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Show THE ARIZONA VACANCY. Governor Wolfley Talks About the Selection Selec-tion of His Sucocsaor. Washington. Sept. 5. Governor Wolfley of Arizona, who was recently removed from that position, still remains re-mains in Washington. I asked him this morning as to the outlook for the appointment of his successor, but he replied that there was apparently no scramble so far for the place and it did not look as if there was going to be. While disclaiming any special information infor-mation on tho subject,. Governor Wol-fley Wol-fley said the present indications were that if a man from the territory should be appointed it would be Mr. Murphy, the territorial secretary, whose friends are asking for his promotion to the governorship; gov-ernorship; yet he did not think the situation sit-uation had sufficiently crystallized to justify any one in expecting the appointment, ap-pointment, and he was under the impression im-pression that the place would be giveu to some one who does not reside in the territory at all. A conversation with the president justified this inference. ' I hear from another source that tho president has tendered the place to an outsider, who has the acceptance of it under advisement. Congressman Morrow Mor-row of California has wanted the ollice, and if tho party now considering the question does not accept, he may be the man. Governor Wolfley does not seem the least cast down by his forced resignation, resigna-tion, nor is ho apparently in a repentant repent-ant frame of mind because of his criticism criti-cism of Major Powell, which was made the basis of the charges against him. He says if the matter had been left to the people of the territory he would have been sustained, yet he recognizes the awkward position in which his criticism crit-icism placed tho administration and takes the matter very philosophically. |