Arizona republican., 1916-12-19
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There is no gubernatorial contest in Arizona-at present There was one-a thriving one day or two ago. but it has been quashed squashed. mashed and otherwise made as if it had never existed. Only the debris of it is left Judge Stanford yesterday morning granted the motion of the attorneys for Mir Campbell to dismiss the pro ceedings on the ground that on account Of the character of it; that is, because 1t had not been officially determined that there was anything To contest over he had no Jurisdiction. A pre- requisite of the contest must be an of ficial declaration that NIT. Campbell had been elected and that declaration must take the form of an election cer- tificate.
 MT. Ives attorney for Governor Hunt. the contestant. gave notice of an appeal from the order. There was no objection to that, but when he askec the court for supersedeas bond pre- serving the status quo: that is to say d continuation of the inspection of the l ballots, there was development of op- position.
 Judge Stanford announced that a de- cision would be made on that request at 1:30. At that hour the attorneys of
 
 the judge in chambers and at half past two o'clock when court was opened. Judge Stanford announced that in view of his ruling in the morning that he had no Jurisdiction, he would shave to deny the motion of Mir. Ives. The ques- tion of continuing the inspection was then taken up The court was about to rule that the inspection must stop. pending the decision of the supreme court, but at the request of Mir. Ives he let that matter go over until eleveg o'clock today in order that MT. Ives might have an opportunity to apply for a writ of prohibition to restrain the lower court from interfering with the inspection or. as has been stated. to prevent the lower court from not doing something
 No application was made to the su- preme court yesterday afternoon. Thus the future of the contest is clouded. Ii is not expected that an mediate order will be issued by the court. There are several things that may happen; for instance, the issuance Of q certificate of election to MT Campbell. the insti- tuition of a contest in another county before a more complaisant judge.
 The granting of the motion to quash in the morning followed an argument against il by Mir. Ives. The motion of Mir. Ives for supersedeas bond brought Judge Sloan to his feet in spirited objection. Judge Campbell de- clared that the motion was without precedent and Mir. Bullard pointed out the absurdity of the proposition. Said he: We have here now the ballots from only two of the counties where Hunt received large majorities. Coehise and Yuma. The court has declared it self to be without jurisdiction in the case. Now, suppose We proceed with the inspection pending action by the supreme court and this court should make an order for the transfer of the ballots from other counties to Mari copa. The treasurers of those counties would not be bound to pay any atten-
 tion to an order of the court in mat , ter in which it has itself declared it. self to be without iurisdiction' | Judge Campbell said that throughout
 the contestant had not acted in good ! faith He referred to the separate contests that had been started in Nay ! ajo and Apache counties
 1 In the afternoon Mir Ives offered a
 series of objections to an order by Judge Stanford against the continua 7 ton of the inspection. He said that the contest was no longer within the 1 jurisdiction of the court; that the ground on which the proceedings had
 been quashed had been advanced too late; that the inspection had been or
 dered in the first place by the court af-
 ter the compliance of the contestant with conditions imposed upon him by
 the court. To this Judge Campbell ob- ! lected that Mir Ives was misinterpret- | ing the record: that no condition had i been imposed as to the beginning of the contest but that the court had
 stated that the proceedings might be
 stopped unless the contestant should | cause the ballots of the counties in ] Continued on Page Two)