Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-02
PICKED PILGRIMS
 LETTER FROM HUNT GETS INTO CALCIUM
Former Executive Likes to Write Letters, Containing Philosophy and 'Potry.' Coast Paper Likes to Print Them.

ote-AA. hA0 NAA-AC IT. w. T. I1unl MIOlc to a ''Wobbly" in Miami. The I. w. w. fell by the wayside and a curious "bull' in Southern California 'frisked'' him.
 But let the Los Angeles Times tell the story as it appeared in that pa per's editorial columns under the heading, "A Picked Pilgrim and a Preposterous Governor:
 In border California railroad town, in a lot otherwise vacant, was found the recumbent form of one James ODay. Asleep, James afforded a grand example of things that are not as they seem. The constable who haled him away to the calaboose declared him 'beastly drunk" and to be "as dirty and disreputable a bum as we have had to handle in quite while.". But the constable was hasty in his judg- ment. Surrounding the muck of the gutter. possibly mixed with the reek of the booze, was an aurora of great ness that the rude officer failed to appreciate, if he saw it at all.
 When the somnolent individual, so enormously listed as a drunken bum, was ''frisked" by the officer, as was the latter's duty, upon the prisoner was found evidence that he had mixed with the mighty and that, of right, he should be ranked as one of the true defenders of the common people. In evidence he bore a little red card that showed him a member of the Miami (AriZ.) section of the l. w. w. But still more firmly establishing his position as one of the western lead CTS of modern liberal thought there as a letter from ex-Governor George W. P. Hunt inclosing the negative of a photograph in which Hunt and the misunderstood and alcoholic tourist stood in affectionate comradeship.
 The letter itself is a gem, worthy of rank with Ring Lardner master piece, of diction rare and of high philosophy; in tone familiar, yet dig. nified. evidencing knowledge of poesy and showing some of the arts of the orator. 1t is felt that it should be seen in the light of day, just as it came to O'Day. Verbatim ad lit. it follows. however strange it be to an editorial column:
 Globe, AriZ., Aug. 15, 1917. My Dear Friend:
 Not knowing how long I shall re- main or whether l will get the oppor- tunity of seeing you again.
 l want to express my appreciation in meeting you.
 I am enclosing you two kodaks pie lures and the negative, so that if you care you can have more printed at any time. l some times tremble for the fu- ture of my country, when such out rages as were perpetrated as was pull ed off in Bisbee on the 18th of July. Reason and justice seem to have tenn porarily left her throne, but this morn ing the lines of Tennyson came to me and when he says:
 When the common sense of most will
 hold a fretful realm in awe And the kindly earth will slumber
 wrapted in universal law"
 The onward sweep of democracy, for it is raging the world over, will sweep away the tangled webs that now beset us and the new day the Brotherhood of man will arrive and we will live in the sunshine of hope and the dark clouds that now beset us will only be a disagreeable dream.
 Faithfully yours,
 GEO. w. P. HUNT. Mir. James O'Day,
 Globe, Ariz
 There seems no doubt of the authen- ticity of the letter. It's writer (the signature is an exact replica of that of Geo. w. P. Hunt on official docu- ments) for five years was governor of in that office assumed to rep resent the character of the population of great state. Twice he was elect ed. A third term was denied by the voters, who, at the same time, by of many thousands for Will son, reaffirmed their allegiance to the democratic party to which Hunt as- serts he belongs. Governor Hunt ap- pealed from the verdict of the people. He lost in the lower court. The case now is before the state supreme court on allegations of error largely tech nical in character.
 Throughout his gubernatorial career Hunt made it more than clear that he wished TO be considered the champion of the common people. with especial on common" His interest seemed to lie wholly in the "submerg- cd tenth" The unsubmerged nine tenths appeared to concern him very little. He visited the penitentiary often and sought renown as a prison re- former. with little or no reference to the reform of the "untortunates for whom prisons have to be built and Hunts official messages and public utterances were filled with soap-box phrases. Always he Was strong fer "cu'bing the power" ol rnrpnroff,pe tb.s