Arizona republican., 1919-09-22

The supervisors took judicial notice of that fact in a statement which re- vealed that the commission had been put under a pledge to appoint some one else, Syd. Smyth. It appears that the commission executed that pledge, but not quite in the way the board ex- pected. MT. Smyth is, in fact, high way engineer, but MT Ryan was made engineer in charge of highway con- struction at salary of S5,000 a year. The position of MT. Smyth is said to rival in uniqueness that famous sine cure once held by Mark Twain-noth- ing to do and no pay. No faction of a party, especially democratic faction, can be held together by jobs like that. Even democrats like the honor that appertains to office, but in times like these they cannot live by honor alone.
 The only comeback the supervisors had was to refuse to approve the bonds of the highway commissioners they had appointed. As there had been no meeting of the board since the filing of the bonds that formality had not been attended to. So whether Cochise has a highway commission and a high way engineer or not is not quite clear, and altogether the situation is some what mixed and murky.
 What will come of the recall peti- tions is hard to say. There are some strange bedfellows in Cochise county. For months the bolsheviki have been bowling at the heels of Messrs. Rob- erts and Adams. Their grievance against the latter was an early one his purchase of an automobile of John Bowen, reactionary of the most straitest sect" What casus bellum MT. Roberts gave the bolshevists is not quite clear. They charge among other things that he has appointed to office persons who have not been recognized by the soviet of Lowell; that he has generally neglected the proletariat in favor of the bourgeoise.
 | They further say that they are not | interested especially in behalf of Syd ! Smyth, who as a resident of Cochise 1 county is yet hardly dry behind the ears and therefore is not worthy of | pecuniary preferment. They are in | sympathy with the recall movement and are said to have picked out as candidates against the two super visors men who they think will stand hitched, will appoint only the faithru and who will be careful of whom they buy automobiles and not go out oi their class in either public or private transactions. They are strong fol class down in Cochise.
 One of the counts of the bolshevik against Adams is that he received only a limited training for the respon, sible duties of the board of super visors, in a peanut stand. Still, what ever his occupation was previous to tn, last election, it was well known in tha bailiwick. It may be that the bolshe vists then believed that a peanut mer chant might be a good supervisor. Il Russia men of the most lowly estatt have been elevated to the highest posi- tions and the bolshevists everywhere even the parlor bolshevists of America argue that it works very well in Rus sia; so why not in Cochise?
 But evidently it has not in the opin ion of the comrades of Lowell, fo they have joined with the patricians o Bisbee and Warren for the busting o the two supervisors, who they believed last November would crush the tyran and raise the slave.
 A number of members of the super visors' association arrived in Phoeni, last night, and more are expecte, today.