Arizona republican., 1894-03-11
THE OUTBREAK. Nothing Like it Since Geronimo was Runin The Great Democratic
 Fiasco Yesterday. They Couldn't Get Enough To-
 gether for a Fight. The Only Result was to Show the Utter Absence of Democra-
 tic Organization.

" nat was thlS [" asked efrsnpel
 or a REPUBLICAN reporter yesterday
 afternoon as the remains of the Demo
 cratic territorial committee were car.
 ried down stairs from the city hall
 assembly room.
 Its the decapitated body of the
 Democratic central committee of the
 territory of Arizona" replied the re. porter.
 "Decapitated, howl" asked the stranger.
 ''By death, answered the reporter
 Well, what was this meeting for?"
 ''To put on a new head"
 Has it been done?"
 | "It has not"
 "What was done?" continued the stranger.
 Apparently nothing" said the re- porter, "but you've seen it ali"
 "Yes," pursued the stranger, "I fol- lowed this same gang in this morning i because had no where selse to go: | sized lem up on the street and figured ont that if 1 stayed with lem I'd see some sort of amusement; I gathered from the session this morning that there was misunderstood but couldn't | find out what 1t was about though I knew III a general way that it was 8 Democratic crowd. They seem to have come back after dinner just to sd- lourn. These men coming from all parts of the territory must have been put to great expense to attend fizzle." What the stranger saw would have appeared about the same to the average observer but what really happened was this: The twenty-five mem bers of the Demo cratic territorial committee had been called together to elect a chair man, so they were informed by the call
 but between the lines they read they were expected to sguelch an odious ad- mlsnlstration in the interest of the Gazette. The election of a chairman was only incidental. The meeting had been widely heralded; March 10 was the date of Hughes down. fall and 2 the ascendancy of the Democratic party. The real pur- pose of the meeting was daily dis closed in the Gasette's editorial col. umns and it was claimed that the papes was to be vindicated in it's quarrel with the administration.
 March 10, the portentous day, opened bright and clear and calm, but there was suppressed excitement in the Ga zette office indicative of a terrific strup gle. The morning train from the south brought in three of the twenty-one out side delegates and the morning mail contained no messages congratulatory or regretful. Neither were the tele- graph wires burned out under the pressure of dispatches from absent mem- bers. When the meeting was called at lO o'clock the committeeman looked lonesome in the big assembly room al- though they had been distributed with view to make as brave @ showing as possible. There were present beside a few misguided spectators, Frank Bax- ter. Capt. Parker and J. E. Walker. of Phoenix, Col. Edwards of Globe, (who was in town on other and more import ant buslness,) James Finley and Chas. E. Hof, (secretary of the committe) of Tucson, United States Marshal Meade and Andrew Tyner of Yuma.
 MT. Baxter was chosen to preside and business opened with point of order by M arshal Meade off noquorum. Under the ules he said quorum consisted of an unlucky thirteen. There were however number of proxies but the marshal contended that it would be absurd as well as dangerous to employ proxies in the constitution of quorum.
 The chair ruled adversely and the marshal appealed. The decision was so extraordinarily rank that even those in favor Of proceeding with the fell pur- poses of the meeting had mt the nerve to sustain the chair.
 A motion to adjourn sine die WAS de- feated and an adjournment was taken until 2 o'clock. At that time an ad- Journment of ten days was carried with the dissenting vote of Col. Edwards who immediately tried to read a paper written in forcible language with both hands. The colonel was interrupted by cries that the meeting was 'sout :" He still persisted until his voice was drowned in shouts of disorder incident to the breaking up. The contents of i the paper are said to have been notice ] to the committee of his resignation. |
 An analysis of the composition of tha l meeting IS an interesting process. The | parts of which 1t was composed were of l course administration and anti-admin- istration and they were AS nearly canal as the number may be divided by }.
 The antl-administration represent. atives were Finley. Baxter and Hoff Parker has been discreetly silent as to his position in the fight. The three men were divided he. tween Zulick and Barnes with an an. parent majority of one in favor of the latter though there was evidently of proxies for the former. singular chemical phenomenon appears in this analysis and that is that Finley and Baxter both Gazette men were on opposite sides in the Barnes Zulick struggle. The administration side can not be further analysed. It was intact and indivisible into other clements.
 There was indignant dissatisfaction among the Zulick men; a mixture of qualification and dissatisfaction among 5he Barnes men and pure unadulterated qualification on the administration side.
 What do you think of it?" asked a REPUBLICAN reporter of Barnes man.
 'I've nothing to say he replied. Ask Joe Alexander; but take him off into 'ome secluded spot while you talk abont t so that passers-by won't be annoyed E oy profanity" ft It is generally believed that the date K