Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-12
IS
 ID BE STATED
Democratic Voters Will Give Their First and Second Choice
 President
CALL NOT PERFECTED

Machine politics will have no place in tbe election soon to be called by the democratic central committee for the selection of delegates to repre- sent Arizona at the national conven- ton in Baltimore, says the Gazette. Every qualified democratic voter win have a voice in the naming of the six delegates. and will also instruct as to the candidate Tor whom the delegate elected must vote. The delegate will be instructed even furth- CT than that in relation to the matter of the presidential preference of the individual voter. but he will also be bound by a second choice of the voters sending him to the convention
 While the democratic central com mlttee has net perfected the call which will be issued for the proposed election, enough of the details have already been worked out to permi; the announcement that it will be a strictly representative election, beth as regards the election of the dele gates and the expression of presl dential preferment There will be ne opportunity for gang rule. There win be no frameups and no slatings. The voter will have all to say and if a candidate for delegate or a candidate for the presidential nomination does not receive all the recognition to which he is entitled. it is pretty apl to be his own fault.
 In the first place, the election will be called for May 24 The call will be issued in abundant time to give all aspirants an opportunity to file domination blanks. and thereby in. sure the placing of their names upon the ballots. General Announcement will be made that all candidates for the presidential nomination must file certificates of their candidacy with the central committee. All such can didates complying with this rule win receive the recognition Of the com mittee, and their names will also ap pLar upon the ballots. It Is now plsnned to have printed above the names of these presidential candi dates the instruction 10 vote for a first and a second choice. In this manner the wishes of the voters will be registered. and the man who goes to the convention will know just what is expected Of him. He will be ex. pected to work for the first choice until it is seen that there is 10 hope of his choice, and then must throw his influence and vote to the second choice
 It is admitted that this method is more complicated than any that has usually been employed in other states, but in it's favor it is pointed out that in hardly any other way can an absolute expression of the voters of the party be secured. The republicans will employ the caucus, and will probably cram a slate down the threats of the few that may be interested enough in the proceedings to attend the gatherings.
 Arizona will be divided into six dis tricts. MaTicopa county will consti. ute district No. 1 Pima, Santa Cruz and Yuma counties are embraced in district No. ?; Cochise county makes up district No. .; district No. in, cludes Pinal, Gila, Greenlee and Ora, ham; in district No. are Apache, | Navajo and Coeonino; district No. 6 |
 
 In order to insure the placing oi | the name of a prospective candidate | upon the ballots in one of these dis 1 tricts, it will bs necessary for the 1 candidate to secure the signatures oi i six per cent. of the total vote of the I district upon his petition.
 In district No. 1. or Maricopa | county, there have already appeared | six candidates for the single office | Lo be filled. These are Ed l.. Shaw | Lin Orme, P. P. Parker and isadore | r. Wolpe of Phoenix, Charles Woolf | of Tempe, and NJ. J. C. DougheTty of | Mesa. Each of these is working for | the interest Of some particular can 1 didate, although he would probabl, | accept the place even if instructed i Ter some other than his fayorite.