Bisbee daily review., 1906-10-17
THE MOTIVE IS AT LAST REVEALED.


 Under the caption, "The Hunt for | ! Motive" the Phoenix Republican publishes the following editorial on he joint statehood candidacy of c. F. Ainsworth:
 When Charles F. Ainsworth sudden | Iy became violent advocate of joint | it was nine days wonder. l Mir. Ainsworth had hitherto been a rather unobtrusive citizen; he had talk | en no part in politics; he had rather | concealed any interest he may have felt in territorial, county and affairs. None of his energy and time was expended upon popular enterprises: it was all carefully hus- banded for the various corporations by which he had been retained. If the census taker had been sent out to SC cure list of the public spirited cifi-. zens of Arizona, the chances are many to one that the name of Mr. Ainsworth would not have appeared in it
 So. when ali at once he announced that he had taken on cargo of soiic- itude for Arizona. its citizens and tax payers, there was a not unnatural casting about for the motive. Mankind is prone to suspicion and suspicion is always turned in a search for evil mo lives. Suspicious unless removed soon become to a large number of people, established facts.
 This human tendency has inflicted a possible injustice upon Mir. Ainsworth- Failing to discover any other motive for his activity in behalf of joint state hood, a rumor soon developed into an unqualified statement that he had be- come the holder of a block of those re pudiated railroad bonds issued to the amount of about $9OO. 900 by several of the counties of New Mexico. and that he expected that they would be yali- dated by the statehood act, or, If not by that act. by a legislature of Ari- zona the Great. It was further stated as a fact, that Mir. Ainsworth had also become the possessor of large num- Der of those militia warrants issued by various counties of New Mexico from 1853 during a period of about twenty-five years.
 All of this Judge Ainsworth has pos itively and publicly denied on the stump and in his joint statehood organ.
 The Republican has investigated these statements affecting the motive of Mir. Ainsworth, and has been un- able to find that they are supported by facts; we have not discovered the slightest evidence which would be ad- missible in the courts that Judge Aims worth holds a dollars worth of New Mexico bonds or New Mexican militia warrants. Nor can we say that We have discovered any matter which may be said to throw a possible light upon the motive which impels MT. Aims worth to neglect his business and spend his money for the tax payers of Arizona, for whom he had not pre- viously been overwhelmed with sym pathy.
 Our investigations. however. led us to other and unexpected discoveries. We learned as long ago as last winter that syndicate had been organized for the gathering up of those repudi- ated New Mexico bonds; that this syn dicate embraced New Mexican ter ritorial official. group of Kansas City capitalists and a group of Peoria, Ills, capitalists. The Republican also se- cured information that John B. Green hut of Peoria, the former head of the whisky trust, was the moving spirit Mir Greenhut's connection with the syndicate is of almost local interest. MT. Greenhut is not unknown in Ari- zopa- Several years ago he with a large circle of Peorians invested capi tai in various enterprises in this val. ley. One of the associates of MT. Greenhut, by the way, was Professor N. c. Daugherty, formerly superintend ent of the Peoria schools, now doing time at Joliet for forgery and perjury
 Professor Dougherty, however, had nothing to do with the New Mex ican bond syndicate. He was in the penitentiary before 1t was well organ
 ized.
 Mir. Greenhut and his fellow Peor
 ians invested heavily in the Gila Bent
 Reservoir and Irrigation company, ths litigation over which began sfxteeI years ago and was only recently con
 cluded in the United States supreme
 court. The ramifications of this lit ligation were numerous and complex involving congratulations and new
 suits Through 1t all the chief coun
 sel for MT. Greenhut was Mir. Aims
 worth. We mention the result of ou
 investigations with reference to thu
 New Mexican bonds for the purpose O
 showing that the story of Mir. Aims
 worth's ownership of any of thos'
 bonds may have had it's origin in ,
 wide spread public knowledge of hi long and uninterrupted relations witt Mir Creeuhut