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ASHURST of ARIZONA 
 
Compiled by 
 
 CHRISTIAN A. TAYLOR 
 
 Douglas, Ariz. 
 
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 ASHURST of ARIZONA 
 
 {From Prescott Courier, September, 
 1911.) 
 
 THE PEOPLE'S NOMINEE FOR U. S. 
 SENATOR 
 
 A FRIEND of Mr. Ashurst, who has 
 ^^ known him from early childhood, 
 has handed the Editor the following in- 
 teresting letter : 
 
 "Henry F. Ashurst is a type of young 
 men found in great abundance through- 
 out the West, who are making them- 
 selves useful citizens. 
 
 "Mr. Ashurst was born in the State of 
 Nevada in 1874, and the next year he 
 was brought by his parents to Arizona, 
 where he has continuously resided. His 
 father, a native of Kentucky, pioneer 
 and prospector, was accidentally killed 
 by an explosion in a mine in the Grand 
 Canyon many years ago. His mother, a 
 native of Missouri, heroically endured 
 the hardships incident to life on the 
 Arizona frontier. 
 
 "He left the Flagstaff public school 
 at the age of 15 to become a cowboy, 
 and during the next four years 'rode 
 the range' in Coconino, Navajo, and 
 Apache counties. At the age of 19 he 
 was appointed a deputy by Sheriff 
 'Sandy' Donahue, of Coconino County, 
 which position he creditably filled. After 
 he left the sheriff's office, he went to 
 work as a hod-carrier, and later as a 
 lumber-jack in the mills of the Arizona 
 Lumber Company of Flagstaff. In 1895 
 he commenced the study of law, which 
 he pursued with close application. In 
 1896 he was elected to the Legislature 
 from Coconino County, was re-elected 
 in 1898, and in 1899 was selected as 
 Speaker of the House, being the young- 
 est man ever chosen to fill such a posi- 
 tion. 
 
 "In 1899 he was licensed by the Su- 
 preme Court of Arizona to practice law, 
 the duties of which profession he has 
 observed with notable success and with 
 
 untiring devotion to his clients. In 1902' 
 he was elected to the territorial council. 
 In 1903, desiring to secure every possible 
 advantage for his professional avoca- 
 tion, he entered the law department of 
 the University of Michigan and, as a 
 special student, took a course of lec- 
 tures in law and political economy. 
 
 "In March, 1904, he was married to 
 Elizabeth L. Renoe, of Flagstaff, and a 
 happy marriage, indeed, was this; for 
 even in bitter partisan strife his political 
 opponents always suspend their criti- 
 cisms long enough to take opportunity 
 to praise and approve the virtue and 
 rectitude of his domestic life. 
 
 "He was elected district attorney of 
 Coconino County in 1904 and was re- 
 elected in 1906. During his two terms 
 of office as district attorney his efforts 
 were those of a zealous guardian of the 
 public interests. While in office, dis- 
 honesty and extravagance in public busi- 
 ness crumbled before his determined 
 honesty and aggressive courage. In the 
 administration of the duties of his office 
 as a public prosecutor, justice went hand 
 in hand with charity toward the poor 
 and unfortunate. 
 
 "In 1908 he was licensed to practice 
 before the Supreme Court of the United 
 States. In January, 1909, he moved his 
 law office to Prescott and immediately 
 was recognized as one of the leaders of 
 the able Prescott bar. 
 
 "Despite his arduous labors, he never 
 failed to keeo in touch with the great 
 public questions that are discussed 
 throughout the nation and to hear his 
 addresses on the many topics that enter 
 into the very life of the nation gives 
 assurance that he has closely studied 
 these questions and kept abreast with 
 the times. 
 
 "He advocates the election of Sen- 
 ators by a direct vote of the people; 
 favors nominating all public officers by 
 direct primary ; believes in the initiative 
 
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 and referendum ; favors the recall ; ad- 
 vocates the parcels post. 
 
 "Ashurst's example is a lesson prov- 
 ing that success comes only as a result 
 of ceaseless endeavor ; that victory 
 comes only from unremitting toil, and 
 that genius is nothing but the child of 
 labor. 
 
 "Ashurst is a brave man. He dis- 
 played physical bravery in his youthful 
 days of adventure, and he is brave men- 
 tally and morally as well as physically. 
 
 "Everything he has in life, every 
 honor he has achieved, he has won by 
 solid work of hand and brain. 
 
 "He possesses the physical attributes 
 of the orator — engaging personality, 
 strength, good humor, and flowing dic- 
 tion. He is plucky and earnest in his 
 advocacy of vital principles and essen- 
 tials, and he gives to every work he 
 undertakes a vigor and variety of intel- 
 lect unsurpassed in the territory. 
 
 "His command of forceful and agree- 
 able language, his sure scholarship, his 
 vehement eloquence, his audacious cour- 
 age, his moral elevation, and his un- 
 swerving devotion to high political prin- 
 ciples easily mark him as a man who 
 could the 'applause of listening senates 
 command.' 
 
 "His immense labors for progress and 
 justice have made him an influential and 
 useful man; while his animal spirits, 
 warm heart, generosity, and the constant 
 propriety of his demeanor have made 
 him one of the most beloved characters 
 in Arizona's history." 
 
 THE SENATORSHIPS 
 
 The sensationally triumphant individ- 
 ual campaign of Henry F. Ashurst is a 
 remarkable exhibition of personal prow- 
 ess in politics comparable to the first 
 nomination of Bryan. It is also a strong 
 demonstration of the rule of the people 
 through the direct primary. Mr. Ashurst 
 had no political machine, no powerful 
 influence, no money, and little friendly 
 organization behind him. His success is. 
 
 purely personal and stamps him as a 
 man who will undoubtedly make himself 
 felt in the Senate, which is no small 
 accomplishment. His superlative charm 
 as an orator, his earnest and sincere 
 demeanor, his record as a progressive 
 legislator, and particularly as a battler 
 for laws protecting labor, carried him to 
 the seat of victory. 
 
 The vote that Ashurst got in Yuma 
 precinct through a 20-minute speech was 
 one of the astonishing features of the 
 campaign. Those who heard that speech. 
 Democrats and Republicans alike, would 
 go miles to hear another from the same 
 lips. When Ashurst comes to Yuma 
 again he will draw an audience that will 
 embrace most of the local population — 
 From Yuma Sun, October 28, 1911. 
 
 ASHURST OF ARIZONA 
 
 BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS 
 
 A straight-from-the-shoulder sketch of a 
 straighl-from-the-shoulder young man. As 
 soon as Ashurst announced his candidacy 
 for the Senate, the "interests" tried to 
 reach him, hut they found he could not be 
 bribed, bullied, nor bamboozled. He there- 
 upon announced that his campaign would 
 be no pink-tea affair, and he lived up to his 
 platform. 
 
 "Where others bought, he fought his 
 way in." 
 
 To read about Arizona is worth any 
 man's while. As much may be said of 
 Mr. Ashurst— the Hon. Henry F. Ash- 
 urst — chosen Senator the other day by 
 that new Commonwealth. Mr. Ashurst 
 is climbing 36. Arizona, counting her 
 years — civilized — claps a cipher to that 
 figure, and locates them in the dust- 
 laden neighborhood of 360. 
 
 It was during the first quarter of the 
 fifteen hundreds that Cortez, nosing into 
 the bay of Vera Cruz, began roasting 
 Montezuma into bankruptcy and ob- 
 livion. Within the 40 years next follow- 
 ing these acute financial operations, the 
 gold-seeking Spaniards had pushed their 
 hungry way as far northward as Ari- 
 
zona. They came arrayed in righteous- 
 ness and Milan steel, the Bible in one 
 hand, the sword in the other, "fully 
 equipped" — as one of their chroniclers 
 hath it — "to explain hell to the savages." 
 Luther was scarce cold in his grave ; 
 Calvin was threatening and thundering; 
 Scottish Mary was wearing her trouble- 
 making head ; Henry the bluff and 
 bloated was robbing monasteries, mur- 
 dering wives, and setting up a new re- 
 ligion ; Cervantes was writing Don 
 Quixote; Bunyan had not yet dreamed 
 his dreams, and Shakespeare was still to 
 be born, in an hour when Arizona could 
 hold herself up proudly as "settled and 
 civilized." No; there is in her origin 
 nothing recent, nothing of the immediate 
 past. As a people she is quite as an- 
 tique, quite as year- furrowed, as any- 
 thing we possess. 
 
 WHERE BONDAGE IS UNPOPULAR 
 
 Mr. Ashurst "first saw the light," as 
 the novel writers are so fond of saying, 
 in a little lonely ranch cabin on the brow 
 of a tall Nevada mountain. It is good 
 to be born and pass your boyhood where 
 the view is uninterrupted for 100 miles 
 on every hand, and the far-away snow- 
 capped ranges form the rim of your 
 world. From such surroundings come 
 lessons of liberty. The Rockies, claim- 
 ing a round one-third of the country's 
 area, are in themselves a very tower of 
 popular hope. Given mountains, bond- 
 age and bondmen are out of the question ; 
 the slave, in the nature of things, is a 
 creature of the lowlands. Criminal 
 money may cast its nets over the balance 
 of American men, special privilege may 
 brand them for its own ; but from the 
 Rockies to the last will spring a race of 
 American Swiss, to teach those lowland 
 others how to break the fetters of their 
 captivity of gold. 
 
 Cattle wholly engrossed the attention 
 of the sparse population about young 
 Ashurst, and as soon as he could sit in a 
 saddle he took to cow-punching. Before 
 he was 15 he had mastered the three R's 
 of his people, and could handle rifle, rope 
 
 and running-iron with the best hand on 
 the pampas. He drifted south into Ari- 
 zona and won rank among the herds. 
 Riding the range or in the branding-pen, 
 "tailing a steer" for the joy of making 
 "it swap ends with itself," or "flanking" 
 a calf to the end that its owner's hiero- 
 glyphics might be seared upon its baby 
 side, he always met life's problems 
 squarely. He combed the ridges, ran- 
 sacked the canyons, and no one riding in 
 his rear for mavericks was ever known 
 to get rich. Work done, it may be that 
 he speculated modestly at roulette and 
 Mexican monte, or, unbuckling to the 
 strains of the Arkansazv Traveller, loos- 
 ened with hilarious heel the boards of 
 the dance-hall floors. For such was the 
 then manner of our Southwestern youth ; 
 and so was the world about young Ash- 
 urst made. 
 
 There is a waifword that, while so 
 as aforesaid punching the casual cow, 
 young Ashurst stepped aside for a space 
 to serve as deputy sheriff. It may well 
 have been ; for it was a time when cattle 
 were being rustled and stages were being 
 stopped— a time when Curly Bill's ad- 
 dress was the Whetstone Springs, and a 
 cool hand behind a Colt's .45 could find 
 employment on the side of law and 
 order. 
 
 While not neglecting his art of cows, 
 somehow about the camp-fires young 
 Ashurst learned to read and write. Thus 
 he commenced to rope at the rudiments 
 of an education. Incidentally, as often 
 happens, that book taste grew with what 
 it fed on ; and at 18 he sold his cow- 
 boy belongings — blankets, bridle, saddle, 
 rope, "chaps," spurs, and six-shooter — to 
 be next heard of by history in Stockton, 
 as he stood rapping at the gates of 
 learning. 
 
 Two years of Stockton, and the books ! 
 — and all with special reference to the 
 law. For the notion had seized upon 
 young Ashurst that he would demand 
 admission to the bar. There was more 
 money, more fame, in law than in cows. 
 There would be no more safety, per- 
 haps, in forums where, upon an occasion 
 
when a badgered witness appealed to the 
 court for protection, the court silently 
 but sympathetically passed the badgered 
 one its gun. But then young Ashurst 
 wasn't looking for safety ; his ambition 
 had been aroused in favor of advance- 
 ment and renown. 
 
 Young Ashurst had no more than put 
 his 20th birthday behind him when he 
 returned to Arizona a full-fledged "at- 
 torney and counselor-at-law." Settling 
 in the town of Williams, he swung his 
 shingle to the wind and invited a prac- 
 tice. To be sure, twenty as an age im- 
 plies nothing of ripeness ; but responsi- 
 bility comes early in the Southwest, and 
 young Ashurst, who had been doing a 
 man's work for a man's wage ever since 
 he was ten, may be forgiven for feeling 
 himself old beyond his years. In any 
 event, confident and resolute, there he 
 was a lawyer before he could vote. Also, 
 clients came, and he conquered verdicts 
 in their favor. 
 
 The age we live in is as important as 
 any that the world has seen. Some 
 of us don't realize this, which is natural 
 enough. Commonly, no age is appreci- 
 ated until two or more centuries after 
 it have passed. Then folk wake up, and 
 the historian records the awakening. As 
 to that age importance, however, Mr. 
 Ashurst was not blind. He felt and 
 understood the full weight of his hour, 
 and, thus feeling and understanding, re- 
 solved to bear his share. 
 
 As a method of procedure in the prem- 
 ises, and owning, too, some inborn bent 
 for politics, Mr. Ashurst had no sooner 
 established himself as a lawyer than he 
 decided to hold office. Mr. Ashurst, 
 cetat twenty, cast his young eye upon 
 the territorial legislature. His friends 
 said he was too yearless and advised 
 him to wait. Mr. Ashurst pointed out 
 that his want of years would be cured 
 in the course of time ; and with that — as 
 recently observed another celebrated 
 character — he cast his hat into the ring. 
 Whereat his friends — party and per- 
 sonal — looked troubled, while a Republi- 
 can opposition derisively grinned. 
 
 The campaign that ensued was a cam- 
 paign of education. It educated the Ari- 
 zona public in the great matter of Mr. 
 Ashurst himself. He was heard from 
 100 stumps; and he demonstrated a 
 studied, not to say a surprising, famili- 
 arity with politics. He smoked out the 
 opposition upon every issue before the 
 people, and when he had smoked it out 
 he ran it down and destroyed it. Before 
 the campaign was half over men had 
 ceased to mention Mr. Ashurst for his 
 youth. He might be only twenty; but 
 he talked and thought and fought like 
 forty. The last was enough fpr Ari- 
 zona, where the question isn't, How long 
 have you lived ? but, What can you do ? 
 
