The border vidette., 1922-07-01
HUNT EXPOSES FALSEHOOD.

In their sullen fury at the fail- ure of Democratic candidates for office to attack each other, some Republican newspa pers of the state have begun to deal in false
 hood, hoping thereby to spread the impression that what they so frantically desire has come to pass. Especially are the G. O..
 P. newspapers put out because neither Ward nor Hunt will as sail each other.
 Recently the Tucson Citizen,
 whose general manager is Re
 publican National Committed man and Bank Receiver Andrew
 Baumert, Jr., published what it claimed was an interview with
 Former Governor Hunt. It was apparent one of the statements it put into the mouth of the former executive was untrue, and it now develops the other one was false.
 They have offered me a Unit ed States senatorship as an in- ducement to me to get out of the governorship race, but refused it," the Citizen said Hunt said. To attribute such a remark to any man is to insult his intellig- ence. No man, or group of men. can offer or give the United States Senatorship to any one The former governor knows that, and the Tucson newspaper knows it, too. One might just as re- asonably offer the presidency to a person.
 The Tucson mouthpiece of the G. O. P. organization in the state in it's other assertion claimed the former governor had declar- ed his intention to keep on fight ing for the governorship, or for something else in keeping with Republican desires, should he lose in the primary election. The former governor denies that, and in a letter to H. S. Me Cluskey, editor of the Arizona Labor Journal and appointed a regent of the state university by MT. Hunt, the former executive says;
 My attention has been called to an editorial in the Tucson Citizen on Sunday, June IS. en titled, No Quarter, in which am quoted as saying in speech delivered at the Adams picnic in Texas Canyon that, in case I am defeated at the primary I would continue fighting.' I did say that, but not to carry the inference placed upon it by the Tucson Citizen.
 II have made the statement so frequently that, in case I was defeated in the primary, I would eat crow and abide by the de- cision of the voters, it seems idle to repeat the statement.
 Tn order that my position may be so clear that no one can misunderstood it, I repeat as ac- curately as possible what I said at Texas Canyon: If I am de feated in the primary, I will eat crow, and support the Democra- tic ticket, but I will continue to fight for those liberal and pro- gressive ideas I have held for so long, and I will continue to fight for them as long as I can do so.
 Tt is my privilege as a Demo crat to seek the nomination of my party, the same as 1 think it to be the right of every other Democrat to run for office. I feel that the conference at Tue son usurped a cherished right in attempting to supplant the direct primary. 1 feel that the was dominated by in- terests which I have never been able to observe have been loyal to any party. They have con- trolled the Republican party for SO long it has become a habit, but it my opinion there are still in the ranks of the Democratic party enough Democrats who hold to the idea that this gov ernment of ours is still govern ment of. for and by the people that they will continue to strive to continue it as a peoples gov 
 II am one of these men, and as long as I live I will continue to strive and to fight for liberal Democratic principles, and gov ernment that will represent the people of the state. I will, how ever, support the nominees of