The Coconino sun., 1919-09-12
BOOMING DWIGHT B. HEARD
 FOR GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA

The entangling lines of politics are always more or less of interest to the average reader, and in the coming general sortie for nominations by diff ferent parties, it will be of interest to know who is who.
 The getting together of the wise as well as the ambitious for mutual bene. fit in coming contests often present peculiar combinations. That there is close understanding between Governor Campbell and Dwight B. Heard is evidenced by appointments as well as other wind indications. That Cover nor Campbell would trade his present office for a U. s. senatorship and back Dwight B. Heard for the governor ship, seems looming large at the present writing, and in this connection we find the first boomlet for Heard in the Arizona Magazine.
 "It is timely to speak little word of praise of Dwight B. Heard, mov- ing spirit in this enterprise" says this publication. "Mr. Heard in recent years has been very much in the pub lie eye in Arizona, nevertheless 1t has always been in connection with some enterprise in which the entire state or the Salt River valley, his home, or some large interest like the Cattle Growers Association has been con cerned. He has not been given pub licity for the mere sake of advertising or for personal conceit. t
 "There is possibly no man in Ari- zona during the recent years who has given so much of his time or who has been more liberal with his money in support of public enterprises and pub lie institutions. As president of the state council of defense (to which he was appointed by Governor Campbell) during the war, he devoted the major part of his time to public service, and his activities have ranged from that responsible position to the participa- tion in a thousand civic committees, even to street soliciting for public and charitable undertakings.
 "It is not assumed that Mir. Heard is more righteously constituted than some of the rest of us, but he hap pens to be the one man who IS not only capable, but so situated that he can discharge these responsibilities when he undertakes them, and who is so sincerely concerned in the welfare of his country and his people that he is willing to assume such arduous un- dertakihgs. He is not only state worker, but state leader, one whom we can not all of us follow in every instance, but one whom we can respect and whose fidelity we admire.
 ,"It is said of MT. Heard that he is ambitious. We take it that no sane man, not even MT. Heard himself, would deny the allegation. We have no knowledge of his ultimate ambition but we do know that he has proven himself more willing to serve person. ally in every public matter of good report than almost any citizen simi- larly circumstanced and every man who does anything worth while is bound to be ambitious.
 "And it is more wonderful still that Mir. Heard, who came here in rather delicate health a great many years ago, is now a yeritable physical steam engine. He is the embodiment of al. most unequalled human energy and an alertness of mind that keeps the physical machine battering away al- most perpetually.
 "In all the previous mention of his activities in this state we do not recall that we have ever before rendered a bouquet to Mir. Heard for his personal merits as a man, and we write these words without his knowledge or con sent, and with no other object than to give credit for once to the personal motives of one of many good citizens whom we recognize as builders of our city and our state"