 "the even break" his motto 
 
 Election day came, and the ballot-box 
 success of Mr. Ashurst was as the suc- 
 cess of a landslide; also — as showing 
 how well he performed the duties of his 
 place — at the election next following he 
 romped in again. This time, too, his col- 
 leagues of the legislature made him 
 Speaker and gave him the gavel. It 
 marked a mighty rush forward. Only 
 four years before he had been jingling 
 his spurs, an unnoticed cow-puncher; 
 and here he was — a boy just old enough 
 to vote — a member of a difficult pro- 
 fession, and elevated besides by his 
 people to the biggest office they owned. 
 
 Criminal privilege's citadels of 
 strength are in the East. It has, however 
 its outposts in every part of the West, 
 not excepting Arizona. Criminal priv- 
 ilege, seeking to make sheep of the peo- 
 ple and — with the help of the courts and 
 other contrivances of government — drive 
 them to the shearing-sheds, collects it- 
 self in Arizona under three heads. These 
 are variously the Bank Trust, the Rail- 
 road Trust, and the Smelter Trust. 
 These trusts are governed from Wall 
 street, with its Drexel-Morgans and its 
 National City Banks. 
 
 In the beginning the trust Medusa 
 paid no Arizona heed to the young Per- 
 seus over at Williams; or, if she did, 
 it was but to bestow upon him her brief 
 
yet bottomless contempt. What could 
 he do? Or if he should become strong 
 enough to threaten her politically, could 
 she not, with one glance of her yellow 
 eyes, turn him into unresisting stone? 
 The trust Medusa changed her poison- 
 ous note before Mr. Ashurst left the 
 legislature, where time and again he 
 stood forth in defense of the public. 
 The public, too, felt the power of his 
 protection, and the name "Ashurst" be- 
 came as a word in the land. 
 
 Coming from the legislature, Mr. Ash- 
 urst was twice elected prosecuting at- 
 torney of his county at Coconino. In 
 his new role of law enforcer, criminal 
 privilege found even less joy in Mr. Ash- 
 urst than it had found in him as a law- 
 maker. Under his ministrations, the 
 bank, the smelter, or the railroad was 
 no better placed than the individual. 
 Just as another publicist took for his 
 White House motto "The Square Deal," 
 so Mr. Ashurst took for his, as prose- 
 cuting attorney, "The Even Break." He 
 was in no sort the demagogue. If he 
 remembered the poor man's penny, he 
 did not forget the rich man's pound, and 
 no more permitted the one to rob than 
 the other to oppress. 
 
 Criminal privilege didn't like this atti- 
 tude of even justice on the part of Mr. 
 Ashurst. It stormed against him in high 
 places and sought to wither him with its 
 respectable scorn. All in vain ! Buy 
 him ? He was beyond a price ! Flatter 
 him? He was no more to be flattered 
 than is a star! Frighten him? You 
 would as easily put down an Apache up- 
 rising by a resolution of the Board of 
 Trade! Criminal privilege found itself 
 powerless in the mere presence of a 
 Man, and stood wringing its saffron 
 fingers over the unwonted strangeness 
 of things. 
 
 HE CHOSE THE HARDEST WAY 
 
 In the East, in New York, the Roots 
 had achieved eminence and wealth as the 
 supple servingmen of criminal privilege. 
 Mr. Ashurst had but to lift his finger to 
 become one of the Roots of Arizona. 
 
 He could have had position; he could 
 have had gold; he could have had 
 all those things that criminal privi- 
 lege is in the habit of bestowing 
 upon its supporters. Republics may be 
 ungrateful, but criminal privilege never 
 is. It neglects not its servants. It muz- 
 zles not the ox which treadeth out the 
 corn. All of which Mr. Ashurst well 
 knew. In a sense worldly he put behind 
 him the fairest of prospects and re- 
 nounced the easiest for the hardest way. 
 How many of us would have decided as 
 Mr. Ashurst decided? 
 
 In Arizona the selection of Senators 
 is a matter of primary. Failing to take 
 him out of the race, criminal privilege 
 made the candidates against Mr. Ashurst 
 as many as it might. Thus, besides Mr. 
 Ashurst, five Democratic candidates 
 asked the favor of the people. 
 
 Mr. Ashurst began his canvass in the 
 city of Prescott. He could look forward 
 to little or less help from the press. For, 
 in Arizona, as in other regions, criminal 
 privilege is not without its ink-and-paper 
 potentialities. Also, many papers that 
 refuse in their utterances to be wholly 
 controlled are still ready to compromise 
 by remaining neutral or mute. Mr. Ash- 
 urst announced his candidacy by means 
 of handbills, and said— since he could 
 get no hall — that he would begin his bat- 
 tle with an open-air meeting. 
 
 It was upon an afternoon in last Sep- 
 tember that Mr. Ashurst fired his first 
 gun. Prescott and the country round 
 about gave him an audience of thou- 
 sands. He opened by telling them "this 
 is not to be a pink-tea campaign." And 
 then he started in. He was for every- 
 thing progressive at which Mr. Taft and 
 criminal privilege had bared their re- 
 actionary teeth. He was for the election 
 of Senators by popular vote. He was 
 for the right of the State to engage in 
 industrial pursuits, mine its own coal, 
 smelt its own ores, and saw its own tim- 
 ber. He was for tariff reduction and, 
 save for revenue reasons, would carry 
 that reduction to the flat levels of free 
 trade. He was for a parcels post and 
 
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 the public ownership of public utilities, 
 on arguments of service, profit, and de- 
 fense. He was for the initiative, the 
 referendum. 
 
 Most of all, Mr. Ashurst was for the 
 recall; and, in particular, he insisted 
 upon the recall for judges. He took up 
 those better than-thou pretentions, so 
 often and so smugly in the mouth of the 
 bench, and refused to see that judges 
 were of finer clay than common men. 
 He read history, and showed that when- 
 ever a tyrant, with some sword-lever or 
 law-lever, went prying at the liberties of 
 the people, he had ever found on the 
 bench a Scroggs or a bloody Jeffreys 
 ready to serve as the fulcrum. He 
 quoted a tailor to the effect that as 
 many pockets were put into a suit of 
 clothes for a judge as went into the 
 raiment of a mayor or a councilman. In 
 brief, he handled our judges as freely, 
 not to say as fiercely, as he did other 
 officers of Government, and would not 
 agree to an apotheosis born solely of a 
 seat on the bench. 
 
 By that initial Prescott speech Mr. 
 Ashurst drew upon himself an avalanche 
 of popular admiration. It was an ora- 
 tion — brilliant, convincing. That speech 
 established him as the leader of the 
 younger and more aggressive among the 
 Democrats. 
 
 Following up his Prescott triumph, 
 Mr. Ashurst spoke in Flagstaff, in Tuc- 
 son, in Benson, in Tombstone, in 
 Phoenix, in every corner of Arizona. 
 Whenever the jackal for some smelter or 
 some railroad interrupted him — for 
 criminal privilege had ordered its full 
 pack to take his trail — he choked him 
 with a handful of statistics or beat his 
 controversial brains out with a truth. 
 Mr. Ashurst concluded a campaign, 
 which blazed from first to last, by poll- 
 ing the highest, heaviest vote of all. 
 
 The unbelievable had happened ; Mr. 
 Ashurst was chosen Senator ! Where 
 others had bought in, he had fought in. 
 Mr. Ashurst gives forth a mixed im- 
 pression of integrity and stubbornness, 
 especially stubbornness. When he made 
 
 his Prescott appearance, those whom his 
 plain honesty attracted were at first a 
 bit repelled by his rock-rooted manner. 
 As campaign time went on, however, 
 men noted Mr. Ashurst's stubbornness 
 less, his virtues of eloquence and courage 
 and combativeness more, and the warlike 
 ones began to feel a fondness for him ; 
 and in his stubborn fashion he felt a 
 fondness for them ; also, for all his 
 strength and rude wealth of energy, for 
 all his iron stubbornness, Mr. Ashurst 
 was ever and carefully the accurate 
 gentleman. Only, in the virile blaze of 
 his manhood, the "gentleman" became 
 now and then swallowed up, just as the 
 sun swallows up a star, which twinkles 
 on invisible, but is none the less there. 
 
 The Senate average will be advanced 
 by the advent of Mr. Ashurst. That same 
 Senate of late years has been running 
 down at the heel. This moral-mental 
 shrinkage is greatly the work of crim- 
 inal privilege, which — politically domi- 
 nant in most States — never fails to knock 
 the horns off force and originality for 
 fear of being hurt; all of which, in the 
 narrower sense, is excellent for Mr. 
 Ashurst, who — deep, imaginative, wise, 
 brave, honest, and capable of initiative — 
 will shine out against such a background 
 like a fire in a forest. — From the World 
 To-day Magazine, April, 1912. 
 
 HON. HENRY F. ASHURST 
 
 It has been stated that District At- 
 torney Henry F. Ashurst is not to be 
 a candidate for re-election. The voters 
 of Coconino County have been kind to 
 Mr. Ashurst, and he, in return, has been 
 faithful and honest with them. As dis- 
 trict attorney, he has served the people 
 ably and set an example for fairness, in- 
 dustry, and good judgment as an official 
 which we trust others in public office in 
 future years in the county will follow. 
 He was signally put to the test in the 
 great fight in this county between the 
 people and the railroad, and he resisted 
 railroad influence and stood squarely for 
 the people. As district attorney he has 
 
been one of the leading attorneys for the 
 county in the famous lawsuit brought to 
 compel the Grand Canyon Railroad Com- 
 pany to pay its just proportion of taxes, 
 which case will go to the Supreme Court 
 of the United States. 
 
 In the prosecution of criminal cases 
 he has been, as is highly proper, fair 
 toward the accused, and has been so well 
 prepared in his cases that he has fre- 
 quently drawn favorable comment from 
 leading attorneys of the Territory. He 
 retires from the district attorney's office 
 vastly more popular than when he en- 
 tered it, and this popularity has been 
 caused by his method of performing pub- 
 lic business in a practical manner and 
 with a spirit of justice toward all. 
 Quietly, patiently, and good-naturedly, 
 he has performed valuable services to 
 the county. — From Williams News, Au- 
 gust 29, 1908. 
 
 CONVINCING ELOQUENCE OF 
 HENRY ASHURST 
 
 As an orator pre-eminently qualified to 
 take the highest rank, Mr. Ashurst must 
 be heard to be appreciated. Logical, elo- 
 quent, convincing, there swept through 
 all his eloquence the breath of the gieat 
 forest, the sighing of the wind through 
 the pines, the rush of torrents springing 
 from the mountain peak — 
 
 Where stoops the eagle to his prey; 
 Where furls his wings at close of day. 
 
 Seldom is it given to man to combine 
 with the mastery of logic such imagery 
 of speech and perfect harmony of rhet- 
 oric, and those who failed to hear his 
 splendid effort lost an intellectual treat. — 
 Tombstone Prospector, November, 1908. 
 
 HENRY ASHURST SPEAKS AT 
 DOUGLAS 
 
 Those who heard the speech of Hon. 
 Henry Ashurst last night in Douglas 
 heard one of the very best political 
 speeches ever delivered in this city. That 
 was the universal expression of opinion 
 
 after the meeting at which the eloquent, 
 earnest, and forceful son of the pine-clad 
 hills of northern Arizona spoke to a large 
 audience in the open-air theater for 
 nearly two hours, holding the close at- 
 tention of 500 or 600 hearers from start 
 to finish. — Douglas International, Sep- 
 tember, 1911. 
 
 "ORPHAN HENRY" 
 
 Hon. Henry Ashurst, Democratic can- 
 didate for the United States Senate, is 
 expected to be in Douglas tomorrow. He 
 will get a warm reception here from the 
 Democrats. Mr. Ashurst led the Sena- 
 torial race in Douglas, as he did in Co- 
 chise County, and the slurs of the Re- 
 publican press about "Orphan Henry" 
 will come mighty near making the vote 
 for him unanimous at the December 
 election, if kept up. Sabe? 
 
 Republican newspapers are slurringly 
 referring to the Hon. Henry F. Ashurst 
 as "Orphan Henry." It is true that Ash- 
 urst was not born with a silver spoon in 
 his mouth ; that he worked on the range 
 as a cowboy ; and that after he arrived 
 at young manhood he decided to enter 
 the profession of the law, working days 
 and reading nights in pursuit of his pro- 
 fessional education. Is there anything 
 in such a life to call for the slur of 
 "Orphan Henry?" The voters of Ari- 
 zona will probably give an emphatic an- 
 swer to this question on December 12. 
 — International-American, November, 
 1911. 
 
 HON. HENRY F. ASHURST 
 
 The many friends of Hon. Henry F. 
 Ashurst, of Coconino County, through- 
 out Arizona, will be pleased to learn of 
 his triumph in the political campaign 
 which ended last Tuesday. Mr. Ashurst 
 had a hard fight because of his deter- 
 mination to break up a band of political 
 grafters in Coconino County. 
 
 The re-election of Mr. Ashurst to the 
 office of district attorney shows that the 
 people of Coconino County will stay by 
 
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 a man who is willing to fight for official 
 probity and clean government. 
 
 Henry F. Ashurst is one of the bright- 
 est young men in the Territory of Ari- 
 zona. On the public forum he has few 
 equals as an eloquent and forceful 
 speaker. In the Territorial Democratic 
 convention held in Bisbee, Mr. Ashurst 
 charmed the delegates and spectators by 
 his eloquent portrayal of Republican 
 abuses and Democratic virtues. In sec- 
 onding the nomination of Mark Smith 
 he tore the mask from the Republican 
 party and exposed its scheming and de- 
 signing hypocrisy in its pretended war 
 on the trusts and paid an eulogy to the 
 faithful service of Hon. Mark Smith in 
 saving Arizona from joint statehood that 
 was not equaled during the entire cam- 
 paign. — Bisbee Review, November, 1906. 
 
 "In the administration of county 
 affairs during the last two years, we 
 heartily and unreservedly endorse the 
 integrity, ability and devotion to duty of 
 Henry F. Ashurst, the present district 
 attorney, in his vigorous efforts for a 
 fair, impartial, and honest administra- 
 tion of public business." — Excerpt from 
 Democratic platform of Coconino Coun- 
 ty, October, 1906. 
 
 Hon. Henry F. Ashurst, the honest, 
 silver-tongued orator of Arizona, is here 
 this week. For many years Mr. Ashurst 
 ably and conscientiously looked after the 
 interests of Coconino County, but after 
 the election of 1908, in which Mr. Ash- 
 urst refused to again be a candidate, a 
 larger field called him, and now Yavapai 
 County will claim the first Senator from 
 Arizona upon its admission to state- 
 hood. — Holbrook News, October, 1909. 
 
