Arizona republican., 1906-01-14
THE PATENT "INSIDES"
 OF SENATOR BfVERIDGE
Hss Personal Experience With an
 Arizona ''ninine" Han.

The BeVeridge bureau as has been
 before mentioned is extremely active
 in tEe dissemination or matter detr- mental to this territory, and calculated
 to mould public sentiment against it in the statehood fight. Before the present campaign was fairly opened Beveridge procured the publication in such of the leading magazines and newspapers of the east as he could command of matter sufficiently untrue and HbelouS but he reserved the
 grossest of his calumnies for the pat ent ''insides" of country papers, after l the manner of the cheap fake adver- tiser. This is easily done by an ar engagement with the publishers of the "insides."
 The following from the Argos, Ond) Reflector is a sample of this kind of advertising.
 Hobbies gre thick in the corridors of the big, white national state house these days. There is the railroad lob by, well and persistently maintained. But the most strenuous and dangerous, as well as the most picturesque lobby of all is the mine owners lobby from Arizona, fighting statehood for that territory. It is picturesque because of the bold methods it employs, and because it has al least two United States senators among it's packers. It is dangerous because of the possibii- ity that grave scandals may result from its operations. It is lobby with 1 hundreds of millions of dollars back
 of 1t. The agents and manipulators of it's schemes are too smart to offer out
 right bribes. But they have mining
 stock for sale-stock which is sure to earn big profit-stOck that will pay big to all who get in on the ground floor. And just now we are letting a
 little of it out to our friends
 Tt seems rather strange that the rich mine owners of Arizona should be fighting statehood, either single CT joint, but the reason for it is not far to seek. They own the territory now. They run it. They are lords of the estate. Naturally they do not want to run any risks by a change to statehood. These mining corporations have had things their own way all along the line, but in no particular so emphati- cally as in the assessed valuation of their property upon which they are called to pay taxes.
 These powerful corporations do not
 want statehood. They can operate
 more independently and profitably un- der a territorial form of government, and they stand ready to devote a big l share of their millions to the work of preventing the passage of bill giv- i ing Arizona either single statehood or joint statehood with New Mexico" 1 The notion that the stock jobbers are l taking any part in this fight is ridicu- 1 loUs It is true that several actual mining men are opposing the Beveridge project. as are several bankers, law yers farmers, merchants, cattlemen, etc. but of all the mining men who are ] taking an active part in the opposi- ] tion there is not one who has any ! stock which he would sell.
 Beveridge has the mining stock job { Der on the brain. It is his notion that
 if he can connect him with any move
 ment it is damned. It is stated that 1 Beveridge is "sore" on men who have mining stock for sale for he bought ! some once. It is related that while he { was making a tour of this territory | and New Mexico that he made an in ] vestment in some stock consisting of a certificate printed in beautiful green l and gold on an excellent quality of i bond paper, setting forth that the sen ator, his heirs, his assigns forever
 were to be the owners of certain shares
 of stock in a mining property in the southern part of the territory in con- sideration of good hard cash. This
 stock is said to have been bought while
 the senatorial party was at Bisbee and
 when the senator ought to have been | engaged in business of his trip instead | of listening to the wiles of the man 1 who had mining stock for sale. But the kind of mining man who did" him 1 is not the kind of mining men who are
 now fighting his statehood scheme.
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