the way Last
June year ago a subcommittee
of the United States senate, of whicn
l had the honor to be the acting
| chairman, in company with my dis
tinguished colleague, spent weeks of
faithful effort travelling through Ari-
zona and listening to the testimony
of the worthy livestock men of my
state, trying to give relief to a
paralyzed industry. 1t was during
that time, Mr.. President, that this
line Of attack was Matched; the place
was the north rim of the Grand cam
yon, and the leader of that little
band was none other than Stephen T.
Mather Others, of course, present
were innocent as to what was taxi
ing place. AS the weeks wore ON
Mather's well-thought-out program OF
attack was taking concrete form
certain very well known writers
were approached on the subject. but
turned it down. They did not desire
to prostitute their reputation to an
pease the desires of a plutocrat of
his style. Finally one Bill Irwin
who, 1 suppose. was in need of rev.
enue, consented to send his writer's
to collaborate with the henchmen
of Mather and his conspirators to
gather details and everything con-
nected with my personal life. Mather
was too shrewd to pay all of this
money himself He no doubt ex-
acted it from those who sought spe-
cial favor with him, and thus lMe
story of the plot widens.
For months these investigators,
generally working in pairs combed
Arizona and it's records, delved deep
into everything recorded in WASH
ington, secured the entire southwest,
and picked from the millions of
details the threads of the story which
they reported for their master to.
write. Personal friends of mine, in
Guiding those of the democratic
faith, came to me and reported what
was going on. They decried what
they termed as the part that GER
tain gentleman, who is to be my op-
ponent in the coming election, was
playing in this program. l make
no statements in that regard be-
cause do not have positive infor-
| nation, but ! read various signs that
have appeared in connection with
important legislation which have
initiated for the welfare of Ari-
| zona, which seem circumstantially to
point the finger of suspicion at that
gentleman. 1 shall refer to this
little later.
(To be continued)