 IS STILL CALLED "HONORABLE" 
 HENRY F. ASHURST 
 
 Hon. X. N. Steeves presided at a 
 Democratic rally in Williams the night 
 before the election of last Tuesday and 
 
 told the following story regarding the 
 candidacy for re-election of District At- 
 torney Henry F. Ashurst. He said : 
 
 "On a slab in a morgue years ago lay 
 the body of a human being. A stranger 
 approached the keeper of the morgue, 
 lifted the white sheet which covered the 
 remains and carefully said: 'This is the 
 body of the Honorable Jesse James.' 
 
 " 'Why,' responded the keeper of the 
 morgue, 'do you call him "the honorable" 
 Jesse James? He was a notorious out- 
 law, cut-throat, and bandit.' 
 
 "The stranger cautiously responded : 'I 
 call him "Honorable" Jesse James be- 
 cause I am not quite sure that he is 
 dead' ; and there are many in Coconino 
 County who still call him the 'Honorable' 
 Henry F. Ashurst because they are not 
 quite sure that he is dead." 
 
 It is doubtful during the entire cam- 
 paign in Coconino County if a finer "hit" 
 was made by any speaker with his audi- 
 ence, and the story brought forth pro- 
 longed cheers for Ashurst, as every one 
 knew that he asks no odds and fears no 
 foe, but crashes through difficulties like 
 a rhinoceros through a tropical jungle. — 
 Arizona Enterprise, November, 1906. 
 
 The Republican press of the Territory 
 has, up to this date, made Henry F. Ash- 
 urst, Democratic nominee for United 
 States Senator, a special target at which 
 to discharge its venom and hurl its poi- 
 soned shafts of slander. But slander 
 usually seeks a shining mark. It has cer- 
 tainly done so in this instance, and, we 
 believe, without avail. Mr. Ashurst is 
 particularly nettling to the Republican 
 press from the fact that he is not only 
 progressive, but also aggressive and cour- 
 ageous, and has torn the mask from the 
 face of his political adversaries with un- 
 trembling hand. Brought to Coconino 
 County before his baby lips could lisp the 
 name of mother, he was reared in the 
 midst of a mountain environment that 
 was ennobling, inspiring, and broaden- 
 ing. He is a typical Arizona Highlander, 
 honest, self-reliant, fearless and frank 
 
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 and direct in speech. A child of poverty, 
 it fell to his lot to earn money with which 
 to educate himself. But he was equal to 
 the task, and not only obtained an educa- 
 tion, but finally paid his way through a 
 law school. Brainy and brilliant, he has 
 made a success in the practice of law 
 and will win new laurels in the Senate as 
 a champion of popular government, in 
 which he is an earnest believer. — Arizona 
 Blade-Tribune, November, 1911. 
 
 Lest we forget, please let us remember 
 that Hon. Henry F. Ashurst, conceded 
 to be one of the brainiest public men in 
 Arizona today, many years a Williams 
 boy, where he got his start in life, for 
 four years one of the ablest district at- 
 torneys Coconino or any other county 
 ever had, is continually receiving notices 
 in the public press throughout the Terri- 
 tory similar to the following, taken from 
 the Kingman Mineral Wealth: 
 
 "Hon. Henry Ashurst, one of the star 
 lawyers attending this court, will come 
 before the Democratic party of Arizona 
 for nomination for United States Sena- 
 tor. It will take a swift goer to beat 
 Henry for the nomination, and no man 
 can kick dust in his eyes after the nomi- 
 nation. He has been a hard worker in 
 the Democratic vineyard. Whenever 
 there has been a rally requiring the 
 services of a silver-tongued progressive 
 Democrat, Ashurst was called upon and 
 never found wanting. He is not as old 
 in years as the rock-ribbed hills, but he 
 is of the age of Patrick Henry at the 
 time he said, 'Give me a T-bone well 
 done.' 
 
 "As a lawyer of ability, Ashurst is 
 well known, and as a legislator he served 
 with distinction in the council of the 
 twenty-second assembly. The friends of 
 Henry Ashurst in the coming State of 
 Arizona are thick as the leaves of the 
 forest in October. His abode is at the 
 city of Prescott, but his dwelling-place 
 is first in the hearts of his country- 
 men." — Williams News, May, 1911. 
 
 HENRY F. ASHURST 
 
 Henry F. Ashurst is a man of the soil. 
 He is an American, tooth and toe-nail, 
 and he seems to have been born with an 
 ambition to become a United States 
 Senator from this new State. He wrote 
 his name in a school book once, and 
 after it he wrote "United States Senator 
 from Arizona." It has been a passion 
 with him all his life. He realizes that 
 the fame of a Senator fills the land with 
 a pleasant odor or a bad stench. He 
 lived long among the people of Arizona 
 and he saw that they are sturdy. He 
 learned that they are honest. And he 
 discovered that they are brave. 
 
 He either was naturally, or he became 
 all of these things. And they are qual- 
 ities which must be congenital — they are 
 never acquired. A veneer imitation of 
 them may be, but not the genuine article, 
 and veneers do not do well in Arizona. 
 The sun — and other things — warps them 
 quickly. Ashurst was genuine. 
 
 He became a lawyer. Then he became 
 a good lawyer. Then he became a cele- 
 brated lawyer. 
 
 After that he figured in the councils 
 of the State. And he demonstrated that 
 in him was the fire, the genius of con- 
 structive statesmanship. 
 
 Then he became a candidate for the 
 nomination for United States Senator. 
 
 Despite the calumny of an opposition 
 as bitter as the bite of a Gila monster, 
 the marvelous executive ability of the 
 man, coupled with an almost matchless 
 reputation for integrity and honesty of 
 life, aim, and purpose, carried him 
 through the primary a winner by the 
 biggest vote on the ticket. There was a 
 splendid spectacle in that, and it fur- 
 nishes food for thought in the minds of 
 the careful employer of big men for ex- 
 ecutive jobs. Why did Henry F. Ash- 
 urst, hounded by enemies that proved 
 themselves unscrupulous, implacable, and 
 venomous, succeed in convincing the 
 people of Arizona that he was not the 
 things his detractors said he was ? How 
 was it done? 
 
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 By a clean life cleanly lived. By his 
 readiness to defend his honor. By his 
 determination to keep that honor un- 
 sullied. — Arizona Democrat, December, 
 1911. 
 
 Henry Ashurst for some time has been 
 in the field for the Democratic nomina- 
 tion for United States Senator. 
 
 When Mohave ' County Democracy 
 goes back on the stately Cicero that flies 
 the falcons of Ashurst, birds will walk 
 instead of fly, the trusts will bust with 
 too much natural gas or drown with too 
 much water; flowers will bloom in the 
 fall, tra la, and the desert wear the 
 white mantle of Alaska. 
 
 Look on your ballot October 24 and 
 you will see the name of Henry F. 
 Ashurst. 
 
 Every progressive Democrat should 
 give him an X. He is the Cicero of the 
 Arizona bar and will be a credit to the 
 new State in the Senate. No better proof 
 of Ashurst's progressiveness is neces- 
 sary when it is known that the slippery 
 machine bosses are after him to a man 
 with their machetes. They set their 
 time-clocks and run to cover before his 
 mighty range-finder connects with their 
 too much talkee. Henry is one of the 
 real live men of the sun-kissed land. He 
 is for the man that needs help every 
 time. When at his door-step a shivering 
 brother stands, he is not of the breed to 
 ask the cause that made him poor or 
 why he help demands. — Our Mineral 
 Wealth, October, 1911. 
 
 Senator Ashurst is stirring the leaves 
 and causing Josh and Reuben to sit up 
 and listen, down where the alfalfa 
 grows. It is all the same to Henry 
 whom he talks to ; he knows the troubles 
 of all mankind, and he would rectify 
 them, too, if he could reach from pole to 
 pole and grasp creation in his span. Sen- 
 ator (before taken) Henry F. Ashurst 
 is the kind of man you would like to 
 meet coming down Pennsylvania avenue, 
 with a thirst and hunger pain. Old 
 
 Henry would overlook your double-soled 
 hob-ironed O. K. and grab you with a 
 grizzly paw and yank you into the Por- 
 terhouse Cafe de la Mumm and fill your 
 knapsack with the brands that Senators 
 feed on. Owing to a scarcity of time 
 and space, we have to bring this over- 
 ture to a conclusion, but we will come 
 again and keep coming until the votes 
 are cast and number 48 is rung up under 
 the Arizona Star. — Our Mineral Wealth, 
 September, 1911 
 
 THE COWBOY SENATOR FROM 
 ARIZONA 
 
 That the man who sets his heart on 
 the achievement of a given object and 
 sets his pegs continually in that direc- 
 tion stands a most gratifying chance ul- 
 timately to reach his destination is well 
 exemplified in the case of Henry F. Ash- 
 urst, one of the new Senators from the 
 State of Arizona, who is attracting much 
 attention at the National Capital. The 
 life of Henry F. Ashurst reads like a 
 genuine romance with a Southwestern 
 setting that but adds to its charm. Asked 
 for the story of his achievement, this 
 brilliant young product of the Southwest 
 said: 
 
 "I have been asked to set down the 
 rule of conduct that brought me, a one- 
 time cowboy of the Great West, to the 
 United States Senate. There is but one 
 general rule for any man to follow, and 
 that is, do what he believes to be right, 
 let the consequences be what they may. 
 
 "At the age of ten, when a schoolboy 
 at Flagstaff, I wrote my name in one of 
 my books, and after it penned these 
 words : 'United States Senator from 
 Arizona.' 
 
 "When eleven years of age I tried to 
 be a page in the legislature of my State 
 and was defeated. I shook my fist at 
 the members who refused to vote for 
 me, and said I'd be back in a few years 
 and elect some pages myself. I did come 
 back when I was twenty-one, and in my 
 second term was elected Speaker of the 
 House. 
 
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 "When fifteen I left the Flagstaff pub- 
 lic school to become a cowboy and for 
 four years rode the range in Coconino, 
 Navajo, and Apache counties, graduat- 
 ing from the range to become a deputy 
 sheriff. 
 
 "I believe the jprophecy written by 
 me in my book was fulfilled because of 
 these things : 
 
 "I made myself as familiar with the 
 history of my own country and of Eng- 
 land as it was possible for me to do. 
 
 "I always paid the strictest attention 
 to public speaking, studied public ques- 
 tions, and discussed them whenever and 
 wherever I could. 
 
 "I always submerged the materialistic 
 and upheld the idealistic side of life. 
 
 "Since my coming into my twenty-first 
 year I have been a militant, unrelenting 
 foe of special privileges in any form. 
 
 "I do not believe in the right of prop- 
 erty to rule. 
 
 "Tariff for protection is a crime, not 
 defended in the forum of conscience nor 
 at the bar of public opinion. 
 
 "I have always told the truth about 
 myself and, when charged with anything 
 improper, if true, I admitted it, but I 
 whaled the fellow that lied about me. 
 
 "I never spoke an evil word about a 
 human being behind his back. 
 
 "Governments should be maintained 
 for the happiness and safety of man; 
 their primary object is to make the peo- 
 ple happy, virtuous, and contented. 
 
 "Property rights are inconsequential. 
 The rights of men and women only are 
 essential. 
 
 "Young men who wish to come to the 
 Senate should never be afraid. They 
 should boldly attack things that are 
 wrong and speak their mind, no matter 
 in what presence. 
 
 "I despise a moral coward more than 
 I do a crook. 
 
 "We do not necessarily need physical 
 bravery; it is the bravery of spirit that 
 counts. 
 
 "Above all, I would say to young men : 
 Fight on, and care nothing about results. 
 
 Results count for but little for the man 
 who is making the fight. 
 
 "I have read the Congressional Record 
 one hour a day for the last ten years. I 
 have found more history, more philoso- 
 phy, more rhetoric there than in any 
 publication in the world. If limited to 
 only one thing to read, by all means let 
 it be the Congressional Record. 
 
 "When you fight for a cause, fight 
 hard. When I made my fight for the 
 Senate I said to the people : This will 
 not be a mollycoddle campaign. This 
 will be no pink-tea, Japanese-lantern af- 
 fair, and those who cannot stand a jolt 
 on the jaw would better keep out of the 
 ring." 
 
 Inspired by such lofty ideals, actuated 
 by such commendable purposes, and 
 backed by such unflagging zeal and de- 
 termination, it is no wonder that Henry 
 Ashurst has succeeded in reaching the 
 goal of his ambition. Setting the peg of 
 desired achievement far beyond the con- 
 fines of his environment, he worked 
 steadily and unremittingly in that one 
 direction, ever determined to move up to 
 the place where he had set his peg, and 
 continually striving in the same connec- 
 tion to so shape his life that when the 
 opportunity came he would prove worthy 
 of its realization. He qualified himself 
 for the work he had mapped out as the 
 culmination of his political career, and 
 through the earnestness and cleanness 
 of his life while undergoing preparation 
 he impressed his people with the fact 
 that he was truly worthy of his ambition. 
 
 What Henry Ashurst has achieved in 
 this direction is worthy the careful study 
 and emulation of other young men of 
 the Southwest who may one day be 
 called to high and important positions in 
 the affairs of Government. His achieve- 
 ment has blazed the way for those who 
 may come after him, and if emulated by 
 those who are looking in the same direc- 
 tion will insure to the Southwest the 
 type of statesmanship that stands for 
 something. 
 
 Henry Ashurst is a fine type of the 
 militant spirit of the Great Southwest. 
 
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 He is a natural product — self-made and 
 under no necessity for tendering an apol- 
 ogy for the finished product. He is a 
 man who will make his mark in Wash- 
 ington, and whose presence there will 
 continually reflect credit on the Great 
 Southwest. — El Paso Morning Times. 
 April, 1912. 
 
 and received the flattering highest vote 
 cast for Senator, and in the advisory vote 
 taken after the primary he still led the 
 race. — Douglas Daily International, 
 March, 1912. 
 
 FULL REALIZATION OF STATE- 
 HOOD 
 
 With the election of Hon. Mark Smith 
 and Hon. Henry F. Ashurst as United 
 States Senators by the Arizona Legisla- 
 ture yesterday, the people of Arizona 
 come into the full measure of statehood 
 and are now on an equality with all 
 other States in the Union. Messrs. 
 Smith and Ashurst are now en route to 
 Washington, where they will be sworn 
 in as Senators of the United States. 
 Both left Arizona carrying the best 
 wishes of all, regardless of politics. 
 That they will render efficient service to 
 the new State will be doubted by none. 
 
