Arizona republican., 1906-08-05
ARIZONA ARRAYED
 AGAINST JOINTURE
The Splendid Work of the Two Central Con-
 mitteeS Yesterday
Each Contributes to Bi-Partsan Body, Which Will Direct the Fight Against the Proposed Merger With New Mexico.

Both the republican anl the demo- cratic territorial central committees met yesterday at the capitol and car ried out the program for arranging for d combined defense against joint state hood, There had never before been such d gathering of committeeman in Ari- zona. Much more than half or the membership of each of the committees was present and the rest was well rep resented by proxy.
 The arrangement for the defense against a common foe was quite simple u consisted of the appointment or committee of three from each of the central committees to devise ways and means of conducting the fight against jointure. Strong resolutions against the merger were adopted in both the committees. These resolutions more over carry recommendations to the con ventions to take up the fight and carry it through the campaign. Both con- ventions will be held in Bisbee on Sep +ember 6.
 This arrangement was reached after some delay on the part of the repubIi- can committee, which could as easily have carried out it's purpose in an hour In its overwhelming strength ana su- periOrity over a group of two joint statehood delegates it decided to be magnanimous and admit three other persons not members of the committee but who brought with them certain proxies. It carried it's magnanimity farther and let these individuals run out to the end of the rope and then when the day was nearly done the committee did what it had to do and adjourned,
 The democratic meeting was -briefer and it's treatment of its recaIcitrants v:as more drastic. None of them had appeared at the meeting. having been informed that they would be regarded as vioIators Of the pledges of the plat form of the last territorial convention. It further adopted a resolution which excludes them from participation Tn the next convention. The resolution is as follows:
 Be it Resolved. That a territorial democratic convention be called to be held in the city of Bisbee on September 6, 1906; that the appOrtiOnment of dele gates in the respective counties be one for every fifty votes or a major portion thereof cast for Hon. M. A. Smith in 1904; and that the chairman of this committee be instructed to issue such call based upon the principles and doc
 
 ciated in it's last platform
 THE GATHERING.
 Several of the members of the com mittee had arrived the day before and the rest of them poured into town on the early trains from the north and the south. There were beside many prominent politicians from different parts of the territory. All of the coun- ties except Gila were represented in person. The meetings had been called for ten o'clock. The democratic com mittee assembled in the rooms of the governor and the republican committee occupied one of the apartments in the office of the secretary.
 It was half-past ten o'clock when the republican meeting was called to order by Governor Kibbey, the chairman. He addressed it briefly. aHuding to the joint statehood question, which he said should not be an issue of the cam paign. It could not rightfully be made one: there could be no quarrel without two parties and the record of the re- publican party showed that 1t had ale ways been in strong opposition to joint ure. He mentioned further that the first and only official declaration in favor of jointure had been made by a democratic body. the council of the leg