The oasis., 1896-11-14
REoRcANrzE rnEPaRry.

puDICdu party UT hid N'n"NJ' @A' present there is no such organization. It is an A. P. 4. party which is mas auerading in republican disguise. By it's secret machlnatlons that nefarious organization has captured the party machinery and conventions to do 50 unbushingly voting at primary cleo tions men who do not belong to the republican party, and bs their aid shutting out from the party conven- tioas good party men with records Of lifelong devotion to republican prin- ciples. Then ia those conventions the conspiratoTs have named tickets con sisting of candidates from their own organization, shutting out all others no matter what their party stand ing or record. The only candidates they put up who do not belong to their dark lantern conspiracy are delloer- ately nominated to be slaughtered in the interest of some populist or dem ocratic candidate who is a member as they slaughtered R. c. Brown for Doctor Noon, and Geo. Scholefeld for W. N. Cummings. Or they deliber- ately leave party nominations open to- give clear field to their coadjutors on the democratic ticket, ,-as was the case with the Nogales precinct nomi- nations. Yet when republicans who want to support republican principles and republican candidates for office, and who are shut out from participa- tion in party deliberation by the fraud and trickery of this dark lantern or qanization, refuse to endorse such manifest abuse of their party, they have to bear the stigma of bolting- l But freemen will bear such stigma be- fore they will submit to outrages such as have been perpetrated upon the re- publican party in Pima county. The IA. r. A. crowd have forced a demon stration of that fact twice now-in
 1891 and at the recent election. But for the outrages perpetrated by the dark-lantern crowd the republican county ticket would have been elected
 both times
 And there is another reason why the party organization in the county
 should be remodeled. As at present constituted 1t is not representative
 Take. for instance, the representation
 of Nogales precinct on the county cen
 tral committee. Who are they? What fare they? Whom 1fI5y T6pfesentx No one but MT. II. K Chenoweth. What
 is Mir. Chenoweth's following? Just
 nineteen republicans in the precinct voted for him for the legislature. Yet there were tifty-hye votes cast for the republican candidate for con gress. The showing made by Mr. Che
 noweth in the election certainly does not entitle him to the sole and only
 representation Nogales has on the county committee And the Me
 Kinley & Hobart and Doran Club Of
 Nogales.1 which cast forty-threc of 2 the fifty-fiye votes cast by the precinct e for Mr. Doran, beside influencing six 2 democrats to vote for him, is without representation on the committee. In
 Tucson it is the same way. A large
 portion of the republicans of the city > are without any representation what
 ever on the committee; and the mem | bership consists of men representative of only portion of the party strength Parties are not consolidated and
 strengthened by that kind of repre-
 sentation. Every element of strength
 in the party should have members 2 2 upon the committee.
 Is 1t not then high time that thu { party was reorganizeG? Now is thC
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