Arizona republican., 1921-06-09
THURSDAY Y> MORNING, JUNE g, 1921.
Wear your leurning like your aCntch, in e priudte pocket; aud do not pull it out and strike tt merely to sh0a0 that you haUe one.
 Chesterfield.
The Southern Delegations

When the national Republican committee at the forthcoming meeting enters it's program of re- ducng the southern representation in the national convention it will not be attempting to initiate thing There have been conventions and few importat meetings of the national committee when this thing suggested.
 But never we believe but once has there been time when the effort might have succeeded. but then 1t was not seriously proposed and the man who proposed 1t intended his proposition only club HAving served his purpose. it dropped That w.s in the national convention of 1soo That had do with the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for the vice presidency. There popular supposi- tion that MT. Roosevelt given that nomination through the machination of Thomas c. Platt to lay the former permanently the shelf. The supposi- ton grew out of the well known fact that the vice presidency had always been regarded shelf which those who placed thereafter politically That Mr. Piatt desired the naanent retirement of MT. Roosevelt from politics was well understood 1t easily to be believed that he had connived at a nomination which MT. Roosevelt not and which he accepted only as public duty.
 The fact is that Mr. Platt opposed the nomipa- tion of Mir. Roosevelt. He did not want to extend to him that recognition and he had so manipu- lated affairs that the nomination would have been impossible.
 Matthew Stanley Quay. however, desired the nomination of Mir Roosevelt not because he was an aAmirer of his but because he afterward stated he believed Colonel Roosevelt with the prestige he had brought out of the with Spain and to which he added by his remarkable campaign in New York would add by to the strength of the Re publican ticket.
 Senator Platt. as most of the Republican leaders hAd always opposed interference with the southern representation. Senator Quay himself had never ops posed it though he had been commanding figure in Republican national conventions for years. But the rank and file of members of the committee could always be counted to support a move ment reform the representation which was sso dis proportionate-so oitrageously unjust that argu- ment could be adduced in support of the mainten- anc4 of it.
 Knowing this latent force which he could so easily arouse Quay prepared resolution for the reduction of the southern representation. a reasonable that argument could be brought against it. caused it be brought to the mo- tice of Platt and his friends that he would lay it before the committee at a certain time. He also known that the withdrawal of the op- position Colonel Roosevelt for the vice presidency would render introduction of the resolution necessary. The rest matter of history.
 The southern states have never been in the slightest degree contributory Republican On the contrary they have been the of bitter fights Republican factions and in 1912 the manipulation of the southern delegations et the which the withdrawal of the Rocse- welt delegates and made sure the election MT wilson
 The number of delegates allotted to the southern states have fixed without rime reason. There relation between the number given to each state and the Republican votes in the state Arizons with enough votes to carry the state for the pres
 dental ticket. instance. has fewer delegates thar any southern state whose total Republican vote fl far less than that in Marcopa Pima county.