Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-02

blackjacke1 by him and lis socialistic associates. A rich man himself, re- tired from years of merchandising in a mining camp, he is said to have been represented on the states tax rolls only as the owner of small per sonal property. Realty, mines, banks, all were abhorrent, as evidences of a wealth necessarily predatory.
 The above letter does not discredit Hunts well-known views. It was just the letter for him to write.
 Last year in the Crifton (Ariz.) dis trict was a long strike, backed by the sheriff and by the governor, then in office. Scores of men not in sympathy with the aims of the illiterate rabble were run out" of the camps, many of them beaten up in the process. Fearing for their lives, the mine man. agers had to flee to Fl Paso. At Dun can, at the expense of the mining companies, had to be established a refugee camp, filled with workmen 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 re- main inactive while American citizens were drummed past their tents, with hooting and violence. The governor appeared at Clifton, but only to ex- press his sympathy with the strikers and to intimate that "bullpen" might be the destination of any who opposed them.
 Praise be, Hunt was not in office when the I. 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 that the Clifton experience was ex- actly reversed at Bisbee, where the people at large, tired of control by foul-mouthed traitors and their foreign dupes, rose and deported the I. w. w. to the last man, incidentally adding the the other riff-raff of the communi- ty. This, however. was done quietly, without the Clifton accompaniment of tin cans and curses.
 Hunt appeared again in the lime light three months ago, appointed mediator" in the Arizona strikes, an nounced 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 eco homie questions very well indeed. The Columbus refugee camp is vacant, for its rations were cut off. In Jerome men. In Miami and Globe, where Hunt found companionship with the I. w. w., both union and non-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 surely Huntism has been responsible for the miserable and disloyal dls turbances Arizona has known for five years past. The man has led. delib- erately, in setting class against class and in stirring up antagonism that never may be lived down and that must be bitter for years to come. Even when out of state office. when honOred by the president Of the ma tion. he has shown his preiudices. as well as his caliber. in the letter writ ten to his friend, O'Day. the pickled pilgrim. It is told that Hunt still has much political strength in the Sun Kissed state. God save Arizona,