Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-09-17
4 POLITICAL SPY CRAWIS INTO THE RANKS OF THE REPUBLICAN CON- VERIl0a AND DeSlGNEOIY AND
 MALIcIOUSIY WOULD AMBUSH IT.
A DEMOCRATIC TRICK
 THAT WAS TOO RAW
Blood is Thicker than Water, But Prin- cipIes of Honor and Integrity Should not be Set Aside for the Shyster Cause of Political Pref=rmsnt

Barring one incident that marked the close of the republican convention in Prescott yesterday, we doubt if in the annals of political deliberations of either party heretofore in Yavapai there was better. a more represen- tative or a cleaner convention than that of the grand old party. The disagreeable feature of the day was when Delegate Ross of some place, some wood camp or some lonely hol- low near Jerome, attempted to assail the integrity of repubicanism by tactics that are nothing more nor less than that of treachery, clothed as he was behind masked battery of per sonal favoritism and partisan COW. ardice.
 Delegate Ross, in other words, de- sired to incorporate into the republi- can platform the identical language that the democratic platform contains on the labor. mining and other indus trial questions.
 He did this knowingly.
 He attempted it, knowing at heart that the republican convention would net debase itself by submitting to something that they were in ignor- ance of.
 He did it because he was not sin cere or honest, for if he had been blessed with either he would have, like a loyal republican, gone to the platform committee when such was announced, and asked to be heard.
 He did it Tn open convention and after the document had been read and adopted by unanimous vote.
 He did it because he knew that he would be foiled, and then he would have an opportunity of invading the democratic press, and attempt to poison the republican nominee for district attorney with the union labor vote.
 lie did it because his democratic brothers partner, P. W. O'Sullivan, a democrat, is a candidate for district attorney on that ticket.
 He did it because he is so supple that he had to under the circum- stances of business partnership and political kindred as above.
 Mir. Ross had no other motive than that of ambushing the republican party, and no matter what his mo tives may have been his course and his conduct later in going to demo- cratic organ to ventilate his so called republicanism stamps him as insin cere, treacherous and tricky. He could not be elected from his own town, and ill coming to the conven- ton as a so called republican was the worst padded proxy delegate that ever entered d convention hall. He came from no place and represented only those wlyward- localities where no one livel or cared to live, or where no election whatever was held.
 The assertion that he makes in the Courier that he submitted his plank in the platform to the committee is authorized to be branded as a lie by one of that body.
 The Jerome delegation to a man, and Mr. Ross lives in that city, are just as open in condemning him and his motives as did the entire conven- ton. He could not be elected a del gate, in fact he is said to be partisan of the Filipino type. He says ne is republican. has been so and wili 5c one. We agree with him, as an O'Sullivau republican.
 Wandering around the streets of Prescott today Mir. Ross travels in his own shadow, summed by demo crats and despised by republicans.
 When he invades the sanctity of the Hogback at Jerome and from that edifice throws his cunning into Deception gulch below, and the echo comes back, he will only say as he retrsces lis steps D it, they got onto me