Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1908-08-05
THE PROGRAM
CARRIED OUT
O'Neill's Convention From
the Fall of the GaveI
just Enough of a Row to
Keep Alive Democratic
Traditions.

1t was Brady O'NeilFs convention
! becauseyit was held in his hall. II was
as harmonious as any expected it
would be, though, but the members of
/ it, not in a spirit of i'll feeling. but in
observance of democratic traditions
started a formal, Pickwickian row.
Vernon Clark, Paul Kruger and Charlie
/ Woolf let the convention know that
their voices were still for Mark Smith.
The only trouble came up over the
manner of selecting delegates to the
territorial convention. II was proposed
by the Smith followers that each pre-
cinct should be allowed to name it's
own representatives or the representa-
tives that might be allotted to it by
the convention end that that selection
should be final.
The O'Neill majority could not deny
THE precincts the right to choose their
own representation for that would be
| ''unamerican and undemocratic," Nor
could the O'Neill adherents run the
risk of having a broken delegation at
Prescott so they asserted che right of
reviewing the selection that might be
made b. the precincts.
All this trouble came uD over an un-
democratic motion TO put the selec-
ton of the delegates into the hands of
committee of seven. That was ulti-
mately rejected though it could have
/ been carried through under little
pressure.
| In the course of the discussion of
this matter, there was a good deal of
/ back talk. The smith people were re-
minded how few and how helpless they
We're, and the- were advised that it
never makes a medicine any more
palatable to make faces at it but on the
contrary it seem more bitter than ever
to the victim.
But the most of the talking was
done by the Smith delegates and to
the casual onlooker made it look like
a Smith convention. Some of the by
ISLANDERS who knew how things really
stood were reminded of the bullfrog
story. A native of Missouri VINO lived
in the vicinity of a pond and could not
sleep at night wenti to the proprietor
of a restaurant Of a near by town and
proposed to sell him bullfrogs for table
use. The restaurant man asked him
how many he could deliver! The ma
tive replied that he could bring in sew
eral carloads the next day. That day
passed and several others and the frog
merchant did not appear At last he
came with a couple of frogs and in re-
Iply to the expressed surprise of the
restaurant keeper he said he mad been
misled by the vocerousness of those
1.-TWO. He had thought from their
nightly conversation with each other
that there must be at least a million.
But there were more than a couple
of Smith delegates in the convention.
There were at least three and perhaps
more The O'Neill people were will
ing to concede that five per cent of the
lconvention. was made up Of Smith dele
gates.
But whatever trouble there was took
place in the morning session. When
the convention reconvened at half past
one o'clock the peace program of the
day before was carried through with
out a hitch The delegates were ap-
pointed and the O'Neill majority found
that Il had no occasion to exercise its
Supervisory powers over the selections
or recommendations of the precincts.
ONLY two Smith men had been recon-
mended, w. r. Cummings and Paul
Kruger of Tempe, and they were bound
hand and foot along with the other
lthirty-five delegates. Beside, it was
understood that - any event they
would carry ont the will of the con-
ventiOn.
After the selection of the delegates,
Brady O'Neill made a speech, for it
was his hall in which he cOunselled
harmony, in the party and he urged
that none OF those who had not had
their own way in this convention carry
away resentment with them.
He presaged that he would have