Bisbee daily review., 1904-10-04
THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS.

Mir. B. A. Fowler. the Republican candidate fer Congress. arrived n this city yesterday He was accord ed a hearty reception by the Republ!- can Central Committee and cordial greeting by the citizens of Bisbee in general NJ. Fowler spoke at the Opera House last evening. His speech is practically a repetition of the oli Republican campaign speeches that | have done service in this territory for the past four political campaigns. In brief. Nr Fowler says Arizona should ] climb in the g o. p. band wagon. That is. Arizona voters should sink their individual opinons Tn the political ouagmire. and crook the knee 10 the powers that be. MT. Fowler has an | Idea that he can save Arizona from joint statehood, and an exaggerated opinion Of his own importance by pro posing to overthrow the action of the Republican party in Congress on this measure.
 All the influence of Governor Bro die, H. B. Penney Wm. Sturgis. w. II. Brophy and the other Republican del egates 10 the National convention, could not even get a favorable men ton from the Republican party in their platform favoring single state hood, sill Mr. Fowler proposes to save the people Of Arizona from his own party, provided he is elected.
 MT. Fowler wants to be elected to Congress. In his speech he said: The principle of this campaign is getting elected"
 This is a laudable ambition on his part, but the people of Arizona do not propose ct this time to send a strang- CT to Congress, and Mir. Fowler, up to the day he received the Republican nomination. was an unknown quantity in this territory outside of Maricopa county.
 M-. Fowler studiously avoided the record of his party on the joint state hood bill. He lodged all around it It was embarrassing in the extreme He shied at every shadow that resem bled the record of his party on tAil question. and plunged into the frs irrigating canal that crossed the road
 NIT. Fowler knows about irriga ton. He can tell you how man! headgates there are in a mile cf ir-i gating canal ia the Salt River valley and how many acres of alfalfa a min CTS inch Of water will irrigate, bu NIT. Fowler never interested himsei much in the matter of irrigation un til the National Congress had passet the appropriation bill by the supper of the Democrats. Then he discov cred that Arizona had been allotted ; certain amount of money for th' building Of storage reservoirs. Be ing heavy property holder in th' Salt River valley he became interest ed in irrigation at once to the exteE of having the government appropris tion spent in locality that would in crease the value of his land. and en tered into Q bitter strife with the pee pie of Pinal county who were strug gling against great odds in an endeav CT to secure part of this appropsia tior for the benefit of the settler along the the Gila river. Mr. Fowle became an ardent supporter of the Ii rigaticn movement about the time h' discovered that the Government ha' six niilIou dollars which was to b. spent 1T Arizona, and he proposed I get hisn-
 Irrigation and statehood. That i the plea of the Republican eandidat for Congress. The first Democrat ic measure passed through Congress over the united opposition of some the most influential Republicans O