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Show SUPREME COURT ' SEATS MV. INT Unanimous Decision in Ari-j zona Election Contest Handed Down Today. ' 43 MAJORITY FOR HUNT Fifteen Days Allowed Govern-of Govern-of Campbell's Attorneys j to File an Appeal. PHOENIX. Ariz.. Dec. 22. The Arizona Ari-zona supremo court today seated G. W. P. Hunt as governor of Arizona. Hunt contested the election of Governor Gov-ernor Campbell, who now holds the office. Hunt is a Democrat The decision of the court was unanimous. unani-mous. Fifteen days were allowed Governor Campboll's attorney to file an appeal. On tho face of thq returns, Camp-j bell was given tho certificate of election elec-tion by the small margin of thirty-one votes. Hunt instituted a contest, declaring de-claring that a re-count would show he had been elected. He declined to surrender the office on January 1, but when the -supreme court issued an order declaring Campbell the de facto governor, pending the nppeal, he vacated and Campbell has held the office during these months. On a re-count of the voto Judgo Sanford of the superior court of Maricopa Mari-copa county declared Campbell elected. elect-ed. The decision of the lower court was regarded as ambiguous and an appoal was taken to the court above, which today unanimously decided that the re-count showed that Hunt had; been elected by forty-three votes. Georgo Wylle Paul Hunt, who by the decision of tho supreme court today to-day is declared governor of Arizona, was elected the first governor of the state of Arizona in 1911. He was born in Huntsvllle, Mo., In 1859. During tho recent labor troubles following tho deportations at Bisbee, President Wilson appointed Hunt a federal mediator me-diator to investigate Arizona strikes.. Governor Thomas E. Campbell announced an-nounced ho would take no further action ac-tion to bold the governorship. "My next appeal will be to the peo-plo peo-plo of the stato," said Governor Camp-boll Camp-boll in a statement following tho decision. de-cision. The decision handed won today reverses re-verses the court below and finds that Hunt was elected and is entitled to nil the emoluments of tho office for the terra "beginning January 1, 1917. Campbell Camp-bell has served as de facto governor for eleven months and three weeks without salary. The state auditor refused re-fused to issuo Warrants for tho 'irtlary of tho governor pending the decision, but has issued warrants for the salaries sala-ries of his appointees. |