Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-15
DOUBLE-CROss" FOR K|BBEY
 IN RACE FOR GOvERNORsH|P

At the same time at my suggestion. the members of the organization Of which you are a member were con suited on my behalf as to the pro priety or desirability of my reappoint- ment I am pleased to say that some forty of the sixty-five committeeman unequiyocally endorsed my candi- dacy.
 l have assumed all along that the membership of the committee, includ- ing the general officers constituted what we called the organization.
 If so, then I am the only one who did consult it up to the 18th of March. I declined the offer of Smith and Young 10 give me their individual endorsements. as I did not regard that as entirely expressive of the sen ,timent of the committee. Events have proved that it would not have been so. So far as l know I am the only one who has sought an expres- sion of the views of the committee men or the subject of the governor ship-at any rate. was the first one to do so. I think this is sufficient refutation of the charge that I ignor- ed tho organization.
 The further objections to my ap pointment was that disorganized the party. If this refers to the events at the Tucson convention in April last when a decision resulted in two con. ventiols, I have but to say that it was the same element that has been charged with irregularity that later nominated the chairman of the alleged irregular convention as the party can didate for congress-Mr, Ralph Cam eron, at a convention presided over | by one of the chief lieutenants of Mir ! Smith who was conspicuously prom inent as an s'irregular.' that the cam ] pafgn was conducted almost exclu siyely by these ''irregulars' and that finally during my term as gov ernor. for the first time in more thar twenty-five years, a Republican was | elected to congress during the in cumbency of Republican governor. | There has been too. the suggestion that did not consult the organi zation" (the organization meaning again, I suppose, Chairman Smith anC Secretary Youug), in the appointment of territorial officers at the end 0
 the last legislative session As al the opposition to my reappointmen had developed before that time ant these gentlemen were then opposing my reappointment, it is rather hum orous 70 give that as a reason for tha opposition. The fact. is, however, was never consulted about it and thu names of only two men were recon mended to me by any of the commit tee, for an appointment to a terri ] torial office; one was Mir. Smith
 chairman: the other by Mir. Young secretary: they were conflicting-i I made an appointment of one coul' not of the other. As events turnet out there were facts developed tha
 made the appointment of either i'm proper.
 I do hot wish you to understand for a single instant that l am max
 ing any complaint; it is only Tai to me and to you that my attitude throughout this matter be under stood.
 I want again to thank you for you
 splendid and genrous endorsement and retire with the pleasing reflec ] ton that I was handsomely endorse' by nearly two-thirds of the member ship of that organization" to whici my indifference is alleged to be m! | fatal crime.
 And in conclusion I want to be | speak for Governor Sloan, my sue cessor. the same generous consider ation that you have accorded me | Sincerely,
 | IDS IT KIRREY