The border vidette., 1928-09-29
ARIZONA DEMOCRATS MEET
r. c.. Stanford. Chairman and Cor
Babbtt. Secretary State Com.

sounded the political battle cry
this afternoon in an organization
session rich in oratory praising
the merits of Democratic nomi
nees and sharp in criticism of
Republican candidates.
Governor Geo. w. P. Hunt,
candidate for the seventh time,
opened the flood of speech max
ing by declaring himself en-
Enthusiastically for the Democratic
ticket candidates from president
to constable.
I'm for AL Smith. On one
side of the presidential race you
have a candidate who has de
clared himself as a friend of
California, and on the other a
candidate who is a champion of
state rights. There may be
some things I don't like about
Governor Smith but there are
things | don't like about other
candidates.
I've never pussyfooted in my
life. l don't intend to begin
pussyfooting now. / want you
to know where I stand. I am
absolutely opposed to the greed
and corruption of the present
ADMINISTRATION. They object
(meaning Republicans to Smith
on the grounds that be is a wet.
Well, the Republicans have had
q chance for eight years to Ell
force the prohibition law-and
why in He'll don't they enforce
it?" Arizona's vetern governor
roared.
Let US stand for Arizona,
shoulder to shoulder, for the
Democratic ticket from head to
foot!
Following the governors open
ing remarks, the meeting settled
down to the major business of
electing its officers, as follows:
Judge R. G. Stanford, Phoe
nix, chairman of the state cen
tral committee.
Don G. Babbitt, Mesa, secre
tary for the third term.
DR.. Clarence e. Gunter, of
Globe. Democratic national com
mitteeman, as the next speaker,
declared that Herbert Hoover,
Republican nominee for the
presidency, had been the admin.
istration spokesman on Colorado
river affairs. aud that be had
told members of the Arizona
Colorado river commission that
the Republican administration
was squarely behind the Swing
Johnson bill. Dr.. Gunter de
scribed how Dwight B. Heard,
who was now openly praising
Hoover in his paper, The Ari
zona Republican, bad come from
q conference with Hoover and
said with tears in his eyes that
Arizona need expect no assist
ance in it's fight for river rights
from Hoover.
Hoover was quoted as saying:
I'VE are going to take the Colo.
RADIO river water for LosAngeles. "
Gunter, like the governor. call
ed on Arizona Democrats to vote
the ticket straight.
This is the year for victory
under q militant crusader" w.
L. Barnum, former Democratic
national committeeman declared
in opening a fiery speech in
which he declared that one of
the reasons that Herbert Hoover
was for the Boulder Canyon dam
was that when it was built it
would be renamed, Hoover
Dam" in his honor.
Referring briefly to the charge
that Smith was a wet, Barnum
declared that eight years ago
Democrats voted for James Cox,
wetter wet than Smith ever
thought of being. without a muir
mur, and that Woodrow Wilson,
received by Democrats and Re.
publicans alike, had vetoed the
Eighteenth amendment.
Turn back to Wilson's veto
message, and you'll find that the
dangers be foresaw have work
ed out in the past eight years" "
Barnum declared. In reference
to the administrations river po
licy be characterized Hoover as
the arch enemy Of Arizona.
Carl Hayden, for one of the
few times in his life, addressed
the Democratic organization
meeting not in the role of a can.
/ didate.
Hoover, above all men, has