The Tucson citizen., 1902-09-19
Democratic Mass Meeting
Candidates for Delegates

One Of the largest political mass
meetings ever held in Tucson occurred
at the court house last evening. The
district court was filled to the doors
and the overflow stretched out into
the nails beyond. The beauty of this
unusual attendance was the fact that
with the exception of a few disgruntled
Republicans, the participants were all
good Democrats.
1t is an old saying that there never
was a Democratic meeting without
fight, and the one of last evening was
no exception to the rule. There was
a hot fight on from the tap of the
gayel to the motion for adjournment
One thing is certain, however, there
was no machine in evidence or even
behind the scenes to hoodwink the
voters at the primaries or to stick the
knife Of deception into an idol Of the
party The fight was free, open and
above board. Any Democrat who failed
to gain his point at the mass meet
ing last evening, has the consolation
to know that he was beaten fairly and
that it was the will of the majority
and not push"
The meeting was called to order by
Chairman Amos o. Keefe, of the coun-
ty central committee. Charles o.
Rouse was made secretary. The first
business before the assembly was the
election of temporary chairman,
and this contest precipitated the ini-
tial fight of the evening. Charles Hoff
placed NJ. G. Samaniego in nomina-
tion, and George Kilt was put up by
Harry Drachman. The presence of
large number of questionable voters
brought the question as to who was
entitled to suffrage at the meeting. A
motion was made to accept only those
who were on the Great Register of two
years ago. A hot discussion ensued
Immediately. There were many who
were not on the old register but who
were on the new ones, and they were
anxious to participate in the proceed
ings. Still the experience of the
packed meeting of two years ago made
it imperative to use at least little
discretion. Colonel John Martin sug-
gested that all who took the oath of
allegiance to the Democratic party be
allowed to vote. This qualification.
however, appeared OF its face to be
easily avoided A motion finally pre-
vailed to have the chair appoint four
| tellers who would have authority to
pass on the qualifications of voters.
This proved to be entirely satisfac-
/ tory, as each man passed before judges
and depositd his ballot. The vote
stood 123 for Kit and SO for Saman-
{ lego.
No sooner had one fight been dis
posed of than another was precipitat'
| ed. Judge Rouse now moved that a
committee of five be appointed by the
chair to select eighteen names to be
ratified by the assembly as delegates
to the county convention. The meas
! ure was opposed vigorously by Chas.
! Hoff He said that every Democrat
/ at the meeting should be permitted to
vote for each end every delegate. This
course would have taken al night to
select eighteen anmes and it seemed
to he tho general oniniCn that COM
mittee would facilitate matters. The
original motion was sustained and
/ the chair appointed Judge Lowell.
] Amos O'Feefe. John Davine Charles
! Hoff and Joaquin Legarra to select the
names.
A recess was declared end the in
tormission was taken I'D with speech
making. Cen T. IT. Manning, the
!. Democratic candidate for Joint conn
Gilman, made few we'll chosen re-
marks y. T. Cunningham and Judge
Rouse also entertained the crowd.
The committee reported the follow
ing eighteen names: John Devipe
Chas. McDermott, Harry Cody, Jules
Vest, Joaquin Legarra Geo. Kit
Charles Rouse, Judge Lowell Judge
Cowan, Thomas D. Satterwhite, EuI
gene Trippel, Sam Barkely, S. r.
Drachmdn, w. Pemberton, c.. NJ,
/ nUy'zbalter, Judge VIM IT. Barnes
Joe Wiley and Herb Drachman.
The proceedings last evening practi-
cally made the primaries tomorrow a
matter of form. 1t is safe to say that
thore viii be no rival tickets in the
field The fght last evening in brief
I was to determine whether Charles
Rlenham or A. Orfla would be the
DemacIatlc candidate for district at
tolnev. Mr.. Orfila comedies his defeat
AMI Judge Blenman. without a doubt,
viii contest the place with Mr.. Ros-
coe Dele, the candidate Of the Repub-
lican "2tssh" On November I.