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v First Arizona State Fair. Phoenix, Oct. 28 to Novl 'I' i JW; A t -iT- ) , . .".-I - " ; b :i ' ' 11 ! - ARIZONA SENTINEL , AND YUMA WEEKLY EXAMINER A Live, Republican Weekly With All the News All The Time. fKOO&SSSIVB REPUBLICAN IN POLICIES. VOL. XLII No. 49. YUMA, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1912 ARIZONA SENTINEL FOUNDED 1S72 Interest in Road Race Overshadows All Other Events J . . . I MA PLATFORM SOLILOQUY;" BY PETER CLARK MACFARLANE MACFARLANE IS SPEAKING TO A CONSTANTLY INCREASING NUM BEit OF READERS HIS PRESENT CONTRIBUTION 18 BORN OF A DEEP FEELING WHICH COMES FROM YEARS OF ASSOCIATION WITH REFORM WORK, AND WITH CLEAR THINKING. Within the past year a new name where there are no tariffs, and with baa been covering the pages of our countries who have builded high tariff tending American magazines that of walls themselves flaunting the flags of Pfter Clark MacFarlane. Mr. Mac- their merchant ships where once the Parian would have been heard of had it not been for the fact thkt until the other day he was devot Jftg all of his time to the ministry, liist year, however, he left the pulpit aid came East from California to take u$ writinjg as a profession a broader fleld of opportunity, he felt. s P-OGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO P O fjA PLATFORM SOLILOQUY" O C? O Ey Peter Clark MacFarlane O $0 OOOOOOOOOOOQOO Thr platforms are the issues in thiB jfempalgn. I thought at first it was the candidates. When President Taft was jiaomiaated at Chicago, I turned to 5VH$oa. He was progressive in many $t hia utterances. He was clean and tin and strong. But the Democratic platform gaye me pause. It takes up &zns against a sea of troubles, but ghostly with ancient weapons. In its ain structure it Is archaic. Its funda feata savor of that day when our big asbuatry was an agricultural Democra &f. when there was no jostling of iomo ef our citizens by others of our jcktiM&a. Then there was room. Men jpaight go where they would and there jiraa so. danger that they would and there wag no' danger that they should jtraad on one another's corns or get in joae another's sunlight This country needed little law then, save the law of the open road. And In its founda iin principles this Democratic plat torso, belongs to that age. Still, as I pendered, it gave signs of life. There were planks that gave evidence of be ing hewn amid twentieth century con ditions for twentieth century strains, but eaca was fatally weakened by be in nailed into this old sub-structure that would never again support the weight which modern Industrial condl .tioM fling upon It. What matters the good roof on the barn if the foundation collapses? So I laid down the Balti more platform with misgivings. Still there was another chance. Mr Wood row Wilson was himself a pro gressive. His speech of acceptance Would rebuild the platform of this par ty, no doubt I put my hope there. But when that speech came it was a disappointment It did not construct the platform. It only painted it. The one place that speech of acceptance slipped any new underpinlng into the platform was in one of those archaic parts where already there was too much, timber. This was the tariff plank. I believe in tariff reduction; but I do not believe in tariff destruc tion, I cannot think that revenue rt. duotiona will cure all our ills. It savors of the window-smashing rem edy no, of quackery! To say that the cutting of the tariff will cure the high coat of living and the trusts, and put eur merchant marine back upon Jthe am. when I can look out upon the 'word-and see the cost of living climb ing everywhere with trusts .growing wakes of our own vessels were shining to say this, it seems to me, is to fly in the face of that sort of sense called common. I begin to see that there is shallow thinking in this painted platform, And I am disappointed, because surface thinking will not meet the crisis which confronts the American voter and the American nation today. Surface-think ing will not penetrate the center of our present day complexities. Ancient charms will not emancipate our work ers from conditions that are unfair and unjust Quack remedies will not cure the new diseases that afflict us, the pellagras and hook-worms that were unknown problems to the political economists of that day which evolved the tariff-for-revenue only. These are searchlight days. We cannot entrust our political fortunes to men who peer about with the lanterns of leaders who were going to their graves when our fathers were being born. And, besides the tariff! That we have permitted ills to flour ish behind it; that we have allowed combihatlons of capital to get the bet ter part of the advantage it secures, it not an argument against the tarifi but against our own folly. It admits the tariff is an advantage. Surely the next move is to see that the right folk get the advantage, not that the advan tage is.' destroyed. To burn the barn to kill the rats were a made enterprise. Rather, I think we should set traps for the rajs reach out bare, determined hands and grip the necks of the com binations that wrong us and right them. 