Weekly journal-miner., 1917-10-03
OFFICER FINDS HUNT PHOTO ANDLETTER ON DRUNKEN BUM:
 MESSAGE Is A WORK OF ART
P|CK[ED PILGRIM AND A PREpOSTEROUS GOVERNOR


 error largely technical in character.
 Throughout his gubernatorial ca rcer Hunt made it more than clean that he wished to be considered the champion of the common people, with especial cmphais on common His interest seemed to lie wholly in the submerged tenth" The un-sub- merged nine-tenths appeared to con ceTn him very little. He visited the peritentiary often and sought renown as q prison reformer, with little or no reference to the reform of the "un- fortunates" for whom prisons have to be built and maintained. Hunts off cial messages and public utteranccs were filled with soap-box phrases. AL ways he was strong for 'curbing the power" of corporations that already had been blackjacled by him and his Socialistic associates A rich man himself, retired from years of mer- chandising in mining camp, he is said to have been represented on the States tax rolls only as the owner of small personal property. Realty, mines. banks, all were abhorrent ss evidences of wealth necessarily predatory.
 The above letter does not discredit Hunts well known views. It was just he letter for him to write.
 Last year in the Clifton, Arizona. district was a long strike, backed by the sheriff and by the governor, then in office. Scores of men not in sym pathy with the aims Of tine illiterate rabble were run out" of the camps, many of them beaten up in the pro- cess. Fearing their lives, the mine managers had to flee to Fl Paso. At Duncan, at the expense of the mining companies, had to be established. refugee camp, filled with workmcn who had remained loyal or who had incurred the displeasure of the labor" leaders. The mines and works had to be abandoned to the mob Governor Hunt sent troops to the scene, but the militia officers were forced to remain inactive while American citizens were drummed past their tents, with hoot- ing and with violence. The governor appeared at Clifton, but only to ex- press his sympathy with the strikers and to intimate that a "bull-pen" might be the destination of any who opposed them.
 Praise be, Hunt was not in office when the l. w. w started their devil Try in Arizona last June. The agita- tors had, however, the backing of many anti-capitalistic laws that had been passed by weak-kneed legislators at Hunts suggestion. It happened hat the Clifton experience was ex- actly reversed at Bisbee, where the reople at large, tired of control by foul-mouthed traitors and their for eien dupes, rose and deported the I. w. w. to the last man, incidentally adding the other riff-raff of the com munity. This, however, was done quietly, without the Clifton accom- paniment of tin cans and curses.
 Hunt appeared again in the lime light three months ago, appointed mediator" in the Arizona strikes, an noInced as personal representative of the president" He doesn't appear to have had much luck in the way of mediation. Bisbee, where reason and justice seems to have temporarily left her throne" has solved her own economic questions very well indeed. The Columbus refugee camp is va can't, for its rations were cut off. In Jerome the l. w. w. were run out by union men. In Miami and Globe, where Hunt found companionship with the l. w. w., both union and noE-union men are at work, protected by Federal cavalry from the fury of the mob. Arizona is finding herself slowly.
 Just as surely as the kaiser cult has led to bloodshed in Europe, just so