Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-04-24

publican convention, arrived in the city from the south yesterday to attend the C. A. R. encampment. Col. Doran was tials of that convention and was the author of the minority report whose adoption was the signal for the bolting of the Kibbey delegates. Col. Doran said yesterday that that was only al pretcxt for the bolt; that it would have taken place anyhow, on some other pretcxt.
 In proof of the purpose of the kib- bev wing to bolt, after 1t had become evident that in no circumstances could it control the convention for instruc- tons, Col. Doran said that at , O clock the Kibbey people had secured the san ta Rita hotel dining room for convcn- ton. At that time Governor Kibbcy was in the regular convention making al speech, breathing with harmony and 1 compromise. At the time of the engag- .ng of the dining room there could have been no inkling of the purpose of the credentials committee for the members of the committee had resolved on as sembling that all of its deliberations should be kept secret until the report should be submitted to the convention and the minority members of the com, mttee adhered to that agreement.
 Regarding the proceedings of the committee Col. Doran said the case of | Cochisc county was taken up first. That ] was the most difficult problem present. ed to the committed. There was an ap- pearance of regularity on both sides and | the minority members of the commit ! tee were not at first agreed as to the claims of the opposing delegations. Nor was there any agreement among the majority members and the first ballot resulted in tie. the member from San ta Cruz voting for the McRoynolds dele gation On the second ballot, however, . he fell in line with the majority for the Smith Kirk delegation.
 As to the Gila county contest, Col 0nel Doran sad that the Smalley dele gation had absolutely nothing to stand on. while the proceedings by which the
 
 been regular in all respects. The call for the primaries and conventions had been regularly issued as the evidence showed. The evidence showed that the primaries had been held only in Globe precinct and that the Mauk forces had tr.umphed by an overwhelming major ity. There was no accusation of irreg- ula7ity in the Globe, precinct. The Smallcy people had merely been beaten. Then came the convention which had been regularly called. It was attended by the Mauk delegates only. for no oth- CTS had been elected anyweher in the county.
 In the meantime. after the time for the holding of primaries had passed, letters were sent out by the Smalley forces to outside precincts, inviting at. tendance on convention. q mass con vention for the selection of delegates to tho territorial convention. The Smal- Icy convention, according to the evi- dencc, was attended only by one man who had been regularly elected to at tend any convention, and he had gone over to the Mauk convention. The oth- CTS, who participated in the Smallcy \ convention, consisted of men who had been defeated in the Globe primaries and the holders of proxies from outside precincts where there had been no pre- tense of having held primaries. It was on such a showing as this that the ma jority members of the committee voted to seat the Smalley delegation.
 Concerning the Maricopa county con. troversy, Colonel Doran said there were present on behalf of the Adams con- testants. large number of afiidavits of fraud, irregularty, bribery and in inhalation. These aflidavits, except those charging the purchase of proxies of the county central committee related to two wards of Phoenix. There was a general denial by the kibbey people of the truth of the afiidavits, but there was no effort made to impeach them, and the minority members could only assume them to be true The minority would have favored giving the Adams contingent representation in the two wards, but, on account of the manner convention had been chosen, the proper representation of those wards could not have been arrived at The minority therefore proposed the seating of both delegations.
 The chairmen of the opposing dele . ,Dn each in which to make statements.
 Governor Kibbey had declined to make a statement, but he presented E. w. Lewis, who went over the case and declared that his delegation should be seated in it's entirety or not at all. While Mir. Lewis was thus declaring compromise to be impossible, Governor kibbey, who had returned to the con vention, was making the harmony and compromise talk.
 Then followed the submission of the two reports and the adoption of the minority by decisive vote and then came the most disgracrful scene ever witnessed in an Arizona republican con vention, the boisterous withdrawal of the unseated delegations, headed by the governor of the territory. The situa. tion would not have been so strikingly disgraceful if the bolt had been headed by an ordinary ward politician.
 ! Of the convention itself, Colonel Do ran said he had never attended one in this territory which had been more reg ularly conducted than this one. There was not flaw in the record and the proceedings from parliamentary ] noint nf vinD wnrn nnulnss with nna