Arizona republican., 1912-06-16
The Californians

l Chicago has been materially altered 1 in consequence of the arrival there yesterday morning of the California 1 delegation to the national cOnven- i tion. Notwithstanding the threats of ! the delegation as it was passing the
 mouth of the Raw on Friday night,
 We suppose that the committee was so perplexed by other matters that it 1 had not time to be rent with dread at the approach of the Californians who are going to fight as long as there is anything left in Chicago to fight"
 i In passing, we will predict that they 1 will be there a long time, unless they
 retire ignominiously from the con- 1 test. The supply of booze at Chi
 cago is believed to be inexhaustible. 1 The local booze fighters, in all these years, have not been able to make a perceptible dent in it. But, reinforced l by the California fighters, they may at last reduce it to subjection if they cannot absolutely destroy it.
 There will be nothing else there to 1 fight The national committee will probably be informed only by hear
 say of the presence of the Californi- ans just as the committee has learned l that the delegates from Squeedunk are in town to remain for week or so and that other delegates, mighty i in their own bailiwicks, though in
 consequential amid the rack of the
 Windy City. have come to be count
 ed when the roll is called.
 But if the Californians do not sue
 ceed in leaving their impress on the
 republican party. their journey, any 1 how. will not have been in vain. The
 average Californian has lived a mar
 rowed existence. There are, perhaps, l in the delegation, members who have
 never before been beyond the rapidly extending corporation lines of Los
 Angeles Of course they have heard | of Chicago, as town situated on
 Lake Michigan. straining every nerve
 in a foolish endeavor to approach
 Los Angeles
 1 While so far away from home,
 some of the delegates may go farther
 and discover New York, Philadelphia,
 Boston and other villages strung along the Atlantic seabOard The trip will be an educational one. It will be worth while for the progressives of southern California to revise their geographical notions and learn that
 the world is not bounded on the north by the Tehachepi; on the east by the Colorado river; on the south by Baja California and on the west by the Pacific The Californfans can acquire all this information without disturbing the deliberations of the national committee and without rad ically changing the destiny of the
 republican party.
 The CaIifornians have, or did have, but probably have not now, at this writing, quite a program. Not only
 were they going to reverse the com mittee and put it to flight but they were going to write certain things into the platform. They were going to nledge the national republican party to the making of the con stitution of the United States easier of amendment They were not going to leave this business to the legis- latures any longer or have any other intermediates fooling with it. Con- stitutional improvements were to be made by the people" themselves
 whenever they felt like making them.
 We. somehow cannot avoid the sus- picion that the constitution will be Intact after the Californans have re-
 turned to their homes.
 We do not claim that the constl-
 tuition is flawless document ana
 does not need amending. It is work
 thrown from the human brain ana
 is. therefore, necessarily imperfect
 The men who formed it did the pest
 they could with the aggregate wis dom at their command but they were
 handicapped by the strange and un- , accountable absence of Governor
 Hiram Johnson, Francis J. Heney' 1 Chester H Powell, Lee Gates anu !, others. who have brought, in Call , fornia, the science of government to state of perfection.
 The Cunniff- Wood election fiasco