 Mr. Ashurst has never before ren- 
 dered service for Arizona in Washing- 
 ton, but he has a record for accomplish- 
 ment at home which stands boldy to his 
 credit. He came to Arizona a child of 
 a poor parentage. We find him in the 
 State Legislature as a representative of 
 Coconino County when he was barely 
 twenty-one. At the end of this session 
 we find him admitted to the bar. Then 
 we see him in an Eastern law school, 
 better fitting himself for his chosen pro- 
 fession. Returning from the law school, 
 we next see him in the council as again 
 the representative of Coconino County. 
 Then he returns to his home, and during 
 four years, as district attorney, we see 
 him fighting against privilege with en- 
 ergy in the protection of the treasury of 
 his county, those who would exploit for 
 private gain. Long before Arizona was 
 admitted as a State it was agreed that 
 whoever reached the United States Sen- 
 ate from Arizona would have to go 
 after defeating the "tall sycamore and 
 young Demosthenes" of the northland. 
 He entered the primaries for Senator 
 
 ASHURST NAMED BY WOODS, OF 
 YAVAPAI 
 
 Senator Woods, of Yavapai, nominat- 
 ing Henry F. Ashurst in the Senate, 
 said: 
 
 "The Federal Constitution provides 
 that State legislatures shall choose 
 United States Senators. Arizona elected 
 servants for their State Legislature and 
 said to them, through a direct advisory 
 vote, select our choice. That we are 
 sternly determined to do. It has been 
 the custom for names to be presented 
 before balloting proceeds. The distin- 
 guished honor of presenting one of 
 those names in the Senate has fallen to 
 my lot. I have been requested, and 
 take especial pleasure in complying with 
 the request, to present the name of a 
 thoroughly competent, absolutely fear- 
 less, aggressively progressive, and ac- 
 tively honest gentleman, who is a true 
 friend of the people. This gentleman 
 is from the northern part of the 'Treas- 
 ure Vault of the World,' and, as he 
 shouldered a rifle at the tender age of 
 ten years and defended his mother's life 
 from Arizona blood-thirsty savages, so 
 will he take up the people's cause and 
 defend their rights in the Nation's coun- 
 cil. While, from what I have said, it 
 is really unnecessary to mention this 
 gentleman's name, still it is such a pleas- 
 ure that I repeat the name of one of 
 Arizona's noblest sons, the Honorable 
 Henry Fountain Ashurst." 
 
 LINNEY NAMES MAN FROM HILLS 
 
 Mr. Linney, of Yavapai, nominating 
 Ashurst in the House, said: 
 
 "Arizona is one of the free American 
 States entitled to her star in the national 
 emblem. I take particular pride in the 
 fact that one of the Senators-elect is a 
 
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 citizen of Prescott, the mile-high city, 
 set among the pine-covered mountains 
 which pierce the clouds — when there are 
 any clouds — whose valleys lie in pleas- 
 ant places under the sun, whose forests 
 are filled with the health-giving odors of 
 pines and cedars, so wisely provided by 
 nature for our benefit. 
 
 "Most of all, Yavapai County prides 
 herself on her sons and daughters, those 
 who comprise her strong citizenry and 
 who are among the most loyal, consis- 
 tent, and patriotic citizens of Arizona 
 and of the United States. And from 
 her borders the people of Arizona have 
 chosen a leader, a man to carry our 
 standard among the seats of the mighty 
 and to keep it unsullied and undis- 
 honored, that all who come after him 
 may take it from his hand battle-worn, 
 but clean. 
 
 "And the man they have chosen is a 
 man of the people, a man of high ideals 
 and sincere purposes, possessing the 
 ability, the courage, and the energy to 
 carry his convictions to their ultimate 
 conclusion. We honor and respect him 
 for his personal worth, for his high and 
 laudable ambition, and for the indomit- 
 able determination and perseverance 
 with which he has persevered in that 
 ambition to its present attainment. 
 
 "Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure and 
 privilege, for the people of Yavapai 
 County and for the people of Arizona, 
 to nominate for United States Senator 
 the Hon. Henry F. Ashurst." 
 
 Under the so-called "Oregon Plan" of 
 popular election of United States Sen- 
 ators, both Senator Ashurst and Senator 
 Smith were chosen at the first State elec- 
 tion. The popular choice was ratified by 
 the legislature in electing them formally. 
 Not a vote was recorded in the legis- 
 lature against either of them, Republican 
 members joining with the Democrats in 
 carrying out the expressed will of the 
 voters. Moreover, following the elec- 
 tion there was witnessed a novel spec- 
 
 tacle, when the legislature adjourned and 
 in a body accompanied the newly elected 
 Senators to the railroad station and 
 bade them adieu as they departed from 
 the State Capitol for Washington. It 
 was the first time in the history of any 
 State that such an election had taken 
 place, and there is also the further fact 
 to be added that their election to the 
 United States Senate cost neither man 
 a single penny. That much for Democ- 
 racy and the people's rule in the new 
 State- of Arizona. — Mack's National 
 Monthly, May, 1912. 
 
 ARIZONA'S CLEAN SKIRTS 
 
 Arizona for years has been a subject 
 for jeers and sneers of older States ; yet, 
 notwithstanding this slush, Arizona has 
 been a Territory for nearly fifty years. 
 She has been governed by both Repub- 
 licans and Democrats, and to her ever- 
 lasting credit let it be said that not one 
 breath of scandal has ever been attached 
 to her governmental affairs. Bribery 
 and crooked politics have never been 
 recognized in sterling old Arizona. We 
 had an election a few months ago to 
 select two United States Senators, and 
 the two successful gentlemen — Smith 
 and Ashurst — are both poor men — poor 
 in all that goes to make up capital and 
 furnish slush funds for the corruption 
 of voters, but rich in all that goes to 
 make men — rich in integrity, ability, 
 and sterling manhood. 
 
 Fifty years of Arizona life, fifty years 
 of clean, honest government, fifty years 
 of uncorrupted manhood that have 
 left the imprint of greatness upon our 
 children, that is the gift that this new 
 State presents to the Government of the 
 United States. We send it two men 
 as Senators and one as a Congressman 
 who come clear-handed, untainted by 
 corruption or guile. We send them there 
 as champions of honest government — of 
 freedom, liberty, and public rights, true 
 to their constituents, their country, and 
 the flag, reliable and just ; such is Ari- 
 zona. These are the men who will honor 
 
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 her in the Congress of the Nation — 
 honor her and the great country they 
 will represent. Hail to the new State, 
 incorruptible and free. Long may her 
 virtues shine in this sunny land of ours. 
 — Arizona Democrat, March, 1912. 
 
 The speeches of Senators Ashurst and 
 Smith, delivered today before the legis- 
 lature, are well worth the careful atten- 
 tion of their constituents. Both speeches 
 are brilliant, able, and instructive, and 
 demonstrate fully that the voters of this 
 State selected two of the ablest men in 
 the Southwest to the United States Sen- 
 ate. The Southwest has not had their 
 equal in the upper House of Congress 
 since the death of Stephen M. White, of 
 California — one of the Nation's greatest 
 men. 
 
 Arizona's two Senators will probably 
 awaken the pride of some States to send 
 their ablest and best men. This State 
 has indeed been fortunate. — Arizona 
 Daily Democrat, March, 1912. 
 
 STURDY ARIZONA 
 
 Arizona takes extreme pride in point- 
 ing to the election of two men to the 
 Senate of the United States that never 
 expended one dollar to further their 
 election. The election of Smith and 
 Ashurst as Senators from Arizona under 
 such conditions ought to set an example 
 in decent politics that would put to 
 shame the bargain and sale methods of 
 many States in this Union. Dear, clean, 
 steadfast old Arizona, she can always 
 be relied upon to do right, and the reason 
 is that she has the highest type of citi- 
 zenship of any State in the American 
 Union. — Arizona Democrat, March, 
 1912. 
 
 Arizona will have two of the ablest, 
 grandest men in the Senate of the United 
 States. Mark Smith and Henry Ashurst 
 are a great pair and will honor Arizona 
 in the Senate of the United States. — 
 Arizona Democrat, March, 1912. 
 
 STATESMEN, REAL AND NEAR 
 
 After having a big run for the last 
 year or so of trim, business-like look- 
 ing young members, the United States 
 Senate may have changed its luck now 
 by taking in a member who looks like 
 a young minister fresh from the sem- 
 inary. 
 
 Henry F. Ashurst, of Arizona, is he. 
 He has a raven black mane, combed 
 straight back in romantic fashion, and 
 a complexion like a sweet pea or a 
 young woman who does all the things 
 recommended on the health and beauty 
 page. Moreover, he has the gentle, 
 dreamy eyes of a doe, and is as soft 
 spoken as a relative who has come to 
 borrow money. 
 
 But Ashurst was a cowboy at 15, 
 and he was a regular cowboy. There 
 wasn't anything in the way of cowboy 
 accomplishments, such as roping 
 steers, playing poker, shooting, drink- 
 ing, and the like, that he didn't master. 
 Also, anybody who notes how much 
 he looks like the young man that fond 
 mothers point out to their growing 
 sons as a model — anybody who takes 
 him for that kind and gets too brash 
 with him is likely to be disappointed. 
 
 "The way to do," says Ashurst, in 
 his quiet way, "is to be honest and to 
 permit no man to accuse you of being 
 anything else." 
 
 He has been making out first rate on 
 that basis, as his arrival in the United 
 States Senate at the age of 36 should 
 indicate. 
 
 When he was five years old, Ashurst 
 participated in a little incident that 
 probably helped to give him his fight- 
 ing spirit. Indians attacked their little 
 cabin one day when his father was 
 away from home, and his mother, 
 armed with a Winchester, defended 
 herself and her two children. She told 
 little Henry and his sister to remain 
 at her side, so that if it came to the 
 worst she could shoot them and her- 
 self rather than have them captured 
 
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 by the Indians. Happily, the Indians 
 were scared away, but young Ashurst 
 has a distinct recollection of hanging 
 around, wondering when it would be 
 time for him to be shot. 
 
 No matter how thoroughly he makes 
 good, Ashurst can never have the satis- 
 faction of having his birthplace pointed 
 out by the megaphone men on the 
 sightseeing wagons ; for the fact is 
 that he was born in a tent when his 
 parents were on their way to Arizona 
 from California, and not even a tent 
 stake or a sardine can marks the place 
 for Ashurst to show to his grand- 
 children. 
 
 The thing that gave Ashurst his 
 start, though, was not so much his 
 humble birthplace as "Abbott's Lives 
 of the Presidents." His father made 
 him a present of the book when he 
 was six years old, and he took the 
 statesman proposition seriously right 
 off the jump. His teachers used to in- 
 troduce him to school visitors as the 
 boy who intended to be President. 
 
 He has been rummaging after all 
 available facts in American history 
 ever since. And, in addition, he is said 
 to be one of the best-informed men 
 around these parts on the subject of 
 English history. 
 
 But here's the strangest thing about 
 Ashurst : The fellow has been read- 
 ing the Congressional Record without 
 missing an issue for many years. He 
 has steadfastly ignored all the quips and 
 jokes about the dullness of the Record 
 and has devoted an hour a day to it since 
 he was sixteen. One day he was sitting 
 in .a poker game, just after his daily 
 romp through the Record, and he made 
 up his mind that he'd just simply have 
 to get into public affairs, like the men 
 he'd been reading about. So he left 
 the poker game on some pretext and 
 hasn't done any drinking, smoking or 
 gambling since, but has devoted him- 
 self entirely to getting ready to be a 
 United States Senator. — By Fred C. 
 Kelly, in Plain Dealer, April, 1912. 
 
 ASHURST VS. BAILEY 
 
 The International cannot help, in this 
 connection, contrasting the speech of 
 Arizona's able Senator, Ashurst, made 
 in answer to that of Senator Bailey, 
 on the floor of the Senate. For pure 
 diction, logic, eloquence, and inspira- 
 tion, nothing equal to the speech of 
 Senator Ashurst has been delivered in 
 the United States Senate for many a 
 day. He showed wherein the Texas 
 Senator miscomprehended the temper 
 of the Democracy of the nation ; where- 
 in he misdirected the attention of the 
 people in an effort to justify his own 
 course as a public servant, and fairly 
 burned the Texan up with eloquent 
 argument on the topics introduced in 
 the Senate on that recent eventful day. 
 Every Democrat in Arizona should 
 read the speech of Senator Ashurst. 
 It appears in full in the Congressional 
 Record of January 2. — Douglas Daily 
 International, January, 1913. 
 
 A POOR MAN'S COUNTRY 
 
 "Lumber-jack, cowboy, clerk, cashier 
 in a store, reporter, hodcarrier, and 
 lawyer" is the way Senator Ashurst's 
 description reads in the new Congres- 
 sional Directory. 
 
 The world is . full of people who 
 lament that there is no chance for 
 them ; the world is full of demagogues 
 and hypocrites catering to the obvious. 
 
 Senator Ashurst's brief biography is 
 a complete refutation to those who are 
 envious and to those who preach to 
 them. The door of hope is not closed 
 to any man in the American nation — 
 never has been and never will be. 
 
 Ability, industry, thrift, honesty, 
 tact; these are the steps that lead up 
 the ladder to the top. We don't know, 
 outside of the Arizona Senator's brief 
 biography, just how he got to the top, 
 but we do know that he has climbed 
 these steps. 
 
 It is not difficult to imagine that the 
 way has been hard, that it has been 
 full of perils and temptations; indeed, 
 
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 it would be difficult to imagine it as 
 anything else. But we have not heard 
 the new Senator bewailing that he had 
 a hard time of it getting to the top ; 
 in fact, we think that, like most men 
 who have fought their way up, he is 
 probably inclined to be a little proud 
 of his hard knocks. 
 
 You often hear it said that this is a 
 country for the rich man. The little 
 biography of Senator Ashurst proves 
 it to be otherwise. 
 
 This is a poor man's country — if he 
 wants to make the most of oppor- 
 tunity. — Long Beach Telegram. 
 
