Arizona republican., 1906-09-28
PICK THE WINNERS
Enthusiastic Gathering Yesterday
 of naricOpa Republicans.
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had a few good educators but the most Of them were breaking their necks to get away and into a better country
 MT. Reed remarked upon the sud- denness of the honors thrust upon him. as he knew nothing of the plan when he arrived in town in the morning Nevertheless he was proud of his fate and promised to do some tall running Mir. Evans said the honor was un- sought by him but he would do the best he could to show that he deserved it and as he had been a Philadelphia republican for twenty-five years and was an anti-jointist he believed he appreciated the responsibilities of the occasion. MT. Webb made a very short speech. thanking the delegates for the honor of the nomination.
 w. w Cook was nominated for sheriff by G. H. Carr, Elmer Warren of this city and Jim Sturgeon of Tempe seconding it. Sturgeon an- ouncing that Cook would do things to the so-called ''invincible Carl Hay den" The nomination was unani- mously approved but Mir. Cook being absent could not make a speech, though lots of good things were said about him.
 
 Of the day. George Christ placed be- fore the assembly for the office of district attorney, w F. Richardsol of this city. MT. Christ's ncninating speech was the best one of the day. logical and well worded and though Mir. Richardson was defeated that ad- dress alone was worth the effort. The nomination was seconded and H. NJ Lewis placed before the convention d namesake, though no relation, Ernest Lewis of this city. J. c. Spangler and Judge Woodward both added their words of encomium and the fight was on. MT. Lewis got 103 votes. but the best the tellers could do for Richard son was 46. In an instant the latter moved to make it unanimous and MT Lewis was hustled to the platform, re- ceiVing an ovation. Mir. Lewis said that if anything could give him greater pleasure than the nomination it was the gracious spirit of his late oppo- nent. It had been a clean fight and he was proud to accept the nomina- tion. Not only that, but it made him proud to run on such platform and support such an administration It was still better to look forward to serving the people which gave him the same cooperation at the polls
 MT. Richardson was called upon and nobody ever delivered a speech tha. better expressed a keen yet a good natured disappointment. He said he was badly skinned and he knew it, but he was a republican still and was for anti jointure, first last and all the time. He was asked to take the plat form but he said he preferred not to Tor from the temper of the convention he feared some of them might shy a brick at him. More than that he be- lieved that many in the room would rather he would look at their backs than their faces. for never in his life had he seen such cheerful aggrega tion of liars. He had carefully can Vassed the situation an hour before and could count only eighteen votes for Lewis. Speaking of the contest he testified that it had been clean so far as MT. Lewis was concerned but he couldn't say that of all the dele gates. However, he was with MT. Lewis and with the convention and felt that he could insure the election of his late opponent. Concluding he said: MT. Chairman, it's hard to drive an Arkansaw republican out of the party and I'll be fighting the battles of the republican party when a lot of these