Evening star., 1931-12-06
Continued From First rase.y

: to srnske money He got into political
: life almost by accident At the local
Republican convention something irri-
I tsted him. He rose and made a speech
Sc full of common sense infused with
! fire that the boys insisted on nominating
hirn-and electing him to the Terri
Z torial Legislature. He served out his
! term and retired with the feeling that
he was done with politics
: + But after his expanding business led
/. him 10 Phoenix, the capital he grew
!. Interested in taxation. This introduces
paradox Here is Tom Campbell. s
I feet in height, with shoulders like a
I foot ball guard; keen, gray, out-of-doo
eyes and aggressive aquiltne nose; the
: lit Of the born -snd-bred cattlemsn still
! II his walk His conversation has all
3 the old tang Of the West IT is not
only wisely humorous, It is also witty
: Like q good f1ctiOnist he sees life in the
: form of stories
Z i Yet behind that lies the substratum
! OF cold, hard talent for facts which has
made him an expert and a connoisseur
! Of both taxes and tariffs And again
/ irnpstience led him 10 expl0de in a Re
publican convention. His party in
9 Maricopa County, where Phoenix is
situated, was still going on the mo-
rnentum Of the Civil War-waving the
. bloody shirt, decorating the graves Of
: Gettysburg, pointing with pride TO Lin
, coin. At the county convention Camp
, bell rose and expressed all this
sW Sponsors Tax Reforms.
Z 4 Forget the past" he said. "Unsound
laws and methods of taxation-that's
the trouble with this country. l have
Q platform for you-the shortest ever
! written for party. Just this: Equal
taxation; honesty and efficiency in pub
lie office
I The program carried and the Repub-
; hcanS won. You've drawn; now you've
got TO shoot" said the boys, and they
assessor BY the time Of the next State
election he had done 50 much TO reform
taxation in Arizona that he had, willy
nilly, to run for State tax commissioner.
He won-the only Republican in a
Democratic administration.
\ One morning he awoke tax commits
sioner. with no thought except to finish
out his term and get back to mining
and the ranch. Before his breakfast
had digested he was candidate for
Governor
4. State business had taken him to Bis
bee. The hotel where he stayed served
no meals. But a friend of his ran
restaurant round the corner. He strolled
over to breakfast and, as chance would
have it, entered by the back way AS
he left by the front door. a total
stranger asked him brusquely and pro-
fanely what he meant by eating in a
scab Joint The cooks and walters of
the outlaw" I. w w. unions we're at
this moment on strike all over the
West, and this restaurant was being
picketed.
.G Clashes with 1. W. w.
Tom Campbell alleged in rebuttal
that he'd eat where he well pleased.
History does not record who struck the
first blow. But minutes later Tom
Campbell, his face and attire slightly
damaged, walked away nursing his
knuckles. The pickets we're receiving
first aid. Before he got to the hotel
he had reached a determination. The
J. w. w of Arizona, he felt, was grow
ing into q menace. He believed that
Gov. Hunts policies were encouraging
them. Therefore. he was going to run
for Governor on an ariti-I. w. w. plat
form.
Heaven knows that any political
campaign In ARIZONA has more than
enough vigor, pep and recrimination.
Add the I. w. w. and you have three
months of continuous fireworks. When
the last bomb exploded Campbell
seemed to be elected Governor over
Hunt by margin of only 80 votes.
Hunt prepared to fight. He filed a
contest In every county and announced
he would hold the fort. Also a Hunt
follower applied for an injunction on
the ground that Campbell had not yet
resigned as State tag commissioner. On
Inauguration day Hunt gathered round
himself such functio1arfes as the State
live stock inspectors, who know how to
shoot, and a company Of State Militia
and announced that he would stay
where he was.
Up to the doors of the Capitol
marched Campbell and band of fol-
lowers. Campbell was unarmed, but
the rest of them had forgotten to
check their guns at the hotel. The
sheriff, Campbell follower, let them
in. They proceeded to a balcony from
which Campbell read his inaugural ad-
dress to 1000 people in whom curl
osity had overcome apprehension. Then,
through a surcharged atmosphere,
Campbell and henchmen marched into
the Governors suite, registered a for
NAL demand for the Office and marched
away with hundreds of hostile guns at
their backs. One loose trigger, even
one loose tongue, would have unloosed
slaughter. . Perhaps the outcome is
a tribute to the coolneSs of both Hunt
and Campbell.
Campbell Keeps Office.
This YVES late in 1916, when events
were hurrying Ills to war. In January,
1917, the courts denied the Injunction
and decided that Campbell should hold
the office pending a court decision on
the recount This time he went in
peaceably. In the Spring county de-
cision pronounced him victor by SO
votes. Hunt appealed TO the State Su-
preme Court, which began the tedious
process of hearing arguments on every
batch Of ballots. In December, 1917. it
reversed the decision and declared Hunt
elected by 43 votes. Campbell handed
over the ofice as q Christmas present.
This brief term is mainly remem-
bered for the l. w. w. deportations from
Bisoee-an act Of eXtra-legal force
for which Campbell was not respon-
sible. But his own most vivid memory
of that first term centers round an
other episode-only little less vital in
State history-the Daley affair.
Jim Daley was q habitual criminal
but lately released from the New Mexico