The Coconino sun., 1918-08-02
A STATES OBLIGATION
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uSHtly. III every lHSldHct, dil QueS- tions concerning which there could be a doubt, were decided in Mir. Hunts favor.
 Many ballots, showing plainly that the citizens intent had been to cast his vote for MT. Campbell were not counted or were counted against Mir. Campbell on purely technical grounds.
 The story of the rottenness in the voting booth of Precinct No. 1 of Douglas as it was brought out before Judge Stanford, was a stench in the nostrils of every decent citizen.
 When the counting of the ballots before Judge Stanford was completed, there was no doubt in the minds of thinking Arizonans as to who had been elected governor. Democrats and Republicans alike realized that the majority of the votes cast had been in favor of Thomas E. Campbell.
 The decision of the supreme court of Arizona, in which the three Demo- cratic justices decided that there had been no irregularities in Douglas and that Mir. Hunt had received the ma jority of the votes for governor came as a dreaful shock to large part of the citizens.
 Gamblers Not Surprised. It is significant that it was not a surprise to the politicians.
 For more than 60 days before the decision of the Supreme court was handed down, men who were known to be lon the inside" in politics were of fering to bet odds that Hunt would be seated.
 Wilson had received a majority of 12,000 votes in Arizona.
 More than 6,000 of the Democrats who had voted for Mir. Wilson also voted for Mir. Campbell for governor.
 Even in an unfriendly court, with every possible legal technicality de- cided in favor of his opponent, it had been shown, admittedly, that Campbell had secured majority of the votes cast.
 Because he had been given the cer- tificate of election as governor, MT. Campbell had to defend a partisan suit in a partisan court.
 Even then, there were many who in- sisted that there could be no hope of anything other than partisan deci- sion.
 Fined for Good Citizenship.
 But Mir. Campbell, having been de- clared governor of the state, had to defend this suit. It cost him and his friends much more than the S4 ,00( of the governors salary.
 Under the law of Arizona, Mir Campbell received no salary, although his services to the state as governor during 1917 were of enormous value to the commonwealth. The salary technically belonged to Mir. Hunt, who had been serving in an official ca pacity under the federal government and drawing Q salary.
 MT. Hunt was awarded and kept the salary MT. Campbell had earned and which he (Hunt) had not earned
 In addition to this, the Supreme court decided that Mir. Campbell would have to pay the court costs in- cured by Mir. Hunt. These were in excess of the salary paid to the gov ernor of Arizona. In effect, the Su- preme courts decision was that, al- though he had received a certificate of election from the secretary of state, Mir. Campbell should have quit as soon as Mir. Hunt decided to file a contest. AS a punishment for not doing this, Mir. Hunts costs were assessed against him.
 An Arizona Man. =.
 Tom Campbell deserves much from Arizona and Arizonans.
 He is the kind of man Arizonans want for governor.
 There was not an incident of the year during which he served as gov ernor, in which his attitude was not one of which all Arizonans could be proud. And they were proud of him. No one had to apologize for Tom Campbell at any time.
 When war was declared, he stood by the President in every way. Each de- mand on Arizona was met promptly and vigorously and with an absolute non-partisan spirit. Every man in Arizona took it for granted that this would be SO because the governor was Tom Campbell. And they were not disappointed.
 It was because they felt certain he was this kind of man that more than 5000 Democrats voted for him in 1916.
 They certainly helped get him into a mess that MT. Hunt and his wob- bly friends in Douglas and other places made unsavory-for them selves.
 The men who voted for MT. Camp bell in 1916, Democrats and Repub- licans alike, owe it to THEMSELVES as we'll as to Mir. Campbell, to so be- stir themselves that he will get so many votes in November of this year that there will be no chance to nullify their suffrage.
 The men in the Democratic party who did not vote for Campbell in 1916 but who are NOT IN SYMPATHY WITH WOBBLYISM, and who believe in fair play and decency EVEN IN POLITICS, will show their abhorrence of the disgusting trickery of which they have been made the victims, by their votes.
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