Arizona republican., 1906-10-13
For Delegate to Congress Wm. F. Cooper
THE HUNT FOR A MOTIVE.

When Charles F. AinswOrth suddenly became a violent advocate of joint statehood, it was nine days wonder. Mr. Ainsworth had hitherto been a rather unobtrusive citizen; he had talk en no part in politics.; he had rather sfudiously concealed any interest he may have felt in territorial. county and municipal affairs. None of his energy and time was expended upon popular enterprises; it was all carefully hus- handed for the various corporations by which he had been retained. If the census faker had been sent out to SC cure a list of the public spirited citizens of Arizona, the chances are many to one that the name Of MT. Ainsworth would not have appeared in it.
 So. when all at once he announced that he had taken on a cargo of solic- ituds 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 search Tor evil mo- 1ISes. Suspicious unless removed soon
 
 established facts.
 This human tendency has inflicted &OssibIe injustice upon MT. Ainsworth. Failing to discover any other motive go< hiS activity in behalf of joint state eotsd, 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 S9O0,OOO by. several of the counties of New Mexico. and that he expected that they would De vali- dated by the statehood act, or, if not by that act, by a legislature of Arizo- ma the Great. It was further stated as a fact, that Mir. Ainsworth had also be- come the possessor of a large number of those militia warrants issued by various counties of New Mexico from 1858 during a period of about twenty Exe years.
 All Of this Judge Ainsworth has pos itiveiy and publicly denied on the stump and in his joint statehood organ.
 The Republican has investigated these statements affecting the motive of Ar. 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- Tslissible in the courts that Judge Aims worth holds a dollars worth of New Mexican bonds or New Mexican militia warrants. Nor can we say that We ls~w al be said to throw a possible light upon the motive which impels MT. Ainsworth to neglect his business and spend his money for the tax payers of Arizona, for whom he had not previously been overwhelmed with sympathy.
 Our investigations. however, led us to other and unexpected discoveries. We learned as long ago as last winter that a syndicate had been organized for the gathering up of those repudi- ated New Mexico bonds; that this syn dicate embraced a 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 Whiskey Trust. was the moving spirit
 Mir. Greenhut's connection with the syndicate is of almost local interest. Mir. Greenhut is not unknown in Arizo- na. Several years ago he with a large circle of Peorians invested capital in various enterprises in this valley. One of the associates of MT. Greenhut. by the way. was Professor NC. Daugherty. formerly superintendent of the Peoria schools, now doing time at JoI- jet for forgery and perjury. Professor Dougherty however, had nothing 10 do with the New Mex ican bond syndicate He was in the penitentiary before it was well organ ized.
 MT. Greenhut and his fellow Peorians invested heavily in the Gna Bend Reservoir and Irrigation company the litigation over which began sixteen years ago and was only recently con ciuded in the United States supreme court. The ramidcations of this Ht- igation were numerous and complex involving congratulations and new suits. Through it all the chief coun- sel for Mir. Greenhut was MT. Aims worth. We mention the result of our Investigations with reference to the