Arizona republican., 1911-09-17
Dooley on the Governorship

Ia cigar and COln1OTidDly SHSSoilItu himself in a cushioned chair in his friends barroom; an I've come to lthe conclusion that great an llaShtin injustice has been did to the lgr-r-and an imperyal commonwealth lav ArizOny The payple av that lsphlendid an inlightened community lshud have been admitted to the priv iilidges an immunities av sthatehood Ian the delights aV office holdin at Haste fifty years ago, If We are To Judge from the poppylashun av the ltirritory Fer l figger from the lists
 av candydates. whose names have been lbuzzin' over the wires fer the past lmonth that Arizony has at taste a million payple within her confines: ian it's a shame an a reproach to lthe American nation that a million lpayple shud have been bound wid the Ichains av serfdom all these years. Its an outrage on the splindid an vig'rous manhood av the untamed an unbrid- led West, Dooley, nayther more nor less"
 Tn a sinse ye are right. Hinnissy,"
 said Dooley, thoughtfully. In sinse
 ye are right: but after all I'm afraid
 yeZ don't have quite the right per IpictiVe Ye must git yer perspective lir juxtaposition wid the true order
 av evints, Hinnissy, before yez can Isafely put amy bets on a proposi- lticn like the wan yeZ have jist enun- iciated. That's logic. Hinnissy; but Iyez are not supposed to elucidate Ilcgic. since yez got the most av yer Iiddication at the mathis av the Thir-
 ty-sivinth ward dimmycratic club. But
 what l mane, in plain United Sthates
 Hnnissy is we've slipped yez trolley Your proportions is mixed. Fer where as nanny sthates an communities IyeZ can count on the number of pol | Ilyticians bein' ekal to a fair percent Iage av the whole number av voters, | it's different in AriZony. There, livery voter, bond or free, big or little. old or young, widout regard to race. color, or previous condition av servitude, lconsiders it his inalienable right tc
 run fer amy office rum constable
 to prisidint In other wurruds. Him. lissy. they're all out fer the jobs
 now an foriver, wan an inseparable, wurruld widout ind, amen.
 Take for instance the office av governor. At the last count three
 hundred an siventy-six home lovin pathriots av the cactus s-sthudded
 sthate av Arizony had ixprissed their willingness to abjoor the delights av their alfalfy fields an bungalows to lTear the gubernatorial crown. It lis not. Hinnissy. that these self sacrificin cittyzens wud rather sit or upholstered furnichoOr than dig praties an milk the lowin' kline. Fur
 be it from wan av thim to daysire
 the office fer the offices sake. But
 there is not progressive pathriot ir all Arizona what is goin' to see his beloved sthate bound in the
 chains av corporate greed an handed over to the speshul interests wid him sthandin' idly by. whin merely by cabbagin' an office or two, he can pravint this great outrage on
 our sacred American liberties.
 Now. there's Kurnel George Wash
 ington Peter Hunt, who, as ivvery wan knows, has been candydate fer governor ivver since the day follOwin
 the discovery av AriZony by the Span iards under Christopher Columbus
 kurnel George Washington Peter don
 raly want to be governor. Let no man git it into his cocynut.' sez he in that chaste English what is both the pride an the despair av scholars iyVerywhere-'let no misguided geezer think for wan holy minnit that il is personal ambition what is pushin' me on toward the leather-cOvered chair in the governors office an the four thousand plunks what ripresints the compensashun fer gubernatorial labor. So fur rum wantin' to be governor av the glorious sthate what is honored by haVin' me live within its borders. if l wuZ to consult my preferences sez George Washington Peter. I shud kape right on bein' Irisidint av me bank an sellin' cally co in me department sthOre. But fur be il rum me-, sez George Wash
 ingtOn Peter, in a fine burst av illO- quence what makes Demosthenes lux like a school boy on a Friday after noon fur be it frum me to turn a deaf ear an an unseein' eye to the frenzied call av me sufferin' felly counthrymen.'
 II IS fer that rdNSOn, me trlndS an naybors, sez George Washington Peter that I have dacided to abjoor the delights av clippin coupons an sellin crackers an carpet tacks, to come before you as the wan person who av right ought to be made the first governor av this suvverin sthate'
 An, don't fergit, Hinnissy, that George Washington Peter is the bye what'll git the votes. He knows how tO git thim, does George Washington Peter. An the rayson why he will git thim. Hinnissy, is because he has a platform so broad that there is room on it for ivvery man, woman, child. an pollytician in Arizony.
 Lux at me- sez George Washing ton Peter, while a pathriotic tear steals rum his pathrlotic eye an moseys clear down to the tip av his pathriotic nose lux at me an be- hold the man what has stood betwane the people aV this tirritory an the open jaws av the speshul interests. Lux at me an behold the man what has restored to yeZ the institootions av the fa-a-thers, an then tell me where veg wud be if it had not been fer yours trooly? YeZ wanted the initiative the riffVrjndun, an the ray