Arizona republican., 1906-01-02
The Task Grows Easier,

There is elsewhere printed in The Republican the names of the gentle men who will leave for Washington tomorrow and the next day. to endeav or to prevent the wrong to Arizona contemplated by Senator Beverldge and his associates.
 Better men could not have been found for this most vital work They are fully representative of their vari- ous interests, as are their colleagues who will join them later. They will, we think, be able to convince con- gressmen that the jointure proposition is hateful to the whole territory; that there is no sectional or class objection to it, but that tte people of Arizona believe that it would be destructive of suffer in a proportionate degree, and that none could in any degree be bene- fitted. and that the carrying out of the joint statehood scheme would be fla grant violation of the principles of the government.
 A great many senators and repre- sentatives who had only casually in quired into conditions here have since been brought to this view of the case, so that the work of the delegation from Arizona will be easier than it would have been a month ago. IL is satisfying to learn that this change of opinion is due in part to the blind tactics of MT. Beveridge himself-his cry of a Hobby" and special rail- road and mining corporation opposi- tion. He has been industriously as serting the existence of this peculiar form of opposition and certain news papers and magazines have been as sisting him.
 Lobbies and organized opposition to congressional measures are usually more or less in evidence, but this one has been discovered only by MT. Bev- eridge. He has been asked to be ex- plicit; to name the members Of the lobby and point out the agents of the mines and railroads. So far he has 
 nation given out by the Beveridge people is furnished by a BeveridgC Washington correspondent of a Chi cago paper and is that a brother of a member of the senate is the owner oi a mine in the southern part of the territory worth s50O,OOO.O0O. Neither the name of the senator nor the mine has been disclosed by this cautious correspondent. Nobody in Arizona could supply these interesting details
 There are legitimate and dishonest Hobbies. MT. Beveridge is referring tC the latter kind, and he has therefore incurred the resentment of his broth CT senators for his warning agains the corrupting lobby is an implication that the senate will be found to be fruitful field for it's operation. H. probably designed that his buGabo' should effect it's work in two ways that it would inflame the press anC public against the opposition to joint Ure and at the same time would pu opposing senators under suspicion O having been influenced by the lobby.
 It has already failed in the frs purpose. Such influential journal as the Hartford Courant, the Kansa City Journal, the New York Sun ant the Washington Post have ridicule' the lobby and asked for ocular proc of its existence.
 The second purpose is certain O failure. Senators who would know O the lobby if there were one have be come convinced of the dishonest prac ticcs of Senator Beveridge, and w have been informed that members wh might have supported him have bee aligned on the other side.
  
 The Chic9 Record 6-H Hpra Id cOII1 mo