Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-23
POLITICIANS
 ARE ANXIOUS
 AND VERY BUSY
Many "Line Ups' in Phoenix Are Striving to Float On the High Name of Administra- ton
lsrecial Correspondeneel

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 Polities-that never-ending. all- absorbing question. always upper most in the minds of the many Phoe- nix office holders-is holding the boards for the present. Those who are ''in' and the many who are look Ing over the political breastworks with a longing. searching eye. hoping ;nd waiting. are on the qui yive For the aFrfval of Judge Sloan The out" are hoping that he will make wholesale, wholesome cleaning out of the entire Kibbey official family. while the would-be incoming family (and it is a large one) are on the anxious waiting list.
 The politicians now holding office under kibbey are not idle. They fully realize the gravity of the po- litical situation and are excavating their cyclone cellars preparatory for the approaching political storm. While they will tamely submit to the sealp.ng process to ba inaugurated by Governor Sloan, yet they are stor- ing up ammunition for the coming struggle for supremacy. which is in evitable. The Kent-Kibbey crganiza- 
 of numbers or ability. are sharpening their blades and biding their time.
 Judge Kent, the big chief of the "coneentrados." while smiling like a fond mother at a baby show upon Arizona's new governor, is quietly excavating the foundation under the Arizona executive mansion and when the crucial time arrives. Samson-liFe, the pillars will come tumbling down around the unsuspecting head of Gov ernor Sloan.
 The great bone of contention in Arizona among Republican lawyers is the federal judgeship, in the event of statehood It is the one thing every ambitious lawyer desires, and they do not propose that Judge Sloan shall don this life. judicial ermine without a struggle. The man who does pro pose to contest for this luscious of ficial plum is Edward Kent, Arizona's chief justice, and to this end Kibbey and his followers will labor
 There are various political combi- nations now being incubated in Phoe- nix. The Big Three" Hcval Smith, George Young and J. C. Adams. are at present evidently masters of the Republican political situation. This combination is working for the. bet terment of the Republican party and to make Governor Sloan's administra- ton 8 political success. Next comes the Gazette crowd-C. H. Akers. Fred TritIe ct al, coupled with al the strength this crowd can draw from the Phoenix Commercial club, of which Akers s president These in surgents were unslterabiy Kibbey supporters till that gentleman lost out in his efforts for reappointment but are now loitering around the Sloan band wagon waiting and pray ing for an invitation to take a seat in that gilded vehicle. while "D1c' Vickers. the heed of the Arizona Re. publican and the spokesman for Frank Murphy. is busily engaged In trying to separate the Akers disc'pss from any possible participation n the division of the territorial Offici2l pie. The Republican and Frank Mur phv don't care Q continental whethei Judge Sloan makes good or not, so long as he will permit the sage of the Santa Fe railroad to make bis ap pointments aud dictate g policy that will further the ambition of MT. Mur phy to secure a seat in the senate of the United States from the state of Arizona. Last but not least outside of the, Murphy-Sloan breast works, like the weevil in the oak boring necessarily toward it's center sapping it's life and vitality. VII bf found Chief Justice Kent. aided anf abetted by Eikbey and his fol cwers working to undermine and destroy th' new executive. so that when state hood comes President Taft cannot keep his word with Judge Sloan ant the Arizona Republican committe' and place Judge Sloan on the fed eraI bench. The purpose of these "concentradcs~ is to make Governor Sloan's administration unpopular and 5istasteful to the people, and therebl raise such an organized opposition to his appointment that the natfona administration cannot afford to make Arizona's governor federal judge
 Looking impartially along the DO litical horizon from Arizona's capita cftv. where every rebellious move ment has it's origin, this is what W. see:
 In the new adjustment of things DO IiticaI the Gazette and Akers art without a party. The hepuphcah' scenting Murphy's ascendency in tnf facoming administration. is pruning Is feathers and smoothing the path way to make such policy possible Rhile Adams. the sleepless, treless John C. Adams. who has more in seuufty, greater resourese, who VIII spend more money and labor more asssduously than all the rest com bineds to accomplish his political ends is 2 looker-on iD Venice.
 The Gazette in its blundering. an atearish way. thinks 1t has put Adams to sleep. when as a matter oi fact Adams will be bossing the An zona Republicans, telling the patry what to do and how to do .t long af ter the Gazette-Akers combination bas been laid away in the has been corner.
 Now in this political miz-up, when the old Roman law Of "the survival oi the fttest" will undoubtedly prevail it is asked how and where is Gov erno Srson to emerge@
 Is he to pass unscathed throuE1 the gauntlet of the Kibbey-Kent bush- whsckers. to be scalped in tho house of his so-ealied friends-the Mur- phvs2 Is he to seek shelter under the inviting. far-spfeading wings or the territorial Republican comm.ttee and thus sink individuality in the appointing machine thereby hcDng fo escape the breakers and shoals tha- ....-.fto-,-od q, -r- fneaffafi ra4W a ]