Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-19
0|IiCi0| P0DeT Of Gl|Q County.
THE SELECTION OF DELEGATES
 TO TUCSON

The democratic county central com mittee, at its adjourned meeting on last Saturday night, selected nine rep resentative democrats of Gila county as delegates to attend the territorial convention to be held in Tucson next Monday, and the delegation was instructed to vote as unit, but was not committed to the support of any particular candidate for the democratic nomination for president.
 A majority of the committee believe i, would be against the interests of the democratic party ofArizona to send to the national convention delegation from this territory pledged to any one of the several gentlemen who are avowed or probable candidates for the presiden- tial nomination, and in the meeting there was no discussion of the relative merits or strength of presidential can didates, nor, in fact, were their names even mentioned.
 Notwithstanding the committee acted conservatively. and for what it believed to be the welfare of the party in Gila county. as we'll as of the territory, its action is criticized by few individuals from purely personal motives, who have purposely misrepresented the ac- ton of the committee, having indus triously circulated the report tha. it was a cut and dried affair, done in a manner to prevent the party voters from expressing their wishes in the premises Upon this false assumption paper has been circulated for sigma tures, setting this (rhursday) night, at the court house, as the time and place for holding mass meeting for the pur pose of naming contestirg delegation to go to the Tucson convention.
 It will be remembered that in two successive issues of thls paper April 21 and 2S) there was published the call for territorial democratic convention to be held in Tucson on May 23, and also notice signed by the chairman and secretary of the Gila county cen tral committee, calling meeting of the committee for April 30, to consider the selection of nine delegates to rep resent this county in the Tucson con vention. At the meeting of the local committee on April 30, after discussion, it was deemed best to postpone action in the matter of selecting delegates to the territorial convention in order that democrats in remote precincts might have time to make their wishes known, and the meeting of the committee was therefore adjourned for two weeks, until May II, and personal notice was given to each member not present at the meeting on April 30.
 The c, mmittee met on Saturday evening last, the date named, and there having been no objection made, no pc. ttion presented nor suggestion offered as to the manner of selecting delegates to Tucson, the committee proceeded to the nomination and election of nine persons to represent Gila county in the territorial convention.
 The following names were placed in nomination Geo. J. StonemaD, G. w. P. Hunt, A. F. Maisch, Jos. H. Ham, i'll, W. T. McNelly, N H. Livingston, J. c. Evans, J. K. Chiffon, P. c. Rob ertson, Lee Crandsll A. Bailey, P. M. Thurmond, W. H. Mercer, Lee Mid dleton, and Con Crowley. The first three persons mentioned each received fifteen votes, or all but one of the votes cast the fourth Tn the above list re. ceived all but two of the total votes cast, aud the first nine nominees, as mentioned above, having each received a m jority of the votes, were declared elected.
 Five of the delegates chosen received the votes of Theodore Crandall and the four proxies held by him We give emphasis to this statement for the req son that he and his father, Lee Gran dall (who was defeated for delegate to the territorial convention) are among those who have expressed dissatisfac- lion with the action of the committee, and Colonel Crandall and his son are believed to be among the promoters of the movemsnt to hold rump conven. ton to name contesting delegation to Tucson.
 Colonel Orandall and Theodore Gran dall both acquiescad in the plan to have