Arizona republican., 1916-03-05
DEMOCRATIC EAlER5 MAINTAIN
 STRICT NEUTRALITY IN STATE

starr, administration members of the state central committee of the 9omocradc party, yesterday won all along the line, except for the cleo ton of Fred Coulter as national com mitteeman. The lineup prevented the sought for endorsement of the Hunt administration for resolution, and showed that the opposition, ! sometimes referred to as the Olney | faction. held the big stick in com mittee.
 Not only did the Hunt faction, | led by Mulford Winsor of Yuma, fail to enter it's endorsement but had its power of resoluting curtail ed although those resolutions anent national affairs. permitted under the 1 rigid order were dictated by that champion writer of glowing words, the former land commissioner
 Right off the Lat came the cleav- age No sooner had the committee got seated than George Bulard push i eC over the motion that started the ! fireworks
 His apparently simple motion was that credentials committee be named. one from each county. Win sor offered an amendment. limiting i the committee to five. to he named 1 by Chairman Frank J. Duffy a Hunt adherent John Weber of Graham called attention to the fact that not | being a member Of the committee '! Wmsor could not offer an amend ment Houser of Pinal. then made | the Winsor motion, and on the vote | the amendment was lost. l6 to H.
 When the proxies had been read it was found that Colter was a state senator and member of the committee, and also held three prox- ies. This was against the state law, but Coulter on his own choice, wls permitted to exercise his proxies. The l whole delegation Was seated, and Winsor moved committee on reso- MtiGns. five by the chairman. Here the previous order was reversed and Bullard moved the amendment. giving each county one member of the com mittee. The amendment carried by the significant vote of $9 to 2S. Nor gan Of Yavapai, speaking for the antis. moved the committee be limit
 ed to national matters. After some parliamentary confusion. Winsor',
 motion to table was lost by another
 significant vote of r to 25. Bailey of Yavapai. then moved a commit tee on method and apportionment and the two committees were select ed at once, and as follows:
 Resolutions.
 Coulter, Apache: Merrill. Cochise I Rabbit. Coconino: Mccormick. Gila ! Weber Graham. SWeetine, Greenlee
 Bullard, Maricopa; no delegate
 present, Mohave: Sawyer, Navajo Wilson Pinal: Miller. santa Cruz
 Morgan, Yavapai. Winsor, Yuma.
 Apportionment.
 Coulter, Apache: Bowen, Cochise , Pulliman. Coconino: Clavpool. Gild
 Weber. Graham; McNeil, Greenlee Nichols. Maricopa: Sampson. Navajo
 Conlin, Pima; Wills, Pinal; Miller
 santa Cruz; Pailey, Yavapai; Win
 sor Yuma.
 About this time the inner man wa clamoring, but the self-sacrificint
 democrats gladly accepted a furthe
 postponement of their lunch hour | i hear a delegation from the Phoeni
 local of the Congressional Union fo
 National Suffrage. The interview o which was totally satisfactory, [ l both parties, is treated in anothe column.
 II A few resembling periods precede I-r-.- T. lalternates to the national convention $ when the committee at 3 o'clock go 'I back in session. Before the count
 delegations got busy. BuIlard got tn Q committee to declare for an order ( e business, this being important t e those who desired to have the vot e on national committeeman last T. J. H. Morgan of Yavapai, read tn
 resolutions, including th2t submit
 ted by the suffrage workers, givin
 proper credit to Editor Winsor f. If his part in shaping them. The> D., resolutions are to be found elsewhei h in this issue
 G Then came the final clinch. Cc al chise delegation had been found neC @ essary to the antis, in order that tI d interests of the opposition, in tf le matter of resolutions and in the st 0. lection of Delegate Douglas he suI
 served SO in the contest betWee 1t Reese NJ. Ling and Fred Coulter, u 4- Cochisers were given an oppOrtunit st to show their allegiance to GoVernC r. Hunt, by putting across Coulter ! 4r national committeeman. However, a was understood that each individu
 should vote as he liked and in u Id roll cali Coulter boiled g votes & Ling's 2S.
 ,s Following Coulters acceptance Lir
 was called upon. He declared h
 staunch democracy and compared
 rather favorably with that of son .l, of those who are present today"