Arizona republican., 1911-12-18

l fair commissioner. J. J. Birdno Is to be state printer He has probably earned it and there can be no objec-
 tion if he takes the work over to Saf- ford but there is lingering fear that
 an effort will be made on the part of a certain Phoenix newspaper which is masquerading in democratic clothes, | to edge in on a sub-cOntract. The state engineer is to be Lamar Cobb
 who might have been a representative in congress had it not been for the lpreposterOus and reprehensible popu | larity of Carl Hayden.
 A probability for adjutant general is Pierre C. Bayne of Yuma while Dr.
 F.. $. Godfrey, state health officer is
 to be succeeded by Dr. Geo. D. Samp- sen of Winslow. who came all the way from the bleak northern plains to par ticipate in the conference and nail down the job. It is said that A. R. Lynch of Graham county is being touted for speaker of the house. It
 may be going pretty strong to make the announcement so early but the building of a machine is now the chief
 work of the party and the caucus has
 been the genius of the democratic ma chine heretofore. It is expected it will be hereafter. Whether it will be con- tent to build the machine and let the machine run the legislature. or wheth CT it will undertake to run the legis- lature also as it did last session. re- mains to be demonstrated.
 There are many minor offices to be filled such as board memberships and clerkships galore. It is expected Os- car Irwin who was Omnipresent in Ash urst's Maricopa campaign, will be the senator's private secretary and that Paul Kruger will serve Mark Smith in like capacity; not because Paul is
 such a roaring progressive democrat,
 but because he thinks more of Mark
 Smith than the latter does of him and that is saving a whole lot. The con
 Stitution (of AriZOna) is nothing, be tween friends" C. M. Zander is en-
 titled to something even if he is in
 MaricOpa county and it is expected Carl Hayden will pick him for private
 secretary The fact that all the pri- vate secretaries come from this coun-
 ty it is not believed will have any bad effect on legislation in Washington. l. F Wolpe it is understood will be made secretary of the fair commission
 but the names of the commissioners
 were not learned. Much interest sur
 rounds the offices of the live
 stock sanitary board and the state eterinarian but no line was secured yesterday.
 It is possible for the legislature to eliminate some of the many boards by failing to provide for their continuance
 though such a procedure by a demo- cratic administration would be almost unnatural It is rather to be expected that new places will be made for it is going to be mighty hard to placate all the factions of the party with the few scores of appointments available. A quite logical surmise is that the man agers will direct Governor Hunt to inn mediately fire every republican in of flee as soon as he gets in anl fill the places with democrats. Then if the legislature does away with any of the
 boards they will have served the pur-
 pose anyhow of little hand outs to the smaller-fry faithful.
 It is understood that Governor Hunt
 is planning to reach here in a very few days that he may appear to be
 properly on the job and in charge of organization work. But there is really no hurry about his coming. The com mittee and the caucus is overlooking nothing and should Mir. Hunt be un- avoidably detained the preliminaries will all be attended to. Hunt himself is a mere formality. It is important only that he should be here to par ticipate in the inauguration ceremon- fes