Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-24
Political Gossip

E Political Gossip Preliminary manoeuvers in the dem
 ocratic state primaries are brought
 home to COchise county this week with
 the arrival in Douglas of Free COlter,
 state senator of Apache county. an1
 an active candidate for the honor. H. has come to COchise county for the 1 purpose. quoting the senator, of meet ! ing old friends end making new ones. J He comes directly from Nogales,
 where during the past week he was
 campaigning at the state stOckmen'c
 gathering.
 Colter has been in the field as an
 active candidate for the past year or
 more During the last election he let { it be known that if a compromise can
 didate were desired. he would be Johnny on the spot When Campbell.
 was seated as governor pro tenn. Col ter openly took tine field in an effort | to ecure assistance for his campaign Later. accompanied by Oscar Irwin, of | Phoenix, he made a sounding" tour of the state Soon after he publicly declared that he would be one of sev- eral seeking the democratic nOmina tion.
 Colter has been prominently identi- | fled with politics in Arizona for sever al years. During the constitutional; convention he made his first bow t0 ! the state proper when he was a mem
 Der of that body Since he has been ' in both the house and senate. His career has been punctuated with alli- ances and friendships with the Huns organization. and during the last ses sion of the state legislature COlter wa- the banner bearer for the governor in the senate. In the house CClter was formerly one of Hunts most stsInch supporters. and was definitely on the side of Hunt policies in the legislature on every occasion
 ' In Nogales Golfer was campaigning during the past week for the cattle mems vote. At the same time W. A. Moeur, state land commissioner, was seeking the support of this more or less organized vote, and Sidney P. Os- born, secretary of state, another can didate for the gubernatorill nomina- tion. was fraternizing and hGnd-shak- ing with these men who cast the ballot Reports received from the Nogales meeting were to the effect that Of the hand-grabbers attending the conven- ton in search of gOvernatOrial support Mceur was the most popular. His Identification with the cattle industry during the past fifteen years. and his record in the land office were accIe edit ed for his popularity among the cattle men.
 Friends of Colter who have come to his support in the race declare that his past affiliations have nothing to do with his present race and that they will have no bearing on his demeanor if lie is chosen finally as the states chief executive. When first the sena- tor rom Apache made known his in- tentiOn of running. however. it was reported about the state house in PhOe nix and in official democratic circles. that Colter was a Hunt candidate ana that the support of the governors ms chine would be thrown to him Wheth- CT these reports were true or simply surmises has not been established bu, the past affiliations of the senator from Apache and his friendships in political circles. taken as g whole. would tend to establish that he will at least have the support of an element of the Hunt organization witch may be directly dictated by the leader.
 Enactment by the popular vote of Arizona of the anti-capital punishment bill at the last general election, has been brought home to AriSC mans in striking manner in the past two weeks. The murder in Graham county of three officers by three of the most desperate and dangerous charactersever at large in Arizona, the flight of the ,aurdcrers and the man hunt which is still in progress to apprehend the criminals, has placed the measure before the pee pie in an entirely new light. Amons the most staunch supporters of the movement which resulted in the abol- itiOn of the capital punishment bill was Charles Fl. Akres. editor of th.. Arizona Gazette. of Phoenix Las week the Gazette said edit orally:
 The massacre of the Iraham coun ty sheriff and his deputies has shock ! ed the whole state of Arizona to its l very foundation, and suggests very positively the reinstatement of capital { punishment. even though these partic- ' ula- assassins are amenahle to the l. federal law. The heartless killings. I without cause or provOcation. of many men in this county since capital pun ishment was abolished further urges . its reinstatement. and murder in this . county mas not increased more than in . the other counties of Arizona. Tn or | der to place capital punishment back in he laws of arizona some one must . circulate an initiative petition and file l tt with the secretary of state SO 1t may be voted on at the election next No 1 yember.r
 AMERICAN AVIATOR KILLED.