Arizona republican., 1912-07-14
Phoenix Democrats For mally Ratified Nomina- tion of the Democratic Ticket Which May Now Be Regarded as in Field
A LITTLE ORATORY
 AND SOME WORDS
What Enthusiasm Attended the Proceedings Was on the Speakers Platform and Was Not Easily Com
 municable to the Audience

The democratic ratification meet ing which was held on the city hall plaza last night was a good deal like the half way storm that prevailed most of the time it was in progress there were plenty oi noise and wind but nothing seemed to be accomp- lished. Occasionally some speaker succeeded in evoking ripple of ap- plause; but for the most part the crowd was as chary of demonstra- tion as the speakers were chary of giving voice to any real ideas. It was a rather remarkable fact that when one of the speakers inadvert- ently mentioned the name of Roose- welt he brought out a spontaneous burst of handclapping that was far more VociferOus than that induced by references to Woodrow Wilson him self Also the crowd cheered the name of Bryan. which was mentioned frequently by almost all the speakers. these gentlemen apparently feeling i they were on safe ground in paying | tribute to the Nebraskan And let 1 it not be forgotten, the name of Grover Cleveland was also cheered. that unique performance taking place l when Judge Baker called attention to the fact that the great president had carried New Jersey and Indiana, the states in which the present demo- cratic nominees live.
 The meeting last night was born in confusion, nurtured in good deal of
 hysteria, and finally died of hamilton.
 It just naturally petered out The i speeches for the most part were tame
 and of the most mediocre character.
 few of the orators tried to be l funny, but the attempts generally
 were painful. There were all sorts of
 glittering promises of success and 1t was freely admitted that the demo- cratic standard bearers are about the
 two greatest men that ever had hap
 pened-save and except the peerless
 leader" There was plenty of talk
 about "progressivism," the names of
 Jefferson and Jackson were frequent l ly invoked, once in awhile someone
 took a shot at the heroic figures of
 ancient times. and one daring speaker
 even tried the experiment of quoting l Latin. But after single attempt he
 stuck to English, although it must be
 said that even his English was of d third class quality.
 There was a good sized crowd in the beginning but by the end of the 1 long and rather tiresome program the
 audience had dwindled until at the conclusion it numbered a mere frac ton of what was there in the begin ming. Promptly on time Lin Orme
 who had been chosen chairman. took
 his stand at the front of the platform
 and started the ball rolling.
 "Where's Hunt?' he demanded, the governor being the first speaker on
 the program.
 He ain't here yet" somebody con fided in a hoarse whisper. Gall somebody else"
 l The name of F. w. OSullivan. of Prescott was suggested, but the gen tleman with the Celtic name baked at being the first to chip in.
 For the love of Mike. call some of your local speakers first" he inn lplored So Judge Lewis T. Carpenter
 was the first victim.
 Carpenter really did pretty well. He said he was surprised at the size of the crowd--the surprise was quite natural. since only a couple of weeks
 had been employed in advertising the meeting. Carpenter then read the inevitable telegram which was from
 George Purdy Bullard, now in Los Angeles. in which the attorney gen
 eral said California will go for the
 democratic nominees. Carpenter said
 he saw victory in the air and men
 toned the name of Wilson. There was some applause. Then he tried
 the peerless one" and there was
 some more applause. A discourse on
 the greatness of Texas followed when
 the speaker was advised that his ten minutes had expired and the first course was at an end
 If brevity is the soul of wit Gov speech of the evening" It occupied
 not much more than minute and l though the governor can hardly be
 called a public speaker he got through
 his effort with no casualties to speak
 of. He confded to the waiting null
 titude the fact that he is from Mis- souri and said Missouri proposed this
 year showing the rest of the country
 how to vote the democratic ticket.
 After a couple more inspiring state ments of this character the governor ' sat down and MT. OSullivan was } called into the ring.
 eI O'Sullvan made a speech that was i positively unique. He used some words that not a soul in the audience , had ever heard before; and if they attend ratification meetings all their (Continued on Page 8.