Bisbee daily review., 1906-12-30
1CASES ATTRACTING
 ATTENTION
Chairman of Democratic Com mittee Had Nothing To Do
 With Suit Instigated By County Attorney Candidates

DOUGLAS, Dec. 29.-- Especial. )- The election contest instituted in Yayapal county against Hon. R. E. Morrison. the republican candidate elected as district attorney in Yaya- pal county, is based on nothing but an immaterial irregularity in carrying out the law controlling elections. It is on a par with the contest instituted in this county There, as here, if the contest was sustained by the court the expressed will of the voters in Yavapai county would be thwarted; it is the same in the Douglas contest; should Ben Rice be deprived of his office it would be depriving the voters of Douglas of the right to elect their justice of the peace.
 The Prescott Journal-Miner gives the following interviews with the democratic leaders in Prescott con cerning the contest instituted against Hon. Bob Morrison:
 Speaking of the suit Of District At torney Talbot 10 contest the election to that office of Robert E. Morrison, chairman of the territorial democratic central committee J. P Dillon last evening to a representative of the .;ournal.Miner, said:
 MT. Talbot consulted neither my self nor any of the committee, or, as far as I can learn, any of the other democrats of the county. in reference to the suit and we are in no wise in accord with Talbot in his suit to oust Mir. Morrison. who was plainly elected by the will of tho majority of the people. and we do not intend to stand for any such action in the face of an utter absence of any evidence of act ual fraud.
 ITO start a contest on a iimsy tech nicality of that kind is. to my mind highly improper Mir. Morrison polled the largest number of votes in fair contest and. speaking for the body of which l am chairman, we intend tc stand by the election as r resulted
 It is apparent from this interview and from the following interview se- cured from Mir. Talbot's deputy. MT Ross, that Talbot consulted no one, with the possible exception of q law yer, prior to instigating the suit. and that the move is viewed with disfayor by nearly all of the Democrats in Yav- apai county, is made manifest by their repeated assertions to that effect.
 J. Fl. Robinson. chairman of the county democratic central committee. secretary of the territorial central committee and clerk of the board Of supervisors. when seen yesterday in reference to the Talbot contest suit, said:
 "The central committee has had mo- thing to do with the institution of the suit and have nothing to do with the contest, and as far as l know all the members are against it. Personally | do not approve of District Attorney -TalhOt's action in instituting legal pro ceedings in Thr nIucrvr-.--ssssef- s..; -GhaiE man Of the central committee l state officially that the committee has had nothing to do with it. I believe, with the other members of the committee, that Bob Morrison was elected district attorney of this county at the last election, fairly, and is entitled to the office If there are or were ever any legal technicalities in regard to the establishing of the North Prescott pre- cinct or any other precinct it Is or was not the fault of the supervisors of- flee and l believe that when a body of electors vote in good faith at an election that their votes should be counted in the general result"
 Assistant District Attorney Henry D. Ross, who returned Saturday from a professional visit to Bisbee, when asked by JournalMiner man If he had counselled District Attorney Tal- bot to contest the election of District Attorney-elect Robert E. Morrison, re- piled:
 District Attorney Talbot did not consult me tn the matter al all and knew nothing of contesting the cleo ton of Nr Morrison until arrived here.
 'I am against the contest suit. MT.