Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-18
COLLIER'S ARTICLE ! ON HUNT THE CAUSE
 OF CAUSTIC COMMENT
Peter Clark MacFarlane Makes Short Trip To Ari- zona And Knows More Of State Than Do The People

' PHOENIX, April 17-Arizona edit
 ors are waxing bitterly sarcastic over
 the publication in a recent issue of Golfers Weekly of an article by Peter Clark Facfarlane on Governor
 Hunt, the Galahad of Arizona. The
 Phoenix Republican (progressive) in
 leading editorial says that it has
 "been shamed and humiliated by the
 writer, who in brief trip through the
 state has learned more of our fore
 most citizen than we had suspected,
 notwithstanding we have kept an al-
 most unblinking gaze upon him for the last score of years" The picture
 of Gov. Hunt as painted by Macfar-
 lane, says the Republican, is an un- real one. Tt presents the governor as no one in Arizona knows him. It is distorted picture. the, distortion
 being in the comments and conclu- sions with which the interstices among
 the stated facts are filled. The story
 is work of art, of Cubist art, strange
 to us, yet in it appears the ample and
 noteasily disguised outlines of the
 governor" Even the facts stated. the
 Republican says, are many of them
 almost unknown to the governors old
 est and most intimate acquaintalces "Macfarlane has adroitly twisted facts-or had them twisted for him." declares the Globe, Ariz., Record, which is published in the governors
 home town. Numerous episodes in the governors political career that should cause their perpetrator honest
 shame, if he is capable of it, appear
 in the Collier story to rebound to the
 greatest credit of the executive" says
 the Record, which thinks Peter Clark Macfarlane's reputation for accuracy must necessarily suffer d sad blow as the result of the gulf and and piffle" he has spread about the governor Hunts press agents, the Record be lieves. are behind the article. and it deplores the fact that writer of Macfa,laae's standing would allow himsa.: to be made their catspaw
 M. tacfarlane has told part of the story" says the RecorI "tu; i.c has clereii.' ommitted some salient facts. For instance he tells how Hun. released prisoner with supposed in ventive genius in order that he might perfect some patents, but not word does he say about the sane prisoner being arrested in the south after being turned loose here with license to prey on public made credulOus through the widespread publicity and ' endorsement given him by the gov i ernor of this state. MT. Macfarlane | doesn't say anything about how Hunt 1 boosted Old Dominion Commercial | stock from S1O0 to s1.000 a share by working his employees long hours for !, short pay-Hunt, the laboring mans l friend! Ah. yes"
 Under the title Hunts Latest Pub ! hcity Stunt" the Tucson Citizen in< dulges in some caustic comments on | the article. The writer features all | the wonders the governor has I wrought" says the Citizen, but it ] does not mention how he organized | the militia as a political unit. bought | supplies from his store, established a
 big political machine, sent political | emissaries to the University of Ari- | zona to organize that institution. ig- i nored half the laws on the statute | books. threw open the doors of the | state prison and loaded the capital i with taxcaters. It is quite evident l that the governor escorted Mir. Mac | farlane through the state in the big white car at the expense of the tax | payers"
 Friends of the governor admit that | he is greatly pleased over the article. l although he professes ignorance as to i who gave NIT. Macfarlane all the in
 formation contained therein. He has | bought up as many copies of the is
 sue of Golfers as he can obtain and is | having them mailed broadcast to the | voters of the state.