Arizona republican., 1908-08-13
PHoENIx, ARIZONA. AUG. 1s. 1908.
FOR WHAT GOOD?

FOX WHAT GOOO.
 A member of the territorial admin
 istration last night filled the editorial
 page of the Gazette. The writer as
 sails The Republican for some pur-
 pose which is not quite clear and
 speaks vaguely of a factional con- test of whose existence we have not the slightest knowledge. The Repub- lican last spring was engaged in a controversy with the territorial ad- ministration and won it handily.
 There was no other factional issue left of which we are aware.
 The Republican is criticized for having published a telegraphic story of the Silverbell primaries which was won by corporation agents" and with having failed to publish any account of the Prescott primaries in which it is stated the anti-corpora- tionists were the victors.
 The Republican had no reason to believe that there was widespread interest in the result at either place. It does not know now what the issue was at Silverben, or whether there was an issue. We believe though that there was only one ticket, that everybody voted it and that The Re publican's correspondent worded his story of the result in a jocular spir- it.
 We do know however that the Prescott contest was not one which was of any concern to the republi- cans of Arizona or even to the re- publican party of Yavapai county. It was the outflame of a feeling enter tained by Whisky Row against the Yavapai club and this feeling was famed by Attorney General Clark into an appearance of factional sen timent, in the hope that he might secure an apparent victory as an off set against the substantial defeat he and the administration forces sus- tained on the same field last spring, when there was something to fight about.
 Mir. Clark himself and other rep resentatives of the administration before the primaries called on per sons who had successfully opposed them before and urged harmony. There was no cause for inharmony and when the conference ended, there was an understanding between LeRoy Anderson and his friends on one side and Mir. Clark on the other that there was no occasion for a contest So far as the policy of the party was concerned all were in accord, and perhaps, but for the voluntary proffer of Mir. Clark, he would have controlled the primaries by default, Nobody was interested, for there was nothing at stake, nor is there now But at the caucus it was rather accidentally discovered that Mir. Clark had prepared a list of delegates from which all of his former successful opponents had been studiously omitted. Empty as the situation was of issues, Mr. Clark's violation of his own pro posal aroused resentment and his plans for that night were over-set in caucus. The next morning he ap- peared again with another somewhat l less radical ticket and he plainly had i enlisted the support of Whisky Row | The other side offered no strenuous resistance, and did not spend a dol | lar. In the afternoon while MT. | Clark and his lieutenants were fran tically bringing in voters, all the leaders of the other side without ex- ception were excited guests at a | baseball bame Yet the Clark ticket | carried only by an average majority | of fourteen in a vote of something like 300. That night there was a wild | jollification on Whisky Row. The club had been downed. We have related as briefly as possible the essential incidents of what the writer calls an anti victory"
 The issue at the polls" says the writer, careless of truth and grammar alike, was the railroads and mining corporations against the people" Yet outside the town of Prescott, there