Tombstone epitaph., 1922-03-19
GUESSES AND NEAR GUESSES ON THE POLL.
 TICAL SITUATION IN ARIZONA
(Miami Silver Belt)

Governor George w. F. Hunt is undoubtedly the great outstanding figure in the democratic party in Ar today.
 He served in the old territorial days as president of the constitutional convention He served governor of Arizona for three terms. He has represented the United States in the Orient He has just returned home. He is the Governor Hunt when he left here and he has not changed his viewpoint and his principles at all A little older perhaps, little mellOwed by tme little more tolerant of the view of others perhaps but deep down in the heart of this burns the patriotic determination maintain for the people of Arizona the prerogatives and principles of American liberty that has existed in him at all times.
 There may be room for criticism of of the things that Mr. Hunt has said and done in the past It would be surprising in the struggles through which he has been if he had been criticised But regardless of the attitude of all people toward Mr. Hunt there who say he has not kept the faith.'
 Everyone throughout Arizona, friend and foe alike must admit that Governor Hunt has kept the faith God it to him keep from the time of leaving Globe to become president of the constitutional convention til he surrendered his seat of Arizona and left this country to represent the people of America the court of the king of Siam
 Governor Hunt has returned to And thing the people of Arizona bank upon is that Governor Hunt will not surrender surrender long he lives, the fundamental principles that he stands for.
 Governor Hunt is not the only who made this fight There others thousands of others in Arizona with the strong fundamental, pioneering princ pies. Men with the courage and the undying resolution to surrender has Ex-Governor Hunt
 Some of the men of this type have passed to the Great Beyond but the majority of them still here
 For instance, there is Senator Homer R. Wood, of Yavapai county You can place all the Absentee Cap tasts and combine them into force and power and put them in position threaten the extermination of and this would stand before them without fear and without trembling absolutely and completely, daunted and unafraid Like David before Goliath, he has courage which from the knowledge that he is right and that one cannot lose when one is right
 Then down there in Cochise county is another daunted pioneer. Senator Charles M Roberts Charles M. Roberts has the unflinching principles had these other pioneers His life and activities in Arizona typical and would be interesting review them for that reason.
 Charles M Roberts was born in Stephensvle Erath county, Texas, a ranch. His father a There was never time Ill Charle's life when he did not have opportunity to commune with naure As
 little boy he found his greatest pleasure in the great out doors and he has been outdoor all his life When yet young fad his father decided to get for his herds and started the long trek toward the west driving his herds before him. Charlie went with his fath he drove them from Texas clear into Colorado. It took them four months make the journey. Untamed Indians beset their path but these intrepid pioneers hay ing confidence in themselves and trusting to their ability to protect their own drove their herds through these bands of savages successfully to Colorado.
 Those the days when the buffalo roamed the praries in large herds and Senator Charles NJ Roberts is the Charlie Roberts who the reputation of being of the greatest rough riders in Colorado in those early days. When Charlie only boy he cap tured wild yearng buffalo and fastening rope to his neck and grabbing hold of the bufaos tail he rode that wild animal successfully. And perhaps Charlie Roberts is the only cowboy in Arizona living today who ceeded in enterprise of this sort.
 man who has the courage to ride wild buffalo is not the kind of nan who scares easily.
 Later on, Mir. Roberts father went into the mining business in Colorado and Charlie left his herds and be- came miner The Roberts family owned the Cleopatra mine in Gmnison county, Colorado. The work under ground however affected Charlies health and he compelled to go back on the ranch he purchased a place in Delta county Colorado Finally he decided to come to Arizona He landed in Flagstaff back in 1898 and became prospectOr prospecting the ranges clear across the hills of Arizona. Te lived in Globe for awhile: he lived in Nogales for awhile and then finally settled in Wilcox where he has remained ever since
 He bought the Central Copper company property near Wilcox He worked it in small way for awhile and then finally sold it to the Mascot Copper company Then he went back in the cattle business south of Wilcox where he remained for fifteen years finally selling out about two years ago.
 Tine nart that he was taking in the affairs of Arizona