Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1920-02-22

been reached as TO the identity OF Its
representatives at San Francisco.
An Embarrassing Motion
Mr.. Roberts of Cochise offered an
embarrassing motion to the erect int
| In recognition of the political service
OF the women of Arizona, the aptitude
they had shown for public affairs, one
third Of the delegation should be
chosen from among them. The mo-
ton was opposed. by w l.. Barnum,
| by Mr.. Roberts in his admiration of
womanhood. but he did not see how
the Roberts project could be carried
out mathematically. Since the dele
gates and alternates were TO be Sc
! lected by districts. it would be i'm
possible to make a selection that would
amount to any specified fraction of the
whole number of delegates. No fur
| Their action was taken on Roberts mo-
ton and a recess was taken for so
minutes to allow committee on
districting and order of business to
formulate a report. For this pu-pose
the credentials. committee was con-
| tinued in existence. That so minutes
stretched out into hour and a half
1t could be seen that there was more
or less stormy time within the COM
mittee. Members were seen to be OBJ
jecting to allowing their counties 20
be aligned with stronger one, but
iona, that could not be avoided in all
cases. There was especially a scram-
BILE of the counties adjacent to, Mari
copa to get out of its bareful shadow.
The trepidation in this respect of
Pinal and Yuma counties was particu-
larry marked But after all. 1t was
arranged more or less satisfactorily
by allowing Maricopa TO occupy dis
trict by itself.
Districts State
The report of the committee recon-
mended the following districts
No. 1-Yavapai and Mohave.
No. 2-Coconin. Navajo and Apache.
No. S-Gila. Graham and Greenlee.
No. 4-Cochise and Santa Cruz.
No. 5-Maricopa.
No. 6--Pima Pinal. and Yuma.
The committee further recommended
the appointment of two delegates and
two alternates fro meach district, the
delegates to have half vote each. Mr..
Barnard asked by what authority such
thing had been proposed, since the
call of the national committee had 81.
lowed to Arizona six delegates and only
six had been suggested in the call for
the committee
Mr.. Barnum replied that what was
proposed to be done had been done
before in democratic conventions. There
were many deserving democrats who
desired recognition such as trip to
San Francisco would give them. He
said that the national committee was
concerned only with the number of
votes Arizona would have in the con-
vention, and IL delegates with half
vote each would have no greater voting
power than six delegates with one vote
each. Then it was as broad as 1t was
long. Beside, more democrats would
be satisfied with seats in the conven-
ton and more alternates with places in
tse gallery. The report of the COM
mittee was unanimously adopted. No
body wanted to take the responsibility
for putting anything in the way of any
deserving democrat.
Heated Sessions
1t had been observed that while the
districting committee was in session
the groups of the various counties were
having more or less heated informal
sessions. That was especially true of
the Cochise contingent and of the
Maricopa brethren. In the former II
was a contest between the conserva-
tives and the radicals, and in Maricopa
the trouble seemed to have been
caused by an effort to secure the APP
pointment of Charles II. Akers as dele
gate.
Accordingly. when the report of the
districting committee had been adopted
and Chairman Bollinger suggested
recess during which the various dis
tives. Mr.. Roberts of Cochise moves
for an adjournment to 1880. for he said
that his district was divided and
could not be collected before evening.
His motion was sidetracked by a
motion for the appointment of a COM
mittee to nominate a candidate for ma
tional committeeman. There were
other intervening motions. and before
any of them are disposed of. represen-
tatives of the various districts began
announcing their choices of delegates
and alternates. This threatened to be
have in mind man. etc.. but this
soon subsidized and five of the districts
quickly went on record.
Agree on Judge Barnum
Mr.. Fonda of Cochise said that his
district could not agree and he pro-
posed the nomination of all the candi
dates by both factions. the successful
ones to be determined by the vote of
the whole committee. Accordingly, he
named as delegates Mrs Betty White
of Cochise and James Harrison OF
Santa Cruz: as alternates, Mrs. Hirst
of Cochise and Mrs. Theodore Marsh
of Santa Cruz. Against these nomi-
nations were made by J. NJ. Sparks.
those Of z. A. Tovrea OF Cochise and
L. r. Bailey as delegates. At this
point the chair ruled the motion OF
Mr.. Sparks out OF order and the mat
ter went over to 1880. But before |
taking a recess. the following commit
tee for the nomination of a candidate
for national committeeman was |
l.. B. Lanahan. W. 3. Fonda. J. |
Warren Young. w. W. Pace. G. L Cof- |
fee. w. L. Barnuni. 7 c. Wilson. E. A. |
Sawyer. Tom Collins. L. W. Cocker |
p. w. O'Sulliyan, Louis Koliss and |
milford Winsor.
At 1880 the committee was still |
wrestling with the problem. 1t was
reported that an agreement had been
practically agreed upon in favor of
James s. Douglas, and there was spec
ulation as to the attitude Of the state
committee. as IT was represented in
the meeting. toward such a report but
t was the general belief that IL would
De adopted. The committee is said
though. to have taken into account |
hat the bitterness of the radical eIe-
nent would be so great as to endanger
in the state campaign. and
, compromise was reached unant-