 THE STAY-AT-HOME SENATE 
 
 Opponents of popular government 
 have long argued that, inasmuch as a 
 large percentage of the electorate stay 
 at home election day, therefore only a 
 small minority vote upon constitu- 
 tional amendments, referred laws, and 
 measures proposed by initiative peti- 
 tion. In his farewell address to the 
 Senate and country, Mr. Bailey laid 
 great stress on this argument, only to 
 be answered in most surprising fashion 
 by a "recent" Senator from the newest 
 State in the Union — Mr. Ashurst, of 
 progressive Arizona, who said : 
 
 "Admitting for the sake of argument 
 that this criticism is apt and just, I ask, 
 Where will relief be found? Certainly 
 not in the Senate !" And then the im- 
 mature member proceeded to read the 
 record on astonished Senators. Legis- 
 lation in the Senate, Mr. Ashurst 
 clearly demonstrated, is frequently de- 
 termined by a vote as low as 30 per 
 cent of the entire membership, with 
 only 55 per cent, 60 per cent, and 70 
 per cent of the membership of the 
 Senate voting on the measure. "In 
 other words," he explained, "a close 
 investigation will disclose that there 
 is as large a percentage of the Senators 
 not voting on various questions as 
 there is percentage of voters in a State 
 who fail or decline to vote upon con- 
 
 stitutional amendments, referred laws, 
 or measures proposed by initiative." 
 
 Clearly another argument must be 
 found in the future to assail the sys- 
 tem of direct legislation, popularly des- 
 ignated the initiative and referendum 
 — at least in the Senate of the United 
 States. Although Senators are paid 
 a salary of $7,500 a year to be in their 
 seats and vote upon measures affect- 
 ing the people of their respective 
 States, they are inclined, as the record 
 shows, to play hooky. Many a stay- 
 at-home voter will excuse himself 
 henceforth by the observation that the 
 example of "our Senator" is good 
 enough for him. — From Country Gentle- 
 man, Philadelphia, Pa., February 1, 
 1913. 
 
 SENATOR ASHURST'S SPEECH 
 
 The maiden speech of Senator Ash 
 urst, of Arizona, will be found on 
 another page of the Commoner. It 
 was appropriate that Senator Bailey 
 should be answered by a representa- 
 tive of Arizona, since Mr. Taft's veto 
 of that State's constitution on account 
 of the recall provision brought that re- 
 form into the foreground. It required 
 some courage for a new Senator to en- 
 ter the lists against Senator Bailey, 
 but the young Senator has courage 
 and he easily demolished the specious 
 arguments offered by the retiring 
 Texas statesman. Mr. Ashurst's reply 
 to the argument, based on the small 
 vote sometimes cast for constitutional 
 amendments, was conclusive. He 
 showed that important measures con- 
 stantly pass the Senate with a smaller 
 percentage voting, notwithstanding 
 the fact that the Senators are paid 
 $7,500 per year to stay at Washington 
 and vote. The whole speech will re- 
 pay reading. — Bryan's Commoner, Jan- 
 uary 31, 1913. 
 
 In his reply to Senator Bailey's as- 
 sault upon popular government, Sen- 
 
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 ator Ashurst was the peer of the Lone 
 Star orator in logic and eloquence, and 
 defined and defended the basic prin- 
 ciples of democratic government with 
 a force and a clarity that were as pleas- 
 ing as they were convincing. — Arizona 
 Blade-Tribune, February, 1913. 
 
 INSPIRED BY HIGH AIMS 
 
 Henry F. Ashurst, the new Senator 
 from Arizona, is said to have written 
 in his school-book when he was ten 
 years old the following: "Henry F. 
 Ashurst, United States Senator from 
 Arizona." It seems the new Senator 
 has ever since been controlled by the 
 idea that he was to enjoy that honor. 
 
 History records many similar cases. 
 It is, then, a good doctrine that a high 
 purpose, sincerely avowed and faith- 
 fully followed, contributes much to a 
 person's destiny. It is an important 
 factor in a boy's education that he has 
 a high object in view and constantly 
 presses toward it. 
 
 He may not win the precise object of 
 his ambition, but he will reach some- 
 thing quite as worthy and honorable. 
 He need not set his heart upon political 
 distinction. He may resolve to be the 
 best botanist, the best conversation- 
 alist, the leading citizen of his com- 
 munity, to have the most attractive 
 home in the city, and a score of other 
 aspirations that are fully as good as 
 to want to be a United States Senator. 
 The three R's are no good whatever 
 unless his life is influenced by a high 
 ideal. — Journal, Columbus, Ohio, March 
 5, 1913. 
 
 GENUINE DEMOCRACY 
 
 Senator Henry F. Ashurst, of Ari- 
 zona, is one of the newest and youngest 
 members of the upper chamber of Con- 
 gress, but his love of truth for truth's 
 sake and his courage in standing for 
 it, regardless of local or personal in- 
 terests, are of a kind which ought to 
 
 bring the blush of shame to the cheeks 
 of many of his venerable colleagues. 
 
 Arguing in favor of the abolition of 
 the protective tariff duty on sugar the 
 other day, Senator Ashurst was re- 
 minded that there are sugar-producing 
 interests in his State. His reply was : 
 'But I represent 300,000 sugar-eaters." 
 Subsequently his attention was called 
 to the wool-raising interests of Ari- 
 zona, to which he refuses to extend 
 tariff taxation through his vote. His 
 conclusive and effective answer was : 
 "Also, we have 300,000 users of wool, 
 and they mean more to me than the 
 few men who are engaged in the wool 
 business." 
 
 This is the real simon-pure Democ- 
 racy, the Democracy which places the 
 rights of the many above the greed of 
 the few. If Congress were largely 
 composed of men of the Ashurst stamp, 
 the Government at Washington would 
 soon revert to what its founders in- 
 tended it to be : a Government guaran- 
 teeing equal rights to all classes of the 
 citizenship and extending special 
 privileges to none. — From Norfolk Pilot, 
 Norfolk, Va. 
 
 Henry F. Ashurst, one of the Sen- 
 ators from the new State of Arizona, 
 is the man with the pristine player- 
 piano past. If you have ever played 
 one, you know that the gentle art re- 
 quires legwork, handwork,, and head- 
 work. In all three Mr. Ashurst has 
 been a marvelous performer on the 
 player-piano of life. He has never 
 missed a key in the treble or over- 
 looked a note in the bass. Using his 
 fingers and his resilient feet, he has 
 struck the white keys and jumped on 
 the black, always producing the music 
 of optimism and never wasting a min- 
 ute on a dead march or a dirge. That 
 is why he stands now in the Senate 
 of the United States and plays all the 
 hymns, horoscopes, and hexasemes of 
 triumph, victory, and success. 
 
 Henry F. has done about all there 
 was to do, ranging from manual ma- 
 
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 nipulation to mental manifestations. 
 He has been a youthful student in Ari- 
 zona, a cowboy, a deputy sheriff, a hod- 
 earrier, a lumber-jack, a newspaper re- 
 porter, a law student, a member of the 
 Arizona Legislature and later the 
 Speaker of that body, a member of the 
 Territorial Council, a district attorney, 
 a practicing lawyer, and a United 
 States Senator. That, we submit, es- 
 tablishes him as the champion light- 
 fingered performer on the player-piano 
 of experience. 
 
 He was fifteen years old when he 
 flung his English grammar, slate, and 
 spelling-book through a window of the 
 Flagstaff public school and, hurling 
 his youthful form upon a bucking 
 bronco, accepted the nomination as a 
 cowboy. That was in 1890, and for the 
 next four years he "rode the range" in 
 three counties — Coconino, Navajo, and 
 Apache — which was enough either to 
 take the heart out of an elephant or to 
 make a man as brave as Jesse James. 
 
 Ashurst is one man who made up his 
 mind in his boyhood to go to the 
 United States Senate and finally 
 achieved his ambition. He tells the 
 story of how, at the age of ten, he 
 wrote his name in one of his school- 
 books in Flagstaff and put after it the 
 words, "United States Senator from 
 Arizona." And that in itself is one of 
 the prettiest tunes ever drawn forth 
 from the complicated insides of the 
 player-piano — to write the title after 
 your name at the age of ten and at 
 thirty-seven to have it written after 
 your name on the pay check by the 
 sergeant-at-arms of the Senate. 
 
 He was asked one day why he had 
 succeeded, and here are the reasons 
 he gave : 
 
 "I always submerged the materialis- 
 tic and upheld the idealistic side of life. 
 
 "I have read the Congressional Record 
 one hour a day for the last ten years. 
 I have found more history, more 
 philosophy, more rhetoric there than 
 in any publication in the world. 
 
 "I never spoke an evil word about 
 a human being behind his back. 
 
 "I have always told the truth about 
 myself, and when charged with any- 
 thing improper, if true, I admitted it; 
 but I whaled the fellow that lied about 
 me." 
 
 That last remark gives you a fine 
 insight into the character of this Sen- 
 ator from Arizona. When he entered 
 the fight for the upper House of the 
 National Congress, he announced in 
 rumbling and thunderous tones, "This 
 will be no pink-tea, Japanese-lantern 
 affair." He also made certain per- 
 tinent remarks about handing a few 
 people jolts on their jaws if they in- 
 terfered with him unduly. That's one 
 thing about him. When there comes 
 a time for him to use his fists in a 
 righteous cause, he is both materialistic 
 and fistic — not particularly idealistic. 
 
 And backbone? He has one that 
 that would make the vertebrae of the 
 extinct diplodoccus look like a yard- 
 stick ; and it must be remembered that 
 the diplodoccus was one long, incessant, 
 unbreakable backbone, having in its 
 system enough ivory to make a melted 
 elephant look like a toothpick. When 
 he entered the Senate he was told that 
 he should keep the tariff duty on sugar 
 as high as possible, because there were 
 sugar-producing interests in this State. 
 "That," he replied simply, "has no in- 
 terest for me, so long as I remember 
 that there are 300,000 eaters of sugar 
 in the sovereign State of Arizona." 
 Backbone ? Diplodoccus backbone ? We 
 should worry in the affirmative ! When 
 he was told that the wool-raising in- 
 terests in Arizona had the call on him, 
 he replied clearly and firmly, "But also 
 there are 300,000 woolly wearers of 
 wool in Arizona." In the language of 
 Col. Franklin P. Morgan, if that ain't 
 diplodoccutian backbone, there ain't no 
 such thing. 
 
 The Arizonan, blessed with a chest 
 that was developed by carrying hods 
 and fighting three fast rounds with 
 sawlogs, has a wonderful voice. He 
 
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 is an orator, one of the straight-from- 
 the - shoulder, heavy - fisted, many - 
 worded kind. On any subject he can 
 speak at will, and never at random. 
 But, if you turn him loose on woman 
 suffrage, he makes his highest flights 
 above the Parnassian heights, flights 
 to a fare-you-well-and-never-come- 
 back. As a verbose, vibrant, and 
 vitriolic cry for woman suffrage, the 
 initiative, referendum, and recall, and 
 a Democratic tariff he excels, exceeds, 
 excelsiors. 
 
 In short, Mr. Ashurst is the. typical 
 representative of the State from which 
 he comes. There is no horse he can- 
 not ride, no mine he cannot explore, 
 no giant tree he cannot size up as to 
 its lumber capacity, no rolling plain he 
 cannot value accurately. And, with 
 it all, he is elegant and eloquent. His 
 fellow-Senators recognize him as a 
 power in their midst, an unswerving 
 conscience, and an undaunted heart. 
 Moreover, he is still convinced that 
 the Congressional Record is a fine piece 
 of literature, which, you can take it 
 from us, is some conviction ! — By James 
 Hay, Jr., in Washington Post Sundav 
 Magazine for March 2, 1913. 
 
 THE RIGHT KIND 
 
 Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, is the 
 kind of Democrat that we admire. He 
 believes in redeeming pledges and liv- 
 ing up to professions. He takes no 
 stock in that kind of Democracy that 
 would tax the other fellow's products 
 and exempt his own. 
 
 He received a letter from a personal 
 friend of his at home, requesting him 
 to oppose any reduction of the tariff on 
 beef, which is one of the principal 
 products of Arizona. The Senator re- 
 plied in a letter that he afterwards had 
 inserted in the Congressional Record. 
 This letter expressed sentiments that 
 ought to be held and acted on by every 
 
 Democrat in Congress. We give some 
 extracts from it : 
 
 "The Democratic party is com- 
 mitted, as far as faith and honor can 
 bind men, to reduce the tariff on the 
 necessaries of life ; and I could not 
 take the action you request me to take 
 unless I turned traitor to every prin- 
 ciple I have been advocating since 1 
 reached majority. Every person in 
 the world is a free trader after he gets 
 his own interests protected. * * * 
 If the Democratic party, after the 
 promises it has made to the people to 
 reduce the tariff, should then begin to 
 equivocate, it would then be the end — 
 and ought to be the end — of the Dem- 
 ocratic party." 
 
 From the Democratic point of view, 
 these are admirable sentiments, and 
 they are ringingly expressed. They 
 should meet the cordial approval of 
 every Democratic member of both 
 houses of Congress. 
 
 It should be observed that the com- 
 modities, the tariff upon which he was 
 requested by his friend to resist lower- 
 ing, were all necessaries of life, the 
 cost of which entered directly into the 
 cost of living. The Democratic party 
 is solemnly, positively, and repeatedly 
 pledged to so adjust its "tariff for reve- 
 nue" as to place upon the necessaries 
 of life the lowest possible tariff, even 
 to making them entirely free, if possi- 
 ble. — From Tampa, Fla., Times, April 
 17, 1913. 
 
 THE TARIFF 
 
 Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, stands 
 squarely on the Democratic platform 
 on the tariff issue. Replying to a resi- 
 dent of Arizona, who had requested 
 him to oppose any reduction in the 
 tariff on meats, cattle, sheep, or wool, 
 Senator Ashurst wrote as follows: 
 
 "I am always glad to please my 
 friends in Arizona, but I cannot do 
 
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 what you ask. I shall not vote to per- 
 mit one set of men to make money im- 
 properly at the expense of the whole 
 public. No legitimate business should 
 require a gift, bounty, or largess from 
 the Government. If the Democratic 
 party, after the promises it has made 
 to the people to reduce the tariff, 
 should then begin to equivocate, it 
 would be the end — and ought to be 
 the end — of the Democratic party." 
 
 Senator Ashurst's letter rings true ; 
 it bristles with Democratic principles, 
 and it breathes honesty of political 
 purpose. Should all of the Democrats 
 in Congress take the position which 
 has so correctly been taken by Senator 
 Ashurst, the Democratic party will re- 
 main in power indefinitely. On the 
 other hand, should the Democrats 
 break their solemn pledges, the Demo- 
 cratic party will be beaten, as it would 
 deserve to be beaten. — From Santa Fe, 
 Neiv Mexico, Eagle, April 13, 1913. 
 
