Arizona republican., 1906-09-28

 them once playing poker.
 There were motions and counter mo- tions. substitutes and amendments to substitutes and finally it was decided to recommit the report. This was headed off by Mir. ONeill and others who said that that would settle noth- ing; that the thing would ultimately have to be fought out on the floor of the convention. so why not now? It was done and the resolutions were made a part of the report again.
 ABOUT GAMBLING.
 Dr. Hughes encouraged by the sue cess of MT. O'Neill. presented two res Olutions which had been turned down. One oi them favored the making of illegal voting or the procuring of it. legal voting a felony instead Of a mis- demeanor; the other favored the abol- ition of public gamb ing in the terri tory. The last resolution produced groans. There was no debate but it was permitted to go before the con- vention. There was an indecisive viva voce vote followed by a rising vote which the secretary took to be 43 for the resolution and 43 against it. Others whose count was perhaps only cursory believed that it had carried but the matter was pursued no farther and the amended report of the committee on platform was adopted.
 There had been some negotiation be- tween democratic and republican man agers regarding an identical anti joint statehood resolution and it had been reported without authority that the republican convention would not inn pinge upon the subject at all. There had also been an understanding that there should be only one ticket of can didates for de egate to the Constitu- tiOnal convention equally divided be- tween the two parties. When the re- port reached the convention hall that the republicans were going to ignore the statehood question there was a gen eral sentiment that negotiations re- garding the making up of the consti- tutional convention ticket should be broken off. The committee of negoti- atiOns on the part of the democrats consisted Of Vernon L. Clark S. NJ. Nicholson and sam F. Webb. Nothing definite having been heard from the re- publicans. at the end of the wrangle over the platform the business of mak- ing up the county ticket was entered upon.
 THE NOMINATIONS.
 1 There was less excitement at this juncture than usually stirs democratic conventions when half the rank and file of the party wants an office of some kind. Half the ticket was to be made up without a contest. something un- heard of in the annals of a democratic 1 convention anywhere.
 There were the unusual. "I have fin mind a man." "A man who, if elect ed" A man of noble impulses" A man whose record" and so on ad inftum leaving in the minds of the nearer that the nominator was going to nominate a man and not a woman or a horse or a dog.
 Carl T. Hayden was placed before the i convention by J. D. Loper. The sound : of his voice had hardly died away be fore MT. Hayden was on the stage | being mu,ct of five dollars and thanking | the convention for the honor which had ! been conferred upon him wothout the use of undue influence. The supporters l of Walker in the rear of the house won 1 dered if MT. Hayden knew the mean ! ing of the word undue
 Then came one of the really only two contests of the day. the fight foI the nomination for treasurer. The nominees were Frank Luke Don c l Rabbit and Sheriff Walker The ] friends of MT Luke cast some asper- sions upon Mir. Walker without men tioning his name but by asserting thar ] their candidate was not trying to stea his way into the office but by givine i due public notice of his intended as sault upon it. The first ballot result | ed, Walker. SS: Luke. 40; and Babbitt . 54. The second gave Walker 36 votes Luke 37 and Babbitt so; the third. Walk CT 8, Luke 31 and Rabbit 6S. It wa: 1 discovered after the count but befor, the announcement of the result tha some eager delegate had voted twice or had put in two ballots at once. It wa. 7 finally agreed that inasmueh as Bab | bitt had received two more votes thar ! he needed he could afford to have tn, ! superflous vote deducted from hi tally. The other candidates were theI ! withdrawn and the nomination of Bab 4 bitt was made by exclamation.
 There was no opposition to the nom ! ination of George Purdy BuIlard fo district attorney. Mr.. Bullard en thused the convention which had begu to show signs of apathy and he re stored good humor by announcing tha he cherished no i'l-will to democrat who had been throwing it into him un til it looked as if it had become a ike, habit.
 There was no opposition to the re nomination of Clay Leonard for record CT and the same easy road was givel i J. H. Langston for probate judge. Tn convention simply could not get alonl