The Coconino sun., 1918-06-21
GOVERNOR HUNTI'AS
 JUDGED BY HIS FRIENDS

Governor Hunt probably IS patrl-
 otic American and has no sympathy
 for the Huns. He certainly could have
 no reason for being otherwise. He has
 aided the Red Cross and purchased
 Liberty Bonds and scored German
 methods, and in all these things he
 should be commended. There are some
 who appear not to understand why the governor has become the target of so much condemnation, but that is a matter that is easy to explain-he has given friendship and comfort to those who are very much under suspi- cion of being the most sinister and treacherous enemies of the United
 States. He not only has extended this shameful friendship to them as Hunt the man, but has clothed them with his indorsement as Hunt the governor, something that tends to besmirch the highest office within the gift of the people of this state, and humiliate every Arizonan.
 The I. w. w. leaders on trial at Chicago have been represented as the bitter foes of democracy, and it has been shown that they have made as- sertions that were reasonable. Yet the governor had his picture taken standing close to and between two of these indicted men; picture that re- vealed every evidence of his friendship for them. Then, the other day he stop ped off at Prescott and made a beeline for the jail, where two accused I. w. w. were incarcerated-one of them convicted of making disloyal utter ances. Before this, a raid on the I. w. w. headquarters at Miami had brought to light two letters written by the governor to two Wobblies. The picture was given prominence in a that is regarded as dis loyal and which has been barred from the mails.
 There is only one thing for the peo- pie of Arizona to do; judge the gov ernor by the company he keeps. He may invest in Liberty Bonds and aid the Red Cross until every penny he has is gone, but that will not take from him a particle of the odium he has gained through his questionable A man does not go out of his way to encourage person he does not like and for whom he has no sympathy. In lending the dignity of his office to these individuals of evil repute, Hunt has disgraced the state, and he need not expect the people to forget or forgive. He has in the past posed as friend of organized labor, but every favor he shows or has shown an I. w. w. has been a blow at union labor, for the Wobblies are by organized labor as its most bitter and most injurious en- smy.
 In his arraignment of the Bisbee affair, Hunt appeared to forget that he strike waged in the Hill City did not have the sanction of any recog- lized branch of organized labor. There vas a labor union in Bisbee, but it's .harter was revoked by Mover because le said that the I. w. w. had gained control of it. It was indisputably an !. w. w. strike, called by the Wobblies n the highest paid district in the world. not to better their condition, put to cripple. the nation in it's war by hampering copper production. Yet, Governor Hunt, in a | ;cathing message to the legislature, | sthose who thwarted the I. l W. W. In considering these facts, is | [ any wonder that the people of the | tate are rising in their wrath against | he man whom a strange turn of cir put in the governors | .hair.--Douglas Dispatch.