Weekly journal-miner., 1910-08-17
In Five Fast Rounds He Slugs Away At the Grand Old Repub-
 lican Party
(From Fridays Daily.)

I
 held last evening at the Electric theater. The home of vaudeville
 and moving pictures was crowded with the faithful and a fair sprink. ling of Republicans, the large gath ering being due to the expectancy of the traditional scrap.
 But there were no hostilities-at least, they did not appear upon the surface. It had been rumored that there would be two tickets in the field today at the primary, but clever party leaders mad diplomatic ally applied the salve, and a program was agreed upon at a dark-lantern conference held yesterday afternoon at Colonel Wilson's office.
 Consequently, the 150 Democrats who assembled at the theater last evening witnessed a farce which was perfectly in harmony with the sur reundings-in the home of vaude- vile and moving pictures. It was cut-and-dried program that was put through with marvellous celerity. A committee of five was appointed in the twinkling of an eye to name % delegates to the county conven- tion, and these 22 names will be the only ones on the ticket today. The average Democratic citizen who imagines he is a free and independ- ent citizen, will have no choice at the polls today. He is gagged as far as registering his will is concerned. If he votes at all, he must swallow those 22 names, hook, line and sink CT, for be it understood, there are only % who can be elected from the Prescott precinct to the conven- tion that will be held next Tues day.
 The wheels of the machine were greased, and this is the way they worked: John H. Robinson, as chair man of the Central committee, called the meeting to order and in re- sponse to the declaration that nom nations were in order for permanenS chairman and secretary, John J. Hawkins and George D. Morris were nominated respectively by P. w. O'Sullivan and Ben Belcher. They were elected with a wild whoop and amid tnunders of applause. The judge and the boy legislator ascended the platform with the unfeigned modesty of maidens, and without the wink of an eyelash that would indicate that both knew, hours before, that they had been slated for their re- spective positions. The judge, who always wears his honors gracefully and beeomingly, like a summer girl at the seaside, clad in the clinging outlines and the frankly friendliness of a Jersey-knit bathing suit, never blushed as he gripped the gavel and effusively effulged his gratitude for the laurels that had been bestowed upon him-at the caucus of the af- ternOon. In the meantime, George D. Morris whetted his Kohinoor in preparation to register the pre-ar- ranged will of the "machine"-or, to use a more euphonious and oleagin- ous term, the Organization.
 After the chairman had relieved his mind of a choice collection of Democratic sentiments, he politely called for nominations for delegates to the county convention. w. J. Null venom, or someone who resembled that genial gentleman, moved that committee of five be-. appointed to se- feet a list of p to be voted for to- day at the primary election in Pres eott precinct This original idea was received with a suspicious un- animity of approval, for the mo- tion carried with the speed that a cooper goes around a barrel, and the chair, determining not to be left behind the distance flag, made a grand spurt and came under the wire only a length behind with the appointment of Dr. J. B. MeNally, A. A. Johns, H. R. Wood, P. W. O'Sullivan, W. J. Mulvenon and Col J. F. Wilson as the five i'm mortals. Serenely, like the Arab, the chosen quintette stole away be- hind the stage, and while they were deliberating, or supposed to be, Chairman Hawkins called upon Henry F. Ashurst to expound a few Demo- cratic doctrines. Like MT. James Jeffries, of recent repute, MT. Asn- urst is also an ex-pounder, and when summoned to enter the ring, he re-