Bisbee daily review., 1912-11-16
IF |. HOUSE INVOLVED
Fight for Presiding Officer of Lower House on Hand and Special Election
 Will Be Held
SAY COCHISE ENTITLED

i | is currently reported among local ' politicians that Governor Hunt will make some kind Of announcement
 early next week relative to the much { talked-of special session of the legis- i lature. which hangs over the Arizona : political situation like the Balkan war \ cloud. The announcement will pre- cipitahe two statewide political fights ! if the announcement contains definite announcement of a special session. ] First and closer to the people will
 be a big fight for the house speaker { ship, which will be made vacant by ' the resignation of Speaker Sam Brad ' her. of -Benson. incidentally a howl IS ! going up from the taxpayers Of ihe I county al the prospect of having to ! play S5,000 for a special election | merely because Bradner wanted to l make sure of a job. BradHer of ! eourse acted as any other mortal ' would have done, for even the monkey I in the jungle does not release his | foothold until his tail Is securely | wrapped around the limb Of an ad- 1 joining tree.
 Can Hold But One Office i If the attorney general could have ' hurried up his decision in the matter | of the eligibility of Bradner to act as state representative after having accepted an office of trust and profit under the state administration. the 1 vacancy could have been filled in the election inst held But the mill oI [ constitutional law grinds slowly and ! it WAS not until after election day that ! the grits came forth 10 the effect that no state official could occupy two ! 6erths at the same time So Mir | BradneT, according to his statement, | will remove ais feet from Lower No | |. and tuck them under the desk of | the secretaryship Of the live stock | sanitary board
 | Had the member occupied both | there would no doubt have been a | howl and as il is there is a howl ! There appears 10 be no way out of ! holding a 5000 voting contest. 1t ! will be great for the politicians but | ttAe units Of the war munitions plant. ! the pocket books of John Doe and ! Richard Roe. the famous Common Peo- pie twins, already are exercising ,he sacred and constitutiOnally-guara ! teed right of protest
 Governor VIII Not Interfere The painful process Of swallowing 1 the pill has been in progress for sey ' i'eral days and the politicians have go | far cut of respect hestitated to start I the political rumpus. There appears l to be nothing on which to hang the hope that the governor may aTpOnt ] a successor to Bradner and thus atop ! the 5000 purseleak The admins
 traitor opposition, however. would ap- 1, parently be glad 10 see the governor
 usurp the prerogatiye that appears 10 belong to the people. as they are shy ! of campaign thunder. It would give them something, they say, to couple with the auto-perpetuatiOn stunt that
 was used from the stump in the last | campaign.
 \ Bisbee politicians agree that the .I speakership should revert to COchise 4 county but speculation has not pro.
 ceeded further than that The report ! from Douglas that Parsons probably
 would be a candidate to succeed Brad
 her as a member of the house was
 discussed by politicians but comment was non-committaL The fight for the speakership apIfars to be open at
 | this stage of the game.
 Presidency of Senate
 The other interesting point Of the
 political situation Is the probable fight
 over the presidency of the state sen. : aik. Cunif, the present president will of course seek the honor again . tnt he-will probably have opposition even in the progressive household : The Southwestern Stockman. a paper party owned by Senator H. A. Davis
 or recent issue. contains a significant
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 shadow of coming events. It Is ob 3 served that; Tt is not improbable T that the service or lack of service in ,. behalf of the referendum measures Q will contribute to the political for f tunes or misformnes of several mel O prominent in the democratic party !. After batting those on the back whC
 ] championed the measures referred tC
 and pointing with pride 10 the record ti of Senator Davis, the editorial % q serves pointediy: President Cunnif l. of the state senate. who led the 1ghf Q against the submission of the sui
 fraze amendment and in opposition
 l to the mIper's lien law, finds hi
 course repudisted." This observation
 radlates significance when it is knoWl
 that Senator Davis himself has ha, ! l- of the senate presidency
 ,. Graham May Be Elected : Coming tack to the house speakei I, ship for the nonce. 1t is known ths friends of Billie Graham, of Lowell who was called upon a number c times al the last session to presid over house deliberations. have spoke to him to sound him out as 10 whetf CT he will ask for the speakershii His reply is said to have been caut ously non-committal.
 Some of these possibilities wi emerge from the cocoon state folloV ing the announcement Of the admin HI question. The governor Is known be against an extra session durin tration attitude on the special sessio ! this year and the question was place
 before the attorney general. who III expected to give answer early ne' week