Arizona republican., 1912-10-02
Hard Job Is Experienced in Getting Recall Into Platform; Wishy Washy Woman Suffrage Plank Appears
FOR PROPOSED
 AMENDMENTS
:" Point With Pride" Club Falls Down Failing to Name All Members of the Administration; Just Three Chosen Ones
Endorse the governor" No" said the bunch.

Endorse the governor"
 "No,' said the bunch
 Yesterday was another day with the free and unterrified. It was also another day with the anti Hunt democrats, and they took advantage of it. On Monday they started out with session of The man who' club but yesterday was the point with pride" international protective association meeting Yet withaI that this meeting was not unlike many other democratic meetings. In the sessions themselves, the scrap sa- vored of a bunch of "Kilkenny kats"
 but should anyone of the opposite political faith venture to say any thing about the situation a head would likely be poked out of the door and a rough voice remark, "Who said anything about the dimmycrats" The party council meeting was due yesterday and it opened it's meetings in the supreme court chamber of the i state house, being called to order by Secretary of State Osborn. Like the meeting of the republican party on the floor above, a committee of la dies were in waiting and as soon as the organization had been perfected,
 Senator Davis asked that they be given an opportunity to present their side of the Woman's suffrage contro-
 versy. This was allowed them and Mrs Virgil Partch,I Mrs Francis 1 Munds, and Mrs. Parks of California each made nice speeches begging the 1 men present to extend to them the right to go to the polls and exercise
 the same franchise as many other taxpayers were permitted to do. For 1 fear that Mrs. Partch should be mis- understood she brought down the 1 house with her very first sentence l She said, T was afraid I would be called a, suffragist who neglects her home, so I got my children off to i school, swept the floor and washed the dishes before I wrote my speech" She then proceeded to read as con- Vincing and eloquent an argument as could well be enpnciated in favor of her cause. Mrs. Partch as well as the other two ladies were applauded uproarOusly by the democrats pres ent; which many took as a sign that there would be no equivocal state ment in the platform, but when that plank was announced later in the day and contained the wishy washy statement, While we favor woman , suffrage, we do not consider a vote upon it a test of party fealty," it was seen that most of the hand pat ters present in the morning belonged 1 to the piecrust breaking fraternity. After the ladies left, the works of
 the present democratic watch got
 busy A committee on resolutions
 was suggested, a proposition which was naturally carried, and the follow l ing were appointed to that committee. Nicholson of Maricopa,' proxy for Coconino: Vaughan for Cochise; Bird
 no for Graham; also for Greenlee;
 Roberts for Gila Bailey for Mohave,
 also for Navajo; Bailey lives in Va
 vapai; H. A. Hughes for Maricopa;
 J. T. Hughes for Pima, he lives
 there; John T. Hughes for Yuma by
 Proxy: j. H. Robinson for Yavapai. recess was then taken until ?
 o'clock in the afternoon to allow the
 committee to draft a platform
 For fear that the Hunt influence
 would be too great around the coun-
 cil, it was decided to have the sec
 ond session down under the Phoenix National bank. where it was neces-
 sary to use electric lights to see by
 before the session was over. When
 the adjournment was taken most of l the democrats beat it for town, leaV-
 ing the committee to fight it out 1 From what can be gathered it was
 some fight. The progressives had a platform, as did also the anti Hunt
 crowd Both sides would have it adopted The anti Hunt men how
 ever could readily see the political | eXpediency of endorsing the admin istration as a whole, but failed to sec the necessity of endorsing it by men, tioning any names except those ot Senators Smith and AshuGst, and
 Congressman Hayden. They point
 ents of the democrats, but denied the same recognition to Governor Hunt It was also some considerable task to get an endorsement of the recal in the platform. Nell E. Bailey was
 against it. and had two votes, there
 were others against it, but it view
 of the conditions the conservative
 democrats didn't quite see why the.
 should go back on all the proposi
 tions that had hitherto been support
 ed by them so they endorse i without enthusiasm.
 In the platform the democratic leg
 islature was congratulated on thu
 constructive CD legislation it placed
 upon the statute books; the amend mani, submitted tn tho constitution