Arizona republican., 1911-09-10
A Brand New Muckraker From Washington is Spending a Few Glad Some Days in Our Merry Midst.
SHE'S GATHERING
 CAMPAIGN MATTER
Hints Darkly of Grips to Washington" and Other Punishments to be Meted Out to Those Under Her Disfavor.

Everybody has heard of the country
 justice who, after hearing a lawsuit.
 said: T will reserve my decision for
 three days and then I will decide this
 case in favor of the plaintiff"
 That judicial gentleman has his
 feminine prototype in the person of
 Mrs. 1T. P. Grey. of Washington. now
 Tn the city, who says she came here as
 agent of the Graham Investigating committee which is probing" the
 workings of the interior department.
 Mrs. Grey says she is trying to dis
 cover to what extent the special in-
 terests' have been exploiting the In
 dians and the white people of Arizona
 in the matter of dam sites. power sites.
 irrigation projects. and other things.
 Mrs. Grey may be everything she claims to be. She may be engaged in
 exactly the kind of work in which she says she is engaged. But with all due respect to that estimable woman. she is about the most original investi- gator that ever ambled down the ma cadamized highway. She seems 10 have made up her mind in advance that Arizona is honeycombed with trickery, fraud and deceit: she fails to recognize treatment of the most cOur- teous character; and she deliberately declares that a former officer of the United States government has lied to her. To all appearances her anxiety is not to discover the truth but to fasten a stain of infamy upon somebody. AL sO. notwithstanding the fact that she declares she draws her authority from the department of justice of the federal government. she boldly states that the results of her investigations are to be used as campaign material by the democrats in the next presidential contest
 Mrs. Grey was once a newspaper writer in san Francisco. Her pen chant for asking questions shows her training. But the fact that in this in vestigation she seems to have made up her mind in advance and is trying to confirm her own views. or the views of the people who have employed her. will, it would seem, make her work here about as useless as could be inn agined. Maybe. this is the ordinary method pursued by congressional in vestigating committees; and if it is. it is easily understood why those "in- vestigatiOns" have come to be regard ed as joke in all parts of the coun- try
 Mrs. Grey has evidently heard of Lincoln Steffens. Ida Tarbell and the iiscredited Abbott woman whose work in discovering the imaginary Dick to Dick" letter brought her a few days In her inrnOst mind she is aternally convinced there is somthing rotten in the state of Denmark" but instead of going systematically to work to discover it. she contents her self with asserting that she is unjustly treated and that there is an attempt to hide from her the facts.
 The specific object of Mrs Grey's visit to Phoenix it seems, is to find put things" about the transfer of the Pima Indians from the old Mcdowell Mrs. Grey is convinced. in fact she declares. that the red men were done out' of their water rights In that transaction. And what she wants to know. is, who is the man who lid the job.
 To an impartial observer it would ieem that Mrs. Grey is slightly mixed n her facts regarding this matter. For instance. she asserts that by their re- nOval the Indians lost 13.000 acres of irrigated land in the McDowell reser- ration. If there ever was any such ,Ody of irrigated land there t is something of which nobody .. lere ever heard. The determination If all the water rights in the valley vas made through the famous Hurley Abbott suit. which started in court lere five or six years ago. In that uit a mass of testimony was offered. lealing with every phase of the water fight question. The case was on the locket for years and the entire pro eeding was and is matter of record O which anybody and everybody in the