El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-08
ARIZONA DEMOCRATS GRO0MED FOR
FEDERAL POSITIONS UNDER WILSON
Positions Ranging in Salary Value Up to $4,000 Year
to Be Filled Birdno May Get Land Office Receiver
ship: W. E. Brooks Slated for Register of Land
Office; Osborne After Phoenix PostOffice


Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. S.-Democrats
Of Arizona flushed by their victory.
are making haste to get to the pie
counter. Not only has there been a
rush for the big pieces which DR.. VIII
son viii have the dispensing Of after
March 4. next-the federal judgeship.
a life position, at $4,000 a year; the
United States marshalship, at $4,000
per year, and the pOstmastership, OF
RhOenlXs at $500 a year, but there Is
a scramble for all the federal offices
and Notwithstanding in the state
John j. Berdno, Of Graham. former
chairman of the Democratic state cen
tral committee, is said to be out for
the receivership Of the land office,
which is good for from $4,000 to $4,000
a year and which is now held by
Charles T. Arnold, present secretary Of
the Republican state central commit
tee ArnOld's term expires on Deem
Der 81 and it IS confidently expected
that he viii be reappOinted by presi-
dent Taft, but whether or not Mr.
Wilson viii continue him in office is
doubted because of the pressure which
viii be brought to bear upon him to
find an excuse to GUST him and give
the fat, juicy plum to some good con-
servatiTe Democrat like Berdno.
Brooks for Register of Land office.
w. j. Brooks, of Globe, is being
n
as register of the land office. Par
ker's term will also expire on Deem
Der 81, but as he, this year so far for
got himself as TO join the Bull MoOs-
ers' there is doubt as to whether or
not president Taft viii reapDOint him.
Parker's health. it is said, is very bad
and it may be that he viii be permit
ted to continue in office, without re-
appointment, until March 4, when
president Wilson Will be free to name
REnnlrE at nfr1 s
his successor.
Brooks is a member Of the state leg
islature and candidate for the
speakership of the lower house. 1t
place IS 10 go 10 IL H. Llnney, OF
Iavapai county, with the hope of kill
ing off Nike Cunniff, who hopes TO
succeed himself as president of the
senate when the extra session OF the
legisla ture is called. Cunniff is q rad
constitutional convention and ObnoZi-
Gus to the conservative element Of the
Democratic party, now in the saddle
in the state It is not deemed prob
able that the speaker of the house and
the president Of the senate viii be
taken from the same county and as
Linney's selection as speaker Of the
house is a foregone conclusion, Cunniff
IS slated for relegarlOn to the ranks
His successor has been decided upon
in the person of judge Hechtman. Of
ella county. Another selection which
initiates against the choice of Brooks,
of ella, for the speakership if, indeed
he ever had a chance for the place.
The Phoenix PCsfOffice.
So far as the Phoenix pOstOffice is
concerned, while Neri Osborne is said
to be an avoWed candidate for the APP
pointment. DR.. Hughes is being urged
by his friends and as ne is a power
in MaricOpa county politics asa Dem
ocrat he may lead Osborne a good race
for the job.
w B. Child Kelley, editor of tho
Copper Era and a conservative Den D.
crat from away back. can have thl
postmsstership Of Clifton for the ask
ing. it is said, while j. J. keegau viii
be named to succeed postmaster Bur
nett of Globe
The United States district attorney
ship may 60 to Wiley Z. Jones, of
PinaI comfy. recently chosen as one
Of the three Democratic presidential
electors for Arizona, but he is said TO
aspire TO appointment as minister 10
one of the Central or South American
republics. for which his knowledge u
the Spanish language in a measure fits
him.
Successor to Con OrKeefe.
As successor TO Con O'kecfe as col
lectOr OF the port of Nogales but one
name has been mentioned-that Oe
Charles Schuckman. an American citi-
zen Of German extraction and a resi-
dent Of NOgales. Whether or not he
is eligible or would accept the ap-
Dointment is not known here, but it
is believed by those who are urging
aim that he would fill the bill in every
particular.
Ling May Get Judgeship.
So far as the federal judgeship is
fe