Arizona republican., 1905-04-20

upon the enactment, the ordinance for the total and complete suppression and prohibition of public and private gambling and to the rigid enforcement Of the same during the time for which they are elected or may hold office.
 We call the attention of the citizens of Phoenix to the fact that the credit of prohibiting women frequenting sa- looms was due to the democratic party. and further that in the last city cleo ton the democratic platform contain ed a plank against gambling
 Ninth: We call upon all citizens re- gardiess of party, who wish good, clean, pure and economic administration in the city's affairs and the protection and welfare of the city's youth and morals to join and aid us in this campaign with these ends in view.
 The real fun came with the nomina- ton of the candidates. By this time it had been spread throughout the hall that the thing had been fixed, that fu- sion had been effected and even the personnel of the ticket was made known
 Eugene Brady O'Neill suggested the nomination of T. T. Powers for mayor. MT Powers was the only pebble on the beach and he took the stand to say that in the event of his election he would not only regard 1t as a duty but a pleasure to carry out the principles of the platform.
 J. ". Mccormick who had been saved from the wreck of the citizens ticket was nominated by MT. Cleary in a di- plomatic speech in which he wandered around for long time before he dared present the name of a republican to a democratic convention. He finally did so and there being no other nomina- tions Judge Mccormick came out to say that he regarded MT. Cleary as a gentleman of tact, referring thereby to his nominating speech which had produced no riot in the democratic au- dience
 Judge Mccormick said that he was glad that this junction had come about. He gave the credit of effecting the coalition to MT. Cleary and intimated though he did not say so in so many words that as a cultivator of hybrids Luther Burbank was a mere tyro in comparison with MT. Cleary.
 Concerning himself Judge McCor- mic said that he had been nominated for office so often that he had got used to 1t and didn't care now who nom- mated him. He also agreed as record CT to see that the wishes of the demo- cratic party as expressed in the plat form were carried out.
 Tom Elder was nominated for asses sor and tax collector and he too pledg- ed himself to be in accord with the platform. This pledging of candidates by the way was one of the conditions which the citizens caucus at the last moment had imposed upon the demo- cratic committee.
 Eugene Brady O'NeiIl was nominated for treasurer, (the convention was held in his hall)
 Phil Ensign was transferred from the citizens ticket to the democratic ticket for the place of city marshal.
 For councilman from the first ward, F. H. Cooper the citizens candidate was retained and John T. Dunlap was renominated from the third ward. MT. Dunlap pledged himself to stand on the platform without being chained or otherwise put under duress.
 This completed the ticket when the convention took up the business of forming a new central committee in which republicans and citizens had no part.
 It was plain throughout the crowd comedy and it was also plain that the democrats who concocted the comedy will have hard sledding before May 2 to convince a considerable number of the voters of Phoenix that it is real.