Arizona republican., 1919-03-09
We know not the great from the little until we behold how they die.
 Herbert Kaufman.
A Faetional Expression

That senate Bill l1 a wholly partisan measure vas given additional proof yesterday by the imper- ous "demand' that it be passed over the governors veto But before We accept that resolution as the expression of the whole democratic party of Arizona we should deve into the history of democratic politics of the last two years. We thinl, then we will find that the resolution was a factional partisan cX- precision as distinguished from party expression, though the latter would have been bad enough
 However united the democratic central committee uish have been two years before at the close of the primary last fall the anti Hunt element was in con tro and ii may be presumed that it then con ,ttutcd l. fairly represented the Hunt and anuHiunt wings of the party Mir. Coltcr who was the recog- uized Hunt candidate. was nominated by decided minority vote
 That the objections of the anti Hunt democrats vas deep seated was shown by tremAndous numbers of them who two months later voted for Governor Campbell They presumably had no personal objec- tion to Mr. Coar but they opposed him the repre- sentative Of Huntism with which We have reason Co believe they have since become reconciled.
 The old central committee which. have seen, represented the majority wing, properly stepped aside turning over the party machinery to men who were in sympathy with Mr. Colter and therefore of Hunt sm and thereafter the members of the old committee took no active part in the campaign, though some of members came 10 e htpNIl tH Atlluclt aIllottt4r
 And the new committee is the which yester- 5ay demanded the impossible of the democratic mem bers Of the legislature representing have shown a minority of the democratic party of this state.
 We do not moan to say that all Che members of tbc present committee Iuntis democrats any than ve would declare that all the members of the old committee were anti-Iiuntsts. Thers in fact members of the present committee who distinctly aut- Huntis but who for the sake of party harmony are willing to make concessions to the Hunt faction even though the concession involves such surrender as that made when they acquiesced in that resolution
 But however men, that Is, we mean men of the rank and file who happen to be members of the demo- cratic party may be aligned to it's factions We do not think that they will regard with this open acknowledgment that the committee desires good roads machinery to be political machine. There no doubt hundreds of Hunt democrats who would resent such a use of the millions which it is pro- posed 10 expend in the name of good roads.
 John Jones with a mild inclination either to the Hunt or Che ant-Hunt side regards road construction with the great expense involved. as something too costly and important to he used as political play thing or an instrument by which ambitious members of their party or their political faction hope to get into office
 We have doubt that the resolution ofyesterday just dstasteful to some members of the com mittce was the caucus resolution to some of the members of the legislature who were thereby bound Co vote for Senate Bill IT,