Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-21


 retary Tommy MaddOck argued that
 the refusal to consider the resolution,
 on whatever grounds, would merely
 result in convincing the political in-
 fant class-the women-that these
 chaps were not for them. The cool
 manner in which MT. Maddock insin
 uated things about the political acu-
 men of the women believed the fear Of
 their wrath visible in his desire to
 have the resolution passed, whether
 it was within the province of the
 committee or not.
 Miss Hannah Egleston spoke for the
 delegation, and handled her arguments
 well. Her reference to the story of
 the bundle of sticks, in a reply to
 Judge Lewis wriggle tC. escape,
 brought down the house.
 The only parliamentary tangle of
 the morning session led to a real con-
 tretemps. Lewis had moved an amendment to the resolution, remov ing it from the list of official acts Of the duly constituted committee. Other motions were made by Anderson and
 Thompson of Yavapai. J. C. Adams then rose and in an attempt to word
 all the motions in one breath, sue ceeded in putting across the original motion, to escape which so much de
 bate had been indulged in. It was not until after the sonorous wave of
 ayes" had been followed by a dead silence as the chairman called for the contrary vote, that the committee knew in which form the motion had passed.
 In the anonymity of a viva voice vote, the convention concluded a long discussion, shortly after three o'clock, by adopting a middle course in the matter of joining national and state issues in the convention, which it 1 proposed to call. Headed by H. R. ! Daggs, a faction declared for putting the matter of advisory work on @ state ticket up to the state conven- l tion. His side favored quick action l in order that the republicans of Ari- | Zona might have some suggestions for a state ticket before ever the larger fight at Chicago could have been waged. J. C. Adams took an opposite 1 view, counseling delay in the selection l of favored state candidates until af | ter the dust of the Chicago battle might have blown away. In the long and interesting discussion of this is sue, J. Lorenzo Hubbell made a coa- lition speech. Dr. Percival Lowell contrived to interpolate remarks, sus- pected of having been plagiarized from his late address on the immigra- ton question, and H. E. Heighton of Pima brought about a great deal of unanimity by offering a compromise. According to MT. HeightOn's plan which was adopted, the time of sett- ling on state candidates will be left strictly up to the state convention. that it can and probably will recommend some candidates be- fore the September primaries, the re-i publican-"and gentlemen, we are ALL republicans now" to repeat the republican voters can exercise their right to send whom they will to that convention. Preferences eI- pressed in the selection of delegates will, it was said. determine the com { plexion of both the state and the national desires of Arizona. [
 Only a trifie less obvious than the { spirit of good will toward the pro was the rugged confidence | that pervaded the meeting. No one ( openly admitted that 1916 will not be ! now-or-never year with the anti , democrats. Even those who might , have been suspected of a willingness | 10 sacrifice the progressiyes, in order ! 10 retain control of the state organi- i ,ation, uttered no timorous words, al- though it was said that a part of the z knowing that Arizona night be inclined to go to lengths to keep grip on the state machine.
 It was not until a few minutes be- fore time to vote on the question hat any attempt was made to round lp ballots in favor of Phoenix as the place. May 6 had been fixed as the date, and. following that decision, Dr. John Walls. head of the Pima county central committee pro posed Tucson. J. c. Adams moved Phoenix to be named In the debate John F. Myers, secretary of the cham Der of commerce, speaking for the city Of Tucson. made promises of in -ensive hospitality, which bore much fruit. The vote was overwhelmingly for the Old Pueblo.
 The appOrtionment of the state was passed without much argument. At Judge Kibbey's suggestion, the com Dined Cameron Young vote in 1914 was adopted as the basis. with loo votes as the constant in the equation. Just as the northern Arizona and Bisbee delegates began to believe that Allen Jaynes has been printing the ruth about Phoenix weather. Pima county woke up to the fact that the strong vote given George Young in Maricopa county was giving the - heart of Arizona" a huge delegation. ' Some unorganiZed protest was made, I put when Maricopa leaders promised g hat every one of the T delegates , rom this county would be sound re Dublicans, good progressives, convert sd democrats-and Ned Creighton had added "One prohibitionist"- the pro aGt Witbd rarrrr1 nI cord