Arizona republican., 1914-09-07
WHAT EDITOR
SCOTT THINKS
OF MAYOR YOUNG
Interesting Article Appears
in September Arizona
Magazine Dealing With
Career of Progressive Can
didate for Governor

Under the heading, "a Candidate for
Governor" C. S. Scott, in the Septem-
Der number of the Arizona Magazine,
gives very interesting outline of the
career of Mayor George U. Young, pro-
gressive candidate for governor. Edi
tor Scott says:
when George U. Young was elected
mayor of Phoenix in April of this year
he became automatically a candidate
for the governorship. Shortly after
that event. when cornered by the direct
question, he told the customary white
lie by answering boldly that he was
not a candidate. After that there was
never any doubt about it, for is not
George Young a bull mooser? And
didn't Theodore Roosevelt do the same
thing in respect to the presidency? And
didn't the Bull Moosers of Arizona need
candidate who had something of a
record of stampeding the range? And
did anybody ever see sworn affidavit
of either Roosevelt or Young appended
to their denials of candidacy, saying
they could not be. induced to accept
the people demanded their leadership?
OF course not, for neither man got into
politics until after his eyes were open.
For months there has been har-
rowing fear that Mr.. Young would be
the candidate of the progressives and
for several weeks his nomination has
been certainty with everybody eX
cept Mr. Young, and now he Knows it.
He has been made to acknowledge
publicly that owing to influences of
my friends that have been brought to
bear, etc, etc" More than that, it
is understood that the ringleaders of
the progressive party are seriously
laying plans designed to encompass
his election. AS such conspiracies are
sometimes successful, it is only fair
to give the readers Of the Arizona
Magazine a few hints as to the sort
of a trail this man Young has broken
through the wilderness from the home
of his infancy in Indiana to his pres
ent abiding place.
Mr.. Young began his earthly career
February 10, 1867. That he was not
born in a log house is not to his dis
credit for log houses began to get
scarce soon after the war: and his
plans for achieving fame by cutting
loopholes were thWarted by his par
ents. who moved to a Kansas farm
when he was 13 years old. Vic Muir
dock was then only a baby, Bill Allen
White had never yet written a book
and Kansas was by no means as effete
as 1t has since become. Between corn
shocking times this Young-ster man
aged TO possess himself of a practical
education along cafeteria lines, as the
correspondence school had not then
been invented, and at the age of Is
he grabbed a spelling book and a fer
ule and broke into the schoolroom.
He was a little shy on syntax and
the dead languages, but he could
handle the modern Vernacular very
handily and could whip his weight in
wildcats, which more than compensat-
ed for his deficiencies, when the per-
sonality of the Kansas kid is taken IN
to account.
Adding Blackstone to the diet on
which he fattened intellectually, in
1890 Mr.. Young ran the gauntlet of
the Kansas legal lights and was ad-
mitted to the bar with exceeding hon
ors, having passed his examination
with a perfection of grade not previ-
ously equalled in that state, But the
call of Arizona was stronger than
that of a promising practice and once
he saw the inside of the law business