 SENATOR ASHURST DEFENDS 
 MINING 
 
 From a recent telegram from Wash- 
 ington in the New York World it is 
 learned that Senator Ashurst and Sec- 
 retary Fisher had a controversy over 
 the recent ruling of the latter in the 
 matter of patenting mining claims. 
 Whether the Senator from Arizona 
 made an impression which will result 
 in the reversal of that unreasonable 
 and uncalled-for decision remains to be 
 seen, but he voiced the sentiment of 
 the great West in making the represen- 
 tations which he did to the Secretary 
 of the Interior. 
 
 The mining interests not only of 
 Arizona, but of the entire West, will 
 commend and applaud the action of 
 Senator Ashurst in making his defense 
 for the mining interests of the country 
 and to secure a reversal of this de- 
 cision. Every Senator from every 
 Western State where there are mines, 
 
 and every Representative in Congress 
 from such State should unite with him 
 in defense of mining. According to 
 the report, the conference on the sub- 
 ject with the Secretary was somewhat 
 of a warm nature, but Mr. Ashurst is 
 capable of holding his own, even wth 
 a Secretary of the Interior. Polite, 
 courteous, and affable in the extreme, 
 he is capable of meeting an opponent 
 in debate or discussing on any honor- 
 able plane the latter may choose. — 
 Arizona Gazette, January, 1913. 
 
 This man Ashurst, who is our Sen- 
 ator, is one of the youngest men up 
 here. Black-haired, eagle-eyed, and 
 on the job, he looks to me like the real 
 goods ; and, unless I miss my guess, 
 in the days to come he will make a 
 record. 
 
 There is no man here in either House 
 who stands higher and whose charac- 
 ter and ability mean more than Sen- 
 ator Ashurst's. 
 
 He has been extremely courteous, 
 affable, and agreeable to your com- 
 mittee. 
 
 We went down this morning, with 
 Senator Ashurst as our guide and rep- 
 resentative, and met President Wil- 
 son. — Yuma Sun, May, 1913. 
 
 Senator Henry F. Ashurst has been 
 on the job with us from the "go." It 
 has never been too late or too early 
 for the young Senator from Arizona 
 to put on his coat and hat and go with 
 us to see the "powers that be." It was 
 he who opened the doors of the office 
 of the Secretary of the Interior to us 
 on the day prior to the beginning of 
 the hearing and got us a personal in- 
 terview when others said that it could 
 not to be done. It was Ashurst who took 
 us to see the President, and it was Ash- 
 urst who has advised us as to present- 
 ing our case, and has suggested many 
 things to us which would otherwise 
 have been overlooked. He is a tireless 
 
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 worker. Here in Washington he is 
 leading a clean and manly life, and 
 I, who have seen an endless line of 
 politicians come and go within the last 
 30 years, predict that if he lives and 
 remains in public life he will be- 
 come a great Senator in all that the 
 word implies, and that is saying about 
 as much as can be said of any man. — 
 Yuma Sun, May 14, 1913. 
 
 PRESSURE BY PROTECTED 
 INTERESTS 
 
 In these days the beneficiaries of the 
 protective tariff system are working 
 desperately in hope of mitigating the 
 extent of the blow to their selfish in- 
 terests, realizing that it is impossible 
 to avert it altogether. They are mak- 
 ing despairing appeals to the public in 
 general and to members of Congress 
 in particular for a preservation of the 
 system of Federal taxation that has 
 proved so profitable to them and so 
 oppressive to the people. 
 
 Senator Henry F. Ashurst, of Ari- 
 zona, is a conspicuous example of these 
 sturdy Democrats who are not afraid 
 to stand up for what they believe to 
 be right in the face of urgent requests 
 to support the protective tariff coming 
 from powerful personal interests in 
 their States or districts. 
 
 All honor to Senator Ashurst, of 
 Arizona. His name will be called early 
 on the final roll-call on the tariff bill in 
 the Senate, and it will be recorded on 
 the roll of honor. May the name of 
 every other Democratic Senator be 
 found there also. — From the Wilming- 
 ton, Del., "Every Evening" of April 28, 
 1913. 
 
 AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE 
 
 Shall the common welfare be su- 
 preme, or shall little influential groups 
 get special privileges from the Govern- 
 ment? This is the real question in- 
 volved in tariff revision. 
 
 Shall a few sugar-growers be per- 
 mitted to levy on all the people? Shall 
 the manufacturers of woolen and cot- 
 ton goods be favored heavily at the ex- 
 pense of the Nation as a whole? 
 
 In a letter to his constituents, printed 
 in the current issue of Collier's Weekly, 
 Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, expresses 
 clearly and forcefully the doctrine of 
 the square deal as applied to the tariff: 
 "/ shall not vote to permit one set of 
 men to make money improperly at the 
 expense of the whole public. No legiti- 
 mate business should require a gift, 
 bounty, or largess from the Govern- 
 ment." 
 
 In connection with this letter should 
 be taken the statement made by Sen- 
 ator Ashurst in the Senate on the 
 opening day: 
 
 "The other day some gentlemen 
 urged me to oppose a reduction of the 
 tariff on sugar. My reply was that I 
 am concerned with seeing to it that 
 the 300,000 sugar consumers in the 
 State of Arizona shall have considera- 
 tion." 
 
 The immorality of the standpat posi- 
 tion is that it assumes that "one set of 
 men" should be permitted "to make 
 money improperly at the expense of 
 the whole public." 
 
 Where private interest clashes with 
 public welfare, a moral issue emerges. 
 The tariff is such an issue. — From the 
 Kansas City, Missouri, "Star" of April 
 26, 1913. 
 
 A SENATORIAL SENTENCE 
 SONGSTER 
 
 The gentleman from Arizona livened up 
 the "Congressional Record" the other day 
 with some language lullabies that deserve 
 more than passing attention. It is a real re- 
 lief to momentarily turn and listen to the 
 music of a muse. Here is rhetoric re- 
 juvenated, thanks to Ashurst! We join in 
 the benedictions of an Arizonian constituent 
 who said: "You're all right, Henry!" 
 
 When Arizona came into the Union, 
 Henry F. Ashurst came into the United 
 States Senate. 
 
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 Of itself, that particular event bears 
 no significance. But now that Henry 
 F. Ashurst has become comfortably 
 at ease within the fiduciary folds of his 
 transmigratory toga — as Henry would 
 put it — it develops that the people of 
 this new State have rejuvenated the 
 ancient arts of rhythmic rhetoric 
 through this oratorical oracle, who 
 bears a synthetic senatorial commis- 
 sion from this virgin Commonwealth 
 of the scenographic Southwest — as 
 Henry would say. 
 
 It is so thoroughly out of the ordi- 
 nary to come across the poetry of siren 
 sentences and the music of soft painted 
 words in the midst of the Congressional 
 Record, which ordinarily bristles with 
 the unsympathetic language of freight 
 rates and tariff percentages, that we 
 turn aside from the routine things for 
 just a passing moment this morning 
 to permit communion with the alluring, 
 limpid, luminous, lustral, lyric lan- 
 guage lullabies which Senator Ashurst 
 wrests from dictionaries and thesaurus. 
 
 Our ineffable interest in the gentle- 
 man from Arizona — as a sentence 
 songster — reached its ultima thule (as 
 Henry would say) the other day when 
 the Senate was discussing appropria- 
 tions for various national parks. 
 
 Now, Arizona was asking for no 
 Federal funds with which to primp ; 
 but, of course, the other States, which 
 were, found it necessary to put forward 
 their best pleaders in description of 
 the wonders and the beauties and the 
 grandeur of their native heaths. 
 
 The Honorable Henry stood the in- 
 undation in silence as long as he could ; 
 then his love for good old Arizona, his 
 righteous faith in Arizona's charms, 
 and his tidal tongue called self-asser- 
 tion. 
 
 The gentleman from Arizona rose 
 and addressed his confreres; and we 
 submit that this anhelous, ambient 
 allegory entitles him to the affections 
 of all who still love "tuneful tropes 
 and sibilant synonyms." Said he: 
 
 "Mr. President, I trust it will not be 
 
 deemed an act of temerity for me to 
 engage in this discussion, but since it 
 seems to be very largely a discussion 
 with reference to scenery throughout 
 the States of the West, and has been 
 carried on with much camaraderie, I 
 bhall say that the greatest natural won- 
 der in the world is the Grand Canyon 
 in Arizona. We do not ask for any 
 appropriation for the purpose of 
 beautifying that canyon, because the 
 God of the eternities has beautified it, 
 but we do ask that no corporation be 
 granted special privileges there to con- 
 struct and maintain hotels to the ex- 
 clusion of others. 
 
 "Senators have risen and in chaste 
 rhetoric described the natural scenery 
 within their States. Mr. President, I 
 direct the attention of the Senate and 
 the Nation to the great State of Ari- 
 zona — the land, some say, of the 
 desert. In some places, if you please, 
 it is the land of the scarlet glory of the 
 blossoming desert cactus ; but in truth 
 Arizona is the paradise for the sight- 
 seer, the thinker, the dreamer, the 
 scientist, and the geologist. It is a 
 land of frequent astonishment and per- 
 petual delight. Think of the ice caves 
 9 miles from Flagstaff, where, in mid- 
 summer, pyramids and stalactites of 
 ice are found, like those that glitter 
 around Niagara in midwinter — stately, 
 clear, and cold. Fifteen miles from 
 Flagstaff is to be found the Black 
 Crater, in the center of the largest lava 
 beds in the world, where 400 years ago, 
 in the language of Shakespeare, 'dis- 
 eased nature once broke forth in 
 strange eruptions.' 
 
 "Some years ago I camped one sum- 
 mer's night high up on the southern 
 slopes of the great San Francisco 
 peaks. I awoke early, just as the blue 
 lance heads of dawn were shooting up 
 from the eastern horizon. 'Here and 
 there other mountain peaks soon be- 
 gan to break through the vapory seas 
 that filled the gorges, like an island 
 whose jutting and confounded base 
 was swelled by the wild and wasteful 
 
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 ocean.' I saw the unnumbered stars 
 and their shining trains, recede before 
 lambent pillars of fire that pierced the 
 zenith; and the moon, refulgent lamp 
 of night, paled her silvery brightness 
 as the curtain of day still farther 
 lifted, and over heaven's clear azure 
 the sun began to spread its golden 
 gleam. 1 climbed to the top of Mount 
 Agassiz, the monarch of Arizona's 
 mountains ; from the top of the moun- 
 tain I looked toward the east across a 
 silent forest of vivid green — a wilder- 
 ness of verdure — to the far-famed 
 'Painted Desert,' which, with har- 
 monious confusion, lay spread 100 
 miles away — a sea of jasper, with a 
 beach of sulphur, empurpled with ce- 
 lestial fire. 
 
 "Cultivated persons declare that 
 much pleasure and mental exhilara- 
 tion are derived by viewing the em- 
 bellishments and accomplishments of 
 liberty and civilization, but it seems 
 to me that of all earthly things calcu- 
 lated to strike a reflective and imagina- 
 tive mind, nothing can compare to the 
 Grand Canyon which I saw 60 miles to 
 the north, with its sapphire walls that 
 seem to prop the recumbent sky — the 
 Grand Canyon; whose formation car- 
 ries the mind back to primordial chaos, 
 the sight of which causes the beholder 
 to feel as if he were 'treading the upper 
 air and walking the milky way,' and 
 which brings a rapturous exhalation 
 of spirit which only the enchanted soul 
 may know. 
 
 "The magnificence of the physical 
 world and its resistless influence upon 
 human character have ever been fa- 
 vorite themes of contemplation by 
 those minds that discern mental and 
 moral evolution flowing from environ- 
 ment, as well as themes of profound 
 interest to those who delight in study- 
 ing and attempting to solve the mys- 
 teries of nature and the enigmas of the 
 universe. 
 
 "Arizona, that wide empire of unsur- 
 passed scenic grandeur, filled with an 
 endless variety of natural wonders, has 
 
 excited the lofty and honorable senti- 
 ments of her children and has show- 
 ered an elevating and beneficent in- 
 fluence upon her people." 
 
 Our compliments to the new Sen- 
 ator from Arizona. 
 
 This sort of thing is just a little bit 
 refreshing in the midst of sordid quest 
 for worldly things on every hand. 
 
 Just to complete the picture — with 
 a glimpse upon the other side — this 
 same Henry Ashurst (would you be- 
 lieve it) was also quoted only a few 
 days ago as follows :• 
 
 "When I hear that an able and 
 healthy person of the male sex has said 
 anything that's injurious to my charac- 
 ter, I look him up — I search him out 
 instanter. 'Did you or did you not?' 
 I ask, trying to look calm and judicial. 
 If he replies, T did not,' the matter is 
 ended. But if he says 'y es '' I further 
 inquire, 'And you believe it?' Should 
 he stand his ground, look me in the eye, 
 and opine that he does, then — biff." 
 
 "It's your boast," the interviewer re- 
 marked, "that you always tell the truth 
 yourself?" 
 
 "I make no boast ; I simply assert 
 what is a common practice. Nor will 
 1 speak an evil word about a man who 
 is not present. That wouldn't be 
 .honorable. When I am on the stump 
 and something is thrown in my face 
 from the audience, the same being a 
 fact, I exclaim : 'That's so ; I plead 
 guilty. I was as big a jackass then as 
 is the man who now asks me about it. 
 I am sorry; he isn't' The audience 
 cheers, the newspapers print the inci- 
 dent, everybody says, 'You are all 
 right, Henry.' " 
 
 "All right?" 
 
 "We should say as much." — Grand 
 Rapids Herald. 
 
 POOR MEN AND THE PRIMARY 
 
 The cry has been frequently paraded 
 and is now heard in some places that 
 the operation of the direct-primary law 
 is antagonistic to the chances of the 
 
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 poor man in politics. Indeed, it is one 
 of the favorite arguments of the old- 
 school politician, who, out of his 
 wealth of sympathy, worries himself 
 into the ownership of a corrugated 
 brow over the exclusion of the poor 
 man from political preferment. This 
 is one of the really laughable things 
 that are met with — the tremendous 
 grieving of the political worker for the 
 man without a dollar. 
 
