Arizona republican., 1912-10-01
Democrats Hold State Gen. tral Committee Meeting in Which Conservatives Regain Control of Or ganization.
GEORGE A. OLNEY
 CHOSEN CHAIRMAN
By Vote of 40 to 26 Over Senator Roberts of Co., chise Signalizing Com plete Rout of Administra- tiOn Forces.

The democrats met yesterday to or ganlZe the state central committee in
 the supreme court chamber of the state
 house and scrapped and scrapped and
 then some before the conservative
 branch of the party succeeded in ov-
 erwhelming the socialistic end of the
 organization and regaining the party machinery. Tn doing this the conser-
 vatives, who assert that they are just
 as progressive as the trend of the
 times, but that they just are not de-
 structionists, refused to unravel a
 whole lot of alleged dirty linen or to swap horses while crossing the stream The attempt of the ultra prOgressives led by Senator c. M. Roberts of Co., chise and seconded by Chairman Null ford Winsor of the land commission
 who held a proxy from Yuma county,
 to get an investigation of the election of National Committeeman Reese
 Ling was voted down as were all other attempts Of this branch of the free and
 unterrified. When the conservatives
 had finally assured themselves that
 they were supreme, they not only did not consider COchise county or it's ad- herents at all COchise county presented
 and backed Senator Roberts-but they
 added another office to the list of
 democratic controls already held by
 Maricopa county
 The final oranization of the central
 committee was the election of George
 A. Olney of Maricopa as chairman by
 Q vote of 42 to 25-in this Senator
 Roberts voted for himself while Chair
 HT
 of Yavapai was elected secretary by exclamation and I. F. Wolpe of Mari copa was chosen treasurer without op- position. One of the surprises of the meeting was the close communion be- tween Dr. H. A. Hughes, prohibitionist who led the Maricopa forces. and I. L. WOlpe. wholesale dealer in liquor who was also a member of the Maricopa delegation. Hughes nominated Olney for the chairmanship and ill so doing stated that he would place in nOmin- ation MT. OIney not because he was a woman suffrage democrat, or that he was a progressive democrat, or that he was a prohibition democrat, or that he was an anti-prohib democrat, but because first and foremost he was plain democrat. The announcement called forth storm of cheers, testify ing to the fact that all knew that Dr. Hughes has stood for heretofore, and what he stands for now, but that he was willing to sink those things in the past in behalf of the organization. The name of Senator Roberts of Co., chise was placed in nomination by | Senator John T. Hughes of Pima county in an eloquent speech such as | that young man knows well how to | make He pied for recognition for Dear old Cochise," the county that produces the votes and that has stood | by the democratic party from time inn memorial His eloquence was howev- CT in vain. Webb of Graham seconded | the nomination of Olney while Bane 1 of Cochise performed a like service for 1 Roberts. Bane however in his speech | after telling how many years Yavapai | and Maricopa had held the leadership | of the party while Cochise had never | had a look in, implied a threat that | thinks would not always be so. Ap- | pause greeted him from the Roberts | side of the little room, but dead si- l lence from the majority. When the | vote was being called however it was | soon seen that Roberts and the ad- | ministration forces were due for a | snow under. After the election Rob | erts and Olney met before the bench | and shook hands.
 | The first fight of the day came be- | fore the committee had organized. 1 Both sides were present with numer l ous proxies, and the administration | forces were anxious to get the recog-
 hilton of the proxies before the com
 mittee had organized itself The ma | jority however were for following the | law, which though new, was well in l their heads. Uuder the leadership of w T. Webb, Nell Bailey, and Dr. Hughes is was insisted that the tenn porary organization must be perfected
 before the proxies could be decided | upon.
 Chairman Birno called the committee
 to order and stated the object of the | meeting. The temporary roll was then proceeded with, with Mark Dunbar as-
 sistant secretary in the secretary s
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