Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1908-07-28
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jumping sideways" in joyous antici-
patton of finally lighting somewhere.
Early in the year, after long and
persistent efforts, Ways succeeded
ton, meanwhile dashing in and out
among the third termers, encouraging
them to action. Everywhere Ways
went, hither and thither, into every
likely lurking spot of a bone" A
Roosevelt bone was preferable, but
Taft bone or any other bone would
do.
When Envoy Eicholz of the indie
pendence League came to Phoenix
Ways and Ways Junior were the
first to welcome him. They smelled
of him to ascertain if there were
bones about him, or. if he had been
in close proximity to bones lately.
The investigation appeared salts
factory, for Ways fingered about him
and fawned upon with expectant
organ of Mr.. Eicholz and intimated
from time to time that if he would
open up a campaign here he could
do well He could cut a figure in
the territorial election; there were
hosts of democrats wanting to break
away from the tyranny of Mark
Smith and would fly to the indie
pendence League headquarters as to
a house of refuge.
We. all along, observed the antics
of Ways as an Independence Lacquer
but it did not occur to us at the
time that Ways activity was in
tended to be of national or far reach
ing effect. We only supposed that
Ways was taking an ephemeral in
terest in Mr. Eicholz in the hope that
he would throw that bone; that
Ways would speak for it, sit up for
it, roll over, or perform any of those
now and then attract the coveted
bone. If the tricks in this instance
should be of no avail we imagined
that Ways would let it go at that
and turn to new and more promising |
sources of bones.
But Ways was playing a deeper |
game than that; it was not merely |
pleasing and entertaining Mr.. Eicholz.
1t had actually entered the service |
of Mr.. Hearst's party and was offer
ing to point out something of real |
value in exchange for a bone. Ways
sometime before that had been play
ing with what it imagined to be a |
scandal affecting the reclamation |
service and had then gone off and I
buried it for future use. Ways had |
the cache in mind all the time and |
saw in it admirable material for the
Independence League platform.
Shortly afterward another emissary |
of the Independence League came to
Phoenix. He too was met by Ways /
and Ways Junior and the cache was
dug up and delivered. 1t was at |
that time that we first began to /
take serious notice of the movements
of Ways and its side partner. That
in-smelling cache if transported be-
yOnd the boundaries of the Salt river
valley was likely to bring us all into
bad odor with decent people. and
none of us to blame for the smell
but Ways and its associate.
Later one of the Hearst papers
gave the scandal publicity. The story
was Immediately identified as the
one which Ways had Haunted about
The Identification was complete
even to the smell.
The Republican thereupon predicted
the ultimate use that would be made
of it. That use has been made, for
the story according to yesterdays
dispatches has been employed to il
lustrate a resolution in the Indepen-
dence League convention denouncing
the government for selling public
power to private parties-an attack
directed primarily against the re-
clamation service.
Truly Ways is coming up in the :
world when it can assist in the con-
struction of the national platform of |.
an aspiring party. Under flaming .
headlines last night Ways apprised .
its readers of what had been done