Arizona republican., 1908-04-03
FOURTH WARD
 STORM CENTER
Of the Republican City
 Primaries
The Regular Caucus Cis- ney Ticket Easily Flee ted.

More than usual interest was dis ployed in the republican city primaries yesterday than had taken place in years. It all centered in the fourth ward where the regular caucus ticket. that is the Cisney ticket was elected by a majority of twenty four. insuring the renomination of Claude Cisney for councilman from that ward, and by the way. instring his reelection.
 Mir. Cisney was understood to be op- posed by representatives of the terri torial administration though his real opponent was Barney Kersting whose letters to the administration had pret- ty closely identified him with those who are favoring instructions to the republican national convention.
 It was discovered a short time ago that blunder had been made in try ing to prove at the city primaries that the instructionists were in control of the city and an effort was made to call Mir Kersting off. But he persist ed in regarding himself as the vice gerent of the administration in the fourth ward and continued his efforts toward the refeat of Cisney Though his actions were disavowed on the part of part of the territorial admin istration and though he was opposed by some of the representatives of the administration. yesterday he had the support and aid Of others. He had be- come an embarrassment: he could be neither wholly endorsed nor wholly re- pudiated and he certainly could not be controlled. The colored Taft club took an active part in the opposition to Cisney.
 There were several reasons why MT. Cisney was endorsed at the primaries. One was his record of two years as councilman and the other was the re- sentiment of the fourth ward voters against the outside influences which had been brought to bear against MT. Cisney. Among the influences was the solid saloon vote which had been marshalled against him by MT. Kerst- ing it having been pointed out to the SalOonkeeperS that Cisney as council man had supported every reform move ment from the abolition of gambling, that had ever been proposed.
 Another thing that helped the Cisney ticket was the persistent assertions of friends of the administration and well known instructionists that J. C. Adams was dictating the politics of that ward. fine friends of Mir. Adams resented this foolish and needless attack upon him. knowing that he had taken no part in the affairs of that ward and that as a matter of fact he was not in the ward all day yesterday This brought -I,s perhaps would not have been cast at all.
 There were 25S votes at the republi- can fourth ward primaries. Two Of these were defective and of the bal ance the following CisEey ticket re- ceived l4O:
 J. H. McClintock, Henry Ryder. P J. Sullivan. F.. A. Spaulding. Vim. Al bright. Ernest Bettler. C. M StuTges. Vim. P. Crump. J. NJ. Melendrez. Vim. Moore. F. :. Hershey, Alex Figaroa
 There were cast for the following anti-Cisney ticket. 116 votes:
 James H McCIintock. J. A Johnson. George Ii. N Luhrs H. w. Ryder. J. l.. Wolf. Jos. Thalheimer Clinton Lau- yer. c. Alvarado J. M. Melendrez. Lamberto Monreal, Joe Contreas. Henry Davis
 The result was accomplished after d great deal of wrangling and challeng- ing of voters. The democratic primar- ies of this ward were held at the same time and place but there was so little To do that tbe primary election officers spread a paper over the slot in the top of the box, to keep the dust out. and turned toward the republican table where all the excitment was in prog ress.
 Very little interest was taken in the second ward primaries. the few votes cast being for the following caucus ticket:
 w. H. Kay, R. D. Goodrich, C. H. Davidson. J. M. Jamison. Dan McDer- mott. C. J. McElroy. T. J. Prescott. W. C. Foster. Ned Creighton. J. w Walk CT. L. W. Collins. B. G. Pecka. C. T. Hirst, J. C. Norton.
 The caucus tickets of the democratic primaries went through in both wards as follows:
 Second Ward-F H. Lyman. S C. Gang. \. G. Alsap. Sidney Osborn. A. D. Levine, Vernon Clark, H. H. McNeil. T. l.. Edens. Henry George. Selim Nicholson. Clinton Campbell. Theo. Haffner