Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-08
Th2 Primary Election

Next tuesday the voters or ArlZona WI
 select their primary candidates for ottic
 Except in few instances the primary cam
 paign has been rather free from bitterness
 The interest has been marked, in spite O
 the war The great issue of the primary
 appears to be whether or not the democrat
 will endorse the old Hunt machine or cas-
 1t out as drawback to the state progress
 patriotism and prosperity. Golfer, demo
 cratic candidate for governor seems to be
 the favorite of the machine and the more
 extreme of the radicals of the state. Osborn
 has sought to stand betwix and between
 He spoke right out on the l. w. w. issue and has not publicly catered to Hunt and his crowd to any extent, although generally accepted as at least having been one of them in the past dge Sutter of Cochise has been the out and out conservative and anti-Hunt candidate from the start and he has never tried to dodge the issue. He has made most remarkable campaign and won many votes by his earnestness, his frank ness, his sincerity and his forceful logic. That he has gained in strength from the very beginning of his active candidacy Is a fact beyond argument or doubt. His chances of winning the nomination appear to be excellent He is. the war candidate the progressive candidate and the safe and sane candidate, commanding the work mems vote because he was once himself a workman in the copper mines, and the business mans and the property owner s vote because of his force of character and ability. It will be hard, close race, with the result probably in doubt until greater part of the returns are in and tabulated.
 In Cochise county there are many candi- dates for county and legislative offices with several hot contests and plenty of interest. And ia the case of all candidates, state and county, the Review has urged all along, and does still most earnestly urge, the voters to consider carefully their ballot This Is not a time to allow partisanship or feud or pre- judice or class hatred influence the judg ment Consider the man and his record. his standing, his ability, his broadminded- ness, his patriotism, his fitness for place of trust and responsibility. The state as a whole suffers when the radical enters public office. The little man, warped and guided by his hatreds in campaign and in private life, is influenced by them still when he en- ters public office And the state suffers Her progress is impeded; her standing be- fore the nation lessened. The same IS true of the county Pick only broad, strong. well balanced successful men to represent you in the legislature Be doubly sure of your board of supervisors. They handle your county business Elect successful and energetic and capable men for these inn portant places. The talker and the hater and the blowhard may make good show ing in the campaign but he Is misfit and failure in the administration of real affairs. The Review has neither assailed nor boost ed any particular landidate in this primary. It has sought merely to give publicity to the claims and records of all candidates who have stood strongly for the progress and general welfare of their community and state. It has fought l. w. W'ism straight from the shoulder and it has always opposed the radicals and the extremists who place their own bitter feelings and narrow pre- judices and restricted viewpoint above the general public good and the national wei fare. It laments the l. w. w. taint of sympathy at least that clings still to the Hunt machine and all its works. It seeks earnestly and sincerely and wholehearted- ly for the nomination of men who are looking and working for the future good and prosperity and solid progress of the state in all things. The war is wiping pre- judice and feuds and hatreds and misunder- standings of class and party and condition away from all minds that are open and thoughtful and fair. Let us turn away from past of strife and petty bitterness and peanut politics and venom and vaporings and from the men who deal in these things as their entire stock in trade and lonk to