Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-08
HUNT'REPL les TO
WITHDRAWAL LETTER OF HEARD;
TAKES HOT SHOTS AT CHARGES

! Governor Geo. w. p Hunt has sent
! the following letter to the Douglas
Dispatch for publication in reply to
the recent letter of Dwight B. Heard,
wherein he announced he will not be
candidate for governor this year on
the republican ticket.
The governor covers a great deal of
ground in his letter and has many
interesting things to say. He writes
as follows:
May 5, 1926.
Dear Sir:
1t is none of my business who the
candidate for governor on the repub-
lican ticket will be.
1t is none of my business whether
you become a candidate for the re-
publican nomination or not.
1t is none of my business whether
you vent your spleen against the ju-
nior United States senator from the
state of Arizona or not.
1t is none of my business whether
you create a schsm in the republican
party or not
1t is my business when you under
take. to use my name in your politi-
cal announcement and it is my bust
ness when you undertake to make my
political affiliations for me.
In your communication to Mr.. Cor
bett you state:
Frankly, in my desire to help Ari
IONA from the obstructive grip of
Governor Hunt I will not be placed
in a position where, as a republican
candidate, 1 might be expected to sup
4Io
of the party regularity Such action
on my part would be tacit approval
of the Hunt Cameron alliance of
which are many and increasing indi-
cations"
There are two kinds of fighters in
this state, those who ask no quarter
and those who whimper. have
never asked for quarter because 1 do
not fight for myself
The fights I have made have been
fights for principle; and I have had
many alliances against me in the
past I recall when thousands of re-
publicans have registered in the
democratic primaries in order to vote
for my opponent for the democratic
nomination And I expect, from pres
ent indications, that thousands of re-
publicans will be registered in the
democratic primary this year to fur
ther the program of a bipartisan
combine, of which 1 am not a mem
ber, and that you, though not stulti-
fying yourself to the extent of reg
istering as democrat, will be found
cooperating and endeavoring to help
control the destnies of the demo-
cratic party in this state
1 resent, coming from you or any
one else, any imputation against my
integrity as democrat.
The tactics which you and others
are pursuing in this connection, are
merely a continuation of the tactics
evolved in the campaign of 1924
through which you profited to some
extent, in that campaign.
You had the assistance at that time
of certain papers that flaunt the
democratic banner, and certain poll
ticians in the state. The chief Of
fender, in this connection, aside from
your own paper, has been the Pres
cott Courier, a newspaper which was
purchased some years ago by the at
torneys for a multi millionaire mine
owner of Yavapai and Cochise coun-
ties. The editor of this paper was
imported to Prescott from Douglas
where he had been employed for a
of years as editor of the re-
publican newspaper in that city, the
Douglas Daily Dispatch, and his edi-
torials during the past three years
have been very reminiscent of the
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