Weekly journal-miner., 1915-05-05
HUNT SICK OF OFFICE,
 AND TIRED OF ARIZONA


 week has been a trying one for Gov ernor Hunt. Following closely on the visit of a group of angry Salt River valley ranche.s, who demanded an explanation from him concerning lis failure to include in his legislative call provisions for the enactment of land legislation, came a visit from Colonel w. B. Cleary Of Bisbee with a request that the governor deny the extradition of a Wyoming criminal The evidence in the case made it difficult for Governor Hunt to accede to the request of his political com padre, Cleary, but he weakened and sent Clea.y back to Bisbee satisfied and the Wyoming sheriff back to Wyoming without his prisoner. Add ed to his other tribulations and trials has been the convening of the legis- lature and the extra amount of work necessary in connection with guiding the destiny of the administration leg is1ative lobby. These are busy days in the governors office and trying ones too.
 An incident yesterday, however, proved to be almost more than Hunt could bear and eye-witnesses to the incident say the governor showed signs that he was possessed of a rare temper. The incident referred to was an interrogation from Phoenix newspaperman as to whether Gov ernor Hunt would be candidate in the 1916 primaries of the democratic party in opposition to Henry Ashurst for the party nomination as United States senator. It was not good time for the youthful interviewer to discuss this subject of the governors political future. The newspaper re porter. of course, did not know for he had no way of knowing that many Ashurst supporters in Phoenix have for the past week been asking Gov ernor Hunt and his friends to explain the political activity in Hunts behalf of numerous recent appointees as livestock inspectors made by the live stock sanitary commission.
 If you are not going to run against .Ashurst for the senate are you going to again be a candidate for govern orr" asked the reporter.
 No, I am not going to run for United States senate. nor for govern or, nor for anything else" answered Hunt in a rage.
 What are you going to do then. governor?" persisted the reporter.
 q am going to make trip around the world. I am going to get just as far away from politics and this capitol building as travel will take me. l am going to take a good long rest. I am tired. I am tired of Phoenix. I am tired of Arizona. No, don't say that. Don't say I am tired of Ari- izona. Don't put that down. No, l am going to make Arizona my home" concluded the governor.
 The governor looks tired, the gov ernor probably is tired, but it is the recent story going the rounds polit- ically to the effect that he has ap- pointed a number of livestock sani- tary inspectors, each with a rowing commission to build up his political fences by means of a house to house campaign in the state for his cam paign against Ashurst for the sen atorial toga which he plans to under take next year, which is putting the lines of care in his face.
 1 Joe Mckinney, formerly under sheriff of Pinal county and who re- signed that office to become one of the livestock inspectors on the Hunt staff of political missionaries, let the cat out of the bag recently when he said that he was making house to house canvass in the interests of Gov ernor Hunt and would as soon as his work was concluded in Pinal county duplicate the work in two other counties of the state. He denied that other appointments sim liar to his own had been made and a denial that any of the present live stock inspectors are political mission aries for Governor Hunt has also been made by the livestock sanitary board. Nevertheless the records show that there are 82 livestock sanitary in specto.s on the pay roll in Arizona. Friends of Senator Ashurst are won dering how many of this number are carrying on similar work to that which is being undertaken by lnspec-