Arizona republican., 1908-05-19
QUEER DOINGS
 AT PRESCOTT
Gall for Territorial Repub- IiCdn Committee Meeting
Presumably In the Inter- est of the Rump COnven- tiOn Ticket.

The amazing intelligence was flash ed over the territory yesterday after noon that Ernest A. Haggott. the vice chairman of the republican territorial committee had issued call for d meet ing of the committee in this city on
 May 22 to do something about the delegation to the national republican convention. Snch g thing had never been heard of or dreamed of before and consequently republicans were anxious to know what the call meant and how the proceeding had been in- itiated.
 The Republican called up by long distance telephone Herbert B. Penney of Tucson. chairman Of the committee, and inquired concerning the call. Mr Penney said that he knew nothing of the purpose of the proposed meeting He said that several days ago Hoval A. Smith had requested him to call such meeting but he declined to do so. M- Smith told him that :t was the wish of many members of the com mittee that the meeting should be call ed but Mir. Tenney replied that there was no action which the committee could properly take with reference to the territorial delegation to Chicago. That was the business of the territorial convention and could not be interfered with. MT. Penney said that he heard nothing more of the matter until last Saturday he received a telegram from MT. Haggott saying that he would is sue 9 call.
 What did MT. Smith say was to be accomplished at the proposed meet ing?" M-. Penney vas asked.
 He did .,ot sa.-." vas the reply, but I suppose he desired to secure some kind of a recommendation by the committee in h.s behalf as one Of the candidates for the office of national committeeman"
 The Prescott dispatch states that the call was issued b- Vice Chairman Haggott at the request of many mem bers Of the committee. Have YOU re- ceived such a request from any of the members? ?''
 'I have not said Mir. Tenne,-. q have had request from no one ex- cept Mir. Smith and he is not a mem Der of the committee. l have not heard of the matter from am other source llldU MI I1dSSOlt run Nllplll I lt- ceived a telegram on Saturday saving that he would issue the call in response to requests for a meeting of the com mittee."
 q cannot control MT Haggott,' ad- ded the chairman, but l shall ignore the meeting"
 A later telephone message from Tucson said that Chairman Penney in an interview had stated that the call could result iu nothing and beside was not a legal pr ,ceeding and morcOter, that there was 70 business to which the committee could properly apply it. self even if called together regularly.
 It was also stated that Col. l.. W. Powell, who was recommended by the regular convention Cor the place de- sired by MT. Smith happened to be in Tucson when the news of the call was received there. He declined to eX- press an opinion regarding the pro- ceding, beyond assuming that the ob- feet of it was to secure a recOmmenda- ton for Mr. Smith, the rumD conven- ton candidate. He said he had no doubt that what ever might be done, the regular conventions delegates would be seated at Chicago and the wishes and recommendations of the regular convention would be carried out