Arizona republican., 1906-09-28
or sherin-carl T. Hayden.

Bullard.
 For county recorder-CIay Leonard.
 For probate judge-J. H. LangstOn.
 For school superintendent-A.H H. Full ton.
 For sUrveyor-G. A. Streitz.
 For members of the board of super visors-J. P. Orme and L. M. Hoghe.
 LEGISLATIVE TICKET.
 For councilman - Eugene Brady O'NeiII.
 For members of the assembly-W. D. Bell, E. c. Bunch. J. w. Crenshaw and William Wallace.
 This is the aggregation oi standard bearers appointed yesterday to lead the democratic party of Maricopa county to vi-vi-vivisectiOn.
 The convention was not inharmonious but it was obstreperous as democratic conventions always are. The conven- tion is the one time every two years when the orators are given an oppor- tunity and they hungrily embrace it. Whatever differences of opinion ex- ! isted after the primaries were settled early in the morning and it was an nounced that Sheriff Walker had with drawn from the contest for renomina- tiOn. While this cleared the atmos- | phere in the vicinity of the sheriff's of ] AANG IL AlAANhEAAEL IL III the HEAknDOl tlOD4 ! of the office of the county treasurer for ] it was announced at the same time that 1 the sheriff would be a candidate for the nomination for that office. Until then | 1t had been generally assumed that Frank Luke would receive the nomin- ! ation. After that nobody cared to bet ! on the result of the three -cornered | fight between Luke, Rabbit and Walk | CT.
 | The convention was called to order at l ten o'clock by Chairman Sanders of | the county central committee, the big chief of the dead and now much alive | Young Mems Democratic club and W. D. Bell was made temporary chairman and subsequently, permanent chairman after which the following committees were appointed:
 | Credentials - Dr. H. A. Hughes. | chairman; N. A. Sanders, F. w. ! Spears. Dr. J. A. Dimes, c. P. DeMund, 1 Wm. Wallace, L. NJ. Acuff, Jeff Adams. ! Order of business-C.. B. Wood. chair man; c. NJ. zander. s. F. Webb. T. Bone. J. D. LOper, H. L. Chandler T. 1 J. Walker.
 PIatform-w. T. Smith. chairman: Charles Peterson. Selim Michaelsin. ! Charles Woolf, J. w. Crenshaw, T. T. Powers and J. L. Irwin.
 THE REAL BUSINESS.
 The convention had taken a recess until one o'clock but it was more than a half hour after that that it was again i called to order. The making of the platform was a long and laborious task and was attended with great pain.
 The report of the committee on ere dentials was presented by Chairman Hughes and was adopted without de- ] ha gret the slipping by of an opportunity.
 But the opportunity came with the 1 presentation of the report of the com mittee on order of business. When the l order of nominations for county super visors was reached the manner of mak- ! ing the nominations came into serious dispute which developed into a pro- found mathematical discussion in which it was sought to determine the true majority of I33. the number of votes in the convention. The old time arith- meticians- eontended that e was the proper number while the revised math- | ematicians held that the real majority | was S9. a figure which they arrived at by multiplying the number. of de 'egates by two and dividing the product by three. That was too much for the old ! timers. In vain it was explained to them | of voting for two out of three or more candidates at once 1t was possible for three of them to each receive an ap- parent majority of all the votes in tho convention. After while majority of the convention professed to see through the new rule which was adopted
 THE PLATFORM.
 The most trouble came over the dec laratiOn of principles presented by Chairman Smith of the committee or platform. The report alluded to the true and undying principles of democ- racy and congratulated the members of the party on it's immortality. Regard ing the tax laws of the territory the platform held that they were gooc enough and that there were enough oi them if they were only enforced. There was a strong declaration against the annexation Of Arizona to New MexieC and a denunciation of the presidentia. administration for it's attempt to brine this unhappy event about. A protest wa: made against the surrender of the ter. ritory to the mercies of a gang of DO. litical corruptionists who had fmpover ished their own territory and the party was called upon to oppose the machin atiOns of foes without and traitor. within.
 COULDN'T TAKE 4 JOKE.
 Right here it was demonstrated tha the platform committee was without vestige of a sense of humor. The re port contained a malicious fling at th' republican territorial convention a Bisbee into whose platform was inject ed one of the most delicate bits of sar casm that ever appeared among thu declarations of party principles It wa. that paragraph in which the convention extended it's thanks to President Roose welt for giving the people of this ter ritory the right to say whether Arizon; should be annihHated or not.
 The report regarded that joke as serious utterance and called upon tn. territorial republican party to take i