The oasis., 1896-11-07

aiiidavits nt men WnO nave SaO III Ohc
 council of the A. P. A. right here in
 Nogalcs and in Tucson.
 In passing THE OASIS will call att
 tent;on to the fact that Lieutenant
 II. o. Flipper asserts that when Col
 iector Webb was recognizing the GUS
 toms force at Nogales, MT. w. J.
 EKey employed him lLieut. Flipperl
 to draw up an application for posi-
 tion as hne rider, passing his claim
 upon the alleged fact that he (Ekeyl
 was. and had always been, a democrat.
 He is a nice man to read out of their
 party republicans who have given thirty and more years of party service,
 and never yet asked for an office. I Now, with reference to the tag to
 the Illumination by Messrs. EKey and
 Lewis, calling attention to republi-
 cans in Pima county to certain facts
 FIRST: That this cast out traitor Is
 a bolter of conventions; and has never
 beer delegate to other than d bolt
 ing convention since his residence m
 this precinct.
 This is in allusion to the convention , last April. MT. Bird admits bolting , the county convention then, and he did so for the very reason that it was controlled by the A. P. A. which was 1 trying to send an anti-McKinley dele pation to the St. Louis convention , from Arizona. Mir. Bird was himself member Of the A. P. A.; but he did not join the order for any such pur- , poses, and, in common with many , others he would not submit to it's be-
 ing so used. The fact that the dele , gates selected by the bolting conyen- D tion. were seated at Phoenix shows whether Mir. Bird and his associates g were right in bolting. When the Phe- v nix convention split MT. Bird did not
 20 out with the bolters, although he I approves the bolt. He remained be- D hind and nailed to the cross the A. r. s A. crowd with d Mckinley instruc' tion. In the committee on resolutions e Mir. Bird presented such resolutlon'
 and succeeded in getting it into the V platform reported to the convention. e And he fought for it on the floor oi e the convention. The convention re- f iected that resolution, and MT. h. IA y- Chenoweth voted for its rejection. y The fact that the delegation sent tt n St. Louis by the bolting convention It were seated, and that one Of them n MT. Wm. Grifiths, was madenationa a committeeman from Arizona, while t. Mckinley man was put upon the com n mittee on credentials, where an anti s, McKiuiey man was intended, shows $ whether the bolters were right. IS Another count is:
 sr SECOND: That he refused to vote a d the last republican primary helu II Pr this ptecinct, the same having beer !. under the direction of the county cen " tral committee, he being a member 0 US said committee and signed the call 10 le said primaries.
 IS There has beer no republican prl ys mary held in Nogales since the on T. held on the evening of September l2th e. thesdelegates from which primary wef Ill thrown out of the A. P. A. conventlo e. at Tucson by the most bareface' ot fraud. The other primary to whlc 1g alluson was made was not republ nd can primary. It was an A. F. A. pr Ie- mary, at which populists and dem' ty erats voted. Mir Bird signed call tc en republican mass meeting to arrane ey for a primary. He protested agalns lc- the call including anything else ou sr- the mass meeting; and when that ma ug meeting rejected good republican do en Urine, to do so voting democrats an It's populists and miscounting the voter