Arizona republican., 1911-10-20
An Unprejudiced View of the Field.

An OnPre Juolceo view Of the fteld.
 There being no contests of great importance among republicans for the nominations for state and federal of fees which are to be made in the primary elections of next Tuesday. most interest naturally attaches to the contests in the democratic party.
 The Republican has many hundreds of democratic subscribers in Arizona. and they no doubt would like to read in this paper a forecast of the primary results. But in fairness to them and to the reputation of The Republican for fair and truthful statements. We have to say that the situation" is so mixed that no news paper. however well informed. is able at this time to say reliably who will be the winners.
 As to the senatorial contestants. Mark Smith is generally conceded r. have the best chance of being in the lead It is impossible to say, however, to what extent this idea is based on mere assumption instead of information. It is assumed, of course. that MT Smith. having been the leader of his party for twenty years, and having throughout that time made a valiant fight for state hood, his party will now be glad to reward him with a nomination for the United States senate. But the fact must not be overlooked that the radical element of the party is not friendly to him; he is regarded as too conservative.
 Of the remaining candidates, if re- quired to make a guess as to their standing when the votes are counted, we should say that it looks like Ives, Ashurst, Ling. O'Neil, and Pickett in the order named. Unprejudiced ob- servers can be found in all parts of the territory who would disagree with this estimate. Some of them, in their reports to us. place Ling in the lead, next to Smith. while others think Ashurst will be next to Smith All agree. however. that Ives, As hurst and Ling are each running strong in certain sections. and either of the three may come out a win ner without creating a great deal of surprise As to Pickett, his candi- Cochise county. where he will get a good vote. The outlook for O'Nein does not appear to be much better It is conceded that he will get a plurality in this county, it being his home county and that he probably will carry Yuma; but that is the limit of his ascendancy, according to all the advices which reach us. In some other sections he will get a good sprinkle of votes, but the O'Nein forecasts are summed up in the statements most frequently made that "O'Neil won't have a look-in." If he should win, his victory would be the surprise of the campaign.
 As to congress. Winsor took a strong lead at the start over Hayden and Cobb. and appears to be leading still. although not so strongly. Both Cobb and Hayden have made sub- stantiaI gains within the past ten days At one time it looked as if Winsor would carry Maricopa county but fuller consideration by the democratic voters has apparently placed Hayden to the front. Home pride" and a desire 10 have a repre- sentative in congress from this val ley have latteriy given strong boost to the Hayden boom.
 The fight for the governorship is a Kilkenny-cat affair. and out of the riot and uproar which goes forth from the Weedin and Hunt camps it  is impossible to say which is the stronger. If Dr. Hughes had come out a month earlier he would have been a formidable candidate, and as it is he will get a good vote. The contest. therefore, appears to be mar rowed to Hunt and Weedin. Re ports from various sections are so conflicting that to pick the winner is merely to guess. Unless all indi- cations go for nothing the winner will have no great lead over the loser.
 For secretary of state. Robinson is making a hard uphill fight against