Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-02-24
OLD YAVAPAI
 WILL BE RIGHT
When County COnven-
 tiOn Meets.
Will Send Delegates to Tucson In Structed to Select Instructed
 Delegation to Chicago.

That Yavapai county republican, who says that he is for Roosevelt but does not want an instructed deiega- tion from Arizona. is certainly saying one thing and denying it in the same breath He had better be for or against and say so in that many words. - Bisbee (Cochese County Miner.
 The above is only one of the many expressions throughout the territory indicating the feeling in Arizona on the question of instructing the Ari- zona delegation to the national repub- lican convention to be held next June, and the conventions of the different counties as fast as they meet with len thusiasm indorse the administration of President Roosevelt and also that ot Governor Brodie, and instruct for a Roosevelt united delegation.
 Knowning that the Journal Miner is not only in favor of an instructed delegation but a unanimous vote in the territorial convention indorsing both the president and Governor Brodie's administration we are ire ouently asked ''What is the matter with Yavapai that she is the only county in the territory showing an opposition.
 We reply that Yavapai is all right and will be in line with the other counties in the territorial convention.
 Evidently the opposition referred to is centralized practically in one man according to the authority of the Prescott Herald, and that paper appar- ently speaks with authority but we are not ready to believe that it speaks the sentiments of Mir. Murphy, and the claim it makes that its sayings are his. They are too much like the petulent walls of a spoiled boy to be the sober expressions of a business man of great affairs.
 One does not have to resort to read ing between the lines to discover that now it is not Roosevelt who is the ob- ject of this opposition. Governor Brodie is the "one man" whose scalp it is after.
 We might as well speak plain and be open about it, and we suggest to our evening neighbor that honesty and frankness Is the best way for it to win the public confidence and not to im- agine, ostrich like, that because the head is hidden it has successfully pulled the wool over the public eyes.
 The republicans of Yavapai are fast making up their minds and will have a chance to speak in the coming conn ty convention after which the Herald will be wiser.
 As to the two opposing candidates to represent Yavapai county in the national cohvention. we can say noth- ing against either of them. they are both good and worthy citizens.
 We think, however, that MT. Bash- ford has taken the wrong position in this matter and is not in rapport with the wishes of the peolpe of Yavapai county, and when we say "'the people, we mean all the people including the republicans, for Mir. Roosevelt will be the next president of the United States, and all the people are interest ed in the welfare of the territory.
 On the other hand, Frank Wright, always an active party man, contribut- ing literally both in money and per sonal efforts to the calls of his party and never having asked for office, one of our most energetic, public spirited and progressive business men. who is doing as much as as any man in the territory towards its present and flu ture development, to the extent of his means every dollar of which is invest ed in Yavapai county, and Yavapai county industries, unequivocally states that he is at all times in favor of decided indorsement of Governor Brodie for his honest. independent and fearless administration of territorial affairs, and as a delegate to the Chi cago convention he believes in a uni ted instructed delgeation, and be will be found on every occasion carrying out the wishes of Yavapai county in voting for Mir. Roosevelt first, last and all the time.