Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-27

 !. IN CONFERENCE IN OLD PUEBLO
HovaI A. Smith and j. c. Adams Meet at Santa Rita
 Hotel in Tucson-R. 4. Kirk
 And Ned Creighton Present

word comes rom IucSon tntal 10 litieal conference was held in that
 city on "Wednesday. in which Hoyel
 A. Smith. chairman of the Territorial KepuJLcan Committee, and J. c.
 Adams of Phoenix were the principal
 part.cIpants. lt Is known that R. 4.
 hifb. formerly of the Bisbee Miner, and Ned Creighton, all-around pohti- can and newspaper man of Phoenix,
 were present as lEutenants of the two well known political leaders.
 Th.s conference in Tucson is said to have caused a furry in the camp of the friends of Colonel W. s. Sturges as iJ was believed that it mans no good for the Pima couhty gubernatoTial favorite It Is l kely, too, that such a conference would not materIaIly advance the chances Of Governor Kbbey for holding on to the b.g political teat in Ar.zona
 It is claimed that neithcr smith nor l Adams are favorable to either the house of Kibbey or Sturges. Mir ! Sm-th is only recently back from
 Washington, where reports said he
 was advocating the claims or Gorge
 N. Young Of Prescott for governor.
 Adams is a receptive cand. date foI
 govtrnoU himself. so that just what occurred between these gentlemen at Tucson is hard tO figure out.
 Although mum was tIe word ana reporters were put Of with evasive
 answers. it Is known on good author l ity that ths meeing n Tucscn was preliminary so the Terr.tor.al Repub- iican organization getting together on s4aA- able thst nosSarticular eandida.e e was favored q at tje Tucson conference, bus
 Is bel. eyed that a tacit agreement
 was reached that the territor al or
 gan zaion would get tcg ther and give some one of the gubernatoJial aspirants its full support, that is,
 some one other than Kibbey.
 4 Kibbey Committee
 However, it will not be an easy matter to herd tho terr torial com ID tee away from the fortunes of Governor K bbey. It will be remem- bered that at the Republican conven- [ On which nominated Ralph Cam mGrcn, Governor Kibb5y was in full | control. lie named the candidate and ! the members of the territorial com
 mittee. and it is not likely that a | lhrewd politician like the present gov 5TnCr would overlook the future and allow hs enemies to secure the tel | ritCTial comm ttee. The mentors of
 the committee in this county are known to be loyal Kibbeyites, Or VI re | when they were named Cn the com l mittee. For instance. Mike Cassidy | was depOsed from the committee and ! e loyal K obey ta named in his place. With this kind of a committee the head Of the territorial organization l most likely will find that his house is | sadly div. ded when the time comes i for putting the organization brand on
 his favor te candidate for governor. Want Harmonious Action It is known that Ralph Cameron
 ana Sidhsy Beiber, who are on the i ground at Washington. where the po-
 lit-cal fur must finally be removed from the defeated candidates for gov ernCr, have implored the organ zation
 leaders here to get together" and 1 to lose no time in doing so, If they
 hope to have any influsnce at Wash
 ington. Chairman Smith 10 doubt
 sees the importance of such action as
 asked for by Cameron and Be'b=r, and perhaps has enlisted MT. Adams
 in the work
 No natter who Is to assist in the work Cf getting together with Kib- 5sy. Strges, Young. Stoddard and ] Adams all in the field for governor it | will be impossible for the territorial committee to reach an agreement. | To call the members cf the committee | tQgsther would most likely result in
 a rough house. Such an exh 7bition would leave the organization without
 influence at home or abroad and could
 nat be thoug.t Of.
 Stur1es' Friends Confident
 In the meantime the friends of Col
 onel StuFges arg growing more con tident. The colonel has many strong ! Republican influences lined up for ! him both in and out of the territorial i organ 'zatioH which Is now trying so ' hard to .'get together" Besides these home influences Colonel Sturges i- backed by a very large majority of
 the national Republican committee men from the states. including the
 national chairman. Strong and in- | fiuential senators have asked Presi.
 dent Taft to appoint the P'ma county
 cand date. While the leaders of the territorial organization might give more favor to George Young cl
 Adams. it is believed that they w6uld gladly endorse Stmges rather than to see Kibbey continued as governor, but in the tsrT.tcrial committee VII be found many individual members who would cling to Kibbey in the hope of tsrrying yet awhile longer at the pie counter.