Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-20
POLITICIANS
 COME AND 60
 JOHNSON STAYS
Chairman of Board of Super visors Comes Right Back at Them Every Once in a While

Politicians can come and go; can
 didates can run for office and be de
 feated and vanish in the shades that
 envelop Salt Creek and return nc
 more, and the Don Luis people will
 refuse worry or to fret, they have theiI
 own work to do and their own worries
 joys and sadness, but Vance Johnson
 chairman of the Cochise county board
 of supervisors, goes on forever. They
 make Johnson's troubles, fights and | political worries their own. Why not
 It is fifty-fifty play at that. John | son made their troubles his troubles | in their time of need.
 The newspaper man found out about
 it all by accident He went out with
 James Malley, miner and mayor" of Don Luis, the other day to see his
 garden, and the talk turned to politics
 Malley, being Irish himself, was born
 with the gift of either playing or undo
 ing politicians, and he had some de-
 cided ideas. He was particularly
 strong for Vance Johnson for re-elec-
 tion to his place on the county board
 of supervisors The newspaper man
 asked the miner, Why" And the
 miner had his reasons, and they were
 practical as well as personal
 I'll show yOu," he said. And he did.
 He took the newspaper man out the side gate of his garden plot and across
 the mesquite flat back of Don Luis on towards the foot of the hills, head ing in the general direction of the White Tail Deer shaft.
 This is one reason why I am for Johnson,' he said. waving his paw to embrace a considerable area Of mes quite bushes and sand. See that ditch that has been plOughed out, and that lateral there, and that revetment? Kind of a rough and simple little drainage system, eh. and it looks out of place here in this scrub, don't it? But look straight down there towards the town. See those five little houses there in a row just to the right? Well, every one of those houses was built and is owned by a miner or mucker. They have their all tied up in those little pieces of property, and they worked hard for it. It means as much to each one of them as another mans castle might mean. 1 know 1 lived here and watched them accumulate those places by hard work and say ing and sacrifice. And do you see that mountain wonder and that sweep of the land down to here. Regular rain shed. Every time we had a bad storm a regular river formed here and rush. ed down on those five houses and caused much damage and worry and often threatened to carry them away. They were helpless in the matter They could not sell and they could not turn the water away. I talked it over with them many times and we figured what to do. Finally I went to Vance Johnson about it. He came out and looked it over. Then he had men and teams fix this drainage, and he had a Hume or culvert put in down in the main road down wonder, and now there is no more trouble for those five fellows when a storm comes. Their property they worked so hard for is safe and valuable now It did not cost much. If some big bug or rich fellow with influence had asked for special road work or improvements of that sort any politician might we'll have done it for him. but these fellows were just poor miners and had no pull" They didn't need it with Vance Johnson. He wanted to see and note the practical side of it and the good that it would do for worthy peo pie, and that was all. He had it done ] and went on his way, and those fel l lows would never have known who did l it for 'em if I hadn't told 'em"
 Malley led the way back to his house and he talked further about Vance | Johnson on the way and he pointed | out other improvements and benefits | that Johnson had personally secured | for Don Luis, the little town where a | few hundred miners have settled and | builded and improved and call home | These men are proud of their town and ! the work they have done there. Vance | Johnson gave them roads that placed | Don Luis on the map. The main | to Naco runs through there | and it is a good road. Time was l when a resident of the town could | scarcely find his way in and out by | night over the trail But they found | that a simple miners appeal carried . just as much weight with Johnson | as the appeal of any one else if it | was in a worthy and practical and . just cause, and so it came about that . Don Luis points with pride to her and she undertakes to keep :. them up to standard.
 Yes, Vance Johnson is pretty toler- able strong in Don Luis. and there is a reason for it; many reasons; and Jim Malley can tell them to you in a such a manner that you cannot help | but believe them. and store up some of your own for this man Johnson, whether you live in Don Luis or not A man in a thousand . for supervisor in such a county as COchise-