Arizona republican., 1902-09-12
STOUT'S SUCCESS
 4 SURE THING
He Swept Half the Town in
 the Primaries
Returns Last Night Indicate That He Was a Cyclone in the Country. His Supporters Claim He Wi Have a Hundred Delegates,

great many old scores were settled at | the polling places, and when it was all | over the feeling among the democratic | factions was no better than it had been for the last two years.
 The fight was mainly over the nom ination for sheriff, but the line was drawn all along the contests for nomina | tions for the other offices. so that it is quite probable that all the candidates who supported Sanders and Norton in their joint effort for the nomination for sheriff will participate in their de- feat in the convention. It was the Young Mems Democratic club and Nor ton against the old-line democratic party.
 The club entered upon the contest in the city with confidence of success. That confidence grew all day until along in the middle of the afternoon the Sanders men were claiming the four wards of the city and the Stout faction was almost willing to concecs them three. with little hope of saving the remaining one.
 The Mexican vote was more prevalent than it had been at the Wilson-Shan- non primaries; there were Mexican | faces seen in town that certainly did rot belong here, and many of them were so, unfamiliar that their owners were thereby enabled to vote at more than one primary without fear of de- | tection There were 797 votes cast in the four wards, and everybody knows that there are not that many democrats in the city.
 The Stout supporters began to gather | hope early in the third ward It be- came evident that a very overwhelm- ing majority of the American vote was being cast for that ticket and the man. Iagers believed they were sure of at least twenty-five of the Mexican vote. which a careful canvass of the ward showed to be less than 100.
 The count disclosed that nearly half the 316 votes in that ward were cast by Mexicahs. A good many coiored men were also found in bad company, though they operated for the most part in the second ward
 Half an hour before the closing of the polls the Stout men believed that they had been outnumbered, so that they were hardly prepared for the pleasant surprise inflicted upon them when the tickets began to be taken out of the box. The count gave Stout 1i5 and Sanders Norton 134. It was in this ward that the hardest fight took place and the contest was marked with dis order There were two or three gen , eral fights early in the afternoon and there was one gun play. A colored man by the name of Williams was circulat- : ing in the second and third wards as ' sisting the Stout challengers. He en- ! gagged in a dispute with A. $. Arthurs, one of the foremost of the lieutenants of Sanders, and there was passage ) at arms. when Policeman Porter inter- fered He drew his gun and threatened to shoot Williams entrails out. It was the opinion of the audience that he was most too emotional to be an officer and handle a gun.
 The second ward though regarded all the time as a Stout stronghold, began ! to take on such a Mexican coloring in the afternoon that it was doubtful what the count would show. The Mexican vote was held down though to safe linn it's by Captain Alexander, the chal- Ienger for Stout. He discouraged most of those who were not entitled to vote, as well as some who were. No Stout voter with a color of right, however slight it might be. was denied admis-
 
 tain Alexander in his excitement, for he is a nervous person, let the ballot fall into the box, and when he was remon- strated with offered in good faith to allow the voter to be sworn. The oppo- sition being unable to see how that would recover the ballot from the box withdrew from the discussion. In this ward the Stout ticket received 1O1 votes and the Sanders Norton ticket 67. It was in this ward that Norton devel- oped his greatest strength in the city.
 It is quite possible that the Stout men could have carried the first ward, but they were afraid to withdraw any of their strength from the third and the second, so that they let the con- test there go by default. The Sanders ticket here received 12S votes and the Stout ticket S3.
 The primary in the fourth ward. the stronghold of Sanders, was a formal affair. Though that ward is perhaps the largest in the city, only 100 votes were cast, of which the Stout ticket re- ceived only F.
 The following is the list of delegates chosen in all the wards:
 First-W B. Cleary, F. M Mognett, George Gallagher, R. A. Warner, F. Sunderland, H. A. Hughes, M. J. Pettid, J. J. Thompson, Martin Gonzales, J. M. Shott, George F. McFall, Alfred Franklin.
 Second-J. l.. B. Alexander. Harry J.. Bennett, A. G. Austin, ID. L.. Crosby, Vernon l.. Clark, w. C.. Cook, w. K. James, Ed Barnum, s. P. Hoefer, l.. R.. Kruger J. G. Evans, w. J. Clancy.
 Third-John T. Dunlap. c. D. Doris. E. w. Spears, William Wilson, Frank Burgess, James McNulty Thomas Sweem, Augustine Bernal, H. l.. Tul- bert
 Fourth-Joe Bush, A. H. Lawrence, James Henderson, P. C.. de la Lama, R. B. Cannon. c. P. Price. Charles Pet erson. Jose Morales. Thomas Smith,