Arizona republican., 1900-09-08
THE POLITICAL WEEK
Will Be Closed By the Republican
 County Convention.

The republican county convention today will close a particularly hot po- li;ical week in Phoenix. Until within the last few days il was supposed that it would be a rather tame affair. only two nominations being in contest. Lately new conditions have arisen which threaten to add piquancy and gayety to the occas sion.
 Nearly all the delegates arrived fast night; that is, all who will be here. eX- cept those from the south. The con- vention will b. a big one in point of numbers, every fifteenth voter in the county being present in person or proxy.
 The convention can hardly be ex- pected to rival the late democratic convention in. dramatic and conten- tious situations and, by the way, that convention was the smOo:hes, and most adroit performance ever put on the political boards in Maricopa coun- ty. It did not seem so the first day. but it began t. be suspected on the second. Yesterday revealed the char ac;er of the Italian work that had been done by the friends of Smith.
 Everybody supposed. and the fri nds of Col. Wilson asserted and threatened before hand that if he w,re turned down in the convention the devil would be to pay and ;hr party in the county would be split up the back. I; looked like it and that contingency seemed unavoidable. But Wilson was ruthlessly slaughtered. The thvoats If his immediate friends and packers were cut and the whole Wilson faction was bruised and hurt. That looked like d disruption of the party.
 Then came the second day. The vic torious Smith people wisely restrained themselves from hogSing. They had already all they wanted-Smith and the control of the organization. They therefore quit h h-stilities and organized themselves into a Red Cross society. an Order of the Sisters of Mercy. and proceeded to the battlefield, not to re- new the fight. but to assist the suffer ing enemy. Some of cours=. were dead. So the Smith Red Cross society gave Col. Wilson. W. T. Smith. Thomas r. Parish and Dr. II. \. Hughes de- cent burial. Next they dev ted them selves to the wounded. Emollients in the form of nominations were applied to laceratiOns. Places upon the new central committee were salves for those who had been abradei. Prom ises of kind trcatment two years hence were administered to those who had suffered cOntuSi-ns in the melee of Wednesday and so all were made easy.
 republican reporter went along the wards of the democratic hospital end found the patients quite comfort able, singing the praises of Dr. Marcus A. Smith. very sl1illful surgeon. and his able assistants Dr. A. C. Baker and Dr. Joseph AleXand'r.
 few who were left on the lield alive and unattended and unburiad were inclined 10 be resentful against Dr. Smith and his Red Cross socf ty. They were talking 0f prosecuting the contest forecast by The Republican yesterday. A cOntes,ing delegation will be sent up to the territorial con vcntion. basing its claims for admis- sion upon the alleged unparliamentary ruling admitting the "sturrers' to a vote in a contest concerning their eli gibility to seats in the convention Their admission made the instructions in favor of Mark Smith possible. This