 Senator H. F. Ashurst, of Arizona, 
 punctures this claim very neatly in a 
 recent contribution to a New York 
 newspaper, and aptly quotes himself 
 as an example of the poor man who 
 was elected to the United States Sen- 
 ate. The Arizona Senator puts the 
 case so conclusively, and withal shows 
 the strength of the forces which were 
 arrayed against him to emphasize hi^ 
 point, that we give a paragraph from 
 his communication. Here it is : 
 
 "In Arizona we have a state-wide 
 primary law for the nomination of all 
 candidates, including the United States 
 Senators, and while it might seem un- 
 gracious in me to praise the bridge 
 which carried me over, I cannot refrain 
 from observing that in Arizona I, a 
 poor man, with absolutely no income 
 whatever except my small law prac- 
 tice, was enabled by means of the 
 direct primary, where the people had 
 the right to express their choice, to de- 
 feat the combined influences of the 
 railroads, national banks, the smelter 
 trust, and every corrupt politician in 
 the State, all of which interests con- 
 federated and combined in the hope of 
 bringing about my defeat and electing 
 a reactionary." 
 
 Under the old convention system the 
 chances are that Senator Ashurst 
 would not have got within miles of a 
 nomination and, of course, would not 
 be Senator now. The Arizona inter- 
 ests would have packed the conven- 
 tion to a fare-you-well against him. 
 The primary law not alone whipped 
 the candidate of the reactionaries, but 
 gave a good, efficient Senator, al- 
 
 though poor in material wealth, to the 
 people of Arizona. — Rocky Mountain 
 Nezvs, June 12, 1913. 
 
 "FELLOW-CITIZENS" 
 
 "It is anomalous and archaic, in a 
 free republic, to deny to one-half its 
 citizens the right of exercising a valu- 
 able function of citizenship — the 
 elective franchise. And this anomaly 
 becomes odious and abhorrent when 
 we reflect that the particular half of 
 citizenship thus excluded is the iden- 
 tical half from which springs so much 
 wisdom, courage, cheer, hope and good 
 counsel." Strong words, brethren, 
 strong words. And good words. And 
 the stronger and better because they 
 come from an unexpected quarter — 
 the United States Senate. * * * 
 
 Senator Ashurst, member of the 
 committee having in charge the Cham- 
 berlain resolution providing for a con- 
 stitutional amendment extending the 
 suffrage to women, proves in his 
 strong report that even a Gibraltar of 
 privilege and repression may be taken. 
 
 "Man deals with the affairs of life; 
 woman deals with life itself." Sen- 
 ator Ashurst could not have made 
 plainer his plea for simple justice for 
 women citizens deprived of their 
 political rights. He leaves no doubt 
 of his belief that women citizens will 
 measure up to the highest standards 
 of citizenship. * * * 
 
 To the man and woman interested 
 in life rather than the mere affairs of 
 life, to those who love humanity 
 rather than party, the words of Sen- 
 ator Ashurst are sweet music. — The 
 Leader, Pittsburgh, Pa., June 14, 1913. 
 
 SENATOR ASHURST UNCOVERS A 
 GIGANTIC GRAFT 
 
 Senator x\shurst charges that this 
 Government has paid to the armor 
 trust, which is composed of the Car- 
 negie, Bethlehem, and Midvale com- 
 
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 panies, not less than $45,000,000 in 
 profits for the armor plate that went 
 into the thirty-odd armored steel ves- 
 sels and the armored cruisers. The 
 charge is probable on its face, because 
 the makers of armor are perhaps as 
 tight a trust as exists. There is plenty 
 of evidence that trusts which Carnegie, 
 Morgan, Schwab, and their kind dom- 
 inate, get all they can for their wares. 
 
 It has always been a mystery to the 
 laymen why a first-class battleship or 
 cruiser should cost eight to ten mil- 
 lions and upward, when there are few 
 buildings on land — largely similar in 
 construction, only set on end — of the 
 most magnificent size and equipment 
 that approach such a figure. The 
 answer is to be found in the armor 
 graft — we call it graft, because it rep- 
 resents unfair profits — which typifies 
 the excessive charges on the hundred 
 kinds of supplies that go into a war- 
 ship. 
 
 One of the most disgraceful chapters 
 in American life is that detailing the 
 methods of the harpy host that preyed 
 on the necessities of our Government 
 in the days when civil strife combined 
 with foreign hostility to threaten its 
 very existence. It is no less disgrace- 
 ful in our days of prosperity that the 
 trust capitalists who owe their fortunes 
 to the protection of the Government 
 are bleeding it without conscience. 
 
 The Government should make its 
 own armor plate, as it makes its rifles 
 at our arsenals. — Los Angeles Tribune, 
 May, 1913. 
 
 GRAFT IN ARMOR PLATE 
 CHARGED BY SENATOR 
 
 Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, charges 
 that new armor plate for the new 
 dreadnaught "Pennsylvania" will cost 
 the Government $1,600,000 more than 
 it should. Eight thousand tons of 
 plate, contracted for by the Republican 
 administration on the very last day of 
 its existence, were at a price heretofore 
 unknown in the history of naval con- 
 
 struction, says the Senator. The last 
 record price for armor plate was $240 
 per ton for the class A plates, but the 
 plates for the "Pennsylvania" will cost 
 $454 per ton. The Senator may be in 
 error, but any way the matter should 
 be investigated.- — San Jose Times, May, 
 1913. 
 
 ON DANGEROUS GROUND 
 
 Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, has 
 achieved notoriety by declaring that 
 maladministration in the navy has cost 
 the Government $6,000,000. He says 
 that the armor trust has been sys- 
 tematically mulcting the National 
 Treasury to that extent, and more, and 
 that it maintains a well-organized 
 lobby at Washington in furtherance of 
 this conspiracy. 
 
 Senator Ashurst should beware the 
 fate of Congressman Lilley. — New Lon- 
 don Telegraph, May, 1913. 
 
 THE ARMOR PLATE TRUST 
 
 Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, has 
 something more than a suspicion that 
 the Carnegie, the Bethlehem, and the 
 Midvale steel companies constitute 
 one concern when they come to a bid 
 on armor plate for the Government. 
 He may have evidence not yet dis- 
 closed, but his statement that the bids 
 of the three for the plate wanted for 
 the dreadnaught "Pennsylvania" dif- 
 fered to the extent of only $1 a ton; 
 that the price agreed on is $25 a ton 
 more than was paid in the previous 
 contract, and that the present contract 
 at over $400 a ton, though $250 would 
 yield a good profit, has been divided 
 between the three, appears to be 
 prima facie evidence that they have 
 formed a combination in violation of the 
 Sherman anti-trust law. — New Orleans 
 Daily Item, May, 1913. 
 
 Among the many brilliant addresses 
 delivered in the United States Senate 
 
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 during the debate on the tariff bill, that 
 of Senator Henry F. Ashurst, of Ari- 
 zona, must be placed in the front rank. 
 A clear, forcible speaker, thoroughly 
 booked on the subject, he presented in 
 a calm, forceful manner arguments that 
 were incontrovertible in favor of the 
 measure. We bespeak for the ex- 
 cellent address of United States Sen- 
 ator Ashurst, of Arizona, a careful 
 reading. There were giants in that 
 Senate debate, and Senator Ashurst 
 was one of them. — The Delawarean, 
 Dover, Delezvare, September, 1913. 
 
 Although there is $1,100 mileage in 
 Senator Ashurst deserting his post and 
 rushing back to a few days' vacation 
 in Arizona, he stands his ground with 
 his eye on the committee room, waiting 
 for the currency bill to come forth. He 
 knows, when it does, that blades of 
 steel in the hands of champions of un- 
 interrupted prosperity will be neces- 
 sary to protect it from the Napoleons 
 of panics. Henry is the boy with the 
 sleeping sickness in his right duke, 
 that never wavers when called upon 
 to land the punch. — Our Mineral 
 Wealth, November, 1913. 
 
 PRAISE FOR ASHURST AND HIS 
 GOOD WORK 
 
 Hon. Henry F. Ashurst is making 
 himself very popular with his constit- 
 uents in this country, while he is gain- 
 ing much fame among the honored law- 
 makers in the National Capital. He 
 is not alone an active man in behalf of 
 his constituents, but he invariably se- 
 cures whatever he goes after, regard- 
 less of how big the undertaking hap- 
 pens to be. About one year ago the 
 McClure Realty, Loan & Trust Com- 
 pany took up the matter of importation 
 of date palms from Algiers, where the 
 American consul at that point had in- 
 formed Bernard G. Johnson that no 
 additional concessions could be had for 
 the exporting of date shoots for that 
 
 year. This company asked Senator 
 Ashurst to take this matter up with 
 the State Department. He called upon 
 Secretary Knox immediately, and pre- 
 sented the facts in the case as fur- 
 nished him by the McClure Company 
 and Mr. Johnson. The State Depart- 
 ment cabled the Algerian consul to 
 take immediate steps for such conces- 
 sions as Senator Ashurst's constituents 
 desired. This activity continued until 
 April, when Secretary Bryan had com- 
 pleted the necessary steps which had 
 been undertaken by his predecessor. 
 The McClure Company has an enorm- 
 ous correspondence from the State De- 
 partment, in which Senator Ashurst's 
 activity in this matter is mentioned, 
 and it is needless to say that all the 
 concessions asked for were secured. 
 As a result, Mr. Johnson left the first 
 of last April, and en route to Algiers 
 stopped in the city of Washington, 
 where Senator Ashurst arranged for 
 an audience with Secretary Bryan, 
 when Mr. Johnson was assured upon 
 his reaching the African date country 
 the American consul would give him 
 every aid in arranging for the conces- 
 sions desired. Mr. Ashurst also gave 
 him letters to the various American 
 consuls abroad, where he received 
 many courtesies. Mr. Johnson secured 
 and imported into this country 4,000 
 date shoots, which were sent to the 
 Coachella Valley, and all because we 
 had an active Senator in Washington. 
 The Sun believes that Senator Ashurst 
 is deserving of great commendation for 
 this and other good deeds he has done 
 for his constituents, and it is through 
 his good work that the Yuma Valley is 
 to receive 4,000 more imported date 
 palms this year. — Yuma Sun, January, 
 1914. 
 
 Senator Ashurst is the youngest mem- 
 ber but one — Senator Lea, of Tennessee. 
 Henry has the punch of the oldest mem- 
 ber. Since going to the Senate, Henry 
 has ever been on the alert to uphold the 
 pledges of the Democratic platform and 
 
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 to serve his State and friends. With 
 Carl Hayden, he is true blue where the 
 bullets are the thickest. Female citizens 
 of this State will not forget that both 
 Senator Ashurst and Congressman Hay- 
 den have ever been champions of their 
 cause long before they received the bal- 
 lot and after. — Our Mineral Wealth, 
 January, 1914. 
 
 guard, protect, and guide them. There 
 is no question about this at all.. — Pres- 
 cott Courier, November 6, 1914. 
 
 Washington, June 28. — Strenuous 
 fighting for the American housewife was 
 done in the Democratic caucus today. 
 Led by Mr. Ashurst, a formidable con- 
 tingent of Senators battled to obtain for 
 her cheaper dress stuffs, flannels, and 
 blankets. The struggles were almost in 
 vain, and only the possibility of a minor 
 concession remained at the last. 
 
 When the caucus resumed considera- 
 tion of the Underwood Tariff Bill today, 
 Mr. Ashurst moved to place on the free 
 list woolen stockings, ready-made cloth- 
 ing, women's and girls' skirts and 
 dresses, blankets, flannels, and all those 
 articles to which he referred as "daily 
 necessities." A three hours' discussion 
 followed and the motion was lost. 
 
 Another amendment proposed by Sen- 
 ator Ashurst for the benefit of house- 
 wives, to put blankets on the free list, 
 was referred to the Finance Committee. 
 — From New York World, June 29, 
 1913. 
 
 Senator x-\shurst is glad to get home 
 and all people, regardless of politics, are 
 busy welcoming him. He has been 
 true to Arizona and has given his best 
 efforts all along the line in every direc- 
 tion dictated by his conscious. His rare 
 ability, backed by his natural courage, 
 both physical and moral, will ever keep 
 him in the front of public affairs as one 
 of the ablest champions of that which is 
 right. Two words tell all that concerns 
 man here and hereafter, and these two 
 words are right and wrong, and our 
 young Democratic friend ever strives to 
 be on the side of right ; and there is no 
 failure or defeat for any who so strives, 
 for forces the most potent in creation 
 
 People who have read of the "cowboy 
 Senator from the wild and woolly West" 
 are badly disappointed when they see 
 Senator Ashurst. He doesn't wear chaps 
 and a revolver; cowhide boots and a red 
 hankerchief are no part of his dress. 
 He looks like any other big man — open 
 of countenance, big of frame, courteous 
 of manner, a well-educated, polished 
 gentleman, with a pleasing voice and the 
 ability to find the word he wants for the 
 thing he wants to speak about at the in- 
 stant he wants to speak. 
 
 "I want a special word from you, Sen- 
 ator, for The American Boy and for all 
 the thousands of American boys who 
 will read of you in its pages," I said to 
 him. 
 
 "Tell them for me, then," he said, 
 "that the thing that counts is not being 
 a Senator or a public servant, a Gover- 
 nor or a President. One in a million 
 can be Senator; one in ninety millions, 
 once in four years, can be a President. 
 The thing that counts is to do what has 
 to be done, as well as you can. Success 
 in life is neither in money nor in fame. 
 Dig post-holes, if that's the best you can 
 do" — the Senator was talking directly to 
 you boys then ! — "dig post-holes, and if 
 you dig good post-holes, post-holes hon- 
 est and straight and deep enough, post- 
 holes dug faithfully and well, you are 
 a success. 
 
 "Make money if you can, but don't 
 make money as an end — make it as a 
 means to an end. The richest man in 
 the world can see no more beautiful 
 scenery than I can, can laugh no more 
 heartily than I can, can sleep no more, 
 eat no more than I can. The richest 
 men have to worry. Don't you worry if 
 things go wrong. That's the time to 
 think, not of how bad they are, but of 
 how glad you are that they are not 
 worse ; then pile in and mend them !" — 
 By C. H. Claudy, in American Boy, 
 October, 1914. 
 
