Arizona republican., 1904-09-16

COcnlSe ana In nalI an hour the con- vention was in session and the report of the committee on credentials was presented. It differed slightly from the first roll call and having been slightly T corrected was adopted
 WHEN TROUBLE BROKE OUT.
 The report of the committee on per mannent organization precipitated trouble at an unexpected moment. It was believed that it might come at some time in the course of the con vention but it could not be conceived that it would come at this time. The report recommended that the tempora- ry organization be made permanent and among other things that the chair should appoint a committee on plat form consisting of one member from each county. This was the opener. w. D. Bell of Maricopa was on his feet before a motion for the adoption of the lreport could be made. MT. Bell had two amendments. One of them took the appointing power out of the hands of the chairman and left it with the va rious delegations. The other was provis9cn by which there could be in- jected into the yet unborn platform plank calling for the abolition of the territorial board of equalization and arranging for the proper restriction of
 
 and fares. A point of order was rais- ed on the ground that his motion con tained two amendments. The point was sustained and MT. Bell appealed. stating why the changes suggested by him should be made. He spoke at length against the methods of the rail- roads and the perfidy of some of the members of the Maricopa county dele gation who had been instructed to work for such a plank as he was try ing to have inserted. He also charged that a conspiracy had been entered in- to for the smothering of this plank and for the throttling of the Maricopa delegation, or the more faithful part of it. He said he had begun to lose faith in the democratic party as it is being managed in this part of the country. He had been taught from his early childhood that that was the party to which the common people could alwayz go for relief. He had found, though. that the party in Arizona was coming more and more into the power of the corporations.
 At this point MT. Bunch asked what was the question under discussion. He added that he supposed it was an ap- peal from a decision of the chair That is what I'm doing now" replied | ~'AA" ADNA+ e1Ss AAC oSca lCSulltGQ HIS us cussion of the iniquity of the rail- roads, the republican party and a good part of the democratic party
 Nose Drachman of Pima called for the question, but MT. Bell replied that he would not be suppressed until he had perfected his appeal. MT. Drach- man replied that it was long after the dinner hour and he was growing hun gry, to which MT. Bell retorted that he could not be overcome by a techni- cality. The chair was charged with being deficient in knowledge of parlia- mentary law. but in order to break off the dispute as it was then proceeding he consented to separate his amend ments and moved the first one. that taking from the chair the power to ap- point the platform committee. The mo- ton went to a vote and was lost by Q vote of 70 to 125. Some Of the mem bers of the Maricopa delegation. desired to vote against the amendment but a poll of the delegation showed that 24 of the 9 were for it, and therefore un- der the instructions to vote as a unit on all questions the vote of the dele gation was cast for it It was support ed by Cochise with 30 votes and by , of the Yuma votes.
 The platform committee was then 1 OP N4NAA IT. J. n. NilllSSiQGS as chairman and an adjournment was taken until o'clock
 THE PLATFORM.
 The platform is not very formida- ble document. It had been understood that it would be brief, It was not as a matter of fact brief in words, though exceedingly so in ideas and subjects. It was devoid of the inf1ammatory sugges- tions of the platform of two years ago. It was paper to which much prayer and thought had been devoted and con- corning which MT. Smith had been con suited. That gentleman was informed of the vagaries of the Maricopa delega- tion and he was asked if he would like to have them incorporated in the plat form MT. Smith replied that he would prefer that they should not be there; that there was always danger of mak- ing platform too complex. He sug- gested that this one should be boiled down to the issues of Smith. Statehood and Democracy, and it was so done There was not a line in it which should scare the most timid of trusts out of its boots. It begins with d classifica- tion of Bryan among the party idols and has-beens like Jefferson and Jack son. It deplores the tendency of the government away from constitutional ity and hopes with the aid of Parker to bring it back. It urges for every man the freedom to worship God in his way and endorses in SO many words the St. Louis platform. It accepts the candidacy of Parker and Davis by the democracy of Arizona. It urges single statehood for this territory and pro- tests against becoming ''vassal pro- vince of New Mexico. It contains history of the legislation eliminating in the national Irrigation law, the ob- ject being to show that it is a demo- l cratic measure whose foremost advo- cates were Bell and Shafroth of Colo rado and whose active opponents were Moody, now attorney general of the United States. Hepburn of Iowa and Grosvenor of Ohio. It was stated that on the final vote in the house forty re-