Weekly Phoenix herald., 1882-10-06
The Independents !!
Meeting ot the County Con-
 vention.

The Independent Convention, call. cd together by notice in 'ast week E HERALD, was held in the school house.
 Convention met at II o'clock A. NJ ., and Mir. J. Campbell was called to the chair temporarily and MT. Sweeney secretary.
 Moved and carried that the tempo rary officers q, as permanent of1icer- of the convent n.
 The chair then gave in few ap- prcpriate remarks the purpose of the convention which was to name a peoples ticket on which the people could rely,in which they would have confidence.
 Moved ard carried that q commit tee of five on credentials and order of business he named by the chair.
 The following persons were the appointed:
 Mcssrs. Smith, Marian, Moffat, Velasco, B. Cox.
 Moved and carried that the con- mittee be increased to eight so as 10 be sufficiently large to have one member from each precinct.
 The following gentlemen were then added 10 the committee: Messrs Walker, Thomas and Kelley.
 Moved and carried that q commit tee of three on platform aud rcsolu- tions be appointed of which the chair should be a member. The committee was named as follows: Messrs. Smith, Walker and the Chair.
 Moved and carried that the con- vention take recess till o'clock P. M.
 AFTERNOON SESSION.
 Convention called to order at 2 o'clock, by the Chairman.
 Com nittee on Credentials report cd as follows.
 Your committee on credentials by leave to submit the following report: As members of the convention from Phoenix:
 G. w. Marian, T. W. Brown, J. s. Byers, E. Kelly. J. P Moffit, W. T. Smith, M. B. Cox, John Enrich, J. J. Sweeney, P. Brix, proxy, T. Sher- man, J. Campbell, M. Garcia, M. w. Ginn.
 MeDo,0eH-B. Valasco, and J. Re dondo.
 Vulture.-W. c. Pimm.
 Caue Creek.-W. H. Thomas, W. B. Jones, J. Clauncy, w. O'Brien, w. Hartlay.
 7Smpe.-W. H. Edwards, Jos. ". Cummings.
 Mesa-J. B. Thomas by Jos. 
 M. B. Cox, Char. of Com.
 Moved and carried that the report ae accepted as.Ead Committee dis charged.
 The Committee on Order of busi- nes, and Resolutions then presented ,beir report which was adopted and Committee discharged.
 The following are the Resolutions adopted.
 We, the people of Maricopa Coun- ', in convention assembled, do de- ,larc as follows:
 That the officials elected by the people are the agents -DI servants 't the people. That it behooves us to place in of ice only men who arc competent to discharge each and all of the duties ,f the offices to which they are elected.
 That the question of selecting county officials is not political one md Tn such selection the competency ,f candidates should. alone be con- idcred.
 That tho Democratic Convention 'f Maricopa County has grossly and ignored the question of competency in it's nominees, but has placed upon its tickets for various 'fices men entirely united to dis harge the duties of the same. That we will place in nomination or the various county offices men vho are competent 10 discharge the Iuties thereof without regard to political affiliations.
 Nominations were then declared n order.
 Moved and carried .lat nomina- iors be made by exclamation. The following ticket was then ominated:
 CogNcIL-C. W. Hayden. Mes<rs. j. H. Calder rood and J. Stinson.
 TREAsURER-F. A. Shaw.
  PROBATE JUDGE-J. T. Alsap. UPERyIsoRs-E.B Byers and N. Her ick.
 ADMINISTRATOR AED CORONER [. M. Gregory.
 RECoRDER-passed.
 DISTRICT ATToRNEY-Frank Cox. SHERIFF.. B. Kelly. SURvEYoR-W. A. Hancock. Nominations having been con- luded the following County Con- ,ittec was appointed with power to dd to the Committee or fill vacan- ies:
 Phenir-Geo. Marian, Thos. ". .rovwp D MaHt TNtp Esrr;ob