Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-17
Greatest Thorn of All.

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 A greater thorn than this, however. a thorn greater than all the other thorns and thistles which are harrass- ing the machine republicans of Arr zona and causing the great and only camraign fixer, Hitchcock. to travel across the dusty desert to be present, is the California situation.
 There insurgency is rampant. There, with the single exception of graftlidden San Francisco, the .n- surgents carried every county in the state, and tore more than one con gressman loose from his coveted po- siaion.
 | One county convention after anoth- CT, in making its platform upon which the delegates to the state con vention will stand, is calling for the initiative. the referendum and the re call applied to the state, from the governor down to the aldermen and eonstables.
 There, is no possible way for the machine republicans of arizona to get around that fact, so they ignore
 it. But the insurgent press and the democratic press, which predominates
 in numbers in the territory. are see
 ing to 1t that the pople are advised
 In the premises, while the democratic lspell binders, who are now abroad
 in the land, are shouting it with
 throats of brass and lungs of leather
 It is no wonder a hurry call was
 sent for Hitchcock.
 Another thing that has aroused tho
 people of Arizona as nothing elst
 could have reused them in this situ
 ation is the presence in the territory
 of Jimmy Williams. He is not onll
 present, but he is accounting C the machine for his presence througi his two newspapers, next to the Ga
 zette having the largest circulation
 and until he took charge of then having the greatest influence of an. , in the territory
 Jimmy Williams is like Topsy, s B far as Arizona is concerned. He jus . growed.
 ? So He Bought the Citizen. |, He is from the East, and whe , Roosevelt recently came home fror ? Africa and other foreign parts h went to New York to receive" hin He also went to Oyster Bay and ha 2 himself hauled from the railway st; > ton to the former presidents hom l lin dog cart driven by Ethel Roost f welt, wherest all of the world sai s they were engaged, and Roosevelt sai , all the world was liar. Jimmy frs - lstopped in New Mexico on his wa , west, but things there did not hitc 7 bought the Citizen. People said I Twas Hitchcefks paper and nations i republican committee money, an - that has not been denied. Althoug s mot a gold mine. Despite that, how r iever, Williams has done so well h \ Twas able to pay fabulous price fo  ,- the Silver Belt at Globe, where tn a tOld Dominion and Little Miami mine ,- are located. That paper also ha s the credit, properly or otherwise, C h lbeing national committee property s and there is rumor. Lot so we e lbased and not having wide accep e lance as yet, that the Arizona Republ f lean at Phoenix is another playthin d lof the committee.
 P Be that as it may, the whole thin i, lsimmers down to the fact that tn r. republican machine wants Arizona lhave a safe and sane constitution n Arizona's governor, a federal al e lpointee, is Richard F. Sloan. He
 lthe returning beard by wiIch the r
 suit of the election on the constitl
 ltion, as well as for delegates to tn constitutional convention, will b