Arizona republican., 1916-09-10
HUNT CAMP PA|GN FINISHED WITH
 OUT|TSLEADER

On account of the sudden Illness or Governor Hunt, he was unable to be present at the closing meeting Of his ! campaign for renomination at the democratic primary on Tuesday. When the announcement of his ill., ness was made by A. s. Mills, who presided at the meeting at the city hall plaza last night. there were many eXoressions of disappointment. The oratorial program was further short ened by the absence of 1. D. Sham hart who it had been announced would speak.
 But Judge w. L. Parnrm was there and as he is the chief orator of the governors campaign, the program did not greatly suffer The audience, or l a par5 of it was so much in sympathy with Mir. Barnum, that it could not | withhold it's applause at times. It emitted it before anybody but the ap- plauders knew what the speaker was about to say. It was about the hair ! triggerest" applause that has ever en- couraged a local Demosthenese. But Judge Barnum has such a | pleasing manner and such an inter- esting way of presenting political sub l jects that even those who disagree with him feel that they have been entertained, if not edified
 nc l0SuS, It Sdltt was iiOt Olit oi
 men, but one of principles If Cover
 nor Hunt and George A. Olney should suddenly denart hence, the battle
 would go on with all the intensity ! with which it is now being waged. Still. it could be observed that the speaker was working toward a tre mendous outburst for the governor
 when he began with George Washing ton as the first American advocate of the principles which are now engag- ing the attention of the voters of
 Arizona and came down the list by
 the way of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew
 Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. A
 blind man can see that the objective
 was Governor Hunt and the applaud
 CTS could hardly await the pronun-
 ciation of his name. In his reference
 to Andrew Jackson, Judge Barnum
 described him as a living exponent
 of these principles This was. Of
 course. a slip. Judge Barnum is not
 a native of Arkansas In whose re-
 moter recesses. it is said quadrennial
 elections still disclose votes for An
 drew Jackson for president of the
 United States.
 It was observed that Judge Bar
 mum had another way of touching
 the heart strings of the applauders-
 hy a sinister reference to the great
 corporations to whom he alluded as
 the classes" as opposed to the
 masses. Not one of these references
 missed fire. Ire most heartfelt satis-
 faction was expressed every time the
 speaker fguratively kicked the down.
 and -out corporations. till their ribs
 cracked again. It was cruel chorus
 ef applauders.
 The latter part of the speech was given to a reply to the addresses of Judge Baker at an Olney meeting last Saturday night and Senator O. s. Stapley' the following Monday night. when they attacked the administration of Governor Hunt. The reply was rerhaDs as ingenious as the attacks. and that is not necessarily investing it with great virtue. Political speech l es are not, as a rule. supposed to | present the other side in a clear light Chairman Mills confirmed much that Judge Barnum had said about the governor and he had known him longer; he had given him his firs' nublicitv as a public character and had known him intimately since. He conclufed his eulogium by introducing Tax Commissioner Zander. who pro ceeded to an elaborate. but brief talk on the subject of taxation which has been made one of the issues of this campaign