The oasis., 1896-04-04
TO oocnIsr COUNTY REPUBLICANS.


 chise county, TIE OASIS has a large circulation among the people thereof, and it's editor is pretty we'll posted on the ins and outs of matters over there. In the last campaign he was named a member of the territorial republican committee from CochiSe and mem Der of the republican county commit tee from Benson precinct. While in that county his earnest endeavor was to represent accurately the predomin- ant republican sentiment, and he be- lieves that hedid so fairly and square ly. He refused to ally himself with either of the warning factions, and the outcome has convinced him of the ac- curacy of his judgment. His opportu- mites for feeling public sentiment in Cochise are as good now as when TIE OASIS was published at Benson.
 With the foregoing preliminary TIE OASIS does not hesitate to advise the republicans of CochiSe, to insist upon calling primary elections or precinct caucuses for selection Of delegates to d county convention to name the dele gates to the Phpnlx convention, which is to elect delegates to the nat lonal convention at St. Louis. Do not permit your county central committee, named two years ago, and controlled now by one or two men with proxies, to act for you In so important matter as selection of delegates to a national convention the voice of the people should be heard, and that should come up through the regular channels precinct primaries or eau cuses and county conventions.
 If the county committee presumes to name a delegation to the Phoenix convention, the republicans of Cochise who are opposed to such an unwar- ranted and irregular procedure-and such republicans are in a majority over there should call mass meetings at Tombstone aud Bisbee, and repudi- ate such action. Then let the mass meeting at Tombstone call county convention, and designate those in tbe outlying precincts who shall con duct the primaries. Let the conyen- tion so called name a delegation to the Phoenix convention, and that delega- ton will be admitted as against a self constituted delegation named by two or three men with proxies in a mori- bund county committee.
 It is the voice of the people which will be heard in the Phoenix conven- tion, and the people of Cochise should raise their voice against star chamber proxy proc eedngs.
 LATER: Since the foregoing was in type the chairman of the republican county central committee of Cochise has issued call for the committee to meet at Tombstone on the fifteenth of April, and among the objects of the meeting the call boldly states that ten delegates to the Phoenix conyen- tion will be selected Those ten dele gates will be selected by committee controlled by two or three men with proxies from all the outlying prec- cincts. Those two or three men will name themselves and q lot of dum- mics to the Phoenix convention, and then the two or three manipulators will take the proxies of the dummies and assume to represent the republl- can voters of Cochise. THE OASIS does not hesitate to say that they will be in no sense representative of the re- publican sentiment of the county.
 The calling of the committee on so late q date as the fifteenth of April savers of d trick. It gives no time to get up protest against the action . +.I-,, fTn, srgf aIgtt1I ,,r,,.. (, ,.