Arizona republican., 1906-09-07
COOPER CALLED TO LEAD
 REPUBLICANS TO VICTORY
Unanimously Nominated by the Bisbee
 Convention Yesterday
Strong Resolutions Endorsing National and Local Administrations, and DenOuncing JOinture-Har- Enthusiasm and OratOry.

titled to votes in the convention. This the report of the committee on creden-
 tials, following a session at times
 stormy, and lasting nearly three hours. ' In the appointment of the committee on credentials, no member was named for a county in which there were contest | ing delegations. Of these there were
 but two. Mohave and, Yuma.
 The committee on credentials se- leoted G. w. Cleveland of Graham county as chairman, and Roy s. Good rich of MaricOpa county as secretary.
 The regular and the contesting dele gates were each originally allowed ten minutes apiece in which to present his case, but as the committee began to consider the matter before it. it
 was seen that there was not nearly suf- ficient time to take the testimony and documentary evidence offered. Mohave county was the first considered. O. D. M. Gaddis presented the credentials of the regulars. naming himself, J. w. Garrett. Ed. M. Carroll and Charles O. Connolly as delegates, the last two of whom he represented by proxy. The credentials were signed by Ross NJ. , Blakely, the chairman of the Mohave county committee. and J. F. Perry, sec retary. MT. Gaddis, in presenting his side of the contest told of the regular calling of the regular county meeting.
 of the meeting in detail, and based his argument for the seating of his dele
 gation on the fact that the territorial
 call authorized the county committee
 to name the delegates, which was done
 at an advertised meeting at which
 there was a majority of the committee
 present. He pointed out the fact that Ross M Blakely who was appointed
 at the head of the contesting delegates.
 was candidate for delegate at the
 meeting. but was defeated
 Ross NJ. Blakely presented the ap-
 plication of the contestants. He ad-
 mitted the statements made by MT.
 Gaddis, but gave the committed the
 story of later meeting held at King
 man. in his county. on the 29th of August. of which general notice
 was given and the republicans in the county advised to attend It was a public meeting, and the object. as stated in the call was to protest
 against the previous action of the county committee. He read the reso- lutions adopted at the meeting, pro testing in strong terms against joint statehood. At this meeting. C. R. Gooding, C. w. Clunton, l.. E. Drew and George T. Warner. all of whom MT. BIakely represented by proxies, were elected as delegates to the con-
 vention. and their credentials, signed by the chairman of the committee, bound them to cast their votes in favor of any measure working to the defeat of joint statehood. A resolution was also adopted at this meeting revOking the action of the county central com
 mittee. With his statement of the
 Kingman meeting MT Blakely also presented resolutions adopted in three
 other precincts of the county approving , the action of the mass meeting.
 All of the members of the credentials
 committee made short talks. presenting their views of the case. MT. Goodrich of Maricopa county took the stand that
 the last public meeting called for the purpose of naming delegates to the convention would have prior right to i sit in the committee. MT. Hubbell of Apache county maintained that the fact ! that a majority of the county central
 committee having named the Gaddis ! delegation the central committee alone
 could revoke it's action.
 On motion of MT. Smith of Coconinc county the anti-jointure delegation headed by MT. Blakely, was declared by the committee to be entitled to Mo- have county's representation in the ! convention. MT. Smiths motion was supported by the members of the com
 mittee from Pinal. Coconino. Graham
 Maricopa. GiIa and Yavapai, and op- posed by the committeeman from Nav ajo, Pima, Apache, Cochise and Sants Cruz.