Arizona republican., 1916-08-11
Mr. Cleary's Ultimatum

MT. cleary's Ultimatum
 In the interval between underwriting crises in which President Wilson must now be chafing, praying for some exi- gency to arise which may give him op- portunity to remove the cover from his trusty typewriter, Hon. William B. Cleary. of Bisbee, this state. comes to the presidential relief with what seems to be an ultimatum, to be deliv cred by the presidential hand to United States Senator Henry F. Ashurst.
 The president is informed that un- less MT. Ashurst exercises control over and places restraint upon certain fed eral appointees in Arizona who ob- tained their positions by his grace, he will not succeed himself in the senate. Mir Cleary will enter the race against him. and if he cannot himself be elected he can, at least, so muddy the senatorial waters that no democrat can drink of them.
 This threat is menace against the trenches of the Olney forces. Mir Cleary Is a Hunt strategist in com mand of the labor. that is, the West ern Federation contingent. It is de- signed to silence the artillery of vari- ous postmasters and other federal em- ployes who have become implicated in the Olney campaign.
 Why Mir. Cleary did not transmit the rather than the president we do not know. Perhaps the transmission of 1t to the junior Arizona senator by the president would put the latter into the position of taking the part of the gov ernor Whether or not the president will allow himself to become involved even in this indirect way in the Ari- zona democratic fight is very doubt full It may be, though, that Mir Cleary seeks to terrify the president into ac- ton by threat of his own election to the senate. We suppose. though, the president is indifferent to the person. ality of either MT. Ashurst or Mir. | Cleary The former has not always | been amenable to administration de- sires The president could not know whether Mr. Cleary would be or not. | But in some way the ultimatum will be laid before MT. Ashurst and will, no doubt, seriously disturb him. though we do not see how he can comply with it's terms.
 A United States senator may exert a powerful influence in the matter of the appointment of a federal official, but there his power over the appointee ends Mir. Ashurst probably could not if he would, stop the actions of the ap- pointees in behalf of MT. Olney. But | MT. Cleary has put 1t up to him tc do it and MT. Ashurst knows. as United States Senator Marcus A. Smith knows, from experience, that MT Cleary is capable of going to great and unreasonable lengths.
 Both of them know that in the frs senatorial primary campaign five year. ago, they, as we'll as the rest of thu horde of other candidates, except one the late Reese M. Ling, for the nomi.
 nations. were compelled by MT I Cleary, some of them willingly ant some unwillingly. to pledge themselves publicly against the confirmation O
 the appointment of Hon. Richard E
 Sloan for United States judge. | If MT. Cieary should execute hi threat and become an independen
 candidate for the United States senate he would undoubtedly defect much O
 the democratic organized labor vot, l and other more radical elements O
 Governor Hunts strength away iron : MT. Ashurst.
 We imagine that MT. Ashurst vii
 yield, so far as he can, to the tyrann of Mir. Cleary, but we do not thinl
 the federal authorities will abate thei ] efforts in behalf of Mir. Cleary unles