Williams news., 1910-07-23
BASIC FACTS SHOULD
 FORM CONSTITUTION

ting forth the purely organic law Q
 the state in the sense that it is th
 declaration of principles and in
 cludes only those things that should
 rightly form a constitution. By
 this 1 mean that every matter
 legislation inserted in the constitu
 ton will tie the hands of the peo pie attempting to act hereafte
 through their legislature. I do no
 believe that any legislative restric
 tions save purely necessary one
 should be inserted. The real rule
 by which the people shall be gov
 erned, that is the laws of the state
 shonld be left to the legislature tc follow"
 This is the opinion of Governor
 Sloan.
 The proclamation of Governor
 Richard B. Sloan has been so vari- ously translated by boards of su. pervisors all oyer the territory that advantage was taken of his presence in Bisbee to ascertain his views up on the subject. His opinion differs from that of Cochise county's su- pervisors, in that he expresses the belief that the great register of 1908 supplemented by registration of all who are not included in that regis tration is all that is needed. The matter is discretionary with the su- pervisors of each county however, he believes.
 ''In issuing my proclamation I did not state my own views. I merely quoted the language of the enabling act" said Governor Sloan.
 ''I personally construe the mean ing of the act to be that it is discre- tionary with the board of super visors in each county, whether it shall order supplementary regis tration, including such persons as are entitled to vote who were not upon the great register of 1908, or whether general re-registration shall be ordered. In other words, the supervisors have their choice between a great register and a supplementary one. In either event however, the voters whose names upon the register of 1908 are entitled to vote whether their names are in the supplemental re- gister or not.
 'I do not believe that refusal of an officer of election to allow per- sons not included upon the supple. mental register to vote would cause the election to be declared illegal as whole and disqualify the pro- ceedings of the convention. The will have the same dis cretionary powers in judging whether it's own members are qual- fled to hold their seats as any legislature. In case adequate proof of an unfair election is submitted the delegate may be unseated and his contestant seated in his place. Just as in the case of legislature, the election would not be invalid ated by such an occurrance nor would the action of the constitu tional convention"
 "I heard no expressions while was in Washington from President Taft nor any person whose utter ance considered in the least au- thoritative, as the kind of constitu. ton expected of Arizona, save that 1t was to be safe and sane."
 The governor was then asked for his own idea of desirable consti- tution and set forth his views in the following language:
 My own opioion is that first of all, the most competent men of each should be chosen. Repub. licans if they are fitted to fulfill the task imposed upon them, but demo- ,rats if available republicans can- not be secured. Of course person ally prefer that republicans shall be sent." he added with a smile.- Bisbee Review.