Arizona republican., 1912-07-11
WHY MIR. IVES
 BROKE AWAY
It Is Said He Expects the Federal Judgeship of Ari- zona in Case of the Elec- tion of Woodrow Wilson as President

i If anybody has noticed any glad | someness loafing around among the 1 Phoenix democrats because an invita- | tion has been extended to the Honor able Eugene $. Ives. of Tucson, to ad- dress the unterrified democracy at the 1 Wilson Marshall ratification meeting scheduled for this city Saturday. night he ought to corral the aforesaid glad i soneness, because it is so much of d 1 rarity as to be natural Cor un-
 naturaD curiosity
 Indeed, it is quite within the bounds of the possibilities that the reception l accorded MT Ives, if he deigns to ac- 1 cept the said invitation and lend his voice and presence to the proposed ratification, will not be warm enough to cause any discomfort It is quite probable, in fact, that the reception may not be much warmer than an ice berg. For somehow a good many l democrats in this neck of the woods | have a sort of feeling that Mir. Ives 1 is not just the kind of democrat they 1 want to fraternize with at this par ticular time. And that feeling is be- coming more pronounced as the days 1 pass by.
 ! It is a matter of quite general
 knowledge by this time that the for mer state senator (and would have 1 been United States senator) broke 1 loose from his instructions at the Bal timore convention and voted for the
 Honorable Woodrow Wilson. And it was not simply that-the trouble is he made the break at the wrong time, made it, in fact while the Clark star was still in the ascendancy. And, gradually, the reasons have been leak ing out
 The Honorable Eugene $. Ives, it can be Stid on the highest possible authority, expects to be appointed federal judge for the district of Ari
 zona in the event of Woodrow Will sons election to the presidency. And it was the promise of such appoint nent made by the Wilson leaders at Baltimore. that caused Ives to break loose from his instructions and cast his vote for the New Jersey governor at a time when Champ Clark, the man to whose support he was pledged. was in the lead in the balloting and ap- parently in a fair way to win the nomination
 And there is something more With or without d full Knowledge of all the facts, the Honorable Henry Fountain Ashurst and the Honorable Marcus Aurelius Smith, senators from the state of Arizona, are playing into the Ives hand in the furthering of his
 ambition.
 Here is q plain statement of the facts bearing upon this matter. Ash urs and Smith are making fight against the confirmation of Judge Sloan They may succeed in prevent ing such confirmation. Either they may muster strength enough to get
 an adverse vote. or failing in that they may prevent d vote at all. At all events it is certain that at this late date if Sloan is not confirmed no other man will be at the present session. Then should President Taft be de
 feated and Mir Wilson elected to the
 presidency, a democrat will be ap-
 pointed And that democrat. there is
 hardly the shadow of doubt will be
 Eugene s. Ives.
 There was more surprise than in
 dignation when the news was first re- CelNeu IeGe llidl Ives iidu ONlI NON IT
 Speaker Clark and had begun voting
 for Wilson. Some of the local demo-
 crats thought there might be some
 good reason for the senator's per formance, and they were disposed to
 wait further news before condemning him for the act But when it be-
 came known beyond doubt that this
 action had been taken at time when tIn. .1 ,,at and when it seemed reasonably cer- tain that he would get the nomination they indulged in some pretty strong language in condemning what they denominated a betrayal of solemn
 obligation. Ever since that time they have been looking for an explanation; and it may be said they need search no further for the explanation is here given. It was the promise of patron age-the promise of a federal judge ship that threw MT. Ives allegiance off it's balance
 It was during the recess in the convention before Ives switched his vote that the Wilson men got to him. And they got to him in the same way 1 they got to d good many others. They did their work through the promise of patronage. They promised Ives that 1 he should be made federal judge for l the district of Arizona. This promise may have been made with or without | the direct knowledge of Governor Will son; but with or without that knowl- edge it was made and it is to be pre- sumed of course, that the promise | will be kept.
 And when one comes to analyZe the 1 situation it is not so strange as it might appear. Ives is not new con l vert to Wilsonism. In fact he has been an admirer of the New Jersey
 man all along. He favored his can
 didacy from it's inception And the people of Pima county knew that fact; 1 but they decided to send him to the convention, nevertheless, believing that | he would abide by his instructions. i The sequel shows that the Pima coun- 1 fxrs tS hnx- rt1nr O1Jp