Arizona republican., 1902-08-28

previous proxy that they might have is sued All this was later adjusted by
 the committee or credentials and gen
 orally in favor of the Wilson holders
 on the principle of first come first
 served"
 It was believed that the first test of
 strength would come on the vote for
 temporary chairman, but the gods
 willed that should come earlier; on
 plan to vote. The Wilson men wanted
 the chairman of each delegation to cast
 the vote of his precinct. A motion to
 this effect was amended hy l. l.. F
 Alexander providing for a roll call and
 that when the name of each delegate
 was called he should come forward and
 deposit his vote in the hat of the teller.
 That was just what the Wilson people could not afford. The secret ballot
 might be deadly and they declined tC
 trust anything they could not see and
 not more of the things they could see
 than were absolutely necessary. Cap
 tain AlexanGer's amendment was fur
 thCr amended by a provision for roll call and viva VOce vote. The latter amendment went to a vote in which it
 was agreed that neither side should
 take any advantage from the contested delegations This was a viva voce vote and this was a violation. of the condi- tions on which the Shannon men were to get the nine votes partially ar ranged for just before the beginning of the convention. They were Wilson votes and when they had to be cast aloud they were cast in the interest of Wilson. The plan of voting was de- cided by a vCte of 75 to 5. The Shan
 non men had only one chance left and that was to develop a sentiment in the convention against instructions. and they worked on that in vain until the end. contesting every inch.
 B. A Fickas was nominated for tenn porary chairman on the Wilson side and Carl Hayden for the Shannon fac ton. W. D. Bell, one of the chief ora tors of the Shannon people, urged the election of Mir. Hayden on the ground of gratitude to the people of Tempe for permitting the disturbance to take place within the corporate limits of the city Captain Alexander had another and less sentimental reason for sup porting MT. Hayden. MT. Hayden was | young democrat and he had always | loved young democrats in Phoenix or wherever he had found them. The fu- ture of the party. he urged, depended
 wholly upon the democrats who were now young. They should be encour- aged whenever the opportunity offered and here was an opportunity. Captain | AIexander's argument inspired the op- position with mirth rather than with conviction.
 The vote for temporary chairman re-
 suited as follows: Fickas, 74; Hayden. a. Frank T. Pomeroy was elected
 temporary secretary without opposi- tion.
 | Chairman Fickas after a brief ad-
 dress appointed the following commit tee on credentials: Neri Osborn, w. E. i Cleary, s. F. Webb, c. M. Zander, M l C. Fisk, w. D. McBrayer and w. D. | Bell MT Bell was the solitary Shan non representative on the committee, but the Wilson people thought he was one too many, and they glared at the chairman as if they thought they were being thrown down by him. Motions for the appointment of the other com mittees were interrupted by motions to adjourn The Shannon people wanted to go out and get some fresh air The motions for adjournment were voted
 down and the committee on credentials was given at first ten minutes to re- port There was another howl from l the other side; that limitation of time was q sign to them that the work ot the committee would be purely formal It would take an hour they said to do it right There was no adjournment, but a recess which was extended from time tO time until it covered nearly two
 hours. It was the policy of the ma
 jority to keep the minority under sur veillance, so that they could see what was going on. The insurgents could not get much headway in intermissions of ten or fifteen minutes.
 The report of the committee was fin- ally presented and adopted without opposition and a motion was made for
 the appointment of a committee on per manent organizati tion. The motion was
 opposed by Captain Alexander on the
 ground that it would take up unneces-
 sary time. and he moved that the tenn
 porary organization be made perman-
 ent The real object of Captain Alex ander was not to save time but to head
 off a recommendation in the report of
 the committee for the appointment of a
 committee to select thirty-four dele
 gates to the Tucson convention. That
 matter. however, came up in another
 form, on a direct motion for the ap-
 pointment of such a committee. That
 was eventually the way the delegation
 to the territorial convention was se-
 lected notwithstanding strenuous ef-
 forts by the shannon men to have the
 delegates appointed by precincts or