Arizona republican., 1912-02-11
BRADNER SEEMS
 A SURE WINNER
He is Helped by the Friend ship of the Governor But His Race is Also Handi- capped by Opposition at Home.

There is getting to be more politics in the camp os the democratic brethren tran in T ward caucus. Just now it has to do with the fight for the speak crshiD of the lower house Of the legis- lature
 For this post of overwhelming inn portancc Inere are two principal can didateS These are Statesman sam Eradnar and Statesman A. R Lynch. There are some more statesmen after the job t"e. but they don't count enough to kUrt-at least not enough to hurt anybody but themselves.
 The situation just now is a rather peculiar one. Bradne-. whose home is m the classic town of Benson, seems to have almost. if not quite. enough votes to insure his election. But he can't get tha Cochise delegation And when a mans own county is against him it looks Ja,L
 Now. Coehise county will have seven members in the lower house. and of this number three are from Bisbee There is | man named Dr. Craig who lives in Bisbee. Craig is a member of
 
 ought to be speaker Furthermore. Craig will. there seems no doubt. get the united and undivided support Of the BiSbee delegation. Of which he con stitutes a third in his own proper per sen.
 Then Captain Kelton. another legis- later. who iHres in L wide place in the road over somewhere in the western Dart Of Cocnise. has felt the speaker ship aspiration fluttering in his manly bosom. Kelton, of course. is expected tn vote fo- himself. and, it is said he will also get the unanimous support of Judge Duncan. Curry is for Bradner. hiCh including his own. gives Brad ner two votes in that benielteG coun- ty.
 The opposition to Lynsh comes from the ultra-progressive wing of the par ty-from the gentlemen who are shel- tered under the capaciouS coat tails of his excellenoy. the Honorable George Washington Peter Hunt. who will be inaugurated governor along about next Wednesday. They say Lynch spells lrolctariat with a lower D.
 In other words its the same old sto- ry. The constitution must be in the hands of its friends"
 As the situation sizes up now. Brad her will get the votes Of most of the northern counties and of Yuma. Santa Cruz, and Gila. Lynch has a strangle hold on Graham and Greenlee with a good many scattering votes through out the state. The MaricOpa county delegation Is still sitting on the fence, blinking in the sunshine, and wonder ing what 1t is all about Probably it will not be settled until the legislature meets. which will be March E. But it is pretty certain that Bradner vii get the plum. LcEisla- tors who particularly want tO please Governor Hunt will vote for him Not that Hunt would use any undue in- fluence-oh, dear. dear no-perish the thought; Governor Hunt has too high conception Of his gubernatorial func- tions and duties to mix in this little scrap. IL is only that there are several piums stil hanging aloft and these plums won't fall until George Wash irStor Peter shakes the tree: and maybe. you know-George Washington Peter will refrain from shaking the tree until the Bralner supporters. or their friends are in positions of van tage where they can annex the plums aforesaid. But George Washington Peter Hunt
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