Weekly journal-miner., 1918-01-02

ORS WHlCH WEKE Ills.
 PHOENIX, Dec 26-"Even as . Republican, never was proud of the political decision rendered in the Haycs-Tilden case, although it was rendered shortly after emerging from the bitterness of the Civil war;" said Thos. Maddock, who made the figh, for Governor Campbell in reviewing the political obstacles placed in his path in the battle through the court.
 "The necessity for arbitration in these war times is obvious, but we can understand the distaste of men to empower individuals of another country to decide the destinics Of their own, when it is difficult, within our own country, to secure other than political decisions.
 "I am extremely sorry that the de- cision in the Arizona Supreme court unanimously replacing George w. r. Hunt as governor, reverses that of Judge Stanford, whose sense of jus. tice was superior to his party pre- judice.
 An Awful Gauntlet.
 What an awful gauntlet Tom Campbell has had to run: Registra- ton officers refusing to register Re publicans and conservative Demo- crats and, although registering them, in some cases emitting their name. from the poll list, as in Cochise county.
 "The registration of frauds after the close of the great register, in some cases up to and including cleo ;ion day, as in Navajo county.
 'The appointment of numerous election boards, all of the political faith opposed to Campbell, by county bcards of supervisors, who allowed unregistered voters to cast their bal lots on blank As and in other illegal ways, as in Yuma county.
 Politicians in Office.
 "The refusal of the democratic Secretary of State to issue certifi, cate of election on the returns there of, although he allowed this certifi- oa.e to be made a basis of barter by the counsel for Hunt, in exchange for the right to resume legal proceed ;ngs in the Superior court. Also, his neglect to place the name of the pro, hibition candidate for governor on the ballot, except in strong Campbell counties where it would provide ad- ditional competition.
 "The opposition of the attorney general, however impotent and in temperate, as to the consolidation of contents brought in different coun- ties, into one case in Maricopa coun- ty.
 A Hostile Legislature.
 "The action of the legislature, in refusing to confirm the governors appointments, absolutely essential fo, his proper supervision of state in stitutional matters, until the creation ci the Commission of State Instit,i> tions, six months after his inaugura- ticn.
 'Innumerable paltry political acts of Democratic officials, tending to cripple or nullify the efficiency of the executive, as the continual assertion that his tenure fiffice was insecure and the repeated and confident pre- diction of his early removal.
 Playcd Politics Before
 "I have not yet had time to read the decision carefully. Knowing the case very well, the action of the Su- preme court would have been a se- we're shock, had I not remembered the decision in that remarkable case, which ignored the constitutional pro- vision. providing for a state election in 1912 and which extended the terms of the faithful two full years: and, had I not heard the many rumors cir culating during the past six weeks, as to the conclusion today reached.
 The Greatest Outrage.
 ''It may be the law that Campbell should pay the costs of both sides in defending his election as governor, rendered by the legally constituted election machinery of Arizona; hay ing his salary held up and then given 10 one who rendered no service, but, to the laymen, this appears an outrage and practically means that no man in Arizona dare start to de- fend himself against contest brought by a member of an intrenched politi, cal party.
 The Higher Court.
 ''It has been said that there is a