The Arizona sentinel., 1902-10-29
SENATOR IVES
His Political Career in Yuma COunty--His Position
 Toward Labor.

representative citizen, also, whom to know is to honor and respect. He is the representative of that party which has from it's incipiency been the friend of the wOrkingmen, the latest evidence of this interest in the welfare of those who produce being the act of President ROOsevelt-one of the ablest and most patriotic statesmen who ever occupied the White House--in settling the ter rible struggle between the miners and operators in Pennsylvania. Fearlessly and without consideration of the con- sequence to his own political fortunes, he upheld the prestige of his party and compelled the naughty coal barons to submit all differences to arbitration. By this courageous act the right of laboring men to form unions for their own protection, for their social and material welfare, was recognized aud established. It is the first time in the history of the country when a presi- dent of the United States interceded in behalf of laboring men and compelled, by the power of his exalted position, the employers to be just and fair to their employees. The republican party is justly entitled to this credit After all, the act of Roosevelt was not de- parture, as some would believe. but merely an extension of the policy that party has always pursued-protectiCn of all the people and guaranteeing that the rights of the lowest as well as the highest shall be preserved.
 The national administration being politically republican, it is for the material interests of Arizona, its pro- gress and development, and to insure statehood beyond the peradventure of a doubt, that the territory shall go re- publican to acquire the advantages so much needed, such as a levee on the Colorado river, which will reclaim oyer 5000 acres, our share of the money appropriated by the last con- greSS for the reclamation of the arid lands by an irrigation system, and others not necessary here to mention. This election will decide the fate of statehood. If the republicans carry the territory and elect Morrison to congress our desire will be gratifed: if they fail statehood may be postponed for years, and many other things ne cessary for our material development denied us. Morrison, being of the same. political faith as the party in power at Washington, will have greater influence than it is possible for Wilson to exercise. The election of a democratic legislature and the sending of Wilson to congress will stop progress indefinitely, and all that has been done for statehood will be loves labor lost.
 The democratic nominee for the ter ritorial council, Ives, is the representa- tive of corporate interests. To all in- tents and purposes he is an attorney of the Southern Pacific railroad. Con- sequently he is not free, however much he may desire, to further the interests of the people if they should come in conflict with those of the Southern Pa cifc Company. This fact cannot be too strongly emphasized. In this connec- tion it is we'll to call to mind that it was Ives who, few years ago, attempt ed to work the convicts in various in- dustries in the territory and on public works and to place them in direct con- petition with free labor. A good deal of the money which he claimed was spent upon various improvements in the county of Yuma was in reality eX pended in litigation in the settlement of this question. During the time the convicts were employed he sold water to the farmers, and after receiving pay for the same he began raising vegeta- bles by convict labor, which he placed upon the market at lower figure than She farmers could raise them for, re- sulting in great injury to them. At the same time he was using all of his remaining energies to establish the validity of the fraudulent Algodones | grant, which embraced about four fifths of the valley. Had he succeeded | the convicts would have been placed on this grant for it's development and inn provement. Those who in good faith | settled in the valley were harrassed | for years by this attempt of Ives to ac- quire the land and to carry out his con- vict labor scheme.
 When the convict labor and land | grant Gtigations were decided adverse ly to the Tucson lawyer he began cast ing about for some other illegitimate field for conquest. In his search he found that the King of Arizona mine had been discovered, and it offered a tempting bait to his cupidity. He se- cured a bond On the property. After ward the purchase price was paid by gold taken out of the mine.
 In opening up the King mine Ives and his associates were in need of money