Weekly journal-miner., 1910-08-03

elected Chairman of the Arizona Re publican Central Committee, to bear the brunt of the conflicts in the forthcoming campaigns involving the several battles incident to statehood, was received in this, his home city, with about the same surprise that one experiences when he finds a four leaf clover in a clover field. Douglas felt that that the right man mad been chosen, and out of the right pasture The Douglas Republican club was the first coherent political fraternity to put its ear to the ground and predict statehood at the session of Congress just ended, and its president, w. P. MeNair, it will be remembered, after returning from Washington, gave out the first proph- eey outlining just what was to hap pen to the statenood bill. The club from the first has been a "live wire'' It has kept its fire burning under the political pot. It takes a spark to ignite a live wire, and Douglasites believe the party has chosen, in "Judge" Sames, that vital spark.
 He might almost be classified as a @'Native Son." as he overtops a trifle the right to be known as a pioneer, as pioneers are labeled and posted in Arizona. Illinois saw him first His father was a real pioneer in the Lincoln state. He manufaet ured farming implements Albert first
 first heard the rattle of the mower at Rockford, February 9th 1873. He is thus old enough, to be president of the United States, and ought to be wise enough to fill. the boots slipped of by Hoval A. Smith, his forerun- ner in ways Republican and progress sive, even to the victory of state hood. After his school days in Rock ford, Albert entered the University of Wisconsin, whence he emerged with the degree of Bachelor of Law, in the class of 1894: The same year he was admitted to practice before the bar in the University City, Madi- son. He later took post graduate course in Columbian University, now the George Washington University of Washington, and here added to his sheepskins the degree of L. L. M. | The Middle West was then calling for eultivators and reapers, not for | legal advice; .erop reports were at traeting more attention than erania crammed with Blackstone. So young Sames, Esq, went into the Valley of the Mississippi, employing the elo- ~quence he had stored up for the jury both in convincing the Nebraska and Kansas farmer that. his father made better farm implements than anybody else in the country. After a year among the wheat fields and in the a corn belt, he moved to Los Angeles, where he spent two years with prom inent attorneys. Finally, assoeiating himself with Edwards and McFar- land, he took up a portion of that law firms legal work in eastern Ari- zcna. This was in 1900, and he has not left the territory since that time. His field of labors for two years was in Graham county. He came into , Douglas in December, 1902, and for three years was identified with the International Land and Improvement company, one of the builders of the Shelter City. In 1904 he was a can didate from Douglas for the legis- lature, and was defeated by ex-Con- gressman Neville of Nebraska, who had moved into Arizona.
 In the year following Judge Sames became a member of the law firm of Flanigan, Feltus, Sames and Flanigan, who had offices in Bisbee, Tombstone and Douglas. About this time he was appointed Deputy District At torney. Douglas was raised to the dignity of an incorporated city about this time, and he was the first City Clerk and Treasurer, holding his appointment till the first election. held a year later.
 In 1906 he opened his present law offices in Douglas, associating with Judge George W. Cass, under the partnership name of Cass & Sames, and these offices on the corner of G avenue and Eleventh street have been busy spots ever since. Judge Sames was appointed United States Commissioner by District Judge Doan, and through this channel he has made wide acquaintance among the home steaders in the Sulphur Springs val ley, in the transaction of Govern ment land entries. Among the i'm