Weekly journal-miner., 1917-10-03


 town, in a lot otherwise vacant, was found the recumbent form of one James O'Day Asleep, James afford ed a grand example of things that are moi as they seem. The constable who haied him away to the calaboose de- clared 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 nasty in his judgment. Surrounding the muck of the gutter, possibly mixed with the reek of the booze, was an aura of greatness that the rude off, cer 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 little red card that showed him a member of the Miami, Arizona, section Of the I. w w. Rui still more firmly establishing his posi- ton as one of the Western leaders of modern liberal thought there was a letter from eX-Governor George w. P Hunt including the negative of q photograph in which Hunt and the misunderstood and alcoholic tourist stood in affectionate comradeship.
 The letter itself is gem, worthy of rank with Ring Lardner master piece of diction rare and of high philosophy; in tone familiar, yet dig nihed, evidencing knowledge of poesy and showing some of the arts of the creator It is felt that 1t should be seen in the light Of day, just as it came to O'Day. Verbatim and ad lit it follows, however strange it be to an editorial column:
 Globe, Ariz., Aug. 5, 1917. My dear Friend:
 Not knowing how long I shall re main or whether I will get the ppor- tunity of seeing you soon.
 l want to express my appreciation in meeting you.
 I am enclosing you two kodalls pie lures and the negative, so that if you care you can have more printed at any time. I sometimes tremble for the future of my country, when such out ragcs as were perpetuated as was pulled of in Bisbee on the l2th of July. Reason and justice seems to have temporarily left her throne, but this morning 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
 wrapped in universal law"
 The onward sweep of democracy for it is raging the world over, win 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 disagreeable dream.
 Faithfully yours,
 GEO. w. P. HUNT. MT. James O'Day,
 Globe, Arizona.
 There seems no doubt of the au- thcnticity of the letter. Its writer (the signature is an exact replica of that of Geo. w. P. Hunt on official documents) for five years was gov ernor of Arizona, in that office as sumed to represent the character of. the population of great State. Twice he was elected. A third term was de niod by the voters, who, at the same time, by a plurality of many thou sands for Wilson, reaffirmed their al leeiance to the Democratic party to which Hunt asserts he belongs. Gov ernor Hunt appealed from the verdict of the people He lost in the lower court The case now is before the