Arizona republican., 1906-09-28

R. Tritle, c. NJ. Sturges, w. R. Black mer and l. V. Stewart, reported seat ing 149 delegates. There was no contest, or even protest; the report was adopted, and the convention took re- cess until 1:3O o'clock.
 On reassembling, the report of the committee on permanent organization and order of business was presented by J. B. Woodward, chairman, the other members of the committee being Burt Wingar, C. c. Jones, w. H. Taylor, F. W ThOde. It recommended George s. Irwin for permanent chairman and J. c. Reed for permanent secretary; pro- vided that all resolutions and amend ments should be handed to the com mittee on platform and resolutions, in writing; allowed a recess of twenty minutes for the selection of precinct officers, a similar one for an address by the next delegate to congress, linn ited all speeches other than that to five minutes, and named the order of the nomination of candidates.
 The report was adopted without a dissenting voice and Mir. Irwin was es- corted to the chairman's place on the platform and introduced by MT. Hirst. Chairman Irwin spoke briefly. thanking the convention for the unexpected and unsolicited honor. announced. though, that t was a time for woEk rather than oratory. and proceeded with the order of business, which was changed by mo- ton to an immediate recess for the nomination of precinct officers, the naming of new central committee, and the speech of Mir. Cooper.
 During this interim the Phoenix pre- cincts held their sub convention in one corner of the room, presided over by J. F. Bark; c. A Mintz. secretary. There were three candidates for justice of the peace and three for constable. the re- spective votes standing: For justice. C. ". Johnstone, so; D. P. Kyle, 4S; P. k. Hickey. Az For constable, Harry Pruops 66f Prank Martinez. 50; l.. M. Christofferson. 32. The other precincts handed in their nominations during the afternoon.
 Scarcely was this incident concluded when Er. Cooper entered the hall and when MT. Cooper entered the hall. He was greeted with prolonged cheers be- fore his presence was announced, and given a second ovation when intro duced by the chairman, the delegates rising to their feet. yelling and waving their hats.
 COOPER'S ADDRESS.
 MT. Cooper said in part: Tt affords me a great deal of pleasure to meet you all and be accorded the honor of the opportunity of speaking to you. The only thing I regret is that owing to a severe cold cannot talk freely or as plainly as I would like to-
 "We are entering upon a very unique campaign, a campaign without an issue. since the two great parties in convention have united on the sub iect of statehood and destroyed the greatest of all issues in Arizona. that of single statehood. But with a unani- nous voice of Arizona against jOinture there should be no difficulty in secur- ing at an early day separate statehood for Arizona. It has hitherto been re- fused us by congress on various grounds. chiefly that we lack suffi- cient population and that we lack suf- ficient property to raise the revenues necessary to maintain a state govern ment. If they will just give us a little time we will show them that that proposition is wrong.
 "The prosperity of the territory is growing so marvelously we can scarcely conceive of it's magnitude. There are in Arizona thousands Of acres of the best land in the world which is constantly receiving more and more water. Our mines are get ting bigger and better all the time. The product of precious metals is in creasing and even with our great cop per resources we cannot supply the demand for that metal, and it will not be long until we will have twenty cent copper. In four years more we can go to congress and remove that prejudice which exists against us in respect of both population and wealth. We can show our ability to maintain a government equal to the best Of them and still have some resources left.
 Along the line of tax valuations things are occurring under the very able administration of Governor Kibbey (applause) which mean more than we realize. It is the history of every government that there is always a growl coming from taxpayers and there are good reasons for it. The taxes should be equally borne both by individual property owners and by corporations. To show the injustice of present practices in many places will relate a little incident of Tucson, where I am better acquainted with local conditions. I know a working man who went into a building and loan association and built him a house that cost $1150. It was assessed at S1S50 In the same year one of the largest institutions in Tucson was completed at a cost, according to the boasts and advertisements in the papers. of $1OO.OOO. Yet 1t was only assessed at $15.OOO and the owners made a great roar before the board of supervisors and board of equalization. They were making a profit on this