The border vidette., 1920-06-26
LESLIE c. HARDY OF MORALES FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
 OF ARIZONA.

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 Some time go statement emi- hating from Phoenix, gave it out that County Attorney Leslie c. Hardy of Santa Cruz county, would enter the lists as an as pirant for the Democratic nomi nation for Attorney General of Arizona. This morning Mir. Hardy'S formal announcement appears in the political adver- tising columns of "The Oasis," and his campaign for the nomi- nation may be taken as launched.
 In this connection it may be stated that to inteuts and pur- poses the gentleman is an Ari- zona product; for while born in Clark County, Kentucky, March 16, 1886. he was but eight years of age when removal of his fathers family to Tucson brought him to the Territory, (now a state) which has been his home ever since.
 As child and growing lad he attended the Tucson Public Schools, graduating in 1901. Then he took high school course in North Carolina, gradu, ating from the Warreaton High School in 1905. He then put in four years attendance at the Wake Forest College in the same state, graduating with the de gree of D. l.. B. in 1909. Re turning to Arizona he was ad- mitted to the bar in 1909, engag- ing in practice at TuSson.
 In his early experience at the bar Mir. Hardy was in the offices of Senator Mark A. Smith, Sen, ator Eugene S. Ives, and Judge w. H. Sawtelle.
 In 1912 Mir. Hardy was ap pointed Assistant Attorney Gen. eral, holding that post until 1918 entering the army some months afterward. A severe illness which confined him to his bed several weeks delayed his ap plication for military service, and it was July, 1918, before he reported at Camp Travis in Texas, one of contingent of three from Santa Cruz county.
 At Camp Travis MT. Hardy devoted himself with his usual ardor to the duties and inStruc tion prescribed; and was gradu- ated with a recommendation for a commission in the cavalry ser vice; but signing the armiStice in November of that year closed all further enlargement of the army, and a policy of reduction o1onfn6 hi0h lad fO dis charge of the young men at that year.
 During his absence in camp MT. Hardy was nominated for county attorney by the Demo cracy of Santa Cruz, and elected by handsome majority. His release from service came in the very nick of time, and within a few weeks after his return home he had been installed in the of flee, conducting it's important and arduous duties.
 During the period since he took the office MT. Hardy has conducted some very important litigation, including the Baca Float Grant back taxes case, that involves some $1OO,OOO due tke county and the state. Ia the Superior Court and before the Supreme Court MT. Hardy conducted the case to a success full issue, without assistance of other legal talent; and he accom- plished a gratifying result. The case in now on appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, where his friends antici- pate MT. Hardy will follow it as Attorney General. and add the cap sheaf to his series of legal victories in big and knotty litigation.
 In all relations Mir. Hardy is young man who has won the re spect and esteem of all who know him; which means a great part of the people if Arizona. That he is the right man for Attorney General his legion of friends insist most earnestly.- HN1an naciS