Arizona republican., 1916-08-15
The New Alianmen. in Arizona

The New Alignment in Arizona
 Far be it from us to add confusion to the already complicated and implicated affairs of the democratic party in this And still farther be it from attempt. in spite of the wisdom born of experience attempt administer friendly counsel and ad- monition to parties already heated by domestic dis cord As rank outsider, hesitate to approach the of conflict of the Hunt and Olney forces for where there is conflict. there is danger to the rank outsider. Those who have watched two fierce bulls fighting the range. have observed that all the other cattle and cowboys keep themselves a safe distance. Certain things though. have at taohed themselves to this Hunt olney affair." which of wholly unconcerned.
 There was, to be, at Bisbee Sunday night meeting. It advertised by the promoters that Mother Jones' the Stormy Petrel of the Work ing Class" would be there, and that the meeting would be further graced by the presence of C. E. Grow. whose claim to fame appears to wholly on an association. actual only suspected with the infamous MNamaras who blew up the Los Angeles Times building and blew twenty-one lives of laborers We gather these facts regarding Crow of whom we had not heard previously, from the adver- tisement of the meeting. that the promoters evil denty believed that Crow had been canonized by his connection. whatever it was. with the M'Namaras.
 So far would be warranted in believing that the meeting to be of purely industrial charac- ter. to advance by further violent agitation the in Of the working classes. But there let us n- dulge in slight correction of the advertisement. which describes Mother Jones the Stormy Pet rel though she is sometimes called the Angel of the Working Class" a of fact Mother Jones is concerned with the welfare of only working class, and that is organized labor. She has manifested the slightest for the mass of laborers the unorganized. Nor has she manifested any interest in the affairs of any but uized lahn yvho characterized by uproar and flashing limelight. Mother Jones has been of real assistance in any of the storms in which she has appeared She is sentiment rather than aid; were about to say that she is inspiration but, perhaps that would be too loose a of the English language
 We will return the natural though suppositon that the meeting called only for lurid discussion of industrial conditions That would be natural supposition from a perusa of the advertisement SO far. But now. find that it 10 be held under the auspices of the Hunt club of Bisbee. So presume. after all. that it be political meeting, designed aid the Hunt faction in its fight against the Oney faction
 The question may be asked Wherein does all this concern the rank outsider? We will to that later. The Arizona Federation of Labor held a con- vention Tucson last week It opened by the governor, the governor the chief guest and he had right to be there and to address the vention the he has a right to appear at and address. any industrial. commercial civic conven- ton. held within the state. But the governor farther at Tucson. He declared his entire sympathy with the purposes of the federation and inferentiay his opposition to those who might oppose the fedora ton The governor is also said to have discussed the issues of the primary campaign with all the free dom and frankness with which he recently presented them at religious service at Snowflake
 In the of the convention, the federation endorsed the candidacy the governor for renomna tion and election. This endorsement a warm and almost sacriegous one, for it intmated that f the machinatons of the enemies of the governor should succeed. the crime would be paraleed only by that committed at Calvary It may be slightly irregular mention that day before the dorsement of the governor the federation endorsed Caplan and Schmidt trial for complicity in the blowing of the Los Angeles Times
 We come now, to the point of view of the rank outsider. not merely the republican voter, but the democratic voter we'll He realize that the federation stands only for those things for the welfare of it's members. against the welfare Of an who do belong O the federation, whether they democrats republicans. The relation be- tween the governor and the federation which seems to have been entered into with the enthusiastic Of both the governor and the federation seems to not only party lines. but also across democratic factional lines for there be within the Hunt faction of the democratic party many whose interests are opposed to those of the federation and many who have no interest at all in the affairs of the federation. but likely any time be brought into conflict with the federation's interests
 The federation members presumably not all democrats. yet by the action convention they committed to the governor and they are thereby committed against all whom the governor may op- pose So the democratic party. instead of being di- vided Into Hunt and oney. Hunt and Anti Hunt factions, is recognized by the federation being divided into Federation and Anti Federation factions
 In speaking of the federation, should, perhaps explain that while the federation embraces all or-