Arizona republican., 1921-01-02
INTERESTING LETTER IF SIAM LIFE FROM
 FORMER GOV. HUNT

Touching upon the different phases of life of a minister to Siam, with a word dropped here and there that gives an interesting sidelight to the situa- ton, former Governor George W. Hunt has written a letter of interest 10 Miss Tommie Mahoney, former stenographer to Attorney General Jones. In his letter the minister declares that he has not had word from home of news of the primaries.
 T am full of misgivings that a dire calamity has befallen progressive de- mocraey in Arizona" writes the former progressive leader.
 After a few comments on the differ ent candidates, he writes of his own life over there:
 ''The department gave me instruction to go first to Japan and then to China; following those instructions, sailed on the twenty second of June. but found that my steamer would not touch Homo lulu or Yokahoma, but went direct to Nagasaki and that necessitated my making two journeys across Japan by rail. This gave me an opportunity of seeing a good deal of the Land of Nippon. It was all very beautiful and instructive. Every bit of land, no larg- CT sometimes than small room, was in cultivation.
 My stay i'll Tokyo was brief. had time to see Yokahoma and also the noted bronze buddha at kamal1 ura 1; then I proceeded to Korea. crossing the Japan sea; passed close to the island where the Russian navy was sunk dur ing the War between Japan and Rus sia. At the port of Fussan the Japs took me in charge. for they are not | taking any chances in regard to the po- | litical situation in that unfortunate country, Korea; and from the time l put my foot on shore until crossed l the border to China that police officer ! was with me. l stopped at Seoul the capitol of Korea. Korea is now called i Chosen by the Japs and is so desig- ! hated in all the maps I saw at Seou ! the old Korean palace that for so many ! centuries housed that corrupt dynasty
 My next stop was at Mudken, Man. 1 churia, and there I came up or, rather ! ran into the Chinese revolution, anC from that point to Picking it took nearly q week; and it was some experienc, travelling on Chinese troop tra ins. A l Teintsin the colonel Of the 18th T.. S i army put me on a military train and ! was taken 10 Picking. It was a mem l orable journey and not without danger l We arrived after an all day ride, goins just eighty miles, to find that the gate were closed; alter some parleylng the1 were opened. it seemed so unreal [, go into the capitol of a great natioi 1 and see it surrounded by a great wal | nearly fifty feet high and from fortl
 to fifty feet wide The walls wer
 manned and 1t carried me back to tn days when, as a boy. read Sir Waite
 Scott The legation official met m, and I was driven to the American le
 gauon and for eight days while l wa in that most interesting of Orienta ] cities l was the guest of AIr. Crane ! the American minister. Owing to tht ! revolution and the gates of the cit
 being closed. | did not get to see tn
 summer palace which is some mile
 west and where the dowaEer empress
 spent the revenues of vast empir
 in building that magnificent structure
 and what was no doubt the ultimat
 cause of the downfall of the Manchl
 dynasty. History they say, repeat
 itself and no doubt if the dowager em
 press could have read the fate of tn
 French king who wasted the wealtl
 Of France on the palace that the treat,
 of peace was signed in she would hay
 been wise; but such is the fate of ALI
 E1ACTIONARIES for, like the 'Ol
 BoWbons. there are none so blind d
 those who will not sec
 ~ will not trouble you with the res Of my waudcrings in China; they wer