Arizona republican., 1898-09-16
THE ROW TODAY.
Democratic Territorial Convention
 af Prescott.

me idSl QemCcraslc StrHSglerS to tha territCrial convention at Prescott to-
 day left last night for the north. Many
 were or hand as long as two days ago i for the purpose of taking the arriving delegates into their various camps. ] Prominent among them was the great
 chief of the Pimas, Juage ". H. l Barnes, and his "Injuns'' The tribe will receive further accessions this
 morning. There will be at least two
 distinct contests before the great strug-
 gle over the nomination O. delegate. The first will be a settlement of the
 pIoxy question. It is doubtful if prox ieS will be excluded, bEt so fearful
 were the leaders that it might be done they sent for many delegates here who had given proxies and urged them
 to appear at the convention in person. i If the anti-proxy rule should prevail the representation from the southern part of the territory will be very small. Less than thirty delegates from the counties of Gila, Graham, Co., chise, Pima, Pinal and Yuma will be there and hardly half of the Maricopa county delegation will be pesrent. Smith would be the heaviest loser by the adoption of such rule.
 The Text contest will arise over the two Pima county delegations. The so- called Barnes, anti-Smith or central committee delegation Will rely upon the fact that it was chosen according to precedent established in that county several years ago and which has never since been departed from. The anti-Smith men say that if they shC Culd be thrown out the COchise county delegation chosen in the same way and instructed for Smith, will have to be unseated. The Smith reople say that the cases are not analogous. IT. COcliSe county there was TO ODpo- sition to the action of the central com mittee, while in Pima there was. In reply tc this argument the .'Injuns" point to the fact that in the selection of the Smith delegates only two pre- ciIctS in the county were represented and primaries were actually held in only one, Tucson.
 The vote in this contest will not draw line on the canu,uates for del- egates. A few anti-Smitn delegates from this county will probably en- b,ace an opportunity .c vote agains- Judge Barnes on account of the reck- less way he and his 'Injuns" removed the scalps from Maricopa aspirants af- ter appointive positions in the Nine toenth legislature. As to the strength Of the candidates for delegates esti- mates are little better than conjec- ture. There is little doubt that Smith will have more votes on first ballot than any other candidate His supporters say there will be only one ballet and that he will receive sixty three votes, two more ,.lan a majority. They do not include Pima county in ttis estimate. They do include. trough. Gila. Graham, Cochise, Pinal. Yuma, Apache, twelve votes from Mar icoDa and three from Navajo. The calculation seems ,o be reliable eX- eep, as to Graham. From private in- formation which may not have been laid before the Smith managers. he cannot count or the sixteen votes from Gi aham. Wiley Jones has been Toti- ied that if he wants the support of the delegation it will stay with him until some enc has been nominated. Two members Of this delegation. Ben Craw- ford ard Charley shannon. however, ill certainly support Smith from start to finish, but if the remainder of the delegation should be subtracted from the foregoing estimate Smith would be left twelve votes short of majority and his most ardent sup porter cannot figure out how the gap IS tc be filled.
 IL is not probable Il at tie convention will conclude it's W w)rh before tomOr- .ow-