Bisbee daily review., 1904-04-26
MERELY A MATTER OF JUDGMENT.

The Phoenix Enterprise almost oc enpied page in an attempt to deny the opinion expressed by the Review that the5e was a sentiment among tht Democrats of Cochise, Graham an( Gila, that an uninstructed delegation be sent from Arizona 10 the Nationa convention. That opinion was ex pressed after a visit of 0 representa- tive of this paper to each county men uoned, and while there was no par ticular fayorite as a presidential choice, men who have always been prominent and active in party affairs in those counties expressed the opin- ion openly and above board that the best interests of this territory could be subseryed by having a delegation {. st the National convention bound to no man, but there to see that the in- terests of Arizona were 10 some extent incorporated in the platform.
 It is well for Democrats in the ter ritory to look this presidential boom s9uarely in the face. At the present time, and even at the time the Demo cratic Territorial convention will meet in Tucson, on May 2S. the presidential nomination will in all probability not be conceded to any one man. It is not certain by any means that w. ,. Bryan's name will not be presented to that convention.
 Arizona should stop and consider that the only power on earth that can save Arizona from joint statehood, at the next session of Congres, are the Democratic Senators who occupy seats in that body
 Any old line Democrat whose rec ord is clean. who has always been found true to his party's nominees, will be . satisfactory candidate to the Democrats of Arizona, and it would place the delegation from this terri tory in position to ask and receive emphatic recognition in the platform by reseI]ying their votes until the proper time, and perhaps playing an important part in the nomination of the next president.
 It is a fact that can not be contra dicted that the Democratic Senators are not in favor of Hearst for Presi- oent- Democrats who have grown gray in the service of their party and their country, feel that there is to be found more deserving, more eminent and better qualified men for the posi- ton of president than the newspaper manager Hearst is not a native son of Arizona. He is a resident of New York and so far as obligations are concerned in regard to statehood, Ari- zona owes a greater debt of gratitude to Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, than to the representative of New York.
 Arizona has no vote for the Presi- dency, and why, in the name Of good, common sense, should the delegates from this territory fly in the face of the wishes of the Democratic Senators who at the present time hold the desti- ny of this territory in the hollow of their hand.
 Then. again, Hearst will never be the nominee of the National conven- tion for President Why should the Arizona delegation be gagged and tied 10 a man who is not the choice of an overwhelming majority of the Demo cratic voters of the country In such a predicament they could accomplish absolutely nothing. In fact, their presence at St. Louis would not be Known.
 The friends of Mir Hearst in this Territory have taken the position that there is an effort on the part of some one, somewhere, to defeat the wishes of the people, the common people" as the Hearst organ likes to call them. So far this effort has not made its appearance. Tn each any every county conventions have been called to be composed of delegates from each precinct, and the convention in Cochise county will be composed of 105 delegates, the largest conven- ton ever assembled. So we say the continual charge that Democrats in Arizona who are opposed 10 an in- structed delegation, are trying to de feat the will of the people (the com mon people) is at lot of humbuggery that fools nobody.
 The people of Arizona, common and otherwise, are more interested in an effort to defeat the joint statehood bill than they are the aspirations of any man for president