Arizona republican., 1912-07-09
Governor Wilson in Arizona.

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 The democratic newspapers of Ari zona profess entire satisfaction with the nomination of Governor Wilson, yet we observe that their enthusiasm is much less marked than that of the republican papers with progressive tendencies.
 In almost every instance, forced jubilation over the result of the Balti- more convention is modified by attacks upon Bryan for his treachery toward Champ Clark. the idol of the Arizona democracy and the choice of at least majority of the national convention. Every Arizona democratic paper to which we have had access, that is, every paper concerning whose genu- inc democracy no question has been raised, accuses inferentially, the nom inee of being the beneficiary of all act of the grossest treachery.
 Colonel Weedin, in the Blade Trib-
 
 plainness of speech, thus voices the prevailing Arizona democratic senti- ment:
 We have always been a supporter and admirer of Colonel Bryan. but his assault upon the integrity of Champ Clark in the Baltimore convention was an unwarranted and ill-advised transgression of the laws of both de- cency and fairness We sincerely re- gret the incident Champ Clark is not only the peer of Colonel Bryan in honesty, ability and true progressive ness, but is also riper in the eXperi- ence and knowledge needed in the di- rection of national legislation and in governmental affairs. It may also be truthfully said Of the two men that Champ Clark has grown poor serving the people, while Colonel Bryan has become a millionaire, largely as the result of the advertising his literary and oratorical efforts received from his presidential campaigns.
 A further expression of dissatisfac- ton with the nomination of Wilson follows:
 The democratic party has always cOntended for majority rule-in every thing except in nominating presiden- tial candidates. In the latter matter they have persisted in following a precedent created in the early history of the party to meet an emergency Upon what basis of sense or logic they adhere to this trouble breeding , anSw werable question. If the majority should rule in all other matters politi- cal, there is neither justice nor sense in demanding that d presidential can- didate must be nominated by a two third vote. Some rules are more "honOred in the breach than in the observance and this two-third rule is one of them. If this tWo-t third rule had been abolished. as it should have been at the beginning of the late convention, Champ Clark would have been victorious on the fourteenth bal lot and there would have been less opportunity for the delegates to be come embittered toward one another and the successful candidate Embit- terments thus engendered are slow 1 to perish and result in indifference on the part of the losers as to the outcome of the final campaign Colonel Weedn elsewhere accuses Bryan of being false not only tc 1 Clark and to a large majority of the democratic voters of Nebraska, but also to one of the principles of popu- l far government of which for years he has been the leading and the loud ] est advocate Says the Blade Trib- une:
 The democratic voters of Nebraska 1 at their presidential primary election l by an overwhelming majority, in ! structed their delegates to the Balti- ] more convention to support Champ i Clark, yet Mr. Bryan, one of the dele gates, so elected and instructed not ] only disregarded the instructions iron 1 the start. but tried to persuade his l fellow delegates to do the same thing l and this, too, in the face of the fac l that Mir. Bryan has been an arden l advocate of the primary system o 1 electing and instructing delegates
 Evidently consistency is a jewel un- known to the colonel.