Arizona republican., 1912-05-24
ADAMS MAKES STATEMENT IF HIS POSITION Calls the Turn on D. B. Heard and Followers
 for Political
 Practices SAYS LATTER IS
 WOULD-BE BOSS Also Calls Attention to Un- fairness of Chairman Hayes in Committee
 Meeting
SAYS LATTER IS
 WOULD-BE BOSS
To the Republican Voters of Mari
 copa County.

copa County.
 The campaign that has been car licd on by Dwight E. Heard and his lieutenants is political fraud upon the republican party of MTicopa county and methods are being used that would make even the notorious Iinky Dink of the first ward of Chi cago. blush.
 On May 18th. the entire committee, excepting one. met in the city of Phoenix. either in person or by proxy. What took place at that meeting WIS fully and imparually published in The Republican next morning.
 As my name has been used in many ways by MT. Heard through his Heutenlnts. I desire to give the facts as l see them. of the manner in which AIr. Heard and his under studies conducted their campaign, In the first place NIT. Heard visited Chicago to see the Chairman of the Roosevelt boom Upon his return very energetic and costly campaign was started and nothing has been left undone and no means, fair or foul. have been overlooked to secure the delegates from Maricopa county in order to control the state cOnVen- ton i'm Tucson on June 3rd After d great deal of work and d large amount of time and money spent they found they would not be able to control the county committee so they deliberately oncocted d scheme to override the wishes of q majority of the committee ana this scheme Mas carried out at the meeting on May 15.
 The chairman. against protest. ap- pointed a prearranged committee on credentials betore even the call for the meeting Was read. This com mittee reported in about five min utes. seating about forty of the fifty two mem CTS of the committee and this report was adopted. Upon pro- test that this was not fair. Mir Hayes would not even entertain d. motion presented by me that the committee retire and report again as several of the members of the committee had not had tim 10 present their creden- tials 1 appealed to the house upon his ruling and the chair was over ruled and the balance of the ere dentials were given to the committee and they retired Although they had made their first report in five min utes it took them an hour and d half to bring in their second report. In their first report they had seated Mir. Heard. MT. Goodrich and Mir. Young. who were not members of the com mittee, upon proxies which they held from members of the committee and all of MT. Heard's army voted to seat MT. Heard. MT. Goodrich and Mir Young When the committee re- tired the second time they found that if they admitted proxies held by the members of the committee that MT. Heard's army would be in the min ority. therefore they Overruled their first report and brought in second report throwing out all of the prOX- ies A motion that the proxies should be brought before the committee and thoroughly discussed and those con- flicting. or in any way irregular, be turned down was defeated. Upon the express direction of MT Heard his army voted against bringing these proxies on the floor of the commit tee
 Mir Heard is not a member of the county central committee vet he Oc- cuped front seat with the commit tee and was continually instructine the chairman what to do ana telling members how to vote This whole proceeding was not only unfair but was absolutely political fraud and the chief instigatOr and manager of it was Dwight B. Heard.
 On or about the first of this month Mir Heard took part in the meeting of the republican state com mittee. upon a proxy from Cochiss county He is not member of the state central committee vet in that meeting he took an active part anC voted; and upon his instructions tho proxies held by actual members O. the county committee were turned down in order that he might win
 A motion was made at the count! committee meeting to have the mem hers of the county committee iron each precinct select the election of fcers for their precincts. Upon di rcctiOn to his army by MT Heart this was voted down. and com mittee suggested and controlled b, MT Heard appointed so that h would be sure to be able to cOntrO the appointment of these officers an therefore. be able to win no. matte what happened.
 In many states there are primar election laws where both parties hOl their elections upon the same da and in the same room. In this wa it is possible to get some semblanc of a fair primary election but in Ari Zona there is absolutely no law an democrats and socialists and eve non-residents and men who are nC citizens of the United States ca vote and there is absolutely no la to punish them or control them an one man can vote as many times (
 in as many precincts as he desire
 Knowing this to be a fact and aftC
 experiences in Maricopa county an
 other parts of Arizona where in or