Arizona republican., 1908-02-23
THE SOUTH Is
 FOR FREEDOM
In the Making Up of Re-
 publican Delegation
J. c. Adams Carefully Col lects Sentiment In Pima and COchise.

John c. Adams returned yesterday from a tour of Pima and COchise coun- ties very much pleased with his trip. He had not been at Tucson for six years and on his arrival there was amazed at the growth of the town i1 that time and at the prevailing air of prosperity. He found a similar con- dition of things at Bisbee and Douglas At the latter place he discovered the finest hotel building in the territory and as NIT. Adams has hotel business of his own his comment on the Doug las hostelry is praise from Sir Hubert.
 If" said Mir. Adams, 'Bisbee. Doug las and Tucson are feeling any effect of the panic I would like to have seen those towns before the panic. Why, you can smell money in the air"
 The primary object of MT. Adams trip was to sound republican opinion in the south with regard to the subject of sending an instructed delegation to the republican national convention. He made a careful canvass of the situation in Pima which will be the banner county in the territorial convention, He saw practically all of the leading republican% men who are not holding office and who want none and he found an almost unanimous sentiment against instructions. The republicans are not moved by preference in favor of any candidates. Some of them arc for Taft, some for Cannon, some for Hughes and in fact every candidate mentioned has supporters in Bisbee and Cochise but there is a practically solid opposition 10 instructions in fav- or of any candidate.
 There are several reasons for it. One is that it is not regarded as good pol icy for the territory to bind itself in advance and so be Drecluded from ask ing fer anything for the territory. The reason that MT. Adams heard the more generally advanced> Las to do with dis satisfaction at the false position in which the territory has been placed by l the claims of the federal officials that they held the republicans Of the terri | tory in the hollow of their hands and stood ready to deliver them on the or der os the president.
 They attribute the cutting of the | representation from this territory to two delegates to such claims. Long before the meeting of the national committee assurance had been given 1 that the federal officials were ready to send an instructed delegation of six votes for Taft A majority of the | committee was not in favor of Taft or | of any other candidate. The majority | therefore reasoned that if few federal | officials could dictate the vote of the i republicans of the whole territorg two delegates would be enough to represent the federal officials.
 For this and other reasons the re- | publicans of Pima and Cochise believe | that the time has come to prove tn the national party that the federal of | ficials have no control whatever over the great mass of the party here. So they are determined that there shall l be no instructed delegation but that so | far as they can do so, they will see that no federal official shall find a | place on the delegation.
 This sentiment. said MT. Adams was | if possible more marked in Cochise | than in Pima. In COchise there are | two wings of the republican party One | Of it known as the Cassidy wing is I headed by C. I. McReynolds and the | other by HOval Smith. Whatever may be their differences of opinion regard | ing policies in general they stand to- getheT against the policy of an in l structed delegation. MT. Adams was | informed by the leaders of both cOun- | ties that a movement in favor of in- strucJions could not be successfully | organized in either.
 MT. Adams found also a general be- | nia.r hat h, would be better served by cutting loose ] from federal influences. The defeats | the party has sustained is attributed to | the neglect of the party organization. | There has been no consultations with i the leaders regarding the making of | appointments and the appointment of | so many democrats to office. It is | figured that ii free delegation is sent | to Chicago a concession may be secur- | ed by which the territory may be gov erned by a sort of homerule. especial | ly in the filling of offices. with the re- suit that the territory will shortly be- come republican and once that has i been accomplished, statehood will be made easy.
 MT. Adams heard another argument advanced in favor of an uninstructed delegation. Some, in spite of the rul- ings of the national committee. favor the sending of six delegates to the na- tional convention. They believe that !, If they are sent there as the represent atives of the party and not as the rep resentatives of a small group of of ficeholders, bound to the administra- ton they will be seated as they have been heretofore. On the other hand it is shown that if six delegates were sent there instructed for any one can didate majority of the national com mittee would immediately decide that there was contest from Arizona
 Another argument against the in- heard by Mir. Adams here ever he went was rather sentimental but would no doubt be effective if it were needed. That was that this ter ritory owes so much to Senator For aker that instructions for any other candidate than himself could be re- garded only as a shabby return for what he has done for Arizona.
 The entire time of Mir. Adams was not consumed in political investigation. He stirred up a great deal Of interest in racing and he believes that within short time there will be well equipped tracks at Douglas, Bisbee and Tucson much to the advantage of horsemen he. NnW- fNgnu-U Ta |