Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-22
B|EBER SAID
 ID BE THE ABE
 RUFF OF EAST
Man Whom Republicans Send To Arizona To Help In the Campaign Has a Malodor- ous Record at Home.
lTucson star.)

The newspapers have within the past week called attention to the fact that one Sidney Bieber, Republican National committeeman from the Dis trict of Columbia, has been sent here by Frank H. Hitchcock, chairman of the National committee. to tell Ari- zona how to vote in choosing dele gate to congress. As an indication of the estimation in which Mr. Bieber is held in the city of Washington, the Star this morning quotes from page 3392 of the Congressional Record, date of March 13. 1908, being a portion of the speech of Senator Thomas H. Carter of Montana. a Republican, in which he has the following to say of MT. Rieber:
 It is as follows:
 T do not make these observations for the purpose of casting any retiec- tion on any member of congress. do not believe that any intended wrong was done by any member of congress. but l do know this. that the people of many of the states have thought proper to incorporate in their
 
 kind of legislation I do not know of a state which would authorize a grant of this sort to an individual or which could do so under it's constitution. We have not in the federal constitu- tion any such prohibition.
 This is the class of people who make it business to trade on their supposed acquaintance with public men. One of them will approach you in the street, manage to walk with you a block, and then go out and point to the fact that be is on chummy terms with you; and so pointing out, will seek to profit, when. your ac- Quaintance with him is limited and your confidence does not exist at all. This sort of creature when foiled in his purpose or defected from his course, shows the venom fang of the reptile.
 This individual, Sidney Bieber, seems to be an expert hand. I am informed he had himself placed on the retirement roll of the fremen's fund in the District of Columbia at $50 per month for life, on the ground that he was totally disabled. If he was in possession of all of his faculties and full strength, think really he would get the capitol away from us in very short time (Laughter.)
 50 there is some compensation in this mans misfortune and disability. He appears to me, from the general description, to be the Abe Ruef of the city of Washington-capable, slick. interruptions, and persistent, trading upon his acquaintances, and impos- ing upon the confidence of men, and obtaining for himself unconscionable advantage through enactments sur reptously passed in the closing hours of a session of congress.
 Now. Mir. President, in order to escape this individual here in ques- tion. would have 1t understood that all the land south of the blocks named in his deeds might not reach as broad an area as claimed and might not strike at vital public interests as deeply as claimed. but that is not the fault of Mir Bieber. He did the best he could. and I venture to predict that if he had not been discovered, he would have come back again to get another slice of this country along the Anacostia river. which, according to government projects, is to be inn proved by the expenditure of s3,000,-
 
 of the United States in taxation. If he does not threaten to cut off the navy yard with the bill We have voted to repeal, it is so much the better for the government, but it is no credit to him, because he got all he could.
 Finally, Mir President. think this ought to lead to a clear understanding here that gang of tax-title sharks, said to have been operating in the District for a long time, should be, in some manner. by the District authori ties. disposed of and rendered innou- cous. at least. This great government of ours is an impassive, though a mighty force If it's public officers do not protect 1t, it will be plundered. The most extreme vigilance is evi- dently necessary in and about this District which has no legislation of it's own, in order to protect private rights and public property as well.