The border vidette., 1914-10-31
A REPLY TO HUMMEL.
Santa Cruz County Voter Resents Att
 tack on Judge O'Connor.

issued by one Louis G. Hummel, loudly announcing himself as the peoples candidate for Judge of the Superior Court.
 He asserted that he has the endorsement of the Republican party, and is proud of it; that he has been ass dred of the sup port of the Progressive party, and is pleased with that; he re- ceived the only vote of a So cialist for Judge in the primary, and greatly appreciates that.
 Certainly Louis is grateful for small favors.
 A search of the official returns of the primary election, shows that out of total of 682 votes for Judge of the Superior Court, Louis G: Hummel received the magnificent sum of Six Votes.
 In Sonoita precinct, where he is best known, and where he and his cousin voted, he received only three votes out of almost fifty votes cast.
 Who is this Louis G. Hummel, this self proclaimed advocate of the right, and adversary of the wrong, who so boldly announces himself as the only candidate for the highest office in Santa Cruz county?
 Is he scholar, learned in the law, a man of probity and honor, who, on the bench, would dis pense justice to the common people, without fear or favor?
 Hummel is a "briefess bar rister" without law office, un- less his unfinished shack could be so-called; and with a few clients; whose law practice is a joke, and whose assurance is only exceeded by his egotism.
 Until recently he was living amid the cat claws and cactus on a desert claim in the wilds of Pima county. When there was no other aspirant for the office of Superior Judge, in the ranks of the Republican party, Hum mel saw his opportunity to gain notoriety, and was suddenly seized with a mad itch for office, and an ardent affection for Santa Cruz county, and her interests.
 He deserted Pima county, and her barren pastures, jumped the line fence into Santa Cruz coun- ty, and built a shack, where pre- Snmably, he eats an occasional meal, or spends night, while his family continues to live on the desert claim in Pima county.
 He then announced himself as the only SimmOn- pure, free from constitutional candidate for the office of Superior Judge of Santa Cruz county.
 Did the voters of Santa Cruz county, fall over one another, in a mad rush to reach the polls, and vote for Louis G. Hummel? Yes they did---NOT.
 Hummel, in his circular, says:
 T am a Republican in Nation al politics; in county affairs I am Santa Cruzan." He should have added for office"
 Hummel also declares, that of the two candidate, who appear ed before the people endorsed by the Democratic party, one was there by "ring rule," while the other was an Independent Democrat.
 Since the men were both De- mOcratS, were announced as can didateS in the same manner, made the same personal cam paign among their friends and supporters, and were subject to the votes of the people in the same way, bow, in the name of logic, and common sense, can Judge O'Connor be charged with ring rule, and his opponent lauded as an Independent De- mocrat?
 The ring" of Santa Cruz county, is the common people, united, watchful and enthusias- tic, determined that, without re- gard to party, competent, good and honest men shall be elected to office.
 Hummel also charges that Judge O'Connor was opposed to Women Suffrage. By what right does he charge this, when some of the original suffrage workers of the county know to the contrary?
 Let anyone who desires to know Judge O'Connor's position on the subject of Woman Suf frage, go to HIM for informa- tiOn, rather than to Louis G.