Arizona republican., 1901-11-09

Sutt was Illeu yeSteTudy Dy oittih Bull' Wilson of Tucson the creature of
 Ives of Yuma, against THE Governor Murphy, the LAST late auditor, and the CARD. auditors bondsmen, to recover moneys paid by the territory on certain warrants is sued during the past two years. While Wilson is the nominal plaintiff, the suit is really brought by Ives, late presi- dent of the council. Ives lacking the nerve, as this paper has predicted. to become the plaintiff himself. These are the same warrants which Ives in vestigated' last winter and which he reported illegal, only to have his re- port contemptuously ignored by leg islature which was two-thirds demo- cratic. Of course, as practically every intelligent person in Arizona knows the subject was worn so threadbare during the legislature-the warrants in question were strictly legal, and issued under specific appropriations which in no case were overdrawn, and were is sued to pay actual and necessary eX- pense incurred for the benefit of the territory. But as we have stated all along. since so much fuss has been made by Ives in his desperate endeav- ors to injure the governor and to win for himself some glory and standing in the democratic party, the place to try the question is the court. In due time all the facts will be properly a subject of record. and Ives will be convicted both a liar and a fool.
 To come into court was not Ives wish. Shallow and superficial as he is. and vain as he is of notoriety, even if it is necessary for him to be a laugh ing-stock. he probably knows enough law to know that there is not sus- picion of fraud connected with any of the warrants. He would have pre- ferred to keep the subject for polit- ical issue which to keep himself before the public but he had made so many bluffs that he was compelled to face the music: and another reason still more pressing with him was the desire to iniure the governor.-a de- sire upon which he is evidently mon- omaniac. The political nature of the
 
 ernor the principal defendant, and by the Dleadings themselves which are in Ives sterotyped stump-speech vein. It is so evident that the complaint was drawn for the chief purpose of having it read at Washington that it may be considered that no other end was in reality sought Knowing that the pub lie memory of nuisances is short. know ing that he has neither character nor reputation either as a citizen or as a lawyer to lose, Ives is quite willing to be made for brief time q ridiculous figure before the people Of Arizona if thereby he can accomplish his main purpose of blackening the character of Governor Murphy in the eyes of the na- tional administration.
 The whole business is confined to handful ef bushwhacking politicians of both parties. The decent democrats Of the territory have no sympathy with it. It is part of the conspiracy to ef- feet a change in the office of governor at all hazards and is the last card but one (of this latter more hereafter) of men who are gambling franticaHy to bolster up desperate political and financial interests. Ives eagerly does the work of a jackal. for revenge and notoriety. The few republicans con cerned in it are only heard of as re- publicans when there are offices in | sight or there is a financial deal to work. and they are playing it as the final move in one of the most disgrace full of the maneuvers which have made Arizona politics stench in the nos trils of the nation.
 l If all other arguments were absent ! this situation should be sufficient to move congress to give statehood to Arizona. So long as this is a territory so long men who are altogether discredited at home can hope to reap personal benefit by working confidence games at Westinghouse long as these conditions continue, the respectable citizenship of the territory will suffer | in the eyes of the country.