The Arizona copper camp., 1918-10-19

Throughout it's deliberations, the jury
stood to q for acquittaI.
Exceeding in interest even the gov
ernorship contest of last year is the
trial on a charge of criminal libel this
week of Col F. S. Breen of Flagstaff,
who printed a story quoting a normal
school professor as saying that Gov
ernor Hunt had said "To hell with the
war" The case went to the jury Fri
day noon, and no verdict had been
reached as the Copper Camp went to
press.
A letter from Governor Hunt to
Mike c. Sullivan, notorious Wobbly
leader, in which he characterizes Sid
ney Osborn as "the subservient tool
Of the corporations" because Osborn
believed Mooney ought to hang, was
the outstanding feature of the libel
trial this week at Phoenix.
The epistle opened, "My dear
Mike" 1t was written on August Is,
just after W. A.. lMoeur withdrew
from the gubernatorial race. 1t says
in part:
Living in Bisbee and being deport-
ed from that camp, you can realize
how you would feel with Sutter, the
abject tool Of the corporations, in the
governors chair He now has the
nerve and audacity to come forward
and ask the suffrage of the people Of
Arizona Every time I think Of it
get all het up, and then / think Os-
born is not much better because,
short time ago when / was in Cali
fornia, my chauffeur was driving him
around and he remarked to another
man who was in the car that Mooney
ought to hang. In fact, think he is
just as subservient tool as Sutter
and l believe the man who represents
the progressive democracy is Fred
Golfer"
In conclusion, Hunt remarked: II
am very glad that old lady from Ire
land is coming here" Court sustained
the objection of the prosecution when
Judge Campbell asked Hunt if he did
not refer to Mother Jones.
PHOENIX, Oct. 16.-George w. P.
Hunt, governor of Arizona and presi-
dent of the state council of defense,
does not know whether the Industrial
Workers of the World are a disloyal
organization or not.
He so testified under oath yester-
day afternoon in the course of the
trial of the suit for criminal libel
brought by him against Fred S.
Breen, editor of the Coconino Sun.
Under a merciless cross-examina-
tion by Judge John H. Campbell the
governor squirmed, perspired, fumed,
gesticulated, roared, made stump
speeches and broke every rule of
court etiquette But he made one
admission after another which the
defense evidently regarded as import
ant
on Ball BOND
One of Hunts most damaging ad
missions was that he went on the bail
bond of Charles w. Kastner, a Ger
man alien enemy who was arrested
for sedition While Kastner was out
on bond, Hunt took him from Phoe-
nix to Florence and got him job
as guard in the state penitentiary
When Kastner left Maricopa county
he violated the conditions of the bond
Kastner later jumped his bail and
his present whereabouts are un-
known. Hunt paid the bond. He de-
clared that he had signed the bail
bond without reading it and that he
did not know even the nature of the
charge against Kastner
The records show that at the time
of the alien registration Kastner gave
his address as Hunts residence near
Phoenix Hunt denied knowledge of
this and the defense introduced a
copy of letter from Hunt to Kast-
ner inviting him to drop in any time
and have bite to eat and forget the