Bisbee daily review., 1904-04-22
A PECULIAR INTEREST IN
 cochISE COUNTY AFFAIRS.

present time are the source Of much interest and solicitude at the hands Of the braves of Maricopa county. This kindly feeling has developed 10 such an extent that on yesterday there ar rived in this city two emissaries of somebody, who are evidently here for the purpose of teaching the Demo crats of Cochise the straight and mar row path which the Maricopa would-be leaders wish to have the Democrats in sAries are in our midst, the organ at home grinds out the following: From the Phoenix Enterprise:
 "Cochise county's Democratic Cen tral Committee. by its secretary, has isssued a call for a meeting of the committee alone. to appoint delegates to the Territorial Convention at Tue sen.
 Though possessing a strong suspic- ion, We can not assert with positive ness in what Presidential candidates behalf this high-handed step has been taken, but whoever and whatever may be the cause, we predict that nothing but harm to those concerned in the at tempt and to the Democratic party of Cochise county can or will result.
 "cocHIsE IS ONE OF THE LARo- EST AND MOST POPULOUS OF AR IZONA'S COUNTIES. HER PEOPLE ARE AS INDEPENDENT AND AS INTELLIGENT AS THE PEOPLE OF ANY SIMILAR SECTION ANY WHERE. THEY DOUBTLESS KNOW THEIR MIND AND WILL RESENT ANY ATTEMPT. OR WHAT IS WORSE, AND DETERMINATION ON THE PART OF A COTERIE OF POL- iTlcIANS TO VOICE THEIR SENTI- MENTs FOR THEM, OR TO DENY THEM REPRESENTATION.
 The recommendation of the Terri torial Democratic Committee. though apparently not as far-reaching as it should have been. is clear and unmis- takable as regards the proper method of selecting delegates. Even without this recommendation, there should be no disposition on the part of any Dem ocrat or any body cf Democrats to de- ny any voter in the party an opportu- nifty to have his vote recorded, or to refuse to abide by the net result of the extending of that opportunity.
 ''The Democratic party is essential ly the party Jf the people, but the Co chise Central Committee has taken a step which bellies that statement of fact. The attitude of that committee is arbitrary, presumptuous and ruin ous to party harmony. It assumes that the intelligence of Cochise county Democracy is centered in the commit tee. It assumes that a function of the machine is to direct the people, and not to be directed by the people. It assumes that the party is only use full in so far as it furthers the desires and advantages the situation of few individuals.
 "The Democratic Committee of Co., chise County has adopted highland ed course, and one which we predict will meet with no uncertain disapproy- al. If it was a body blow to the Democratic party of Cochise county, as ex-Marshal W. K. Meade asserts, when the Territorial Committee failed in Its duty to endorse Wm. Randolph Hearst, the party in that county has now received a second and more se- rious blow. It is blow below the belt.
 But there has been such things as unfair fighters losing because of a fou1'
 The Review was disposed 10 pass unnoticed the continued assaults upon the Democracy of this county by the Hearst organ at Phoenix. but the above can not be allowed to pass un challenged as a bald misstatement o1 facts, an evident desire on the part of a certain wing of the Democratic party around Phoenix, for some pur pose, not yet revealed, to create dis cord and dissention in the Democratic party of this county, where none ex ists or ever has existed. The Demo crats of this county resent the attempt of Maricopa county to dictate the af fairs of the party of this county. Co chise county, in a political way, ha: managed to give good account o1 hersslf without any prodding iron that small coterie of hot house polit clans about Phoenix who imagine tha upon them rests the responsibility o the Democratic party of the Territo ".
 Cochise county has always beer
 
 Territory Can Maricopa county sa, as much? The party has been ac customed to pursue the even teno of it's way, holding close to it's tru' principles, and at the polls rolling ul a majority for the ticket that in day gone by has helped Maricopa count, out of several embarrassing positions
 As to the insinuations contained il the article above quoted from the En terprise there is absolutely TO foun dation- For years past when an ear ly convention was held in the terrific ry the Central Committee from thil county has appointed the delegates Owing 10 the absence of chairman O the committee in this county. the sec retary very properly made the call 1T