Arizona republican., 1908-04-13

fled to later; but on the insistent de- mand of MT. Adams and his support CTS and the advise of w. c. Foster. it was agreed that the count should proceed at that time, and the ballots were taken from the envelope and the count commenced. As Foster, having the ballots in his hand, was about to start the count, he was personally as- saulted by s. J. Tribolet, who, accord ing to the evidence attempted to seize the ballots. Foster, evading this attack, passed the ballots to Geo. Kirkland, clerk of the election board. who. with them in his possession. left the room and deposited the ballots, together with the tally sheet, in a sealed envelope with the sheriff of the county for later use by the county convention. This action on the part of the Adams faction very evidently prevented a complete count of the bal lots at the close of the polls.
 After a careful consideration of all the evidence presented relative to the primaries held in the First ward, we are of the unanimous opinion that the following parties are the regularly elected delegates from that ward and are, therefore, entitled to seats in the county convention:
 J. L. Rice. J. H. Kinney, Jas. T. Rhodes. Geo. Kirkland. John M. Mccoy. Robt Wiley. B. A Fowler. C. w. Barnett, Harvey D. Patton, John Baggiore.
 We further believe, from the evil dence presented to us, that every req sonable effort was made by the regu- larly appointed election board in the First ward to conduct the primaries in an orderly. impartial and honest manner, and are of the opinion that there was no cause for the establish ment of bolting primary in the First ward by the Adams faction. as they were apparently given a square deal in the regular primaries.
 Respectfully submitted,
 DWIGHT B! HEARD,
 ELLIOT EVANS.
 L. W. COGGINS,
 J. C. REED,
 C. H. DAVIDSON
 Phoenix, AriZ., April F. 190SA To the Editor of The Republican:
 Sir:-In order that the republicans may not be misled by the report of the so-called committee. l wish to state the following: Fraud was perpetrated in Phoenix Precinct No. l in desperate endeavor to defeat our ticket, and We were compelled to open another polling place: therefore there were two sets of delegates chosen from that pre- cinct F lengthy letter was prepared at the capitol building and given to Geo. Mintz. chairman of the republican county committee. asking our dele gates to appear before d committee. MT Mintz had no authority to ap-I point this committee. and the com mittee could not have any power to settle the matter as the only per sons who could even assume to settle the controversy were the delegates as- sembled at the county convention. The appointment of this committee was simply another attempt to de- prive the republican voters of this precinct of their rights and prevent them from having an opportunity of presenting their case before the terri torial convention at Tucson. As the federal office holders refused to allow our delegation any voice in the selec- tion of delegates to Tucson, even if the committee decided in our favor, even depriving us of any right to name the four delegates to Tucson from our precinct.
 If fraudulent means had not been used in our precinct, thereby depriv ing us of any chance to participate in the organization of the convention, it is very likely that the federal officers would have found they could not con- tTol the county convention. We therefore refused to present any evidence before the committee. The report was based on evidence fur nished entirely by the other side.
 Very respectfully,
 WILLIAM EVANS