Arizona republican., 1912-06-24
There Will Be a Pretty Scrap for the Guberna- torial Nomination If a Battle Ground Can Be Found Next November
OPPOSITION FORMS
 TO GOVERNOR HUNT
At Least Three Other Can didates Will Take the Field, Hampton, Hughes and Worsley Each With Respectable Following

It is a characteristic of Arizona people that they always take thsir affairs, even their political affairs in .allopathic doses. This, the dfs- cerning reader will see, is only anoth- CT way of saying they never do things by halves. And where affairs politi- cal are concerned it is quite certain that half way measures are never fashionable.
 It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who advised the aspiring individual to hitch his wagon to a star; but thS Arizona politician is not content to dc that. He is willing to use the star all right; but it must be star of the first magnitude. None of your little second rate planets for him.
 Wherefore, it has fallen out that we have come to regard about all our political affairs as being interwoven and dependent upon those of nation al scope. And, as they say in Battle Creek, There's a reason The req son is that Arizona was so long con- nected with Washington in all its state relations, or territorial reta- tions more properly that we have not yet lost the habit. So almost any county official or would-be county of ficial can tell you how, where, and why the tariff policy and the prog ressive movement are going to affect his political fortunes.
 This being true of the smaller po- litical life, how much more is it true of the larger affairs-those which affect the state, for instance. It is for this reason that the so-called break at Chicago and the threat Of independent action by the radicals will, without doubt, have considerable effect on the democratic insurgent movement in Arizona. That is, if one can call it a movement. Since the democratic primaries the last of May the insurgent movement in Ari- zona has not done any particular moving that anybody has noticed.
 But the fact remains that since Mir Roosevelt made his declaration the other night democratic insurgency in this state-at least in this city-has chirked up quite a bit It may I3oi1 a little strange to some persons that the democrats should be affected by a strictly republican matter; but they are. They are led to believe that the Roosevelt movement, so-called, is of a
 
 cause for rejoicing. And this fact taken in connection with a few other little schemes that some of the demo- crats have been quietly incubating for the past week, make as pretty a political situation as one would care to see. This in connection with the democratic race for the governorship
 And, as to this matter, let no man h a race. The man who thinks that the Hon. George Washington Peter Hunt is to have things all his own way has another large and luscious guess coming. And the fact that the oppo- sition to Hunt is not centralized need give the Hunt forces no comfort. The very fact that a number of candidates may be trotted out makes it look rather serious from the Hunt stand point. And if some of the plans now in the political incubator should be brought to full fruition Mir Hunt will have even more cause for worry than he has now.
 There has been talk for long time about probable opposition to the present governor So long as the election question was up in the air tfiIS ldlh was OILY teHUdtlNe. But now that it seems probable there is ts be an election the talk has become much more explicit. And the senti- ment back of the talk is crystallizing. too. If the election law sticks" there will in all probability be as pretty 9 political fight in this state between this date and the ides of November as one would care to see
 A good many people know that A. A. Worsley, senator from Pima coun- ty, and leader of the radical dems- crats in the southern part of the state, has received mention more than once for governor. This talk started early in the regular session of the legislature and has been heard at times ever since. Worsley has been before the public for good many years. He has cultivated the populace and has no inconsiderable following. But it has not been known just how he looked upon the proposition to run for governor It has not been known whether he regarded it seriously or whether he would consider nomina- ton at all.
 But it may be stated as a fact that this talk has caused no dissatisfaction to MT Worsley. He hasn't done any campaigning-hasn't declared his candidacy, has laid no plans and pulled no wires; but all the same the