'To administer a hurt of tariff-smashing fashion, is, I fear, to ad minister a greater hurt to ourselves and it is pounding the backs of the common man a very great deal to pound 'the back of the monopolist a very little. It is stabbing through the breast of the worker to prick the profit-taker at his back. To break down the walls to the flood of Euro pean manufacturers might be hard upon some of the monopolists; but it might be harder upon us. I could take no satisfaction in cutting off my nose to trim the beard of a pirate no grim joy in separating thirty per cent of American workmen from wage-payinc jobs to separate a few trusts from il legal dividends. I would be the more concerned to keep the wheels turning and the wage envelopes filling, while direct assault was made upon the un just profit and the unfair division of profits. Curbing the trusts by cutting the tariff might be like one of those hospital reports which records that the operation was successful, but the patient died. But you urge, the tariff is too high! Then reduce it flatly frankly-!-rectly drastically REDUCE IT! But I would not at the same time take the PROTECTIVE PRINCIPLE out of ,the tariff. That principle has built up our manufactures. It has multiplied Jobs and wages for our city-folk which means multiplied markets at the very gates of the farm, and multl- NAMES OF THOSE 10 WILL PARTICIPATE IN n TIE GREAT RACE TO PHOENIX SATURDAY NIGHT t OFFICIAL ENTRY LIST OF SAN DIEGO RACES NOW COMPLETED PHOENIX RACERS ARE AWARDED OFFICIAL NUMBERS MANY OF THE SPEEDERS HAVE BEEN OVER THE ROUTES ON TRIAL SPINS -IIP' -' YUMA OFFERS A SPECIAL PRIZE GREATER SPEED' RECORDS. ARE LOOKED FOR IN THE RACES i '. r THIS YEAR AS SAN DIEGO AND LOS ANGELES ARE FIGHTING TO SHOW MOST FEASIBLE ROUTE (Continued on Page Four) Following Is the official entry list for the San Diego race: No. 15 Mitchell; Snyder and Rich er t, San Diego; R. L. Greer, driver. No. 16 Stutz; Carl E. Washburn, San Diego; Carl E. Washburn, driver. No. 17 Buick; F.' B. Naylor, San Diego; E. M. Campbell, driver. No. 18 Mercedes; Chaffee Grant, San Diego; Charles T. Johnson, driver. No. 19 Pope-Hartford; L W. Grif fith. San Diego; L. W. Griffith, driv er. No. 20 Franklin; Wilson S. Smith, Saa Diego; Frank Carlson, driver. No. 21 Studebaker; Warner M. San Diego; W. H. Carlson "Jr., driv- 1 All?.- er. ' No. 32 Premier; McFadd"& Bux ton, San Diego; Joe Fernando, driver. No. 33 Michigan "40"; R. L. Bag by, San Diego; Charles Goldstrop, driver. No. 34 Buick; McFadden & Buxton, San Diego; C. W. Riggs, driver. No. 35 Kissel Karr Pacific Build ing Co., San Diego; Alfred Chenowith, driver. No. 36 Simplex; Rice-Landswick Co., San, Diego; J. C. Rice, driver. Yuma has taken on the racing fever id all that is heard onthe streets the coming road traces, and Bateman, San Diego; F. C. Good and 'there are two of them, one from San Tim Carrigan, drivers. DieEo with 22 entries and nnp fmm .Los Angeles with a similar number of No, 22 Kissel Karr; Fire Depart ment San Diego; W. H. Smith, driver. No. 23 Columbia; W. H. Smith, San Diego; W. H. Smith, driver. No. 24 Knox; California-Mexico Land and Cattle Company, El Centro; E. A. De Lovelace, driver. No. 25 National; Waters & Benton, entries. Yuma business men are now plan ning decorations for their stores. The Los Angeles racers are coming over the new road by way of Banning, and may be described as pioneer trail blazers. They have the worst road Imperial; J. B.. Houston and Edward and the greatest distance to travel be- Lyons, drivers. ' fore reaching Yuma. No. 26 Stevena-Duryea; Campbell j Because San Diego is nearer to Yu & Harvey, San Diego; D. C. Campbell, ma and the racers will reach here driver. learlv Snndav. Tint lpRti than twn Virvllra No. 37 Pope-Toledo; P. A. Pollock, ahead of the speeders in the other San Diego; E, W. Ballert. driver. race, Yumaites are mostly interested No. 28 Apperson; Ferguson, Raub in the San Diego race. & Co., Phoenix; W. E. Ferguson and Smith, drivers. No. 29 Tincher; O. B. Wetzell, San Diego; H. A. Lees and L. Riley, drivers. No. 30 Knox;. Rice-Landwlck Co., San