Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-04-20

elect Cameron and Chairman Smith be- gan cautiously to suggest to others a plan for the appointment of Young as governor. Whether they consulted many of the organization in this scheme do not know; do know they did not consult me. And I do know that the facts as lately developed account quite satisfactorily to my mind for situa- tion which was the occasion of some
 comment during all of the winter namely, Mir. Cameron s remarkable lack of interest in behalf of my confrmatoin.
 When I had definitely ascertained that I would not be confirmed by the senate before March 4th, immediately had MT. Smith invited to meet me here to consult about the situation. MT. Smith and MT. Young came and then I laid the situation before them. I told them frankly that I had not been an applicant for the office and that would not be unless the organization wewre cordially behind me. I said that would get out of the way for any candidate the organization would en- dorse and I categorically and in turn suggested the names of Judge Sloan, of Judge Weetls, of Judge Nichols, of Isaac T. StoddaId. of General Samp- son, of ". s. Stlrges and probably others. Smith ani Young objected to everyone of them and would not hear of it. I then offered to get ut of the way for Young, but Young would not consent to that. d;d not tell him that in my judgment he could not get it. They then volunteered the suggestion, and they agreed that the only thing was to endorse me and right there and then offered to write their endorsement. I declined that. I told them that the man who should have the appointment ought to be one who had the endorse ment of the committees; that I would deem it of little value to have the per functory endorsement of the chairman and secretary unless it were backed up by the endorsement of majority of the committee itself. This seemed to be assented to and the arrangement was then made with the approval of Smith and Young that Ely should write to each of the committeeman, asking for their endorsement of myself-Smith saying that he would be too busy to do it.
 Within two days after that meeting, Smith wired MT. Ely that he was going to Washington to personally look after the matter, and followed his telegram with letter confirming the telegram and, requesting that MT. Ely do not write for the endorsements of the com mitteemen. Acting upon that letter, MT. Ely did not write to the committee men.
 Mir. Smith professedly went to Wash ington to urge my reappointment and promised to keep me advised of the sit uation there. After remaining there more than two weeks he sent me no word of what was being done, until on the day of his departure from Wash ington, a week after the inauguration, when he wired that "we' had seen parties and found that 1 could not be confirmed and that in accordance with agreement "we' had endorsed Young. As had told MT. Smith that l knew could not be confirmed by the old sen ate as the time was too short to bring the matter out of the committee, could not see the relevancy of his statement to me of fact that myself had told him. some. three weeks before. did know that there had been no agree ment on my part that Young should be recommended, so that I couldn't un- derstand the allusion to some mysteri-