The Holbrook news., 1910-07-22
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 At Prescott Democratic Territorial Com mittee For a Party Fight Over The Constitution
There Had Been Strong, Contrary Senii-
 mcai But the Committee Found Itself Unable to Control County Organizations

yi CEoBlC tU OCHAAOA OOulAAy oAAA-saAtSAi' : The democratic territorial com 'lmittee, which met at Prescott or Saturday night, decided to make '1 a partisan fight over the consti- tuition of Arizona. A resolutioF 4 to all the county committees the placing of democratic :, candidates for delegates in the field was adopted without a dis
 senting voice.
 Sheriff Carl Hayden, who with l H. H. NcNeil and L. R. Kruger attended the meeting. returned ! yesterday. He said the resolution
 was the view of all the members
 of the committee and especially
 advocated by Eugene s. Ives of
 Tucson, who it had been report
 ed was in favor of a non-partisan convention.
 j. Whatever views some of the
 members of the committee might
 have previously. entertained, 1t
 was argued that there was no
 way for the committee to enforce
 any program on the county com
 mittees. In MaricJpa and Cochies
 the committee had already declar-
 ed for partisan tickets and they
 would be nominated in spite of
 the territorial committee. It was
 better therefore to make party fight of it and the winning party
 in the convention would be resN
 ponsible for the constition.
 Though Sheriff Hayden said that the meeting was harmonious
 on this point, according to the
 Joural- Miner, the subject had
 been vigorously and heatedly threshed out the day before, or the night before at a caucus, the sentiment of which seemed to
 favor a bipartisan convention. As
 a result of that caucus it was generally understood at Prescott that the committee on the follow ing day would recommend non- parsisan. tickets. It was state that Senator Ives was strong in favor of such course but that under standing was evidently not well founded.
 The meeting was rather more than a committee meeting Beside the members of the committee there were present many of the leading democrats of the territory most of whom took part in the dircussion. 4,N @A Among those present were Dr. John R. Whiteside of Mohave, | Chairman Dillon, Eugene S. Ives and J. B. Creathitt,. by proxy, from Tucson; G. Burns, Frank Cox and and Messrs. Hayden, ! McNeil and Kruger of Phoenix and Col. J. F. Wilson, J. j. flaw kins, Reese Ling and Henry As hurst of Prescott.
 Hon. Marcus A. Smith had been in town the day before and was present at the caucus but he | had left for the coast before the committee meeting.
 It happened also on Saturday 1 that Chairman Harrington of the board of supervisor of Yavapai county had received from At torney General Wright an opinion regarding the manner of holding the election for delegates to the constitutional convention. It had been broadly understood that the election for delegates and for the laws that prevailed previous to the passage of the primary laws and the enactment of the educational qualification; that IS under the law governing the election of 1908, which would be the amend ed law of'1905. providing for the holding county conventions and primaries of all party arganiza- tions at the same time, But in l the opinion-of the attorney gener-