Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-17
A DREAM
OF CHILDHOOD.


 OF CHILDHOOD.
 The Hon. Henry Fluent Ashurst, th' tall Pine of Coconino, is roaring along the way. Through his facial oriice the winds roam as sonorously and al idly as the winds through the branch es of the other pines of Coeonino.
 Mr. Ashurst is chasing a United States senatorship. now that the con gress with the approval of reluctant president, has declared an open season for senatorships in Arizona. No re strictions are laid upon the hunters No licenses are required. Any body can. hunt, and that, we suppose, is why the Hon. Henry Ashurst is in the field. It's great sport-to those who watch the chase.
 There are many reasons why MT Ashurst believes he should be United States senator, but the one that seems to us the most impressive. and the most convincing is that a prophecy may be fulfilled.
 Many years ago, so MT. Ashurst tells us, though he is not yet many years old, when he was a small boy at school, in what may have then seemed an empty moment, though now it appears to Mir Ashurst to have been a most pregnant one, he wrote in the fly leaf of his blue backed spelling book" this lengend: Henry F. Ashurst, United States Senator"
 Are the voters of this new state go ing to let that prophecy go multiplied to the Encouragement, thereby. of al future adolescent prophets? To the repression of the Iaudsble ambition Of all American boys to elect them selves United States senators on tho fly leaves of blue backed speliins books?''~ Are the advisory votes of the youth of this land to be so disre garded? If so, Arizona has progressed in vain, and government of the boyi by the boys and for the boys has per ished from the earth.
 skeptics may raise the point that the story of the prophecy is in part at least, fictitious, and they may urg, that ''blue backed spelling books have not been used in this countr, within, at least, the last fifty years The skeptcs may demand that tn, speller and it's legend be produced They may say that that is easy Surely the possessor of such creden thls for a United States senatorshil would not mislay them. But the sim pie word Of Mir. Ashurst should suffice Besides, what is the insignificance o color in comparison with the bignes Of the prophecy.
 There are lions in the path of Hon Henry Fluent, he thinks. They ar waiting to deyour him and they ar reckIessly regardless of the expense He has been informed that S25, ,00 is the sum set apart and appropriate' for the throtIing of the ambitions o him and Hon. George w. P. Hunt How the unholy fund is to be dividet and what sum IS to be applied to tn extinction Of them respectively, Mi Ashurst does not state.
 Even those who might be induces to accept the 'blne back speIlini book" prophecy baIk at this. Whil the former story is possible. the lat ter is unreasonable. It gives a sus pieion that MT Ashursts appraisal O himself is too high. In these uncer tain times s25.O0O is a large sum O money. IL is argued. that Mr. Ashurs is not worth it or any considerabl part of it, either as a harmless privat citizen or as an equally harmless an' futile United States senator.
 IL is further urged that this ir tended financial assassination is whol ly imaginary; that MT. Ashurst's ser sational disclosure serves only to re