The Arizona copper camp., 1919-11-22
Hunt Sees in Proposal At
tempt to Eliminate Him
AS Senatorial Candidate,
and Will Fight Plan to
Sift Material.


cratic leaders are ming up solidly
against the proposal to hold an
elimination convention next spring
for the purpose of ditching number
of the candidates for governor and
virtually nullifying the direct prima-
ry.
| Friends of former Governor Hunt
say that, while the movement is os-
tensibly launched with the object of
agreeing on a conservative business
candidate for governor, it is really
designed to eliminate Hunt as a
senatorial candidate and tender the
nomination to Mark Smith on sill
yer platter Partisans of Hunt also
resent the action of National Chair
! man Homer B. Cummings in attempt
ing to dictate the senatorial nominee
in this state While Cummings stayed
away from the democratic commit
tee hearing, it is believed Ly the
Hunt forces that he was afraid of
| being smoked out. They are re-
liably advised that he has been pret-
| ty we'll surrounded by the friends of
Smith since he came to the state.
He is said to be very close to old.
time supporters of the senator and
federal office holders who owe their
places to him and are anxious to see
him renominated and reelected.
If the elimination convention" is
called by George Babbitt, the state
chairman, friends of Hunt will carry
| the fight to every precinct in the
state to the end that delegates will
be chosen to the convention who
will stand firmly against any move
ment to subvert the primary.
Harmony Club Worried
The demand for new faces at the
capital, voiced at the recent demo-
cratic committee meeting, came as
an entire surprise to Nit Simms,
Jesse Boyce and other office holders
at the capital who had banded to-
gether in the Capitol Democratic
club for the purpose of retaining
their places on the payroll. They
have set up a loud wall against those
democrats who expressed the popu-
playing into the hands of the repub-
licans and laying the foundation for
wrecking the party again. They
claim that the party should stand
by the men who have placed them
in office and that an assault on their
own people is an admission that
failure. They contend that when a
man makes good, he should be re-
warded by retention in office and
charge that those who contend other
wise are merely hungry for office
and actuated by their personal am
bitions
Radicals Are Undecided
Radical leaders like Thomas J.
: Croaff, George D. Smith and F. c.
Struckmeyer are undecided as to
the man they will support for the
democratic nomination for governor
They regard Fred Golfer as the only
safe man thus far mentioned, bui
Hunt may win them over to Winsor
The latter has been making a play
to the conservatives which the rad
icals do not like and they want tt
have thorough understanding be
fore they go for Winsor. They real
: ize that Winsor' and Hunt would
, make pretty good combination, bu
fankly regard the Yuma Statesman
as a clever politician and are no
{ quite sure whether they want tt
trust him.
. Anti-Hunt FaVorites
Anti-Hunt democrats are trying tt
agree on the man who will be th
Olney or Sutter of the present cam
paign. Hugh Campbell has been gen
= orally picked for the sacrifice, bu
conservative leaders in Phoenix ar
f suggesting Charles Ward, lawyer
who came TO the state from COLORADO
several years ago. Ward is said t
be a peerless orator and somewha
of a scholar and the conservative
take the view that the time ha
passed when they can put "roug
stuff" over as they term some O
the past candidates.
There is also an element whic
would like to see an ex-service ma
" nominated for governor, but the di
> ficulty is to find man who was nc
an officer as most of those intereste
in this kind Of lineup admit that a
officer would have no show.
Republicans Favor Convention
Republicans ell over Arizona ar
n in favor of holding state CONVEX
,r ton for the selection of delegates
s. the national convention and n;
n tionaI committeeman This has bee