Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-04-20

ous agreement. And I could not know whom he meant by saying that "we" had recommended Young, unless it means that Smith and Cameron had seen, recommended, etc. I knew that he could not mean that the organiza- tion had seen parties and having, as- certained that 1 could not be confirmed, had recommended Young in accordance with an agreement.
 For the first time then, and on the 18th of March, the day after I received the telegram from Smith, I addressed a letter to the president, asking that I be reappointed( as I didn't want it to be left to inference that there was some thing in my official or private record that would, prevent my confirmation that if any charges were made or to be made, I wanted an opportunity to know them and refute them. At the same time at my suggestion the mem bers of the organization of which you are a member, were consulted on my behalf as to the propriety or de- sirability of my reappointment. l am pleased to say that some forty of the sixty-fve committeeman unequivocally endorsed my candidacy.
 I have assumed all along that the membership of the committee, includ- ing the general officers constituted what we call the organization.
 
 If so, then I am the only one who did not consult it up to the 18th of March I declined the offer of Smith and Young to give me their individual endorsements, as I did not regard that as entirely expressive of the sentiment of the committee. Events have proved that it would not have been so. So far as I know I am the only one who has sought an expression of the views of the committeeman on the subject of governorship-at any rate 1 was the first one to do so. I think this was a sufficient refutation of the charge that I ignored the organization.
 The further objection to my ap- pointment was that disorganized the party. If this refers to the events at the Tucson convention in April last, when decision resulted in two con ventions, have but to say that it was the same element that have been charged with irregularity that later nominated the chairman of the alleged irregular convention as the party candi- date for congress--Ralph Cameron, at a convention presided over by one of the chief lieutenants of MT. Smith who was conspieuously prominent as an Cir regular;' that the campaign was con- ducted almost exclusively by these same Hirregulars and that finally that during my term as governor, for the first time in more than twenty-five years, a republican was elected to con gross during the incumbeney of a re- publican governor.
 There has been, too, the suggestion that I did not consult the "organiza- tionn (the "organization' meaning again, I suppose, Chairman Smith and Secretary Young) in the appointment of territorial officers at the end of the last legislative session. As all the opposi- ton to my reappointment had develop ed before that time and these gentle men were then opposing my reappoint ment, it is rather humorous to give that as reason for that opposition. The fact is, however, I was never con suited about it and the names of only two men were recommended to me by any of the committee for an appoint ment to territorial office; one was by MT. Smith, chairman; the other by Mr. Young secretary; they were conflicting If made the appointment of one I