Arizona republican., 1912-06-18
Learned It from Arizona.

The program of the Roosevelt fac ton, as outlined in the Associated Press dispatches of yesterday morn ing. appears to have been suggested by the Arizona contingent and in stead Of having been devised at the Roosevelt headquarters in Chicago. was invented at the Santa Rita hotel in Tucson on a certain Sunday after noon less than month ago.
 The proposed plan of action coin cides with the line followed in the Tucson convention. Governor John son of California is expected to op- pose the regularity of the proceed ings as Governor Kibbey was desig- mated to perform a similar office at Tucson. It is significant that the announcement of the program was made on Sunday night and that Gov ernOr Kibbey, who had been sent for by Manager Dixon. arrived in Chicago on Sunday morning.
 But less objection can be offered 10 the procedure of the Roosevelt element at Tucson than can be urged against the proposed Chicago program In the first place, there were not such well established rules regulating the state convention as those which hedge about national conventions The Roosevelt delegates at Tucson might have honestly believed that some Of the contests which had been instituted against them. especially that from Cochise county. were not based on reasonably good grounds, and that they had been brought for the purpose of weakening them in the preliminary organization; they may have believed that they were within their rights in taking an appeal to the national committee
 The Chicago plan casts all rules and precedents to the winds and con- templates no adjudication of any pending dispute. It looks to a bolt under the thin guise of regularity There is to be no credentials com mittee; the work of the national com mittee is to be thrown aside and the whole matter is to be supposed to have been fully settled amid the heat, excitement, lying, misrepresentation and fraud, committed by the adherents of both factions during the pre-con- vention campaign.
 The unfairness of the proposition of the Roosevelt managers was unin- tentionally disclosed by a remark made by MT. Roosevelt on Sunday night, when he repeated his charge of stolen" delegates. This time he fixed the number of stolen" delegates at seventy
 Now, here is the situation and the purpose of the Roosevelt element: There were 254 delegates involved in all the contests; 227 of the contests were instituted by the Roosevelt man. agers in the different states and 27 by the Taft people; 235 were decided in favor of Taft and 19 in favor of Roosevelt. In 165 of the contests de- cided in favor of Taft, the Roosevelt members of the national committee voted with the majority. thus making the decisions unanimous. Thus, 165 of the contests instituted on behalf of Roosevelt were without any grounds, as MT. Roosevelt himself tacitly, but evidently unintentionally, admits.
 Now, under the proposed Roosevelt plan of organization, these 165 Taft delegates with now unquestioned right to their seats. are to be debarred, along with 19 Roosevelt delegates whose rights are also unquestioned, and the 70 others whom Mir Roose- welt claims were stolen" from talk ing any part in the temporary or ganization.
 This proposition places harmony outside the pale. There can be no common ground on which the factions can get together. Republican success in November becomes a matter of secondary importance It is of first importance that ambitious members of the party must learn, even through the tribulations of the whole party that the proceedings attendant upon the choice of a candidate for the presidency must be conducted regu- larly, decently and in order.