Arizona republican., 1902-07-31
DEMOCRATIC
 CONVENTIONS
The Central Committee Fixed
 inc Times for Them
The Convention for Ter itorial Dele gates to Be Held at Tempe, Aug 27-County Convention Here Sep. 15-Other Business Disposed Of

mittee yeste-d fixed the times for ! the holding of the primaries and the convention for the selection of dele gates to the territorial convention at l Tucson and the county convention for the nomination of candidates for the county offices. The convention for the election of delegates to the territorial l convention will be held a Tempe oil i August 27 and the primaries for the election of delegates will be held or i August g. The regular county conven- i ton will be held in this city on Sep 1 tcnlber T. and the primaries on Sep tember II. The meeting of the committee was generally harmonious for a democratic gathering. but some of the members were determined that the traditions of the party should not be violated, and they kept sparring all day for an open i ing which they found at the last mo- lncnt Thirty-seven of the full com n1ittee of forty were represented at the meeting either by proxy or in person, very large majority in person. The meeting was held in ONeill hall and was called to order at 1G o'clock. The work of the committee was outlined at the morning session and committees were appointed to report at o'clock.
 It was decided that the general cleo
 ton law should be made to apply to the
 primaries; that is. that only qualified ! electors should be allowed to vote and that no elector should vote outside of
 the voting precinct in which he resides. This decision was reached with con-
 siderable unanimity.
 The following committees were then
 appointed: Primary resolution-J. L.
 B. Alexander. Charles Woolf H. l.. Chandler, G. H. Johnson and C. M.
 Zander. On apportionment-W .T.
 Smith. Neri Osborn, Frank Baxter, c.
 R. Brewster and M. A. StanforL. Time for holding convention and primaries
 Sam F. Webb. W. T. Cumrlings, Henry
 Jennings. D. C. Babbitt and Charles Slankard.
 The greatest share of the wOr< rest ed Gpon the apportionment cOh3..ittet,
 for an effort was being made to break . up the old practice of allowing every isolated community where even one democrat is gathered together in the
 name of Andrew Jackson to be repre-
 scented by himself at the convention. It
 was remembered that two years ago
 there was one district. San Domingo
 where there was not even one demo- { crat. which had q representative in the convention, and it's delegate was fre-
 quantly able to change the current of
 affairs. The committee on apportion-
 mcnt was agreed that it would be prop CT to confine the representation to vot-
 ing precincts. but only one of them,
 Mr. Osb0:n. was willing to introduce
 the innovation. The others thought it . would be better to let this matter go = until the next session of the legislature, Q when the election laws might be so - amended that the responsibility for : making the change would rest on no r one in particular.
 Q The committee first made up a list 2 of the voting precincts and fixed the $ representation in them based upon the n vote cast for Marcus A. Smith two n wears ago. This gave the convention
 112 delegates. Then the committee took
 up the school districts and mining !. camps in which primaries have been a held and gave each of them one dele ,- gate. some of the larger ones two. Two = or three of these communities whic} c have been depopulated within the last V two years were cut off, but their places :. were taken by other new ones, so tha Y eighteen more delegates were provided "a for in this way.
 , When the report was presented Cap if tain J. L. B. Alexander objected to al 2 lowing Vulture precinct delegate, fol
 he said that he had learned that there
 was only one man there, the watch
 man of the works. Said MT. AleXan
 der: Don't let us go to the eXpenst ,e Cf holding primaries for him: let's jus
 send word for him to come in"
 Captain Alexander's old-tme enemies r including the members of the Youn: = Mems Democratic club, opposed tn m striking out of Vulture. but his amend Ii. ment was carried by big majority Ia The Red Rover mine was given on 10 delegate and the Gold Coin mine one ,- After considerable jangling one dele in gate was added to Osborn school T., bringing the number of extra delegate r- up to twenty and giving the convention :, membership of 132. Some of the un
 official precincts will elect more thal
 they have been allowed. and thei
 friends will seat them if they ar
 strong enough in the convention. A All that now remained to do was t a. appoint election officers for the pri if maries. There were to be three in eac .r voting place and they were to b N named hy the central cOmmitteeme 41 within whose jurisdiction they hap v pened to be- and the nominations b
 the committeeman were to be approve
 by the whole committee.
 It was in the course Of the namin
 of the election officers that the onl v- row of the day came up. Among tn
 officers selected for the first ward .
 Phoenix was C. F.. Fike. That war r- has been under the influence of tn ad Young Mems Democratic club. and tn ,i.. committeeman from that ward is ,is member of the club. Captain AleXar od der. who resides in the Second warC
 arose and with tears coursing down hi
 cheeks said that he had a most ur
 pleasant duty to perform. He said ths
 voters of the First ward had come or him and requested him to use his inf
 ence with the committee against th