Arizona republican., 1896-05-24
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES A BloodleSS and Quiet
 Day Passed. Delegates Elected to County
 Convention. Boss Alexander and Hts Lieutenants Put Up an Opposition
 Ticket.

Yesterday was held the Democratic pr maries to choose the members of the county convention that shall choose Maricopa's delegates to the territorial convention wherein shall be named the ! territorial delegates to Chicago.
 1t was a quiet day. There were no contests worthy of the name and the vote can scarcely be considered as rep resendng the Democratic fighting strength. In the First ward num- Der of Democrats, encouraged by the work of J. Y. E Smith on the Demo cratic side of the house at the citizens meeting Friday night, voted for him ! as a delegate, and he came near being elected. The Second ward and the Third had nothing to scrap" over, and in the Third only was there an oppo- sftion ticket put up, so it was said, by | Boss Alexander, just to worry a fellow I Democrat, a Fourth warder, and to keep him at home and away from the Second ward. The regular ticket triumphed, however. Men were sta | tioned on the highways to entice the casual passer-by to the ballot box and none were the qual.fca tions asked. Some of the people who voted really l had no idea what the ceremony meant. | There was little in sight for the par tisans and only the boss kept active 1 A little interest was excited by the i following anonymous circular:
 I Voters, Beware! Look to your bal 1 lots and scratch the traitors.
 | Political matters are assuming pc culiar phases, colors aud shades in and about this city It seems that as soon as one cancerous political sore is healed another breaks out with the symptoms of dreaded and a!ar1sslg avirrlence' on the Democratic partyf's body, super induced by the disease of questionable methods, which heretofore afflicted the party, that only promises the party's betrayal by the willing tools of the party's enemies. This is so apparent already that another era of discontent is not hard to conjure-not through hopes deferred, as was the case while that corrupt and hypocritical wretch who disgraced the good name of the territory was occupying the office of governor-but through the same ele- ment that pulled the strings on the Pin-Head Puppet. There is ample evil dence to convince any one not blind to facts that there is deep-laid con- l spiracy to treacherously lay Arizona Democracy at the feet of the go1dbugs in the Chicago convention. The rev enue service is particularly in evil dence. The master mind in political robbery is at the helm. The elements that have been the bane of the part tvs noble principles and instincts are in the saddle. That element proposes to ride-ride rough shod over the rank and file, the bone and sinew of the party's wishes, desires and purposes; and it is the element that conceived the vicious legislation in the last leg islature in the name of economy; it is the element that so construes the laws | that diary deeds to loot and plunder the public treasury can be practiced; it is the element that transacts business in star chamber sessions; it is the ele- ment that frames it's own contracts with the territory to enrich themselves at the expense of the people of Arizona, without giving in return any sort of an equivalent; it is the element that is waxing fat at the public crib while the public debt is being augmented and territorial obligations are being hawked about for sale and sod at such sacrificing discounts as would make the original Shylock grin with glee It is the element that has already enlist ed in it's services parties who are known to be "Judases'' to the Demo cratic party in the past, and who will not fail to maintain their nefarious records as such, for pay, in the future. Set down on the Would-be Bank Wreckers and Pin-Head Democrats.
 The following ticket elected by the several wards will take seats in the county convention:
 First Ward-J. F. Meador, F. M. Czarnowski, c. A. Luke, Alex Barsanti, Jas. McNamara, C.. H. Hirschfeld, Leo Goldman, Joseph Balsz, w. B. Cox, F. P Trott.
 l Second Ward-J A. Fleming, T. E. Dalton, J. R. Norton, J. L. B. Alex ander, Jos. Campbell, J. E Walker, H. H. McNeil, E. Gang, H. M. Willis.
 Third Ward-B A. Fickas, J. w
 Crenshaw, Neri Osborn, G. P. Bullard
 Robt. F. Doll, James Burson, B. F Zoeckler, A. w. Hoffman, C. B. Ming c. Slankard, R. Friedell, H. P. DeMund
 Fourth Ward-E. F. Kellner, H. H Logan, A. s. Mills, B. M. Crawford, F
 L. Warner, w. C. Budge.