Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-20
SPEAKER FIGHT UNCHANGED AT
 PHOENIX
Contest Is Between Bell and Bailey and Result Will Not Be Known Until Democratic Caucus Is Held.
(By a<stan Correspondent

PHOENIX. Ariz-. Jan. 1s.-Quite a number ot the members of the twen- tythird legislature have already ar rived in Phoenix and it is expected that all will be on the ground by to- morrow evening The supreme court session has brought a large number of prominent lawyers to the capital from all parts of the territory and the city has been much enIiyened by the coming of the lawmakers and the at- torneys.
 Already the campaign is on for the speakership of the assembly. This fight is among the democrats. who have a majority of sixteen to eight in that body, and will therefore elect the speaker and other officers and clerks. The contest is now between ". D. Bell, of Maricopa county, and Neill Bailey, of Cochise; other candi. dates are Williams, of Coconfno coun- ty, and Bo Whitesides. of Santa Cruz, but the two first named are the only ones to develop any strength outside of their OWE county, and it is con ceded that either Bailey or Bell will preside over the assembly during the coming session. According to the best estimate at the present time Bailey is leading his opponent one vote, but is still short two votes of having sufficient strength to control the caucus. The Phoenix democrats the, ones who controlled the county convention last year, are making a great ado about Bailey being a cor poration man, whereas, the facts are that MT. Bailey has never been con nected with any corporation except to receive a salary as an employe of a railroad. He came to Arizona a dozen years ago and was first en- ployed as clerk in the railroad office at Bowie station on the Southern Pa cifc; he has followed the railroad business ever sslce and is now the trainmaster of the Cananea railroad. If earning an honest living by working for a railroad Is sufficient to bar a man from the confidence of the peo- pie, Mir. Bailey must plead guilty, but his friends think that those who are fighting Bailey, ss they. say in the in- terests of the people, must exclude every man drawing a salary from a railroad O. mining company in Ari- zona from the right to aspire to polit- ical honor, unless they can find some other reason to urge against the elec-l tion of Bailey.
 It is the general belief here that l Bailey will win the speakership con- test. but this cannot be definitely pre- dfcted until after the arrival of onsl or two other members of the assem- ply who are now placed in the doubt ful list. -. ..... .-- .....
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 It is generally conceded that Hon. A. J. Doran, of Yavapai county, will be elected by the republican majority | as president of the council. There was some talk soon after the election | about Hon Fred Cleaveland, the re- publican member of Graham county, 1 becoming candidate for president of | the council, but lately there has been no such talk. Doran is considered the logical man because of his past legislative experience and because of his long service in the ranks of the republican party in the territory.
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 It is understood that if Bailey is | able to control the democratic eau GUS in the interest of his candidacy | for the speakership then the chief clerkship of that body will go to Mir. l Robinson, of Prescott, who is chair man of the Yavapei county democrat. ic committee. He is an excellent man | and would make a splendid officer; l 1t will be remembered that the chief clerk of the assembly two years ago was Joe Dillon, of Prescott. Should Bell win the speakership, then thel chief clerkship would probably bel named by somebody who delivers the l badly needed votes to bring about that result.
 In the council the position of chief clerk lies between two Maricopa coun- ty epublicans-Harry Tritle and his old enemy, Mauk. These gentlemen led opposing faction of the republican party in this county last year and each won a victory; Mauk defeated Tritle in the county convention to i send delegates to the territorial con vention, and Tritle made winning 1 in the convention which nominated the county republican ticket. Which l of these republican scrappers will win | before the legislature cannot now be l foreseen. Both must depend upon re- | publican councilmen from other coun- | ties as the member from Maricopa Is 1 a democrat and will have no voice in 1 the republican caucus