Arizona republican., 1911-10-31
Animosity Developed Yes terday as a Result of the Fight Waged Over the Tentative Selection of a Chairman.
ANTI-HUNT PEOPLE
 ARE AFTER LANDER
Foes of Hunt Are Boosting John Birdno, of Stafford, and it Seems That he Has a Good Chance to Get the Job.

There was a meeting of the demo- cratic candidates for the state and congressional offices held in the city last night. It was held at the office of George Purdy Bullard. It was at tended by MT, Hunt, candidate for governor; by Mir. Ashurst and Mir. Smith, candidates for the senate; by Mir. Bullard himself; by Mir. Geary, who wants to be a member of the corporation commission; by Carl Hay den, who aspires to a seat ih the lower house of congress, and by sev- eral of the lesser lights.
 All day the candidates were arriv- ing in the city. Mir Hunt was early on the scene and he brought his in terview with him. He gave this inter view to both the democratic papers of Phoenix. It is the only interview Mir Hunt has-the only one he has ever been known to give out, at any rate. In it he declared once more for those immutable principles of human liberty which are embodied in his own proper person, and for the progress iveism" which, according to his view, cnly he and a few other superior nor tals possess.
 Also, Mir Hunt thinks he will make quite a nice governor. And the very first thing he is going to do, after getting properly inaugurated, is to seize his trusty pen and write a message to the legislature advising the resubmission of the recall to the people of Arizona.
 Of course, Mir. Hunt will get some body else to write that message. The writing of messages. or of anything else for that matter, that requires proper spelling and the arrangement of words into sentences. is not Mir. Hunts strong point.
 But anyhow, Mir Hunt said that if ever he gets attached to that room in the north end of the capitol building he's going to write that message and that's all there is to it.
 The principal object of the meeting last night was to plan for the cam paign and to look over the field for some man to act as chairman of the state democratic committee. That matter was discussed pretty generally throughout the day, too.
 And it was right there-just where that discussion began-that the dove of peace spread its wings and flew away. For the last umpsteen weeks the democratic press of Arizona has been preaching about the beautiful harmony that prevails in the party But you couldn't have found any har- mony with a microscope yesterday.
 The Hon. Hunt, candidate as afore- said, was one of the distinguished gentlemen who gave harmony a rap. Hunt wants c. M. Zander of this city to be state chairman. There are va rious and sundry other gentlemen whose names will be on the demo- cratic ticket who can't see it that way And the worst of it is, these gentlemen seem to be in the majority.
 Zander has been a mighty useful man to MT. Hunt. He is the man who conducted the financial part of the Hon. Hunts campaign in this county, and naturally MT. Hunt wants to reward him for his faithful and ef-
  be said that Zander performed sim liar service for the lamented MT O'Neill during the late unpleasantness. But as O'Neill has gone the way or all candidates whose incisors are bet ter than their molars-in other words, who bites off more than they can chew-what he thinks about Zander ic of m moment
 It do seem that one John Birdno Of Stafford has the call for the state cllairmanship. The anti-Hunt faction is boosting him to a finish and It really looks as though the Stafford man will win. But it's going to be something of a fight before it is over and harmony will have several jagged holes punched in it's anatomy before many moons have waXed and waned-
 Not a great deal was accomplished a, the meeting. There was plenty or talk. there always is plenty of talk at a democratic gathering; but there was too much disagreement for the accomplishment of any decided re- suits.