Bisbee daily review., 1904-10-14
THEslspEPENDENT CANDIDATE.

present campaign, has made appear ance, and especially does the office of Justice of the Peace seem attract i've. Two independent candidates are in the field in the persons of Wm.I Evans and Nj. J. Brown, the former al Republican and the latter a Democrat. until a few days ago.
 That these men have 8 perfect right, from a legal standpoint, :o make the race. no one will question. MT. Evans has never held public office of any description i1 this coaaty ard is entitled to go before the pubG: as nominee of his friends, but having sought the nomination of his own party, he appears in the role of one who seeks to defeat the best judg- ment of that party as represented through it's accredited delegates.
 In the case of M. J. Brown, it is to be presumed from his actions hat he has held public ofice just eng enough to become chronic. During all the years that NJ. J. Brown has held public office in this couayy he has done so as the regular Demo 2rAt- ic candidate, whether it was fer al county or precinct position. When .he' time came for the choosing of Demo cratic candidates for county am local offices, the Democrats did not glve MT Brown the nomination. Instead the Democratic delegates of Bisbee nom mated two men who are in every way the equal in intelligence and othe: qualifications of the learned Justice who has presided on Main street fer the past three years.
 There is some cause for an 'ildeDen- dent candidate in a community ween a party convention fails to do its duty for the best interests of the oommun- ity. Such candidates a-e usually named in an efsort to avoid calamity being inflicted upon community, but no such sentiment exis-a1 in Bisbee after the late Democrtic convention. There was no popular up,;s:ns ot the people of this precinct in a demand TOT the independent candidate The Democrats had nominated two we'll known citizens of Bisbee. One of them has held the office for one term and there is yet to be said one word against his official and private record. Mir owen Murphy, the other csndi- date, has demonstrated himself to De man of sterling character, educai- ed, and already well yerseI in the statutes of Arizona, and above all possessed of that fine sense of right and wrong, which had endeared him to every person with wnCm he has been thrown in contact.
 The candidates for Justice of the Peace in Bisbee are men who will command the support of every Demo crat and a large number of the in dependent voters.
 The Democratic convention did its whole duty to the community when 1t nominated c. A. Mcdonald and owen Murphy.
 The independent candidate, particu- larly in the case of N. J. Brown, has been launched solely for the effort of securing office and if not that, in the still further attempt to defeat the reg ular Democratic candidates, and the Review is inclined to the belief that the latter is the purpose.
 Mir. Brown has associated himself with the regular Democratic ticket in Bisbee just so long as that ticket bore his name When the time came that he was no longer named on the ticket he had no further use for the Demo cratic ticket or the Democratic nomi- nees and We find him now in the role iof the independent solely for the money that is in the office. MT. Brown is not in stringent financial circumstances. On the contrary he is long on some of the best mining stocks in the district. and the only plea upon which the present incum- bent asks for reelection on the inde- pendent ticket is that he wants :he office.
 M. J. Brown has made good Jus tlce of the Peace in Bisbee. but there are men on the regular Democratic ticket, occupying the same place he did two years ago, that are in every way his equal
 The independent candidate in oppo- sition to the regular Democratic tick ct will receive small comfort at the approaching election.