Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-12
CLARK'S STANDS UPON ISSUES OF
TODAY IN ARIZONA SHOW He. HAS
CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THEM

force the laws for the protection or
all depositors.
Farm problems: The present adj
ministration has done nothing toward
the relief of farmers; on the con-
trary, has Increased their taxes with
out giving any benefits in return
He urges better protective 1aws ana
wider recognition of farmers on the
more important agricultural boards
and commissions.
Labor: Labor has peen promised
much and given little by the present
administration, Clark declares, and
points to the lack of a true repre-
sentative of labor being placed on
the important industrial commission,
a board created almost wholly in be-
half of labor. He reiterates his be-
lief in the principles of unionism
and the right of collective bargain
ing and says If elected governor
labor will have representation on the
Industrial commission.
Ex-service men: "What have the
ex-service men ever gotten from the
present administration? he asks. I'm
der the present regime their serxices
to state and country have been for
gotten, he alleges, and promises that
if elected governor, everything else
being equal, eX-service men will be
given preference in state employment.
Colorado River Issues
Dwelling at some length on the
Colorado river issue, Judge Clark
charges that apparently the head OF
the present state administration never
knew there was a Colorado river
prior to 1929 since in his message
to the legislature of that year is
found his first reference to the river
in any way, shape or form.
He points out that the present
governor was president of the con-
stitutional convention and accepted
without a word of protest an en-
aBling act that gave to the federal
government full title to every actual
and prospective water power and
dam site on the Colorado river and
other streams of the state, thus talk
ing from Arizona at one swoop all
of her natural heritage in her rivers
and streams.
Clark declares that California, while
greedy is so desperately in need OF
water and power that she would
probably be glad to recognize ali OF
Ar1zona's rights for the sake of get
ting action in Colorado river de-
velopment, but that the present ad-
m1nistration has successfully pre-
vented to date every attempt made
TO negotiate with California and
Nevada, while the river continues to
flow idly to the sea, doing nobody
any good except the millionaire land
owners of Mexico.
He pleads that # elected governor
he will make every attempt to secure
an agreement with California ana
Nevada, allotting not to exceed 3OO,-
600 acre feet of water to Nevada and
dividing the remainder between Cali
forn1a and Arizona on a basis fullv
protecting Arizona's legal rights both
as TO water and power Du. rnat
failing such agreement he will use
every resource of law and the state
TO protect those nights to the court
CT final resort. Concerning the To-
cation of the first dam on the river,
he says that unless it is for power
alone, it should be located sufficient
ly nigh up the river to irrigate every
acre of land, by gravity, feasible trI
irrigation in Arizona; that it should
provide maximum storage and power
1acllltles, complete flood control and
proper plans for desiItation.