Arizona republican., 1911-04-21
THE KON-PARTISAhS
 NAME A TICKET
OTHER BUSINESS TRANSACTED
 UNDER OATH.
The Platform Runs Mostly to Gas and
 Electric Rates.

The non partisan league. which has been in a period of incubation. was matched IaSr night. Moreover. it was
 full fledged even to th" attaching of the tail feathers. With much travail municipal ticket was placed in nomination. OF rather part of
 ticket
 The outpourins of the league oc-
 cured in the rear rooms Of the Phoenix
 Realty company. but the lights were not eNtinguiShcd. though other arts of coucealmeut were practiSed It iS es- tmated by means of a Burroughs add ing machine that there were sixty present. but after a shifting out pro cess which occurred during ;he meet ing. stormy at times. the number of the faithful was reduced to forty and when lhere was further sitting, the number of the more faithful was still less, so that on an exciting ballot only thirty elght votes were cast.
 The meeting threatened to split early over the question of the nomination of d mayor. but a majority finally favored the selection of Mayor Christy. though previously the crown had been offered ltt T. IT, tlstN N~. N ll' tAiflN A'N All' 'hNN of abnegation at the LuperCaL
 Barney Kersting was the chairman and Charles Ii. Akers was the chief l spokesman and also the premier ! draughtsman He made the platform,
 which was a simple affair. though aft 1 cr it had been amended t was slightly 1 more complex In the enunciatiOn of l the sacred principles of the league to which all present were asked to pledge 1 their honor and signify their will I ingness to go down to defeat and even l to death. in the furtherance of those { principles il was declared that the ! price of gas should, and ot right ought l to he. not more than S1.3J per one ] thousand G.oo0) cubic feet and that no l citizen of Phoenix should be r2ulct in
 a greater sum than one and Cne-hah
 cents for the enjoyment of a single 1 kilowatt of electricity for the space of
 one hour by the courthouse clock.
 On this declaration. Alr. Akers and some of the others signified their 1 willingness to survive or perish. It
 was regarded as such d fine piece of StatesmanShip that every time a new member arrived, AIr. Akers lead the principles of the league to him so that 1 by the time all ot them had come, the earlier arrivals showed symptoms of having heard it before.
 The platform. however. would prob ably have been adopted in this shape and the league would have been firmly and irrevocably committed to these flat
 rates for gas and "juice" if it had not been for the arrival ot Attorney How ard with the opportUncuess of Butcher
 at Waterloo or Sheridan at Winches- ter or anybody else whn ever got tO any pace in the nick of time.
 A1r Howard would have none Of these flat rates He spoke for a rate fixed upon a physical valuation after careful and expert investigation of the r. G. &E. cos 1lant. which was then and there determined 10 br S250.-
 o0o The Howard substitute was adopt
 ed and the platform then, with d pro-
 vision that the city should be careful about entering into d contract with the
 gas company and the further provision that all supplies should be purchased after competitive bids. was adopted Further at the instance instigaton
 and incitation of Mir. HorwaTd it was decided that the accounts of the city l StloNlb Dt HltNtb Ailitt Alit ta v VI e licensed and expert accountant. In this
 amended form the platform Was sealed with the blood of the members and
 signed with a stub pen
 ! From the beginning, there had been suggestions for the casting out of
 those who were not known to be iden-
 tified with the work of reform and the
 declaration had been referred to as a
 creed one member of whose loyalty there was no doubt objected to the eX- pulsion. of anybody. for the league as
 it then stood needed numbers and sym pathy. and he sarcastically suggested that it might be well to adopt ritual and agree upon password But after
 the adoption of the platform those who
 refused to wield the stub pen had to get
 Before the league got down to the