Diego; driver not named. irig drawn the greatest number of drivers ever entered in one road race in America. A princely sum awaits the winning driver at Phoenix. And best of all the lion's share of the purse is contributed by San Diego, although the enterprising city of Phoenix did its share nobly wh'dh its citizens con tributed $1000 to the pursed ... Purse Is Increased With entrance fees of 8100 from each driver, the cash purse was yes terday increased to ?620. Of this sum ?d720 goes to the winner, $1550 to the driver finishing second, $620 for the third position and $310 as fourth place money. San Diego, by popular subscription and in a few hours rais ed $3,000 for the total purse. Phoe nix they raised one thousand dollars equally as fast Over in Phoenix they have a way of doing things with a whirl The eleven-car race to be started from Los Angeles the same day of the San Diego race and which will also finish at Phoenix, appears as a side show to the San Diego-Phoenix speed contest. San Diego steps to the front with twice as many entrants and also has the lead over the northern race from the financial end, the San Diego even being $1000 richer in cash alone Bad Reports from Other Routes The Los Angeles race now appears to truthful reports brought back by THE HOLTVILLE HIGHWAY LOO GOOD TO I. DAVID WILLIA Dave Williams, is just back from ( will put signs eastward from that. Yuma, says the Valley Press, having town to meet the Yuma signs, made the trip over the Holtville road I In commenting on the road, Dave . . . , ,r I Williams calls attention to the fact and back by way of the Mammoth ... . - . that the opening of the Holtville road Wash road, and he says the Holtville nas cut stance' by. 59 miles, the route is three or four hours shorter distances being as follows: than the 6ther and predicts a great I Los Angeles to Yuma, via Salton winning for San Diego, In its contest Sea and Mammoth Wash', 3G0 miles. with Los Angeles, if the Los Angeles people do not amend their plans to go by way of Holtville. Los Angeles to Yu via San Di ego and Mammoth Wash; 366 miles. , Los Angeles to. Yuma, vja San Di- While in Yuma arrangements were1 ego and Holtville, 307 miles. made with H. T. Riley, a livery man, San Diego to Yuma, via' Mammoth to post signs for 100 miles east of Wash, 240 miles. ' V Yuma on the Phoenix road, and 25 San" Diego to Yuma," via Holtville, miles west from that town. Holtville 181 miles. A wire today from San Diego today to be a race in name only according says that San Diego takes first rank drivers who have recently made trial with any city In the country In regard runs over the course that the race to fostering automobile road racing, will follow. These drivers say that for with twenty-two entries in the San the mountains of sand that will be Diego-to-Phoenlx 400-mile race of next encountered on the Los Angeles race Saturday night this speed contest un- course, make it practically certain that No. 31 Winton Six; W. L. Lowe, doubtedly has the distinction of hav- (Continued on Page Four) LEADER REMINDS WOMEN OF STATE AS TO THE AMENDMENT TO BE VOTE The Examiner has received from Mrs. May Belle Blakely, special cor respondent at Phoenix, and signed by the Chairman of the Arizona Equal Suffrage Central Committee, the following: "The ' present campaign for Equal Suffrage has been comparatively short, less than four months having elapsed since the filing of the initiative peti tion on July 5. Thus it has happened that the women of the state, as a whole have not been called upon to render active service in the cause. "We know, of course, that men and women - throughout the state feel a deep interest in this campaign and the success, of the Amendment on Nov ember 5. But now, with election less than two weeks in the future, we feel that the question of Equal Suffrage de mands something, more than a general interest The vital need of the hour and of every hour from now untllithe closing, of the polls on the fifth of November is earnest, consistent in dividual effort on the part of every friend of the amendment. "The men of the state, in general, are looking with more favor upon this proposition of votes for women, than ever before. Therefore, it is not only fitting, but Imperative that the women manifest the greaest active Interest possible, in order that the men may possible. Hence this appeal to the women, individually and collectively, to work untiringly for the amendment during the remaining days of the cam paign. "Those desiring literature for disv tribution, should apply to Mrs. Alice Park, Hotel Adams, Phoenix. "Next in importance to securing DOM COOKS TO E DOUGLAS, Oct. 