Arizona republican., 1912-09-27
Party Council Scheme to Be Tried Out Tuesday When Secretary Osborn Calls The into Order ill Senate Chamber
HE WILL THEN GO
 OUT AND LOOK ON
While Procedure as Out lined Under New State Primary Law Is Set in Motion for the Firs t Time

Time
 When the legislature of the state of Arizona passed the primary law under which the recent primary election for the nomination of candidates to con gress, presidential electors, and pre- cinct chairmen was made. it did a very funny thing from more points of view than one One of the things that it did at that time was to abolish the system of holding nominating conVen- tions which have been in vogue ever since the birth of the republic. In do- ing this it made a system of political procedure for the adoption of party platforms which takes the duty here tofore imposed upon representatives of the people chosen by the precinct con- ventions away from the leaders of the party and gives that important work to what is called a party council com
 posed of the nominees of the party. This. however, is not the really funny thing that it did. The really funny thing was to make four separ- ate chairmen out of the secretary of state and call upon him to preside over the preliminary deliberations of these party councils all of which are called to meet at the same time. This is the proposition in about the words of the statute:
 The party council of each party shall be constituted by the candidates for U. $. senator representative in congress, state office, state senator and state representative, nominated by each political party at each primary and in addition thereto the national 1 committeeman. the chairman and ex- ecutiVe committee of the state com mittee and the chairmen of the sev eral counties. The party council shall meet at the capitol at % o'clock
 noon on the Tuesday following the l last Monday in the month in which 1 a primary election is held. The membership of the party council shall | be determined by the list of party | nominees, certified by the secretary | of state. The secretary of state shall | call the party council to order, and l shall read the roll of members and ! thereupOn it shall organize by elect | ing from it's own membership a chair l man and secretary. They shall there- upon forthwith formulate the state l platform of their party and shall per | form such other business as may be | properly brought before it. The plat 1 form shall be framed and made pub | lie at a time not later than 6 o'clock | in the afternoon on the day follow | ing their adjournment. The state party council so constituted shall so continue for two years and have power to call special meetings and 1 perform such other business as may l be consistent with the primary act" | In the present case there being no | candidates for senator. or governor
 or other state officers the party cOun- cil of either of the parties will not be | as large as it might have been had all | the state officers been nominated this 1 year, but there are four sets of them, l considering the four parties that placed candidates in the field. The ! experimentation of political faiths will all meet at the same time. Owing, l however. to the fact that the socialist party has declined to hold a party council, they will not be d part of the bunch over which Sidney P Osborn, the present secretary of state will preside. There will, however, be enougt
 in the republicans, the bull moosers,
 and the democrats
 What was troubling the genial sec | retary yesterday, was, who has been nominated on any of the tickets He
 could reasonably make guess on two of the tickets since there had been but little opposition, but as to the demo- lcrats, he did not actually know since the returns were not all in. several counties being out of the total He is 1 wondering what the exact procedure shall be if all the official returns are
 not in by Tuesday morning when he is expected to call the first party
 councils ever held in the state of Arizona as acknowledged by law and
 by law provided are held
 It was decided yesterday to hold the
 party council first meeting in the leg
 islative chamber For that purpose.
 therefore. the state tax commission
 will be run out and the three parties
 run in Following the calling to or
 der. if there is anything left of the
 secretary of state he will view the
 rest of the proceedings from the gal
 lery of the house. just like the news papermen were obliged to do during
 the sessions of the first legislature.
 It will be noticed by a perusal of i the law that there is nothing said
 about all the party councils meeting at the same place, but in order that he may preside over them at the
 same time the secretary has decided to have them meet in the legislative chamber. After he has called the
 meeting to order what will come next ; is not known. The law provides that