Weekly journal-miner., 1912-12-18
AND THE CRY IS
 STILL THEY COME
tFrom Wednesdays Daily.)

While the general attention of the average reader who is interested in politics has been drawn of late to the contest raging among the Demo crats for the probable appointment 10 the United States district bench for the district of Arizona. this does no, mean that there are not others in the party of free and untcrriiied voters. who are not also candidates for something There arc only TO- 900 or SO offices to fill, and this. judging from the prolific crop in Ari- zona. means that there will be about 10000 applications for President Wilson to consider when he takes of- flee. This. not the number of ap plicants but the fcwncss of offices. has caused little soreness among many Democrats. and was referred 10 yesterday at meeting of the "eat- abitcapic" society for the division of United States marsbai It is ncccs- sary to scgrcgatc the candidates there arc so many of them-accord- ing to the office each particular bunch wants.
 There arc plenty of candidates for the office. and nearly every county. or at least every section. of Arizona is represented in the society. From the imperial county of Maricopa there is Walter Brawncr. county chairman of the party, who is anxi- ously working upon scheme to get up trainiul of office seekers to journey with him to Washington for the purpose of interviewing Mir. Will son, singly and in pairs. as to the crop of offices and the probable chance to make more.
 Mir. Brawner is followed by Hon. w. T. Webb. presidential eleetor, for mer speaker of the house. whcelhorsc etc. who helped throw the hooks in- to the present administration during the meeting of the party council and state committee before the election. Mir. Webb is a prominent candidate for the office now held by C.. A. Overlook and claims to have it sew cd up in the provcrbial vest pocket Mir. Webb also is going to Washing. ton. or al least says he is, as mes senger for the Arizona class in the electoral college to carry the vote oi Arizona there to be counted. If he is not elected messenger he says he is going anyhow. Another propi. nent candidate hails from Pinai coun. ty, and is none other than Hon Thomas N. Wills, supervisor for that county, one of the cattle kings of the country. who is a prominent mem. Der of the Arizona Stock Growers association and good fellow. He l;"ss at Mammoth. Gene Livingston of Yuma county must not be forgot ten in the membership of the "eat- abtapie" society; neither must NJ. Drachman of Tucson.
 While speaking of Tucson. attcn- 
 ton is drawn to the fact that the ancient city has two candidates for the office of U. s. marshal, as we'll as other innumerable candidates for still other offices. The other gentle man is A. w. Forbes. no less per son than the campaign manager in the first state campaign for Eugene s. Ives, who then wanted to be sen ator from Arizona. Forbes claims io have gotten SO far along in the mat ter of getting the job that he has chosen his office deputies. Many re- gard this as authentic, remembering the prominent part taken by Mir. Ives in forcing the Democratic ma tional convention 10 Wilson when Champ Clark had majority. They believe Ives can get what he wants and that he wants the U. s. Marshal ship for Forbes.
 Be that as it may. there are still others. Mir. Meredith of Mohave county and A. J. Laird of Tempe in Maricopa county must be mentioned. What scares the others. though. is the looming of dark horse upon the horizon. who is said to have a goodly amount of inducements from divers prominent citizens and pulti- cal personages. That he is dark horse was learned from the dark looks upon the faces of the members whenh is name was men,i ,ed.
 This, however, is very similar to the speakership fight in the Arizona house of representatives. which was summed up by the old politician in the words. Well. we shall sec what we shall see."-Arizona Republican.