El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-24

took a trip into Tombstone, the county
seat Of COchise county, for the purpose
Of replenishing his supplies.
Almost the first man Jack met was
an old friend from the east who had
come to Arizona some years earlier
than himself. Over luncheon at the
hotel" this friend cOnfided to Jack
his trOu bleS. He said he had a mining
claim back in the hills somewhere
that 1t gave promise of coming in
good; that this fact had become known
to some captains of industry whose
business it was to exploit the miners
Jumped" his claim, and that q lawsuit
was the result.
Here's the trouble" Jacks friend
said This case comes up tomorrow.
I know I'm in the right in this matter
these crooks haven't the shadow Of
a right to my claim, but what can a
fellow dO2 I haven't any money 20
hire the kind Of lawyer j ought TO
guess there's going to be a bit Of high
way robbery pulled off tomorrow"
His First Arizona Case.
On the impulse of the moment Jack
offered his legal services and they were
accepted. There was little fun IN
the court room the next day when Viii
liams clad in his flannel shirt and
khaki trousers, took his seat at the
counsel table; but there was nothing
funny about it when Jack launched
into the case.
Jack held his own through the trial
and when he went to the jury with his
argument he captured those y men
and won his case, hands down, and he
has been winning cases ever since. He
opened an office in Tombstone, which
by that time had lost a good deal OF
the unsaVOry reputation Of its earlier
days, and 1t was not long until he was
elected district attorney. His splendid
record in that office, the only one he
/ has ever held, led to his nomination
for congress on the Republican ticket
and so 1t has come about that tha'
first Arizona speech, made by the
miner-laWyer at Tombstone, gave hin
the nomination. And yet they say elo-
quence doesn't pay.
Arizona Is getting rather proud o.
| her refinement She IS proud OF hel
wealth and of her cities and OF every
modern idea that has been introduced
But all the same, when it comes &c
/ politics and public office, the man who
can show pioneer record with the
rough and tumble spirit Of the old days
/ has an immense advantage. And tha
old flannel shirt and those old KHAKI
| trousers that Jack Williams wore into
Tom bstOne on the occasion Of his frs
lawsuit are going to be worth some
hundreds Of votes to him along the
/ second week of the coming month.
Beating the Pioneer Idea.
There is Just one thing that beati
/ this pioneer idea and that IS 'progres
| sivism." In his first pre-primarl
| speech in Phoenix, Carl Hayden, vii
| liams's Democratic opponent, said
There is one thing above all Others
/ that the people of this territory de
mand Of their candidates; and that Is
/ they must be right on the constitu
| ton"
Being right" on the constitution
/ means that one must support 1t now
and must have supported 1t since it
/ inception Especially, he must b.
/ right on the. initiative, the referen
/ DUN, the recall and the direct primary
! And of all these the prime essentia
| is the recaIl-and more especially TIT
| recall Of the judiciary.
Hayden has the advantage in thi
/ matter of "progressivism." for the rea
/ son that his party is, or has been un
l til recently, the more radical party.
/ As a matter Of fact. Williams is jus
as progressive as Hayden; or, to put