The Arizona copper camp., 1917-10-06
No DEARTH Of
CANDIDATES FOR
1918 PRIMARIES
Already a Number of Prom
inent Politicians Are Com
ing Forward to Save the
State from Ruin.


at least nine months must elapse be-
fore any nomination papers can be
filed for the primary election of 1918,
the outlines of the democratic ticket
at that election are already beginning
to loom up in the fog of indecision
that has enshrouded the party's af-
| fairs in Arizona ever since the Hunt
collapse last year. Advance interest
usually centers on the governorship,
and there are indications that the
present is no exception. But candi-
dates are not coming forward in great
swarms as yet to enter the field
against Governor Thomas E. Camp
! bell, and the politically wise ones are
| conceding that it is going to take a
strong man to defeat the republican
executive. Perhaps after the govern
orship contest has been finally set
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may wear a different aspect to those
who aspire to sit in the gubernatorial
chair At any rate a number of po-
tential candidates, men who are
known to have the gubernatorial bee,
are hanging back, waiting for a more
acceptable time to announce their can
didacy.
| Even at that, there are two, pos.
sibly three candidates already in
sight. Sidney P. Osborn, secretary
of state, has let it be known that
come what may, he will be candi-
date next year for the head of the
democratic ticket. Fred Golfer, state
senator from Apache county and dem
ocratic national committeeman, has
been touring the state recently in the
interests of party harmony, and says
he will be candidate If the people
want him. But he is not so well
known as Osborn, whose record as
secretary of state for the past five
years will be his strong card. Then
there is W. A. Moeur, state land com
missioner, who is persistently men
toned as a candidate for the high
office of governor, but so far he dis
claims all such ambitions, and de-
clares that he is not candidate.
Whether he will later be candidate
or not, is matter for conjecture, but
| if his friends advice is accepted he
will undoubtedly consent to run.
But if the head of the ticket has
not attracted large number Of can.
didates, there will at least be no
dearth of names opposite the other
offices, when Mr. Voter unrolls the
primary ballot next September. A.
w. Cole of the corporation commits
sion will be a candidate to succeed
himself, and he will have plenty OF
competition, if rumors are to be be.
lieved. Sam Bradner, former secre-
tary of the live stock sanitary board,
and twice defeated for the demo
cratic nomination for corporation com
missioner, is reported as among those
who will come forward to puck the
plum next year. D. F. Johnson, state
treasurer, is also said to be an aspi.
rant for membership on the corpora
ton commission, while Sam w. Proc.
tor of Winslow, who was a candidate
for the nomination early in the pri'
mary campaign last year, and who
withdrew before the primary election
is talked of as possible candidate
Proctor is now secretary of the com
mission. Harry S. Ross, county treas
urer of Cochise county, is another
candidate, it is said.
For secretary of state, now that
Osborn is definitely out for governor
there are already two or three candi'
dates. Mitt Simms, former state
treasurer, will probably be candi.
date, as will also w. D. Claypool
state senator from Gila county. R.
E. McGillen, who has been assistant
secretary under Osborn since state
hood, is also mentioned as possible
candidate for this office.
For state treasurer there is C. M
Taylor, county treasurer of Pima
county. AS for state auditor, in all
probability Jesse L. Boyce, incumbent
will be candidate to succeed himself
AS for other offices, there are yet to
be heard from the candidates for tax
commissioner, for attorney general
and for the supreme court, although
it is generally understood that Chief
Justice Franklin will again be a can
didate for the supreme bench, and
Wiley Jones will again run for attor
ney general, unless he decides to be
come a candidate for governor.