Arizona republican., 1919-08-05
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1919
A woman of honor should not sus- pect another of things she would not do herself.
 Marguerite de ValoiS.
The Status of G. w. p.

The Tucson Citizen believes that the rather in- definite announcement that former Governor Hunt will again be candidate for the governorshp should be taken seriously. We do not believe it should be garded joke. but within the commonly accepted meaning of word seriously implying with alarm" we cannot agree with the Citizen. We do not believe Mir Hunt will ever again be the governor Arizona that he will ever again hold any office In Arizona by the of the people.
 After the election last fall nearly every news paper in Arizona opposed Mr. Hunt proclaimed Jim a down and outer" and printed his uncompli- mentary political obituary. The Republican did not for it recognized in him still the powerful indi- vidual in his party. It true that he not strong he had formerly but in the sense that f he could not be elected again if he could not dictate nominations within his party he the who could prevent the election of any other democrat He had a larger following than any other individual democrat and we believe he has it yet.
 We he could secure larger vote than any other democrat for think he could not but he has stronger individual following one which he absolutely commands.
 The Citizen and some others think that MT. Hunt the late down and outer" could secure any nomina- ton he desires over any other candidate. We do not think so The election of 1916 disclosed that MT.
 
 cratic primary disclosed that he was with the minority. It is true that his candidate Mr. Golfer received the nomination. but he owed that the fact that the opposition to him divided between two strong candidates. There is hardly doubt that would have been defeated by either MT sutter or Mr. Osborn running alone It is also fact that nearly every candidate for office suspected of being tainted with Huntism defeated n that primary
 The weaknesses of Mir CoIter in the primary was the weakness of Ar. Hunt which further brought about by two circumstances. The first was the at tack upon him by MT. Sutter in the legislature con- tinued throughout the primary campaign. The other the disclosures in the Breen-Jaynes libel suit nstgated by the governor but which from the became trial of the governor charged with in formal but close utilization with T. w. W.ism That trial made the election of MT Coler impossible There enough of the radical nominate him against divided opposition but not enough to elect him even with the aid of hundreds democrats who stood by him because he the party candidate the while they hated the l. W. w. We believe Mr. Huht would not have made as favorable a showing MT. Colter did.
 Another thing that has weakened so called Hunt ism in the the Bisbee deportation incident The governor brought that effect upon himself by his message special session of the legislature in 191S Previous to that time it was not political affair It was generally regarded that under some provocation the citizens Bisbee had violated the law in deporting a lawless element from the camp Outside the camp. Cochise county and other mining camps vital interest was felt in the affair The law-abding regretted the but their regret was tempered by consideration the character of the deportees and their remaining sympathzers
 We may conceive that this was matter of suf- fcient importance to be brought the attention of the legislature The governor we may admit could not well have ignored it. But it was the manner in which he brought it. the bitterness nvective the denunciaton of the deporers whose cases were then pending in court, that made it political issue and disclosed the governors sympathy with the leaders of the I. w. W. The Republican the following morn ing declared that the governor had made the l. w w. the chief issue in the ensuing campaign
 II. w. W.ism has become by events since then more widely and more cordially hated than it was year ago. Its relation to bolshevism has been made clear so that believe the governor by reason of the attitude in which he placed has been further weakened Also, the continuation of the Bsbee de- portation matter the disclosures which are now be- ing made daily at Douglas are still more strongly setting the people against the l. W. W and are in- creasng the public hostility against those who may sympathize with the l. W. w.
 As in the Breen-Jaynes libel case the original issue is disappearing far concerns the court of public opinon-the question of the guilt or inno- cence of the deporters. The question has become Were the deported L w. w. or sympathizers with the T. W. w.?
 Another thing to be taken into account in esti- mating the changing political strength of the former is the probable defection of radical strength in the state. There nearly so many extreme radicals here there two years ago. The num- Der of them had considerably decreased last year