Arizona republican., 1912-04-27
M E s A
MESA PEOPLE WANT
 COUNTY DIVISION
Interesting Meeting Was Held at Opera House Thursday Night to
 Boost For Orange County.

The largest gathering of Mesa busi- ness men and farmers hcii in Mesa
 for long time took place at the
 Mesa opera house Thursday evening
 The meeting had been quite ex- 5ensiVely advertised and a fair rep resentaton of the tax payers was present. Al d meeting held the night
 before d committee of three com posed of Messrs. l.. ". Wilbur. w. w
 Mitchell and (. Fred Bracket had been appointed to consult wi5h the people of Tempe relative to the lat
 ter's desire to be included in the county of Orange. This committee was called upon for report and
 naLc the same The report was to the effcc, that Tempe would hold mass meeting Thursday night and
 take the question up. So far as the
 Mesa committee could learn there was divided sentiment in Tempe. with probability that a majority of those residing in Jh, normal town preferred to remain with Maricopa county However, they had prom iscJ to appoint a committee to con fer with q like committee from Mesa to take up the question Of probabl. taxable properly and report definitely as to the question of being included iu Orange county or not Dr Wilbur took the stand that Orange county. should include Tempe ana Scottsdalc.
 Finding that majority of the people opposed him in many of his views
 the doctor reccded from his position
 t. the extent of saving that he would work for county division provided Tempe Was included in the bouudari. .s of the county
 Mir. LonGIu"or and AIr Morris feared
 that county division would increase
 taxes aud handicap the public schools.
 It Was pointed ont that the schools
 would be safe and that the Mesa union high school district had to take
 care of it's school regardless of county
 lines. SO that division would in no
 manner affect it Some of the re-
 publicaus feared thu1 the leaving uui of Tempe would create a democratic county: to which the answer was given that Tempe would not change the result IS its republican vote Wouid not offset the dcmocratic ma 1 jOrity as shown by tle last election returns. Anyway. there were 150 ] voters not eligible 10 exercise the franchise at the last election which ] would no doubt materially change the result of succeeding elections. Speech cs were made in favor of division by Messrs. ". K. Bowen, C. Fred. Brack- 1 cit. Dr. Palmer J. J Phillips. W. < 1 Dorman. NJ. T. Douehcr,y w. w | Mitchell and others. Ernest Crismon. | Dr. Wilbur and Fl. r.. Morris were l opposed unless the county coulI in l cIudc Tempe. E. s. Longmoor ap- 1 peared to oppose it on general prin-
 ciplea. A vote was taken on the 1 question of asking that the county in 1 clude Tempe and Scottsdale and was 1 almost unanimously in favor. if such ] territory could be hal. On d vote to ! leave out Scottsdale and Tempe but 1 include the two townships south of 1 Tempe. four fifths of the voters were | favorable. If neither of the proposed 1 majority favored getting division 1 along the lines embodied in the bill now before the Arizona Legislature. 1 Yesterday morning a Phone mes sage was received from Tempe to the
 effect that the people of that pre-
 cinct had declined to take part in i county division Hence, the boosters l for Mesa and orange county will 1 continue to urge passage of the bill, 1 getting some additional territory by 1 amendment if possible