The Coconino sun., 1918-03-15
COBB'S DETECTION.

| A trusted minister of the Hunt hi. erarchy has turned bolsheviki and be, gun telling tales out of school. This schism between state and Engineer Lamar Cobb and Governor Hunto should occasion no surprise. The only wonder is that it did not occur years ago, for Cobb is distinctly not a fair representative of the Hunt type of office holder.
 Cobb endeavors to inject certain measure of efficiency into the admin istration of his office. For a Hunt appointee to do this is little less than high treason. Hunt does not make appointment with the expectation that | the persons chosen for his gracious favor will do what the state pays them to do. They are appointed to spread Hunt propaganda and glorify the name of George Willie Paul. Hunt should have known better than to appoint Cobb to office, and Col should have known better than to try to hold his job by building good roads, He had before him the example of Charlie Harris, Hunts adjutant gen eral. Harris mismanaged his job un- til the National Guard of Arizona was entirely disrupted, but Hunt didn'. . care. Harris loyalty travelled about the state, his expenses paid out of the public treasury, and spread the gospel of Huntism. He made speeches for Hunt. He worked openly and secret ly, by day and by night, for his boss
 As result, Harris is one of Hunt :. fair-haired boys and will continue to hold his job, receiving all the emolu- ments thereof, as long as the present egoist remains in the gubernatorial chair. Cobb is a pariah, an outcast from the feasts of the faithful. He has played Judas because the Hunt machine insisted on taking out of his hands and mismanaging the office that Cobb managed so we'll
 "You don't know how to handle that job" Hunts Commission of State Institutions said in effect. "You go around spending the states money on good roads; you have spent your time working for the state and it's people instead of for our master and his ma chine. You stand aside and be a fig iurehead; we'll spend this money"
 A southern gentleman and a con scientious officeholder like Cobb couldn't stand for anything like that. Had it not been for his overweeninr egotism, Hunt would have known it. One could not expect the Commission of State Institution or Wiley Jones to know anything.
 Cobb has started suit to prevent the Commission running his office. He has made public letter to the gov ernor, giving history of the contro- versy and his personal opinion of Hunts go-fetch- boys.
 Cobb's letter is a very interesting document, in spite of the fact tha! he tells nothing new. He confesses that he has endeavored to be a good state engineer, which was the last thing that Hunt expected of him. He refers to Homer Wood as a man "de- void of high ideals who will, without scruple, blacken the reputation of any man to accomplish his purpose" Ger. tainly there is nothing new or start ling about that.
 One of the most striking passage from Cobb's letter follows:
 "The auditor asked if had any in fluence with the attorney general Not having a bottle at the time, re- piled No"
 There is nothing new about this ex- cept the way it is put. All Arizona knows that the man with the biggest bottle has the greatest influence with Wiley Jones.
 Cobb did not see fit to go into the charges of pro-Germanism against F c. Struckmeyer, one of the members of Hunts commission, but that mat ter, according to all reports, is to be looked into by the federal authorities. Verde Copper News.