Arizona republican., 1906-06-27
THE COURSE OF MIR. TAwNEY.

THE COURSE OF MIR. TAwNEY.
 Now that the heat of conflict in congress over statehood legislation Is past and our fate has been placed in our own keeping. We may take cooler. if not clearer. view of the ac- tions of those who were for us and against us.
 There is Hon. James 4. Tawney, whose early efforts in our behalf were obscured and forgotten In his appar- ent desertion of the insurgents and his subsequent active part in the passage or the Hamilton bin through the house
 There is much to be said in favor of Mir. Tawney. without whom it is quite possible the Hamilton bill in its origi nal form would have become a law. MT Tawney. it will be remembered. aided greatly in the bringing to Arizona last fall Of the nine visiting congressman, who became the neucleus of the 'in- surrectiOn." But for the Investigations of these visitors. the country would probably never have been aroused to the iniquity Of the jointure project; the house organization would not have been forced to resort to methods which were universally condemned
 The fierce but inequal fight of the insurgents kindled the sentiment in the senate. which finally overwhelmed the j0inture scheme. IL is true that Mir. Tawney not only abandoned us at a | critical moment. but he took with him SO many of the insurgents that the defeat Of the remainder became inevi- ! table We may believe though. that his | heart remained with with them and that he always entertained a firm hope Of their ultimate victory and vim dication which has since come. We believe that MT. Tawney felt a genuine l sorrow when on January 24, he saw go down to temporary defeat "the | Faithful Forty Three" James ". Gill | lett. Duncan E. Mckinley, Joseph R. | Rowland, Julius Kahn. Everis A. | Hayes. James c. Neednam, James Me | Lachlan and Sylvester c. Smith of California; Franklin F. Brooks and Robert w. Bonynge of Colorado; Bur ton l.. French of Idaho; William A. | Calderhead and William A. Reeder of | Kansas; Frank c. Wachter and Sydney | E. Mudd of Maryland; Henry Me | Moran. George A. Loud, and Archi- bald Darragh of Michigan; J. Adam | Rede and Halvor Steenerson of Min nesota; Frank B. Fulkerson and Ar thur P Murphy of Missouri; Thomas | F. Marshall and Asie J. Gronna of | North Dakota; Herman P. Goebel | James Kennedy, w. Aubrey Thomas | and Jacob A. Biedler of Ohio; Binger Hermann of Oregon; George D. Nc Creary. of Pennsylvania; Joseph How ell of Utah; Campbell Slemp of Vir- ginia; Wesley L. Jones, Francis Wi Cushman and William E. Humphrey of | Washington; Henry c. Adams, Joseph | w. Babcock Theobold Otjen, John J. | Esch, James H. Davidson, Edward S. | Minor and Webster E. Brown of Wis consin and Frank w. MondeIl of Wy oming.
 We believe at that moment MT. | Tawney felt that the lot of this noble band of Independents was preferable | to his own. MT. Tawney was not. and | could not we'll have been the master of his actions. As chairman of the most important of the committees. he was essentially a member of the house organization.
 When he surrendered the leadership | of the insurgents to Messrs. Babcock Adams and Minor, those gentlemen did not, publicly at least, blame him for an act that seemed desertion. It is said. and we believe it to be true that MT Tawney had assured himself that the Hamilton bill could not pass the senate after the unexpected assault had been made upon it in the house. and that he had an understanding with the speaker that if it should be re- turned with the Foraker amendment. he should be permitted to move the concurrence of the house. There is also disposition to give Mir Tawney much credit for the final compromise.
 The Republican has always been dis posed to give MT. Tawney credit for his