Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-21
REGULATIONS
 FOR GOv. SLOAN
 NOW APPARENT
The kibbey-kent Faction Will Strive to Discredit Acts of New Governor as Means of Heading Him Off

PHOENIX. Ar.z.. April 20.-Politics
 Is just beginning to hum in this sun
 sizzled capital Governor Sloan is ex-
 pecfed 10 assume the reins of gov
 ernment on May first, and the office-
 holding family is keenly alive to the
 volcanic conditions of things politi
 cal. Chief Justice Kent, who has been the absolute boss of everything political in Arizona for the past four
 years, has been dethroned and Judge Sloan is the new Moses of the Ari
 zona republicans. Kent brought Kip.
 bey into official life. and was the
 ruling force behind his administra-
 ton, but with the retirement or Roosevelt came the ending of both
 Kibbey and Kent, and once more the G. O. P. is foundering in the atmo
 sphere of uncertainty.
 J. c. Adams. the executive commit teeman of Maricopa county will be the dispenser of public patronage sol far as Phoenix is concerned in the new alignment of affairs. The uplift- ing of Adams means the downfall of the Kent-Kibbey regime. HoTal A. Smith, George U. Young and Adams
 are in accord politically. All three
 are opposed to the Kibbey following
 and the new governor is in harmony
 with the Big Three.
 Governor Sloan is known to be far
 removed from a politician, his official | life having been confined to the
 bench. but now the gentleman Is con fronted with new problems in life. The -Kibbey aggregation will
 not submit to being summarily dis
 posed of, and with the advent of 1 Sloan to power, this band of political patriots will be found in the ranks of | fomentors of administrative discord.
 It is known that Chairman Hitch
 cock promised Judge Sloan the po- sition of federal judge, when Arizona | is admitted to statehood, upon condi- ton that he accept the appointment l Of governor, and nothing is more cer ,Ain than that tne men who cling to
 the outgoing administration will ses | 10 it that when Arizona becomes .
 state. that there will be such an nR position to Governor Sloan in All
 zona that his appointment will b4 an impossibility. This is the plan oi the political insurgents at the pres ent time.
 i Judge Kent is by far the ablest re publican manipulator in Arizona, he
 s a keen, shrewd, far seeing man ano his ambition is to become federal judge when Arizona dons statehood
 garments, and Judge Sloan and bis friends can rest assured that the ad-
 ministrative paths will not be stTewn with flowers by the willy chief justice q we cannot but arrive at the conclu sion that there are republican break CTS ahead for the incoming admin
 strat!on.
 The democrats of the territory wi'l
 do their utmost to make Governor Sloan's administration pleasant His ,I services on the bench have been e& | ceedingly satisfactory to that party
 but the men who have been driven so unceremoniously from power in the territory will never forgive Judge Sloan for the presumption to aspire
 to leadership, and deny it as they
 may, the rocks and shoals to be eD' countered by the new governor will
 be the retired republican bosses of Arizona.
 A very large majority of the peo 1 parties, are demanding a new deal from Governor Sloan. They expect and will demand the retirement oi
 nearly all of the KIbbey appontees. The political ascendency of Governor Sloan was brought about ymen who are opposed to K!bbey, and Kibbey' ism. Every member of the Kibbey' Kent official family was opposed tu the elevation of Judge Sloan and the 2 power behind the Yavapai jurist were | opponents of this ruling power 7 hence the retention of these men iT - public office, after their chieftains 5 have been discredited, would bege l more political deviltry than has beeI witnessed in Arizona for a decade, sC P 1t is apparent to the men who art
 watching events outside of the repub 2 lican breastworks, that harmony. st enthusiastically entered into in Wash {, ington, by the Big Three, will consis 2 Iof a peace offering presented to tn | new political victims by a maske r battery of dethronde republican con ! centrados.
 Governor Kibbey's letter to meC q bers of the republican committee ha v brought out severe criticism frof
 members of his party. The repubi ! can leaders look upon 1t as the las : shriek of a fleeing politician, tryin to cover up a bad retreat. It is wei 2 known that Kibbey disregarded tn ' republican organization and part 'I leaders in his appointments, and of v cial acts, and now when depose from office he sends out this wa ' from the ranks of the deposed an discredited- Its only response is d. = rision and contempt
 "a With Cameron in congress playin ~ This humbuggery and deceit; wit i Kent-Kibbey outside the politics n, breastworks. undermining the stron. 10 holds of the party; with the clamo q ing and rush of hungry aspirants fc v administration crumbs; with the sill {, inexcusable attitude of the Phoeni ,s Gazette, in it's puerile efforts to crav 5s under the Sloan circus tent; with dii I cord in Arizona and incompetency 1 ,e Washington. 1t looks to the plai i, people Of Arizona as though democr. Y. cy's ship of state will be in smoot :, waters, when statehood, home rul {, and the best interests of the ne i. state is made an issue in the can !, Daign for selfgovernment.