Arizona republican., 1912-07-01
Most Marked and Surpris- ing Thing Is the Confi- dence the Bulk of the Local Democracy Retains in MT. Bryan
WHATEVER HE DOES
 IS SURE TO BE RIGHT
The Princes of the Power of the Air Who Have Abiding Places in New York Getting What Is Coming to Them

The way in which the news from the Baltimore convention was re- ceived in Phoenix. the comments by the crowds about the bulletin boards, ] the expression of the various pref erences of individuals, the off f-hand manner in which all the problems that confronted the convention were settled. and the expressions of hope or despOndency as this or that candi- date forged toward the front, all of which has been going on since the first ballot was taken. form an in teresting story in and of itself. That there is in this city the most in- tense interest in the outcome of the big poW-Wow is evident to anybody who takes the trouble to make an observation; but perhaps the various sidelights on the democratic political situation. which are revealed from minute to minute, escape the busy man who has not the time or the op- 1 pOrtunity to note the temper of the partisans
 There has been several interesting and curious things noticeable about these crowds and their observations during the past few days. For one thing. if Arizona were the entire | United States. instead of having only about one-five hundredth part of the population; the enthusiastic democ- racy could hardly have been more 1 certain as to just what should be done and the reasons for doing it. i There is no doubt about that. It is 1 true there was not much agreement. 1 Every man had his own ideas and most of them took particular pains that these ideas should be made 1 known to anybody and everybody who would listen to them. But that the democratic brethren were dead sure that they had the real, simon pure panacea for all the ills to which l the organization of the unterrified 1 is subject was one of the most mo- ticeable of the many curious and in- teresting things in evidence
 Overlapping everything else in the prevalence of the Bryan sentiment.
 It is met with everywhere. You hear l it's expression on the streets. in the hotel Hobbies and in every place where democrats are in the habit of con l gregating You can't escape it. If you turn away from one insistent citizen. who can give you a dozen l reasons why the peerless one" should be nominated for the Steenth time. I you will run into two equally insis- l tent citizens who will give you an l even greater number of reasons for such nomination.
 l Once in awhile a timid member of l the crowd will suggest that MT. Bryan has had about as many chan ces as any reasonable man should | demand that he has been beaten every time and on each successive | occasion by an increased majority: that he has never been able to carry a single doubtful state. All this IS | accepted because it cannot be denied; l but the cOmmoner's partisanS will in sist that he should be nominated any way. It's a funny proposition. l Also, it does not take one long to 1 find out that the Phoenix democrats
 have a grievance against the in terests" There is everywhere an apparent belief that some diabolical
 coterie of infamous conspirators has tried to get control of the Baltimore
 convention and that Bryan is fight l ing tooth and nail to rescue his party from this malevolent crowd.
 
 these people are and what they pur- | pose doing with the convention if they get it: but it seems assured they are after it and that the Nebras
 lka colonel is making a heroic fight
 on behalf of the plain people" And once in a while one hears the name
 of some old time democrat mentioned
 as though the said old time democrat
 lwere an emissary of the devil if not
 the devil himself.
 The matter of geography, also,
 tplays an important part in the con-
 lversation There is, for instance.
 1.-the most unexplainable aversion to
 New York. To listen to the com
 iments one would think New York
 were the habitat of the powers of
 darkness and that everybody living
 there were to be summed as one
 shuns the plague. That unlucky
 state has come in for the most se-
 we're lingual castigation that it prob
 lably ever received; and there seems to be a rather strong belief among
 the local representatives of the un- terrified that any candidate who gets
 the vote of the Empire state is
 hardly fit for the society of decent men.
 Of course, they are not like that.
 There were some very earnest par
 tisans of the various candidates who watched the results closely and who
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