22. work and no more. No bread making. -Nine hours of WEDDING BELLS L Genial Tom Nolan of the Stag is no longer a member of the "heart breakers," having severed his connec- These are the latest rules of the tion yesterday when his intended ar negro cooks of Douglas, formulated rived from Kansas City, and the deed during the week just ended at a meet- was aone. ing of the negro social club. As a re- The bride, who was Miss Margaret suit of the announcement of the ruling Cook, arrived on No. 3, and the happy ' there are a number of vacancies in pair Immediately tied Into Judge'" ,the domestic service of the homes. Jones and they will ever after live Tne state law, covering work for tne nappny in xuma. women and children, strictly precludes ! Tom has been threatening to do domestic service from the occupations something like this for some time, in which the law applies. Probably and so his friends were prepared;" the legislators were afraid to face The things that have been happening ' their wives and for this reason ex- to Tom all day will soon be history. cepted the domestics from the classes The Examiner joins with their many in which a woman can work no more friends in wishing them much happi- than eigh hours. ness. FARMERS E NTS SEEK TO HAVE STAT INSPECTOR OF HAY SHIPME PHOENIX, Oct. 22. Action was to pay for it. The hay then goes to taken Saturday at the meeting of the the auction market and is bid in by farmers' institute providing for a vig- men working in conjunction with the orous stand for the appointment of a dealer whose refusal to accept the said state hay inspector, whose duties will shipment caused its presence on the include certification of all shipments block. and are expected to do away with cer-1 ..j am personaiiy acquainted with in tain abuses of local shippers by outside stances 0f a buyer ,who sells at no ad- dealers. Ivanro nnH rfpnATifla nn nrnnlrnr? monin. Graded hay can be sold by certifi- uiation of hay shipments for all his cate, and there will be "refusals" byprofits said William S. Humbert, the buyers, who are operating on the newiv elected secretary of the institute shady side of honesty. An immense . and moving spirit in the organization amount of trouble has occurred on I and operation of that body. "Such abuses will be prevented by the ap pointment of a hay inspector.' They hay can be sold under certificate, and know that we want the ballot. We know many men who sav that thev ! tnI work to a successful termination. account of the dealings of southern buyers in particular. A shipment is made from the Salt River valley; the commission man on if a buyer refuses to reimburse the the other end of the line gets the shipper he can be made to. reimburse car a thousand miles away from its the snipper Dy court action. The cer owner, then declares it is not up to tificate of the inspector will held in votes for the amendment, is the matter the qualities demanded and declines ; any court oi iunds, which are needed to carry would willingly vote for the amend ment if only the women of their house holds and their women friends would ask them to. Obviously then, the thing to do is to ask. Those actively in charge of the. good work at headquarters in Phoenix, have done everything possible to cover the field in a general way, by sending as many speakers as have been available to the places which seemed to have the greatest need for them. We had hop ed to reach every town in the state, but lack of speakers has- made this im- T I It should be a matter of pride to the people of Arizona to meet the expenses of this campaign without outside help. And so we are giving them the oppor tunity to do so by asking every one to respond as generously as possible to this call for financial aid. "Again we urge every friend of Equal suffrage to work diligently and , following bulIetin was issued at noou earnestly for the next two weeks, to hy Colonel Roosevelt's physicians: the end that we may roll up the very ''Colonel Roosevelt is resting well, largest majority in the history of and is very comfortable, votes for women. "ALEXANDER LAMBERT, "MRS. FRANCES W. MUNDS." "SCURRY L. TERRELL." HOMESTEADERS PROVE UP Charles A. Garvin and Earl T Smith proved up on their homesteads yester day, and today Benjamin L. Hansber ger and Albert Pike are doing the same thing, before the local land of- ON BOARD ROOSEVELT CAR, AT flee. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 21. The MRS. BAKER RETURNS Mrs. C. D. Baker is home from a visit to relatives in Los Angeles. On her return she was accompanied by her brother, Mr. Desmond, a Los n geles merchant, who made Yuma a business call.