Arizona republican., 1912-03-13
Statesmen Are Assembling in Phoenix to Get Ready for Law
 Making Grind
MANY ALREADY
 ON THE GROUND
Here is a Collection of Pc litical Gossip That Will Be of Inter
 est to All

The clans are beginning to gather, process of formation.
 Those who have watched the wheels go round in any state capital in the country. or in the country's capital itself never fully OutgrOw the slight feeling of exhiliration which comes with the starting of the machinery by means of which laws are made and d people governed.
 If this is true in states familiar with the process for so many years that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary how much more inn rcssive is the assembling of a new states first legislative convention?
 With these few melodramatic re- marks. which may be set 10 creepy music. it is permissible to pass on to a Considera ton of the original prop csition which is that the clans are beginning to gather.
 It will not be proper for the printer tu sell clans" with an "em.' at least not vet. for the page of futurity is as vet unsullied. and the "em'' may never be written.
 Ever since election the Maricopa delegation has had a corner on all tho glory which goes with member ship in the upper and lower house with now and then a lone statesman from a neighboring jurisdiction stray ing in to pick out his hotel room. and look over the scene of the future doings the doing" of which will be- gin to unWrap at about high noon reNt wash day
 IL has been possible. heretofore. tO walk the entire length of Washington street at some portions of the day without sighting an assemblyman or a senator. but now this is all chang ed. and the visiting tOga wearers are seen here. there and elsewhere. all ways engaged in earnest confabula tioT., and invariably looking as though tle great affairs of state weighed upon them.
 From today until the caucus is call ed to order Saturday night or Sunday the list will be augmented. and every train will add it's quota to the mem bers elected to give the ship of state her final shove down the ways not yet greased by custom or stalled by repetition.
 Arrivals yesterday included Captain .C. R. Kelton. of CoUrtland. in Cochise county The captain owns lot of land and more cattle than ten year old boy could count He knows a lot of things which would look well on tEe 'statoot" books. and the captain
 .t~ measures to the attention of the leg iSl@ture
 Frank O. MattOX took no chances of being snow bound, and left his Navajo home in ample time to antic- ipate the first fall of the gaveI. Nav aJo is not so very large. but it has its hopes and aspirations many of which MattoX brought with him.
 ! R. Kerr is among the early birds. and Yuma will know Kerr no more until spring has merged into summer ana strawberries are ripe.
 William F. Brooks. another repre- sentative. lives in Globe. Brooks de C:ded not to trust the railroads to land him at the appointed place on time so he took to the after deck Of his faithful steed and is travelling by the route popularly known as over land although what kind of travel a railroad journey involves depOncnt sdyeth not. Anyway. Brooks is on his way. and will be here not later than today.
 In the upper house the Maricopa senators will receive the addition of N~nGGaf nf aisC today. Other senators and rep resentatives and assemblymen are packing their tooth brushes and paiams and looking up railroad sche- dCles. Tomorrow a batch of them will arrive. including Michael c. Cum iff of Yavapai. who is slated for the presidency of the senate and the rest of the Yavapai crowd.
 Friday will add to the list and by. Saturday night the roster is expected to be complete enough to organize the caucus and start the ball a roll ing. This caucus will be held at the Ford hotel. and will be continued on Sunday
 The remaining members of the Co chise delegation will travel en bloc i. g.. in a bunch. always saving and excepting the Honorable Samuel Bred ner. of Benson who is flOcking by himself and has already been on the scene of carnage for several days
 sam. it will be remembered-good old phrase that-is a candidate for the speakership of the lower house. divid- ing his candidacy with every other member of the Cochise delegation. This is one of the things which makes it such a happy little party to travel with The only reason the members
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