Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-08

interest and redemption on outstand-
ing bond issues.
You have failed to tell the people
that all of these bond issues that are
of any Importance, were supported. by
the Arizona Republican.
And you have failed to tell them
that the reason for the support of
the largest issue was the fact that
your property was to be gridironed
with paved roads at county expense.
Your record stands forth as your
having day after day, month after
month, for over two years demanded
the ratification of the Colorado river
compact as written at Santa Fe If
it were ratified, do you think that
Arizona, standing alone, would be
able to make as effective a fight
against the Boulder canyon PROPOSE
tion without having to resort to the
courts?
Your record stands forth as taking
every opportunity of rushing at the
defense of every federal bureaucrat
in their administration in Arizona.
When the sheep and cattle men
were driven to desperation and bank
ruptcy by the forest service, you gave
no support to their cause.
The lumber industry of the state of
Arizona is being driven to the wall
The mills at Flagstaff and McNary
have twice had to refinance them
selves rather than go into insol-
vency. The Riordan plant has been
abandoned and tremendous losses
have been sustained by the operators
in the Graham mountains. The Will
liams plant has consistently lost
money for the last few years, due
primarily, the representative men en-
gagged in the industry assert, to the
regulations of the forest service. Yet
when I took up the cudgels on behalf
of the lumber industry in a recent
communication, you printed an edito-
rial denouncing my action, and made
defense of the bureau.
You pranced around the state dur
! ing the last campaign and blatantly
harped about the "Heard plan" for
the development of the Colorado
river. Your plan has nothing specific
in it.
There is not a definite thing in the
Heard plan, nothing but glittering
lgeneralities that are as sounding
brass and tinkling symbols"
Having failed to impose upon the
| people of Arizona the Colorado COM
pact, you then resorted to the reser-
vation that it was not to be effective
until a supplemental compact was
made between the states in the lower
basin, something 1 had advocated for
months before you decided the COM
pact should not be ratified without it, |
and came into camp to that extent.
There is not single thing in the
so-called Heard plan" which indi-
Gates what you would demand for
Arizona in the way of water The !!
only assumption that could be made !
is that as an advocate of the COM !
pact you are satisfied with 2S0,O0O
acres of land for Arizona to be irri-
gated from the main Colorado river.
Having for a long while opposed /
Arizona obtaining any revenue from
power, you have finally been driven
to accept that principle.
The difference between your atti-
tude and mine, which you call "ob-
structive" on my part, is THAT l be- /
lieve in letting California and the
world know the status and facts as
they exist; while you seem SO unable |
to define your position, when away |
from home in California, that Califor- |
mia papers announce in the bold head
lines that Heard is favorable to the
construction of the Boulder canyon
dam; and making it necessary for an |
editorial apology in your paper when /
the folks at home obtain copies of
the California papers.
The difference between my policy !
ie, hat
I have only one interest-the welfare
of Arizona-while you serve two, |
Dwight B. Heard first, and Arizona |
second.
And the further difference between
my policies which you call "obstruct- /
i've" and the policies of yourself and I
your associates, is that I have al
ways been in favor of a government |
by the people of Arizona, in the in
terest of the people who live in Ari-
zona first; while you have been in |
favor of government by Dwight B.
Heard and foreign corporations oper- |
ating in Arizona.
Another difference between our pol |
icies is that I have been satisfied to
rest with such laurels as I might be
entitled to for having served the
people of Arizona faithfully and WELL
while you aspired to the national
limelight, backed by money and the
sounding of your horn in your news
paper
And now I have confession to
make.
1t is true that I have entered into
a combine combine which en-
braces the senior United States sem |
ator of Arizona, the junior United
States senator of Arizona and the
congressman from Arizona, and all
other state officials, for the purpose
of cooperating, as elected officials
of the state of Arizona, to represent
the people of the state of Arizona in
the best, most effective and efficient
manner we are able to do, to con-
serve the interest of the people of
Arizona.
When it comes to question of CO.
operating in a constructive manner
with the junior United States senator
in the interest of the public of Ari-
zona, L have co-operated with him as