Arizona republican., 1910-09-03
A Gigantic Plot.

| OJOAiiCO lIulHIul ana burning words from the Tucson Citizen should set every honest citizen of Arizona to thinking:
 Arlzona is today the scene of the most gigantic corporation plot this | territory has ever known. The cor poratlons, through their high salaried counsel have set about to write the constitution for the new state, and they boast that unless they are per mltted to do this job to their own sat deliver the goods" is the
 euphemism" mployed-statehood is done for From every county in the territory comes the news of the plot tlng Of the railroad bosses now in control of the democratic machine to elect delegates who will stand hitched al Phoenix and execute without ques- ton the orders of Ives and Ellinwood Tn Marlcopa the fire of the corpora ton gang is centered upon ex-Govern- or hlbbey and the railroad bosses are using as their newspaper medium the Arizona Gazette, which has hitherto insulted the republican party in this territory by claiming to be one of their number, while at all times its first and foremost care has been the execution of the orders of MT. Ives railroad The abandon of this newspaper exceeds that of any reputable publication in the southwest; for example, they have been engaged for weeks in as dis reputable and wilful misrepresentation of President Taft as the chief executive has ever been subjected to. They have Afcfn taA .f I,f I suppressed others; they have put words into his mouth which ne never said, and now thew are centering their fire on ex-Governor Kibbey because, while governor of this territory under the Roosevelt administration. he had the temerity to compel the very cor poratiOns, whose chief counsel now dominate the democratic party, to toe the line and pay their share of the taxes.
 'Kibbey is the most hated man in the territory today by the corporations. So far did they carry their opposition to him that they made impossible his confirmation for a renomination by the senate. The opposition to him in the senate was traced directly to the very corporations whose hired counsel and press are today slandering him and every other public official, territorial or national, who dares to protest against their wicked plot to shackle the people of this territory with the same corporation collar which Ives and Ellinwood have worn for years-but at princely salaries"
 The foregoing statement by the
  Kibbey from office is strictly truthful The facts were fully known by the governor and his associates in the territorial administration, at the very time demagogues in this county were charging him with being fin league with the railroads"-the charge being made because he had chosen to ap- point a railway commission according to his own notions.
 At that time the governor knew, and so did many other well posted re- publicans in Arizona, that he had been defeated at Washington by the powerful influence of MT. E. H. liar riman.
 It will be remembered that in the | preceding December. President Roose- welt had sent to the senate of the United States the nomination of Gov ernor Kibbey for another term. It was inexplicable to the people of the territory that his confirmation failed
 The confirmation failed because tho Southern Pacific Copper Queen ioa- chine had "got busy" Every senator that could be reached" had been in formed that Kibbey was n radical and | was dangerous" man in the gov ernor's chair. To the lato MT. Harri- | man especially was the job allotted | of beating the g vernor for raappont- l ment As everybody knows Mr Har- riman's influence in .he senate was | all powerful. When he was informed | 'Kibbey was a dangerous man" and | that his reappointmcnt ought n-t to | be permitted. Mir Hartman gave the necessary orders. The Hartman or ders were carried ou:.
 It was a beautiful example of the virtues of the recall"
 And today every jackal of the cor psrations that fought the Kibbey tax reforms-every jackal that haunted the legislative halls in the interest of