Arizona republican., 1895-04-14
A GOOD SIGN. An Earnest of Repub-
 liCan Success. Selection of Delegates
 Yesterday
To the Municipal Convention
 on Tuesday Night.
The Event Was Not Bitter but Warm
 Enough to Insure Interest in the Election. |.

If the prediction enthusiasm of party may be taken as an index of it's election success the Republicans of Phoenix are all right for this year and for two years to come. The primaries were held yesterday. Never before were they so orderly conducted, and though the vote was a comparatively light one, never before in Phoenix was there so fair an expression of popular opinion or, it may be added, one so complete. The expression has not ex- tended possibly to the absolute naming of candidates for the offices to be filled, though the voters must have had some sort of an idea of that kind in their minds when they cast their votes for delegates. It means rather that the Republican voters not having time to devote to the details of nominating convention expressed their confidence in four sets of delegates to do the right and proper thing.
 In each of the four wards there were two tickets of delegates, each supposed to be in favor of particular candidates for certain offices. It singularly hap pened that the principal office of mayor and those of two councilmen from the First and Third wards, to be elected under the new law for 8 period of four years, were lost sight of or not con sidered at all, so that when the polls closed there was as s;xuGh doubt as to who those candidates should be as when they were opened.
 Party interest centered almost en- tirely about the offices of city marshal, city recorder and assessor and collector of taxes.
 But it does not appear that the issue az to these offices has been settled. The delegates elected were chosen, not by slates or in the interest of particular candidates, but in most, if not in all cases, without consultation.
 The polls were opened at 10 o'clock and closed at 3. There, was no brsss band, there were no bannered car riages, there was nothing to lend an abnormal interest to the primaries. Every Repub blican had his choice, but he did not want candidate chosen unless it was plain that he was the strongest man.
 As proof that there was no work of cliques or factions there happened to be two tickets in the First ward. For that matter, there were two in every ward. They were chosen at private meetings of gentlemen who were not aware that others were selecting names for delegates. It singularly happened that the two tickets for the First ward, each containing six names, were alike with the exception of two names. In a less marked degree the same thing occurred in every ward.
 Seventy-two votes were cast in the First, and the delegates chosen were T. w. Hine, Pierce Evans, D. M. Pur- man. c. J. Dyer, John T. Dennis and J. W. Spear.
 In the Second there were forty-fve votes and there were selected as dele , gates N. A. Morford, c. M. Sturgie, L. H. Goodrich and E. J. O'Brien. Interest gathered mainly in the Third ard Fourth wards. In the former the delegates are A. J. Sampson Frank Plotts, J. B. Lacy, Frank FrOtnerO. R.C. LOWell, fl. O. Randal R. Upton, W. A. Freeze.
 Fourth ward delegates are F. A. Hartwell, J. A. Johnson, J. W. Frakes w. M. Nickols, G. H. N. Luhrs and T A. Jobs; Lincoln Fowler and J. L Cant tied and each are entitled to { half vote.
 The work of the candidates for mayor and councilmen will be closed at the convention on Tuesday night. Int election of course will take place later but that will be mere boys play to th'