Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-02-29

Phoenix, Feb. 2S.-PolltlcS have
 been reasonably active in Arizona for
 two years. There have been candida
 torial breakfasts, nomination lunch
 cons, and late suppers, followed by
 combination nightmares, but all the
 past experience along these lines
 promise to be as nothing compared
 to the episode which is in store for
 this fair young member of the sister
 hood" just before and for some time
 after the convening of the first state
 legislature which event is scheduled
 by His Excellency, Governor George
 w. P. Hunt; for March 18th.
 What will the legislature do? is
 a question which is giving some con-
 siderable pause to the citizenry at
 large and the members of the law making body particularly. Pending the caucus, which will occur a few days before the opening session, sev- eral momentous questions must re- main unsolved, and it is altogether within the range of possibility that even after the members of the house and senate have put their heads to- gether there will still be good many things to be threshed out in commit tee and on the floor.
 Governor Hunt has declared for an economical administration, and would like to have the Iegislaurte press the spurs into the legislative program and finish its work within the sixty days period prescribed by the constitution, but Maricopa county members, and those from other counties recently in the city are of the opinion that the great volume of law-making neces- sary properly to start the state upon its way down the corridors of time cannot be accomplished in a pair of months, no matter how diligent the statesmen may be or how much of the .garo ming" they can get along without
 Just at the present time there is a tacit understanding on the part of the party leaders to rest upon their oars and let mater take her course" About the middle of March, however, mater will retire with such dignity | as she can command, and the stage will be cleared for the human history 
 There is a decided disinclination to talk inside politics just now. Not that politics are not discussed from "early morn till dewey eve,' in every hotel lobby, upon every street corner, and every park bench, but there is a feeling on the part of the leaders now in the city that they should not organize the legislature prior to the actual assembling of that interesting body This sentiment will gradually recede until in a copule of weeks there will be programs and states as- cending and descending in every di- rection, much after the fashion of the birdmen at an aviation meet
 The first business which will con- front the members after the gavel falls on the day after St Patrick's day in the morning" will be the cleo ton of a president of the senate and a speaker of the house. It is gener ally conceded that Michael Cuniff, of will have no opposition for the honor in the senate. The repub- licans have not yet advanced a can didate to receive the honorary, and perfunctory vote of the minority, but one of the lonely quartette will be offered upon duty's altar and receive the undivided vote of the solid three. If he votes for himself he will have a grand combined total of four votes.
 In. the house there is a semblance of a contest between Sam Bradner, of Benson, and A R. Lynch, of Solo but as indicated by The yesterday Bradner at this stage looks like a safe winner.
 There are already several hundred on file for clerkships, pages, stenographers, and all of the etcetera which accom-