Arizona republican., 1912-05-24
ARTISANS IF TEDDY SHOW
 |NS|NCER|TY Identity of the OK Has Much to Do With the
 Seriousness of
 Goring
AN OPEN LETTER
 BY PAUL INGLES
Roosevelt Supporters Asked to Harmonize Their Conduct Here and
 in Yuma Go.

To Tie Republican Voters of Mari copa County: I have just received a
 letter dated May 20, 1912 purporting
 to be sigLed by J. F. Cleaveland, pres ldent of the MaricOpa county Roose- welt club, and C. P. Munger, secretary. ] have the highest respect for Mir. Cleaveland ana know that he would not Intentionally make any misleading statements, or any statements that were
 not absolutely true to the best of his belief However, this letter is so drawn
 as to require an answer and a refuta-
 tion of some of the statements therein contained
 The first paragraph of this letter reads as follows:
 owing to certain unfair statements
 which have appeared in the press re-
 Garding the action of those who SUD- ported . primary election at the recent
 meeting on May 5th of the MaricOpa county republican central committee,
 We take this method of presenting the
 facts"
 The Cnly statements which I have
 seen in any of the newspapers regard
 ing the action of those who supported
 a primary election Were statements of
 what actually took place at the meet
 ing and if such statements are unfair,
 it is only because the actions them
 selves were unfair, and it would seem,
 indeed, that the conscience of the pro-
 moters Cf the indefensible methods em-
 ployed Was giving some trouble.
 The meeting of May 15, 1912. was
 called to determine whether delegates
 to the state convention should be se-
 lected by the committee, or whether
 there should be a primary election for
 that purpose Upon the assembling of
 the committee, however, but one sub
 iect was apparent on the part of the
 minority, led by Mr. Heard, and that
 was to prevent any supporter of Mir.
 Taft from having a voice or vote in
 that committee.
 The rcxt paragraph of this remar-
 able letter deals with the question of
 proxies. The facts of the matter are
 these Upon the assembling of the
 committee, without a roll call, and against the protests of the Taft sup
 pOrters MT. Hayes appointed three
 Roosevelt supporters as a committee
 on credentials. The Roosevelt support
 NAA''N
 time. The Taft supporters did not.
 The credentials committee in a very
 few minutes returned to the hall and reported who were entitled to seats in
 the committee meeting. both in person and by proxy, and gave full faith and credit to the proxies of absent commit teemen, which had been given to per sons wnO were not even members of the committee and favorable to ROOse welt
 The Taft supporters then presented their pro xies. MT. Hays ruled that their proxies should not be received. This, however, was so absolutely raw that even his own supporters voted against him on an appeal from the de- cision of the chair, and the Taft proX- ies were received The credentials committee retired and evidently were dumbfounIed to find that the Taft sup pOrters with their proxies Outnumbered the Roosevelt supporters. After over an hours deliberatiOn, the committee on credentials returned and reported | that some of the proxies were con flicting or irregular, and that there
 was a grave question of whether any of
 
 | they rejected all of the proxies. In l other words, proxies were legal even 1 in the hands of nOn-members of the | committee if in favor of MT Roosevelt, but were illegal if members of the 1 committee present held enough prox- ies to give the Taft members of the | committee control of it's actions. 1 The concluding sentence of this par l agraph Cn proxies in the letter of our Roosevelt friends is naive in stating ] that four of the proxies thrown out were instructed for primaries anyway and that this added to the twenty l three present favOring primaries would still have left a majority for primaries l The truth of the matter is that even | if four proxies were instructed for pri-
 maries, there still would have been tWenty-eight Taft votes in the com
 mittee, which was a majority of the
 said committee, and the Roosevelt sup porters know full well that that was i the reason and the only reason, why all proxies were thrown out.
 The absolute hypocrisy and insincer- | ity of the supporters of MT. Roosevelt | in this state is manifested by a com l parlSOn Ot the condition of affairs in | MaricOpa county and Yuma county. It so happens that Yuma county is the
 only county in the state in which the 1 Roosevelt supporters have absolute 1 control Of the county central commit l tee. The Roosevelt supporters in their l letter said that they are waging bit | ter fight to sustain the right of the 1 people q select the nominee for pres ident The Roosevelt letter states that
 the Taft men endavored to prevent an expression of the will of the people l through primaries, and yet, in Yuma county where the Roosevelt men were | in absolute control of the committed they are not having any primaries at all and the committee is appointing the delegates to the Tucson convention ab-