Arizona republican., 1912-07-31
Fifteen Fifths of a Delegate Named for Delicate Duty of Persuading Roosevelt to Accept Nomination for Presidency
ASSAULT MADE ON
 CATHOLIC CHURCH
After Vigorous Fight Under Leadership of Foxy Meth odist Convention Laid the Ghost; Moose Has Be- come a Sacred Emblem

Rumors during the past month of the presence of big game hereabouts were given greater credence yester- day morning when the underbrush was found to be somewhat disturbed and the Woodsmen of the democratic and republican hunting parties re- ported that they had found the turf trampled freshly and unmistakably marked by the tracks of cloven hOofs, like unto those made by COW or by the devil. Newspaper re- porters were given the scent and sometime before II o'clock the trail 1 led to the K. of P. hall, where the reporters found assembled goodly 1 bunch of bull moose They were | paving the air, snorting and alto- gether indicating that they were in ] fighting trim. and spent the rest of | the day in devising a means of att tack upon their enemies later on, in the event the latter should take no notice of them.
 The trail of the moose led from the various depots via the Hotel Adams, where they fell in behind band and marched to the convention
 
 delegates being the apportioned votes
 in the convention. Four countless Graham, Greenlee, Apache and Nav- ajo-Were not represented at all and some of the other counties were little shy. Proxies made up for the missing delegates with the exception of Apache, Greenlee and Graham. The latter, it was explained, did not nf hn in, irr3a to send delegations. but reports were read averring that there is band of moose in that county that will be heard from later.
 The net result of the first state convention of the progressive party was the selection of fifteen delegates to the Chicago convention to be held August ,, each with one-fifth of 8 vote; the selection of J. F. Cleave- land as a national committeemana the naming of an executive commit
 tee of one from each county to serve
 until after committee is chosen
 under the operation of the primary
 law: the tender. as far as practicable
 at this time, of the nomination for
 presidential elector to J. c. Green- way. Dwight B. Heard and E. s. Clark; a similar tender to Robert S. Fisher of the nomination for repre- sentative next fall; the adoption of comprehensive resolutions designed as working plan for the political ! reformation of the country; in sub- stance, declaring the republican or ganizatiOn to be band of thieves | and it's leader the keeper of a fence while the democratic organization is no better morally, and its leader is ] inefficient and controlled by evil fn- 1 fluences. Finally special resolutions were adopted arraigning the presf- 1 dents foreign policy and-breathe softly at this point-the delegates to Chicago were instructed to "use ev- 1 cry honorable means to effect the
 nomination of Theodore Roosevelt. | The gentlemen to whom this arduous duty was assigned are: Walter B. Congdon of Cochise. w. O. Futile 1 and Adolph Baatz of Gila, Robert S. Fisher, Pearl H. Hayes, Dwight B. Heard and Geo. U. Young of Mari copa; Dan Worth of Mohave, Thomas Marshall Ca one time democraD and Ben Daniels of Pima, E. K. Cum mings and Paul Fernell of Santa Cruz. Frank Townsend of Yuma, Vii ley Woodrow (not Woodrow Wilson)
 of Pinal and A. L. Cummings of Greenlee. There was one real feature of the convention, an incident that it is not likely will be overlooked by oppon- | ents of the new party during the coming campaign. It was an ill., timed arraignment of the Catholic church, and though the convention purged itself with alertness and l drowned upon what had unwittingly | been brought to the surface, the odor l of it will remain in the air for a l long time as emanating from at least
 one element of the many which con- l prise the rank and file of the pro- | gressive force that yesterday for the l first time provided uniforms for it's l leaders and by esolution declared it.
 self a ull-fledged revolution, entitled | to the consideration of combatant
 in civilized warfare.
 There had been submitted to the
 committee on resolutions by some one whose identity has not been re- vealed length plank in which the Catholic church was arraigned for exertng too pronounced on interest ! in affairs political in these modern
 days. together with suggestions for
 curbing the church in it's alleged am-
 teitions When the resolutions
 emerged from the committee that | (Continued on Page 3.