Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-05
TEMPER OF WELCOME WILL GUAGE CHANGES OF SENATOR SMITH
DETECTION FROM HIS RANKS MAY CEASE WHEN HE RE.
 TURNS TO ARIZONA

PHOENIX, April 4.-Political oh servers are awaiting with keen inter est the return of the United States Senator Mark A. Smith from Washing. ton. By his reception his chance oi being returned to the senate will be gauged.
 There are those who believe that smiths return will put an end tc the defection from his ranks. They claim that only his presence is needed for all his old friends, supporters and admirers-nearly all, that is- to flock back to his standard
 E is no secret that many of Marks oldest friends have repudiated him during the last few months. On the other hand he has made himself far more popular in the Salt River valley than he ever was before by his con sistant championing of the measure to extend from ten to twenty years the time given land owners to pay for government reclamation projects
 John Dunbar has left Smiths stnd- ard. And there are many others through the state who allege that the senator has not stood by his friends They particularly resent the appointment of Joe Dillon as United States marshal and of Lewis T. Carpenter as revenue collector. These appointments. they claim. were thrown by Smith as a sop to the Hunt element of the party.
 Smith has written to Col. Thomas F. Weedin, for whom he secured the ap. pointment as receiver of the land of- flee, that he win be in Phoenix April , or 6 and remain till the Jefferson day banquet to be held here April l3. That he will be received as a hero byt the farmers of the valley is not to be doubted. He has been their friend since beginning of the fight for ad- ditional time for paying for the Roose- welt dam. Any other man situated as he was situated might have done as much but the fact remains that Smith did tn work and the land owners are duly grateful.
 .- Ed Shay, the Phoenix tobacco drummer. is onRmWho believes that Smiths usefulness is ended and that he has not a corporars guard of friends left So Shaw is going to run for the senate himself.
 About two months ago it became noise6 about. probably not without Shaw pulling a few strings that made some of the noise. that he intended to run for Smiths place Then all was quiet in the Shaw camp and those who took the trouble to think at all thought that Ed had forgotten all about it. Now, however. his closest friends say that he is about ready to launch his formal campaign.
 Reese M. Ling. who also claims Phoenix as his residence now, is in the senatorial race with both feet. He and Shaw are the only ones who, it is known positively are going to make a try for that toga.
 Governor Hunts friends would like mighty well to know just what he is going to do about it. For the report that Hunt wants to be senator him self and is ready to hand over the gov ernor's chair to some worthy follower will not down.
 At the governors office the repor is pooh poohed. The governor him self was not at all pleased when i was fIst published. It will probably force him to change his plan not [, make any formal announcement le fLre July
 Hunt has stea1'ly refused to .nlI. ao. 1. tement iegarding his pol'tica plane for the yea~ To a number a: li'' closest friends he has said that he VII not do so beforc July. That was a a ;,ms. howev5 r. when it was assumc' that he would be a candidate to sue ceed himself. Now that the peopl don't know exactly what to expect O him. the governor has large size' excuse to change his mind. seyera of his henchmen are known to hav' advised him recently that he mus como out with flatfooted declaration of intention without unnecessary de lay