The Arizona sentinel., 1900-05-16
APuROF STRIFE BREEDERS.

-K6rS, Tn CODu6CIlOA h1tlI tiiC PA" eedings of the convention. The aper complains of the discor4 and u ack of harmony in the convention, d as 8 matter of fact, the y .ction taken Jy that convention s vas by the votes of eleven and a p ialf counties out of thirteen in the I or only lacked thirty-tour | votes of being unanimous.
 While It is unfortunate, and ofregret tbat Yavapai county { did not receive greater recognition than it did, so far as the conven- ton YVES conducted it was on ldent- ically the same lines as was the county convention of this county, so 1t was not without precedent. In our county convention, a rule was adopted whereby no resolution could be introduced except through the committee on resolutions. The same rule was in vogue in the ter ritorial convention. In the county convention here. committee was appointed to select delegates to the territorial convention and no no minatioD was made for that posi- ton from the floor of the conven- ton. The same plan was adopted | in Phoenix, So far as the Journal
 Miner is concerned it does not be- lieve in this way of conducting
 conventions, but believes in the freest and fullest liberty of action
 to delegates. If it is right, though, in county convention, it cannot
 be any worse in territorial con- 1 vention. In politics, however, any
 game seems right to the winner
 when it wins, and all wrong to the
 loser.
 To say that Secretary Akers ab- solutely controlled the action of the ) 112 delegates, constituting the ma- 7 jority of the convention, out of d
 total of l47, is attributing to him a
 greater power and influence than 3 we think he would be willing to claim for himself Every delegate 3 in that convention was free mora!
 agent and if the Republican sees s anything wrong with the action of @ the majority it should lash each t individual delegate alike.
 Equally senseless to the talk ot
 the Republican against Secretary V Akers is that which appears in the s Gazette against Governor Murphy d The Gazette is making frantic efforts
 to make it appear that the action
 of the convention was a sweeping rebuke to Governor Murphy. As 2 " matter of fact the governor did no return to the territory until mos
 of the primaries had been held anC Q neither he nor his friends parti-
 cipated in the primaries or in tht f convention, as far as can be learned in the matter of trying to contro
 their action in any way, and tht e question of his administration wal o not subject of discussion in any = shape or form before the conven- r tion, although he had large mum
 Der of warm personal friends in it
 The object of both papers seen Il to be identically the same, and tha 1T is to foster and breed a feeling 0 e bitterness in the republican party d and to create oissension in it
 ranks. That the Gazette should
 be expected to do this is but na-
 tural, being a democratic paper S and any inharmony or dissensiol '' in the republican ranks would na- r turally rebound to the benefit o
 the democracy.
 ..E The Republican, however, is al d alleged republican paper, and in- , stead of trying to create breac! V in the party if it is working for thu
 party's interest, it would seek tc
 create harmony. That it's policy = is actuated by personal spleen, in, d stead of any political or other prin n ciple, was demonstrated a few = months ago when it opposed the
 republican nominee for mayor ot
 Phoenix, because it's editor could D not dictate to the party the naming of candidate. The same is true l' in its present fight against Secretary D Akers, being personal, purely, anC
 not political or for the benefit o
 the party it claims to represent. " In line with this same policy of ' the paper it was only a few short ! months ago that Isaac T. Stoddard Il was also the subject of the same