Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-05-27
COMMITTEE GIVES
 REASONS FOR ITS STAND
,From Suuday's bsitvN


 cd by the Republican Territorial Con. tral Committee at Phoenix on Friday. synopsis of which was received by telegraph and published yesterday morning. The resolutions, as follows. were forwarded to the National Re publican Committee:
 Phoenix. Arizona, May 22. 1908.
 "This Is to certify, That al a meet. ing of the Republican Territorial Central Committee of Arizona. held on the above date at Phoenix, the Capital. pur suant 10 call therefor duly and re gular. iy issued, and of which meeting due and legal notice was given to each and every member of said committee at least five days prior to the holding thcrof, and which call was advertised by publication in newspapers of gcner. al circulation, and which meeting was attended in person or by lawful priay by forty.eight out of a total of sixty. five members, the following resolution was adopted without dissant and by the unanimous vote of sl present and Represented, to.wit:
 "whsreas, the Republican Territorial Central Committee of Arizona, consist. ing of five members from each of the thirteen counties of tae Territory, and which members were selected by the lawfully elected delegates from the several counties to the regular biennial Territorial Republican Convention held at Bisbee, Arizona, in September, 1906, 10 serve for the period of two years, and which committee is the present lawfully constituted representative or. ganization of the Republican Party of Arizona, has been regularly convened in special session for the purpose of talk. ing appropriate action respecting the representation of Arizona at the Ma. 'ional Republican Convention to be held at Chicago, Illinois, on June ld. 1908. and for other purposes; and
 "wnsreas, It sppcas tba, on the 18th day of April, 1908, in The Terri. torial Republican Convention held at Tucson, Arizona, for the purposes of electing delegates to the National Re. publican Convention aforesaid, and for other purposes, there were eontesting delegations from Coehise county, thir. ty delegates; from Gila county, eleven delegates; and from Marieopa county, thirty one delegates, making Q total of seventy,two contested seats; leaving one hundred and five uncontcsted seats, of which df,y.thrss, or less than ma. iority of the total representation of one hundred and seyenty-seyep, eonstituted quorum for the purposes of prelimi. nary organizations. and ,t. "wnercss, This Committee finds from conclusive evidence, submitted 70 and eIsmined by it, and from Q careful in- ves,igation of the original credentials of said delegations nov tn the hands of said Committee, and after an impar' ,isl consideration of the matter, that the so-ealied nontesting delegation from Msrieopa county was entirely without foundation, right or merit, and devoid of even the semblanee of regularity; that it was obviously fabricated for the sole and only purpose of depriving the thiriy.o one regularly ehcted dele gates from Marieopa county of repre- seniation or participation in the pre- liminary organization of said eonven. ton, and that sand contest was shameful and reprehensible attempt 10 frustra,e the will of and to disfranehise the regularly elected delegates, in the matter of temporary organization, and in furthersnee of a deliberate purpose and design of throwing the control of said convention into the hands of a minority; and
 Whereas, It further appears to this committee, after thorough investiga- ton, that the regular or "Smith" del egation from Coehise county, and the regular or "Smalley" delegation from Gila county, were or right entitIed To seats in asid convention, and that the so-ealled "Powelln delegation from Cochise county, and the so-ealled Msuk" delegation from Gila county were without right; and
 ! Whereas, IL appears that by the ar bi,rary and unwarranted imposition of the unit rule by the chairman of said convention, and by violation of CT press instructions given by certain del egates to those holding their proxies, as well as by the wholly unjusiifnble disfranchisement of the regular dele. gation from Maricopa county, an ap' parent but fictitious majority of the one nundred and Ave uneontcsted del ! 1. sa ku O. nf