Mohave County miner., 1911-09-30
POLITICAL.

the most available candidate of the republican party for governor of Ari. zona, although the southern republi. cans are pressing Judge J. H. Kibbey for the place.
 We have heard DO mention of candi- dates for the supreme bench of the new state, with the exception of Henry Ross, of Yavapai, although the position is one to which any able law yer should aspire.
 Ralph Cameron and Hoval Smith are making a campaign iu the interest of their candidacy for the U. S. senate on the republican ticket. Ralph Cameron is one of the best campaign CTS in the territory and will undoubt- edly get the republican endorsement for the place.
 The Arizona constitution provides that candidates for the office of Su- preme or Superior Judges shall have no political designation on the official ballot to be voted for at the general election, but that they shall appear in alphabetical order. This !s the method of taking the judiciary out of politics, although, the judges are named by the political parties at the primaries.
 The democrats have an unlimited supply of senatorial candidates in the field, but it is probable that the real fight will be between Mark Smith, Reese Ling, Eugene Ives and Henry Ashurst. Ashurt appears to be strong in the south, where it is said Ives is correspondingly weak. Ling IS strong in the north and has quite following in the south. Smith is almost sure to knock the persimmon for an endorse ment by the people.
 The legislature to be elected at the coming election should be composed of business men that have the future welfare of the entire territory at heart. The legislative session should be entirely given over to matters of l public interest, such as internal im- proyements and laws that will re. dound to the credit of the law makers. | Laws for the carrying out of the good | roads policy inaugurated in the terri | tory should be elaborated and the | authority of the boards of supervisors | enlarged. It is to be hoped that petty | bickerings and personal interests will | be relegated to the background until | the business of the people is first look ed after.
 Governor Sloan, in a letter to the | board of supervisors of Graham coun- ty, gives his reasons for failing to | name precinct officers in his election proclamation taking the view that as the constitution failed to provide for the election of precinct officers and leaving their election and term of office the legislature he was not em- powered to name them in the call for the election in December. The ordi- nance provides for the election of precinct officers, but as the ordinance simply provides the manner of cleo tion it could not create an antagonism to the fundamental law, which gives the right to the legislature to enact laws regulating the election and term of office of justices of the peace and constables.
 The socialists of Mohave county have one of the hardest mathematical problems ever submitted to the people to solve. The primary election laws of the territory, under which the forthcoming election is to be held, re- quires that to have the name of any candidate printed upon the official ballot of the party the signatures of at least three per cent and not above ten per cent of the voters of that party in at least one fourth of the precincts of the county must first be obtained. Mohave county had twenty-seven vot. ing precincts at the last general cleo tion and the socialist candidate for delegate to congress received fifty three votes. On this bases candidates to have their names on the ticket must not get more than five names on their petition to comply with the law, while on the other hand it would take seven names to cover one-fourth of the precincts required by the law. How to do it and how not to do it is the burning question.