The Holbrook news., 1920-09-03
POLITICAL POT POURRI
 PLAIN AND A LA MODE

An amateur scout from Jerome was in Holbrook Wednesday sizing up the situation and evidently laying plans for springing eleventh hour propa- ganda against the candidacy of E. s. Clark, for the bosses of the Big Hole" have declared that Clark shall be defeated and they are arrogant enough to think they can pick the senator from Arizona and hand him to the people to swallow, even if they choke in the process. The perspect- i've of the Big Hole" boss is limited by the hill in front of his office. How ever, he has plenty of holes to crawl into after the primaries, for the U. V. mine is large institution.
 That the people will choose their own senator, untrammeled by strings of the interests is indicated by the prediction of the Prescott Journal Miner that Clark will carry the state, getting 50 per cent of the votes, Cam eron 37 per cent, and Maddock per cent. The latter will probably not be added to as a result of the Maddock cards, which, by a strange co-inci- dence, began to appear shortly after the arrival of the Jerome emissary in Holbrook.
 Nope-the people don't like a coat of arms composed of the muck stick rampant, surmounted by a Stetson hat, and it looks as though Clark will win hands down-as he should.
 Worseley, ,Robison, Maddock and Bull Durham are vieing for recognition on the political bill boards, with the bull in the foreground.
 There is going to be a rattling of dry bones-a shakeup within the fam fly and many skeletons put on parade when the new committeeman meet for the organization of the Navajo coun- ty G. O. P. The war horses have broken loose like a band of wild ca yuses and the machinery that has in days gone by whipped them into line is on the scrap pile-hence the scrap.
 John Quirk is the most available man for the office of county assessor, not because of his political affiliations, but because of his peculiar fitness for the office he seeks. He has demon strated his ability-and efficiency should stand supreme in the selection of such an important officer.
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 Miss Marguerite Drunm, candidate for recorder on the democratic ticket, has been a winner from the start-and will receive a handsome majority which only sustains the old but not al- ways true political adage: "May the best man win"
 Sheriff Harp has big lead over his opponent at the close of the campaign and will cop off the democratic nom ination as easily as running in boot legger. The office of sheriff is the one office wherein efficiency should count | the strongest, and the voters will rec ognize this fact next Tuesday by the big vote that will be boiled by Harp.
 James Scott, of Pinedale, republican candidate for the upper house of the legislature, will receive big vote at the primaries and when it comes to the general election it will be an easy parties to ticket him through to Phoe- nix.
 Linwood s. Pratt, of Lakeside, Nav aio county, is a candidate for state superintendent of public instruction; is well qualified for the position, and will get more votes in Northern Ari- zona, if nominated, than the man in Marion, Ohio-because he gives the voters straight, sensible talk through the press, and pays for it-while many candidates for state office panhandle their advertising through the medium of a high-salaried press agent that lives off the gullibility of the average country publisher. The press needs education, all right. Uf the Linwood s. Pratt kind.
 Miss Hattie Penrod, candidate for county school superintendent on the democratic ticket, has big lead over all the contestants, and her nomina- tion and election is conceded by all who are competent to read the politi- cal ouiji board. She is qualified for every phase of the work and her host of friends over the county will put her over by handsome majority, so it is said.