Arizona republican., 1909-12-15
Fighting the Political Wolves.

Macy eash, IS business man, and like business men generally, he has a dislike for practical politics and contempt for professional politicians. Looking with disgust upon the frauds in the customs service at New York, recently developed, Secretary Mac Neagh in his annual report makes this vigorous reference to the political houses:
 Unless the customs service can be released from the payment of political debts and exactions and from meeting the supposed exigencies of political organizations. big and little, it will be impossible to have an honest service for any length of time. Any. consid- erabIe share of the present cost of this demoralization to the public rev enues. to the efficiency of the service and to public and private morality is a tremendous amount to pay in mere liquidation of the small debts of po- litical leaders,
 Secretary MacVeagh has taken a position on this subject which will make him unpopular with politicians and with d considerable number of newspapers-the papers which value the spells of office above all other political considerations-but the pub lie will approve his attitude.
 Coincidently with the exposures in the customs, service have come the development of extensive Insurance frauds in New York, directly due to an alliance between politicians and insurance officials. When it became known the other day that the presi- dent of the Phenix Fire Insurance company had squandered in personal speculations more than a million dol lars of the company's funds, there was much curiosity as to now the defalcations could have occurred un- der the system of insurance super vision which is in force in the state of New York A little investigation 
 has shown that examiners of the in surance department had borrowed large sums from the fire insurance company. One examiner, 1t seems. borrowed" as much as s100000 from the company In other words, and in plain English. examiners, finding irregularities in the affairs of the in- surance company, instead of perform ing their sworn duty to the public to blackmail the company through the form of forced loans to themselves It would be precisely similar situa- ton if bank examiner. upon finding irregularities in a bank, should force the institution to make loans to him. self. and thus make himself a sharer in the iniquity, instead of vigorously setting things to rights.
 Governor Hughes, before he reached the executive office, and while he was the inquisitor of the legislative committee which investigated the in- surance companies of New York learned a great deal of the loose methods of the insurance department And later. when he became governor he recommended to the legislature the removal of Otto Kelsey, the in- surance commissioner. It was moi charged that Kelsey himself was guilty of intentional wrong doing, but that he had shown his incompetence by permitting dishonest examiners tC remain in office. Kelsey, however was pet of the republican machine in New York. and the machine forced the legislature to keep him in office over the governors continued pro- test And it was only a few months ago. after years of effort and wrang ling with the legislature. that Gov ernor Hughes succeeded in gettin' Kelsey removed and an honest an' competent superintendent of insur ance appointed in his place.
 Governor Stubbs of Kansas the oth CT day appointed a new president O the state agricultural college. Pecun iarily the college job" is the bes in the state. the salary being s6,O00 ; year But little interest was arouse' by the new appointment. until some body learned that the new officer wa a democrat, and Missouri demo crat' at that At once there was howl from one end of the state t the other, the politicians sending u the cry in chorus that terrible out rage had been committed. They point ed out that the position had alway been filled by republican under re publican administrations, and by populist under pop" administration: Governor Stubbs was accused O treason to the party" It happen that Governor Stubbs is a bushes man. and patriotic citizen of hi