Arizona republican., 1908-04-12
PHoENIX. ARIZONA. APRIL l2. 1908
THE GOVERNOR wANDERs.

The Republican has had no quarrel with Governor Kibbey It believes he is a good governor and in the main. it has supported his policies though it has not always agreed with him as to the method of enforcing them. IL has differed from him in the matter of the instruction of delegates 10 the national republican convention but has always admitted the right of the governor and every other officeholder to attempt to carry out the wishes of the national administration. This was a difference of opinion which The Republican did not believe would constitute serious party rift.
 The Republican was therefore un pleasantly surprised yesterday to be read out of the party by the governor in his speech before the instructionist convention. This paper is somewhat cOnsoled, though by the circumstance that the governor in expelling it. gave it goodly and numerous company. con- sisting of all those whose idolatry of President Roosevelt is not as blind as his own and his official associates and dependents.
 The speech of the governor was not tactical but was rather that of d man in the throes of anger and disappoint- ment, which may account for depar- ture now and then from the estab- lished and plain record. The speech like "Omnis Gallia est divisa in tres partes;" namely. proof that Joseph II. Kibbey was the best governor Arizona ever had; a separation of the sheep from the goats in the republican party in this territory and q vindication of himself against the charge that his course in the present campaign has lacked something of dignity.
 Under the first head the governor dealt with the mine taxing legislation beginning with the raises of the min ing assessments three years ago. He then stated that a lobby in the ensu- ing legislature sought to take from him the twenty year old power which had just been exercised by him for the first time but the lobby was thwarted. On the contrary, the governor let it be inferred, the legislature at his in stance, enacted legislation which in- creased his power and contributed to the still more equitable distribution of the burden of taxation.
 
 to the convention. replying to the charge that he had recently sacrificed his dignity, that he had heen ''undig- nified enough" to go before the legis- ! lature in behalf of the new mine taxing legislation.
 Now, here is a wide divergence from the record, which We must attribute entirely to the state of mind in which | the governor appeared to be laboring yesterday. The governor will rernem- | Der in al cooler moment that he was I not before the legislature at all at any | time, in behalf of any mine taxing | legislation that was enacted: he will | recall on second thought after this in structionist business is off his mind. | that he did appear before the houses in i joint session in VIOLENT AND DE- | NUNCIATORY OPPOSITION to the | only mine taxing measure that became ! a law-the Doran bill It is a matter of fact, known to every member of the legislature that the governor opposed ] in Gil ] the beginning; that he always refused | to give it a patient hearing; that he | refused, until some time after he was ''undignified enough" to appear before [ the legislature. to make any sugges- [ tions for its amendment or to accept from President Doran a suggestion . that the bill be amended in the form in which it was afterward passed.
 We still nave in mind the petulance ! that day.of the governor in attacking 4 the bill and the violence of the attack upon it by Attorney General Clark | The crowded joint session and the crowded galleries all remember that for il was only one year ago. It is remembered too that the governor af Il ter washing his hands of the bill in undisguised disgust was asked by MT. Doran if he could not offer some sugr gestion for its amendment. The gov ernor replied that he could not: that the bill was wholly bad and impossible of amendment.
 Yet this is the bill which became a law that now claims the encomium of the governor who would have led his hearers yesterday to believe that he had forced it upon the legislature We are certain that the governor on re-