Arizona republican., 1901-10-11


 | IVES. named Ives. a mem AND SOME Der from Yuma. It I REPUBLICANS. will be remembered that Ives, by brutal exercise of the authority which in a moment of alteration the majority had conferred upon him in electing him president, by bulldozing tactics which | would disgrace the methods of the bar rooms from which he had recently | graduated, and by playing upon the fears of members who had measures of importance in jeopardy. practically held up the legitimate business throughout the session in an almost insane effort to injure Governor Mur- phy It will be remembered that rot only were members of both houses thus held by the throat while he en- deavored vainly by use of the party whip to drive through bills and reso- | lutions which forever will be con nected with his name in disgrace, but the great work of the session, the re- l vision of the general statutes, was so neglected and so hurriedly done at last that the result is a code of laws which is already a laughing stock, and a reproach against the intelligence of the territory.
 | Memory of those days is recalled by a recent renewal of the attacks upon the governor through Ives personal or gan. The same old charges are re- peated. It will be recalled that these 1 charges comprised a series of as | sertions on the part of Ives that cer- | tain illegal territorial warrants had been issued by the auditor at the re- qest of the governor. It will be re- called by our readers that notwith standing the fact that this fragrant statesman had had himself appointed chairman of committee of investiga- ton and had devoted weeks to an ex haustive scrutiny of the books, his report was so plainly a malicious, vicious and wholly unwarrantable lie that the council, with a democratic ma jority of two-thirds, never even placed it on record. In short, it was so evil dent to the overwhelming majority in l both houses that -here was no political capital in the stuff and that not war rant had been issued without necessity and the full sanction and authority of law. that Ives had the humiliation of seeing himself ridiculed out of coun- tenance by a body of legislators grown tired of his bombastic pretense and determined at last to assert their own self-respect. It will be remembered also, that upon the very heels of his t-in:n ha Ives joined in a unanimous vote to confirm the reappointment of the same officers whose characters he had tried to blacken, and in a unanimous vote to give the governor for the ensuing biennial period a contingent fund three times as large as formerly, and with out restrictions. No more complete collapse of a political windbag. po.iti- cal sandbagger and assassin of char acter was ever witnessed in any legis- iative body. The swashbuckler from Yuma who had entered the council dazzled by visions of political promo tion and even leadership of the demo- cratic party. retired. from the legisla- ture the most discredited whe,p that ever sought in this territory to win renown on a capital of gall.
 Ives is now in oblivion, and would be forgotten speedily if his consuming an organ in order to see his name Tn print. This is not the time for an analysis of his character and exposure of his record. When The Republican is done with him the people of Arizona will know him as he is. The matters here recalled are mentioned only for the purpose of making it plain that in | his latest scurrilous attack on Cover nor Murphy he is not only following | the low instincts which have distin- guished him as a political jackal, but is performing his part in d disg.aceful conspiracy with certain republicans to obtain the governors removal.
 | Place hunting-at least so far as con- { cerns few politicians-knOws no hour of mourning. Hardly was the body of President Mckinley cold in death before the scheming began to obtain some of the federal offices ir | the territory, especially the governor ship. Realizing that only the most des- | perate methods could give promise of success, it was resolved at once that l truth should be cast to the winds anu by islanders of the most damnable | character an effort would be made to carry a fight before the president by storm. Happily for the good name ci Arizona, the conspirators are few in number and generally without charac- 1 ter. According to their ideas, they evil i dently needed an organ to give to the president an appearance of sOme local | backing. Naturally they turned to Ives and his sheet. Birds of a feather flock together Some of the conspirators were out of office and had no way of earning an honest living. Others had