Weekly journal-miner., 1918-02-06
The Gubernatorial Muddle.

ndnuS Ilu SclllnS lue nOlnlndIlOn IOl attorney general with Struckmeyer backed by Hunt, in the race. The Hunt support is going more and more tC Golfer and it is said that Osborn
 has made ovcrtures to F. E. Ellin-
 wood and other conservative Demo.
 cratic leaders for their support, hop ing thereby to keep Sutter of Cochise cut of the running. Hunt is not i'm pressed with Golfers strength and
 would have preferred Homer Wood but with the assistance of his army
 of appointees, he has been gradually drifting 10 Golfer, whose sack is very attractive to the faithful
 The State Highway Department has declared its independence and pur- Icses 70 run Cobb. This is serious Gisaffection because this department spends hundreds of thousands of dol lars and employs several thousand men. Its support is needed by Golfer. More Complications.
 If the Honorable Fred Sutter of Cochise yields to his friends and en- tcrs the lists against Fred Colter and Sid Osborn, he will muddy the Demo- cratic gubesnatorial primary waters considerably. Such a course might even result in bringing George w. P. Hunt, himself, back into the race, despite his refusal to accept the chal' lenge of Tom Campbell to submit the decision of the supreme court to the verdict of the people.
 The situation is really an alarming enc for Hunt and his followers. With Colter and Osborn dividing the radi- cal support, Sutter would be practi- cally certain of landing the nomina- ton. He is better far at the glad hand work than George Olncy, and would be a more formidable oppo- nent for either Osborn or Golfer sim ele-handed. But with these two dis ciples of Hunt dividing the radical support, it would be a walkaway.
 Now this is not all Lamar Cobb refuses to be disciplined. He IS about to cast his hat into the gubernatorial ring Heretofore, Hunts heutenants have regarded the State engineer as a joke, but if he sticks, 1t IS admit. ted that he will poll considerable vote which will take just that much support from the radical candidate on whose shoulders Hunt has elected that his mantle shall fall. The worst, however, is yet to come. C. M. Rob- erts, Hunts lieutenant in dear old Cochise, has the biggest kind of a gubernatorial bee buzzing about in his bonnet and has been haunting the capital of late, bidding for the Hunt favor
 Now Hunt has gone too far with Colter, apparently to ask him to yield to Osborn and the secretary will never yield to Colter as long as Ned Creighton has his ear.
 The only safe course for the army of Hunt appointees seems to be to run Hunt himself and eliminate both Golfer and Osborn, if conservative Democrat like Sutter gets into the fight. The job holders feel safe with either Colter or Osborn, but realize that there would be long political death list if Sutter ever landed the and won in the election.
 The possible entry of Sutter is also causing some concern in Republican ranks. The leaders think they have a splendid chance to put Tom Camp bell back in the governors char by . big majority if Hunt or any one of his apostles get the nomination, but recognize in candidate like Sut. ter, who might reunite the Demo- cratic party in the State, real men ace.
 Golfer and Osborn are obdurate It is the fondest hope of Golfer to land the nomination and he has too much invested now to step down and out. Osborn takes the position that he has already stepped aside twice and that he is in the race to stay this time. Both, however, would prob- ably realize the utter futility of stick ing if Hunt should again become a candidate. It is in this direction, that the manipulators will work if Sutter yields to pressure and sL