Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-04-14
THE GOVERNOR
On War PATH
in CONVENTION
Attacks Anti-lnstructionists
and Mining Companies Be-
fore Maricopa Republican
Convention at Phoenix.


platform of the Maricopa county Re
publican convention, which elected 81
delegates to the Tucson convention
pledged to vote for Taft delegates to
the Republican national convention
at Chicago described the opposition
to 1t as an ignominious failure and
offered congratulations thereat. II
endorsed the administrations of Pres
ident Roosevelt and Governor Kibbey
The platform believed that William,
II. Taft was the second best man for
president and was better fitted than
another for carrying out the policies
of President Roosevelt. The dele
gates to the territorial convention
were pledged 10 endeayor to secure
an Instructed delegation to the ma
tional convention for Taft. Mention
of the names of Governor Kibbv: ana
President Roosevelt received especial
applause from large number of the
fifty-six persons in attendance when
the resolutions were read. sMr. Taft
was recognized in a slighter degree
The applause was led by the federal
and territorial officeholders and it
was a somewhat curious fact that the
smaller the salary and Importance of
the officeholder the more yociferous
his applause.
Near the close of the convention
General Sampson who had been press
ed TO speak succeeded in forcing from
the unwilling convention weak ap-
pIause at the mention of Foraker's
name. But it was noticeable that
none of the officeholders threw them.
selves open to a charge of lese maiest
by taking part in the demonstration.
The real surprise of the day was
Governor Kibbey on the platform with
his fighting clothes on and his an
nouncement that ne had a chip on his
shoulder The governor was mad
about something though his conyen-
ton had things all its own way. One
OF the things that the governor was
mad about was the presence in the
territory of w. F. Herrin, general
counsel of the Southern Pacific He
had not come with his consent or
that of President Roosevelt and
though the governor said he did not
know why he had come he was will
ing to bet the chances of an instruct
ed delegation that his errand was a
sinister one. 1t presumably had
something to do with the conventions;
lit probably had something to do with
the instructions business, the govern
or thought.
The governor gave the anti-instruc'
tionists and the mining companies a
dressing down which will linger long
in their memories and John C
Adams he believed had been sent
oh of r7rI,p
are politically pure in heart. The gov
ernor accounted for the results in
Yavapai, Cochise, Pima and ella
counties on the ground that they
were the strongholds of the corpora,
tons, bent on discrediting the admin.
istration of President Roosevelt.
That is, wherever the oficehoIders
have been allowed to have their own
way things had gone right; where
they had not been so allowed there
could be seen the Shiny trail OF pre-
datory wealth and the tracks of SIMS
ter offenders.
In ascribing to the administration.
lists a motive for their opposition the
governor unconsciously disclosed the
similar though stronger motive of the
instructionists. He said the opposition
pretended to be for Taft who would
be nominated anyhow. They would go
to Chicago ready to turn the delega
ton over to the winning candidate
who of course would be Taft and then
proclaim themselves the controllers of
the party in Arizona and consequently
the proper custodians- of the offices.
1t thus appeared that it was not the
main thing that Taft should get the
delegation but that 1t should be given
to him in such a manner as not to
disturb the official equilibrium.
The governor disclained, as he has
been doing for the last two years a
wish to hold office. He has been held
in it by the unholy forces which hav
been blindly keeping him there by
trying to GUST him. The president
also wants him to remain until the
political millennium in Arizona has
come. The governor enlisted The
Arizona Republican among those who
have taken the sacred name of Roose
welt in vain and so The Republican ~
held responsible in part for exteno-
ing the tenure of the governors term
of Office. The governor moreover
condemned The Republican to outer
darkness among sinners and dnbe-
lievers, democrats and un-Rooseyelt-
fan republicans.
1t was gathered from the remarlrs
of the governor that ne anticipates
defeat at Tucson. There was some
talk of making the record Of the first
ward proceedings to Chicago If neces-
sary and still il necessary to Wash
Defnn fhnuCh for xu7at nifrpnca 20
the latter point was not explained.
Presumably though to show the pow
ers that distribute Offices Who's Who
in Arizona, IL they have fair chanc,
to be Who. This presages a bolt at