Arizona republican., 1908-04-21
THE BOLT WAS
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Any Pretext Would Have Served Official Holders
Col. DOran of Yavapai Dele- gatiOn Speaks of the Con- ventiOn Proceedings at Tucson.

of the Yavapai delegation to the ter ritorial republican convention, arrived
 in the city from the south yesterda! to attend the G. A. R. encampment Cot. Doran was a member of the com mittee on credentials of that conven- tion and was the author of the min ority report whose adoption vas tht signal for the bolting of the Kibbev delegates Col. Doran said yesterday that that was only a pretext for the bolt: that it would have taken place anyhow. on some other pretext.
 In proof of the purpose of the Kib- bey wing to bolt. after it had become evident that in no circumstances could it control the convention for in- structions. Col. Doran said that at o'clock the Kibbey people had secur- ed the Santa Rita hotel dining room for convention. At that time Gov ernor Kibbey was in the regular con Vention making speech, breathing with harmony and compromise. At the time of the engaging of the dining room there could have been no ink ling of the purpose of the credentials committee for the members of the committee had resolved on assembling that all of it's deliberations should be kept secret until the report should be submitted to the convention and the minority members of the committed adhered to that agreement.
 Regarding the proceedings of the committee. Col. Doran said the case of Cochise county was taken up first Thas was the most difficult problem presented to the committee. There was an appearance of regularity on both sides and the minority members of the committee were not at first agreed as to the claims of the oppos- ing delegations. Nor was there any agreement among the majority mem bers and the first ballot resulted in 2 tie. the member from Santa Cruz voting for the McReynolds delegation. On the second ballot however. he fell in line with the majority for the smith Kirk delegation.
 As to the GiIa county contest. Col Doran said that the Smalley delega- ton had absolutely nothing 70 stand on. while the proceedings by which the Mauk delegation had been chosen
 
 call for the primaries and conventions had been regularly issued as the evil dence showed. The evidence showed that the primaries had been held only in Globe precinct and that the Mauk forces had triumphed by an over whelming majority. Tere was no ac- cusation of irregularity in the Globe precinct. The Smalley people had merely been beaten. Then came the convention which had regularly been called. It was attended by the Mauk delegates only. for no others had been elected anywhere 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 attendance on a convention. d mass convention for the selection of dele gates to the territorial convention. The Smalley convention. according to the evidence. was attended by only one man who had been regularly elected to attend any convention and he had gone over from the Mauk convention. The others, who participated in the Smalley 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 pretense of having held pri- maries. It was on such a showing as this that the majority members of the coSnmittee voted to seat the Smallev delegation.
 Concerning the Maricopa county controversy, Col. Doran said there were present on behalf of the Adams contestants. large number of affi- davits of fraud. irregularity, bribery and intimidation. These affidavits. except those charging the purchase of proxies of the county central com mittee related to two wards of Phoe- nix. There was a general denial by the Kibbey people of the truth of the affidavits but there was no effort made to impeach them. and the min ority 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 in which the delegates to the territorial con vention had been chosen, the proper of those wards could not have been arrived at. The min ority therefore proposed the seating of both delegations
 The chairmen of the opposing dele gations had been allowed ten minutes 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 its entirety or not at all. While MT. Lewis was thus declaring to be impossible, Govern or Kibbey, who had returned to the convention, was making his 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 disgraceful scene ever witnessed in an Arizona republican the boisterous withdrawal of the unseated delegations headed Dy the governor of the territory. The situation would not. have been sol ;trikingly disgraceful if the bolt had