Weekly journal-miner., 1912-05-29

pubhoan County Central Committee oi iavapai County, is hereby called 10 convene in Prescott. Saturday. May 2s. 1912 a, D. m, for the pur- pose Of selecting eleven delegates from lavapsi county to the State Convention to hc held in Tucson, Arizona, on Juue ,. 1912. The eoun. v committee will meet at the Odd Fellows Hall.
 "H F.. RAMPAGE. Sec"
 The Roosevelt forces gathered in the large front hall and as soon as ihe echoes oi the town clock had died away, after it had struck twice. proceeded to organize by eleeting J NJ. w Moore as chairman and k. ". Meek as secretary. The de jure chairman and secretary. ]. W. Milnes. and II F. Armitagc. respect ivciy were. with twenty committee. men who held the proxies of ten others. 'n the smaller hall of the tn,ilasuw While the Roosevel,ers wsrv eleeting delegates to Tucson, thr roll of the county central com p,'tiec was being called. and a quorum was declared present IL was apparent however that none of the rough riders supporters were in at,endance and committee was named to go through the building and notify all the delegates that the committee was in session. ! (. Forest. the chairman, after a thor ough search reported back that he was unable to find the missing dele gates. The central committee pro ceeded with it's work as though no,h- ing had happened to mar party har- mouy
 The reason Mir. Forests search was barren of result, was because the T R adherents had transacted their business and adjourned. They claim the hall they me, in was the one designated in the call signed by the secretary. and having quorum and there being no officials of the committee present al the appointed time. they went ahead and transact ed business.
 On the other hand the Taft people say. despite the claims of their op- ponents. they me, in Odd Fellows hall. at the designated time, the regular chairman called the meeting to order and presided over its de Alterations, thirty members out of iffy-two were present either in per son or by proxy, and the delegates selected arc the ones and the only ones entitled to recognition and seats at the state convention.
 Ii was two minutes past the hour of two o'clock when Chairman Mines called the meeting of the committee to order He explained iis purpose and said it was held pursuant io the call of the state committee and then to ascertain if a quorum was present, had n E Armitage call the roll \ sufficient number being in attend auce a credentials committee was appointed consisting of \. w. Ed wards, Henry lIartin and j. l.. Nel. son. Their report disclosed thirty present. twenty in person and ten by proxy The report was accepted and pursuant io motion resolutions committee was named in the persons of F. W. Mowday. R F.. Morrison and H C. Hefleman.
 At this junc,ure of the proceeding the absence of the Roosevelt followint was taken cognizanec of. Given all thori,y, by motion to find the miss ing committeeman, ! C.. Forest lei to round them up and serve no;ifica lion as to where their brethren coul' be found in party council. Rui al though every nook. corner an. leranny of the building was invsds' no. q Roosevcltcr could he disoov cred Report to this effect was re ceived without comment.
 The resolutions committee repof
 wss read by ~ r Morrison am
 adopted amid hearty applausc
 was AS follows;
 First. that the administration q
 pre.,d.m William Howard Taft D
 and th. same is hereby unqualibedl
 endorsed and upheld a- wise. abl
 and satisfactory in that m has iu , Sled. as far as possible. all the r'
 auircmcnts oi the platform ad"pic by ihc Republican national eouven'io ai iis last meeting at Chicago
 lpDs and that the renominai'on succeed himself. st the coming R' , publican national convention ai Cb cago. be and is hereby earnes,l , lrecommended and requested as we