Arizona republican., 1901-03-23
Early in the session of the unlament- cd Twenty first legislature ths Honor.


 4 council. MT. Eugene DISMAL Ives of Yuma. secured FAILURE. the appointment of a
 committee composed of himself. Senator Claypool of Gila. and Senator Warner of Cochise. to investi- gate the official acts of the territorial auditor. Startling developments were promised. It was confidently asserted that the auditor had been guilty of every sin and crime known of man. Such yellow journals as the Enterprise and Yuma Sun took up the hue and cry and published in glowing headlines the auditors awful downfall, and pre-. dicted an sorts of summary punish ment Gossips rolled the delicious bit of scandal under their tongues. while democratic grannies gloated over sit uation so common with them and so rare in the republican ranks.
 That President Ives was not prompt. ed to take the high moral ground he assumed because of innate moral rec. titude was suspected by I'll who knew the gentleman. Not even his closest friends ever believed him to have been built on e saintly plan. While the gen- tieman's colossal egotism piay have deceived himself into belief 1 his immaculate conception. everybody else who knew anything ct all about the funny business going on in democratic sanctums knew absolutely that motives closely akin to spite and unholy desire for gain were the ruling advisors that kept urging him along In his mad CA reer.
 And those who thought thus were not deceived. Little by little the true mo- tives were disclosed. Advances were made to the governor, who was the real objct of attack. the auditor being used merely as a scapegoat.. The governor, metaphorically speaking. was taken up onto high mountain and told that the earth. and the heavens above the earth, and the waters under the earth. and surcease of troubles. the calling off of Ives sleuths. and other blessings too numerous to mention. would be his forever and a day, provided he, the governor would fall down and wor- ship his majesty. tlie president of the council, and 30 manipulate matters that Ives could down Frank Cox and secure control of the Southern Pacific influence in this section. It is reported that the governor was sorely tempted and would probably have yielded but for the great difficulty he experienced in striving to surround such common clay as the president of the council with angelic halos or salntly attributes. The governor declined the seductive l. filrtations, preferring honor and cal umny to hypocrisy and democratic praise. This action of the governor aroused satanic ire and kindled spite into vindictive persecution.
 At about this stage of the game Is where the people became interested, because the territorial treasury was called into erequisition to defray the cost of personal rage. An enemy of the governors was employed at u sal ary of $1o per day to expert the books of the auditor. This expert and Mir. Ives retired to an inner room and danced hornpipe in very glee at the opportunity given them to "even old scores"
 But. alas! for fond hopes and sweet dreams of revenge. after searching the books of the auditor from Alpha to ( Omega they could glean naught but disappointment. The books spoke of honesty and integrity and would not a single taint of theft or fraud. Not an iota of stealing could be de- tected-not so much as an atom of evil dence to show that a paltry picayune had been feloniously abstracted, or that the faintest attempt had ever been made to defraud the people of soli- tary penny.
 Poor Ivesi He went to the cupboard and found that the cupboard was bare! Not scrap of anything upon which to feed his gluttinous appetite for re- venge. His defeat was humiliatlng in the extreme--inglorious to the last de- gree-yet there are those who will wor- ship this heartless demagogue and ex- alt spiteful desire to the high plane of moral zeal.
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