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 U. S. S. Stewart, 
 San Diego, Cal v March 5, 1913. 
 Hon H. F. Ashurst, 
 
 U. S. Senator, Washington, D. C. 
 Sir: I desire to express my earnest 
 thanks and appreciation for your kind- 
 ness in giving so prompt and effective 
 attention to my telegram of Sunday,* 
 March 2, in regard to the trouble my 
 brother, John Kenneth Turner, is in in 
 Mexico City, and to assure you that I 
 fully believe, should my brother escape 
 from his present difficulty with his life, 
 that in a very great measure it will be 
 due to the fact that you have exerted 
 yourself in his behalf. It gives me, sir, 
 the very warmest feeling to know that 
 there are men who will spare no pains 
 to assist another in trouble ; your action 
 has relieved my anxiety over my brother 
 greatly and has put me under great obli- 
 gations to you. * * * 
 
 Again thinking you with all my heart, 
 I am, 
 
 Very sincerely, 
 (Signed) R. K. Turner, 
 
 Ensign, U. S. Navy. 
 
 Washington, D. G, 
 December 29, 1914. 
 Hon. Henry F. Ashurst, 
 
 Senator from Arizona, Senate 
 Office Building. 
 Dear Sir : I have read with great in- 
 terest a copy of your speech of August 
 13, 1914, on the Clayton Anti-Trust Bill. 
 I very much desire sixty-five copies for 
 use in my classes in Economics and Po- 
 litical Science. 
 
 I wish to make, instruction in my 
 classes bear upon the actual conditions. 
 Your speech sets forth in the best form 
 that I have seen the actual experience of 
 injunctions by the courts and the need 
 of the limitations in the Clayton Anti- 
 Trust Bill. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 E. L. Parks, 
 Professor of Economics and Po- 
 litical Sciences, Howard Uni- 
 versity, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Bisbee, Arizona, 
 September 19, 1914. 
 Hon. Henry F. Ashurst, 
 
 United States Senate, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 Dear Sir : At its meeting last evening 
 the Warren District Assembly instructed 
 me to express to you its appreciation 
 and thanks for your able defense of 
 labor in your speech on the Clayton Anti- 
 Trust Bill. 
 
 We hope in the future there will be 
 more members elected to the Upper 
 House of Congress who can understand 
 and appreciate the motives and the sacri- 
 fices of labor in its efforts to advance 
 the day of social justice. 
 
 With kindest regards and esteem, 
 I am, 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 F. J. Perry, 
 Secretary, Warren District Trades 
 Assembly; Affiliated with A. F. 
 of L. 
 
 Remarks of Hon. P. W. O'Sullivan, County 
 Attorney of Yavapai County, Introducing 
 Senator Henry F. Ashurst at Democratic 
 Rally at Prescott, November 2, 1914. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen : A great poet 
 once said : 
 
 "The man who would succeed in earthly 
 strife, 
 Should have 'Excelsior' written on his 
 life." 
 
 We have with us this evening a dis- 
 tinguished Senator of the United States, 
 who fulfills in ever respect the senti- 
 ments of the poet, because "Excelsior" 
 is written on his life. 
 
 We are all gratified and inspired to 
 meet and greet our illustrious Senator, 
 Henry F. Ashurst, who, after a long so- 
 journ at Washington, is back once more 
 to his native heath amidst the pleasant 
 hills and verdant valleys of old Yavapai, 
 where the mountains are clothed in a 
 perennial dress of undecayed magnifi- 
 cence and where the pure and unvitiated 
 atmosphere of our salubrious climate will 
 cause his blood to circulate with the ef- 
 fervescence of champagne! 
 
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 Fellow-citi ens, Senator Ashurst came 
 into public life like the Roman patriot, 
 Cincinnatus, as a Democratic soldier, to 
 lend his aid to the cause of free govern- 
 ment, to the end that mankind might find 
 in him an unselfish champion, whose life 
 and career would remain untarnished 
 and unstained like the Tancred, whose 
 name lives in the great poem of Tasso ! 
 
 In the words of another, Senator Ash- 
 urst "has never swerved from the nar- 
 row path of duty; the song of the siren 
 has never tempted him ; the tongue of 
 flattery has never seduced him ; the voice 
 of the hyena has never frightened him; 
 the menace of tyranny has never terri- 
 fied him !" 
 
 Brave, undaunted, and uncompromis- 
 ing in the cause of human rights and 
 human liberty, he stands today — 
 
 "Like the lone rock that in mid-ocean 
 braves 
 The war of whirlwinds and the dash of 
 waves" ! 
 
 High above paltry critics and sinister 
 foes stands the towering form of Ari- 
 zona's young Chesterfield ! Like Cheva- 
 lier Bayard, he is "without fear and 
 without reproach" ; like Lancelot of old, 
 "a knight peerless." His star shines re- 
 splendently in the empyrean like Milton's 
 imperial wing! Long may its light il- 
 luminate the palaces of freedom and the 
 temple of fame! Under its translucent 
 dome no hoarder of gold or builder of 
 fortunes can monopolize the sunlight or 
 the shade, and beneath whose clustered 
 lamps may celestial lightnings play! 
 
 I can place no brighter laurel on the 
 brow of Senator Ashurst than to recall 
 at this time the apostrophe to Addison! 
 
 "Statesman, yet friend to truth, of soul 
 
 sincere, 
 In action faithful and in honor clear; 
 Who broke no promise, served no private 
 
 end, 
 Who gained no title and who lost no 
 
 friend!" 
 
 He traced through history the growth 
 of liberty for the people, how authority 
 was wrested from the kings and lodged 
 in the people, how the idea of liberty 
 grew from age to age until today it 
 means the privilege of being honest with 
 your self, your neighbor and your God, 
 and how liberty is unifying the world. 
 
 It was a great address, one of the 
 greatest ever heard in Minerva, in the es- 
 timation of some who have lived here 
 a long time. Senator Ashurst can get 
 a great hearing anytime he may come to 
 Minerva. The people discovered a great 
 man in him, the kind of man needed in 
 the U. S. Senate. — Minerva, Ohio, 
 "News," August 26, 1915. 
 
 Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, has been 
 one of the most persistent Senators in 
 warning the administration of continual 
 and imminent danger to Americans along 
 the Mexican border. Events have shown 
 the correctness of the views of Ashurst 
 on border conditions. — "Douglas Inter- 
 national," March 12, 1916. 
 
 The address of the day was made by 
 U. S. Senator Henry F. Ashurst, of 
 Arizona, his theme being "The Progress 
 of Liberty." 
 
 FOR GOVERNMENT ARMOR PLATE 
 PLANT 
 
 The bill of Senator Tillman, provid- 
 ing for the construction of a govern- 
 ment armor plate factory, is in line with 
 the nationalization plan of the Iowa Sen- 
 ator. This bill was introduced yester- 
 day and its terms are in accord with the 
 outline published in The Post yesterday. 
 The $11,000,000 appropriated is made 
 immediately available, so there would be 
 no delay in beginning the construction 
 of the plant as soon as Congress enacted 
 the legislation. 
 
 The proposition for a government 
 armor plate factory is the crystallization 
 of plans urged by Senator Ashurst, 
 of Arizona, almost three years ago. The 
 Arizona Senator at that time proposed 
 a resolution for the very thing the Sec- 
 retary of the Navy now is demanding. — 
 From Washington Post, December 11, 
 1915. 
 
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 OFFICES: 101 B STREET S. E. 
 TiiirHONit Cincoun | 3g SO 
 
 Sasbtagtoti. 8. <&.. March 8, 1915. 
 
 Senator Henry P. Ashurst, 
 
 Senate Office Bldg. , 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 We tfike this occasion to thank you personally 
 
 and on behalf of the railroad employees engaged in engine 
 
 and train service for the many courtesies extended to us 
 
 on their account , and for your efforts in furtherance of 
 
 legislation looking to their protection and betterment. 
 
 We have derived pleasure from our association with you 
 
 here, and we be*? to remain, with high esteem, 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 
 vice»President, ^^> 
 Legi slat ive Represent at i ve , 
 
 T»- 
 
 Vi ce »-Pre sadeht , 
 Legi alat ire Repre sent at i ve , 
 B. of R. T. 
 
 A. G. C. E. & 
 Legislative Representative, 
 
 B • of L. E • 
 
 Vice-President, 
 Legislative Representative. 
 2. of L.P. & E. 
 
 Senator Ashurst has the credit of 
 making the best speech ever delivered in 
 Congress upon the Government manu- 
 facturing its own guns, warships, etc. 
 The Senator showed conclusively that the 
 Government could make a wonderful 
 saving. — Dunbar's Weekly, December 
 19, 1915. 
 
 A BRAVE SENATOR 
 
 A brave man, indeed, must be United 
 States Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, 
 of Arizona, a man of sterling moral 
 courage. He is not afraid to make bold 
 
 and open deliverance against the evil of 
 the "pork barrel" in Congress and de- 
 mand that it be smashed. 
 
 In a letter to Collier's, which that 
 paper designated "an editorial by a Sen- 
 ator," Mr. Ashurst declared that "the 
 most damning blight upon Congress is 
 the pork barrel system." He favored the 
 passage of Senator Newlands' bill, which 
 provides for the creation of a waterways 
 commission and a board of river regu- 
 lation, to take care of that part of the 
 Federal appropriations which, until very 
 recently, comprised liberal contents of 
 the pork barrel. 
 
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 "To illustrate how the pork barrel 
 system cripples the efficiency of the Gov- 
 ernment," continued Senator Ashurst, 
 "you will recall that recent disturbances 
 on the Mexican border required the 
 presence of a number of American 
 troops in Texas, New Mexico and Ari- 
 zona. The necessity for these troops 
 still exists, but the 1916 elections are 
 looming up, and some members of Con- 
 gress in whose States forts or barracks 
 are situated are bombarding the depart- 
 ments urging that the troops be taken 
 away from the Mexican border where 
 they are really required and sent back 
 to those various army posts in the in- 
 terior of the country where soldiers are 
 not just now needed. I am convinced 
 that the pork barrel is an evil that will 
 remain until the people and the news- 
 papers denounce appropriations for their 
 own district unless the same be justified 
 by the actual necessities and require- 
 ments of the Government as a whole. 
 Politicians, as a rule, pawn their cour- 
 age with Janus in return for a popularity 
 ticket. When the pork barrel becomes 
 unpopular Congressmen will strenuously 
 oppose it." 
 
 If a few more Senators and Represen- 
 tatives in Congress would emulate the 
 example of Senator Ashurst, and come 
 out. boldly and openly, in condemnation 
 of the pork barrel policy, there is no 
 doubt the evil would soon disappear and 
 intelligence and public need become the 
 rule in making the annual appropria- 
 tions, especially for waterway improve- 
 ments and important public buildings. 
 Xo longer would the country be en- 
 livened by the illuminating evidences of 
 wicked extravagance found in the erec- 
 tion of large public buildings, costing 
 from .$50,000 to $200,000, in towns of 
 several hundred population or at most 
 of not more than 2,000. Instances exist 
 of imposing Federal buildings — not 
 merely postoffices — erected at heavy 
 cost in small towns, to accommodate 
 United States District Courts which are 
 required to sit as few as two and never 
 
 more than nine days in the course of 
 a year. 
 
 Senator Ashurst deserves special com- 
 mendation for his independence and 
 courage by reason of the fact that his 
 term expires on March 3, 1917, and his 
 successor will be chosen at the election 
 to be held next November. We do not 
 know whether Senator Ashurst proposes 
 to retire at the close of his term, or 
 will be a candidate for re-election. If 
 the latter, he may expect vigorous op- 
 position on account of his brave and 
 honest stand against the wicked extrava- 
 gance and folly of the pork barrel sys- 
 tem. It is hoped, however, the Demo- 
 crats of Arizona, should he ask of them 
 a renomination, will give it to him cor- 
 dially and enthusiastically, thereby in- 
 dorsing his commendable attitude. And 
 in the event of his renomination the 
 people of Arizona should re-elect him 
 by a large majority. — From"Every Eve- 
 ning," Wilmington, Delazvare, January 
 29, 1916. 
 
 George H. Maxwell, the man to whom 
 the Salt River Valley owes more than it 
 can ever hope to repay, the man who 
 was among the first to advocate the 
 building of the Tonto dam and to whose 
 untiring efforts the inauguration and 
 final completion of the Salt River pro- 
 ject are so largely due, was one of the 
 most honored guests at the great cele- 
 bration on Thursday. 
 
 Round after round greeted his ap- 
 pearance on the speakers' stand, and his 
 address was punctuated with cheers. At 
 its conclusion he received an ovation. 
 He said in part: 
 
 "This great monument is but a step- 
 ping stone to something so much bigger 
 that the mind can hardly grasp it. 
 
 "That great future toward which we 
 are now struggling with even greater 
 faith than in the old days, in the time 
 when every drop of water that now runs 
 to waste in the West will be saved and 
 stored and used to bring forth the fruits 
 of the earth for humanity's use and 
 benefit 
 
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 "As we pushed the national irrigation 
 or reclamation act in the old days, we 
 are now pushing a greater constructive 
 measure, the Newlands river regulation 
 bill, which appropriates $250,000,000 
 for the West over a period of ten years, 
 to duplicate such work as has been done 
 here by Uncle Sam. 
 
 "In the fight for that bill we have 
 had the cordial support of the represen- 
 
 tatives of Arizona in the Congress of 
 the United States, who are here today. 
 We have circulated from one end of 
 the United States to the other 20,000 
 copies of the speech of Senator Ashurst 
 in the Senate in behalf of that bill." — 
 Extract from speech of Mr. Geo. H. 
 Maxwell at Reservoir Celebration, April 
 15, 1915. 
 
 ASHURST of ARIZONA 
 
 HIS CAREER ANALYZED 
 
 Tireless Industry and Painstaking Labor Elevated Him to Enviable Place Among 
 
 Nation's Lawmakers, Says John Temple Graves. 
 
 By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES 
 Editorial Correspondence of the Los Angeles Examiner. 
 
 Washington, D. C, May 20. — Among the 
 vital personalities representing the West 
 and the Pacific Slope in American legisla- 
 tion, is Henry Fountain Ashurst of Pres- 
 cott, Ariz. Let us consider him for a mo- 
 ment among the people that he serves. 
 
 Senator Ashurst of Arizona may not be a 
 man of genius, but he is a man of unusual 
 intellectual power and possesses a faculty 
 for original and eloquent expression, for in- 
 vention, for achievement and for con- 
 structive legislation. The talent, however, 
 that has won him high place in public life 
 is his painstaking labor and tireless industry. 
 
 After eleven months' service he was 
 placed on the great law committee of the 
 U. S. Senate, which deals with the complex 
 questions of constitutional law affecting 
 national sovereignty; and although the 
 youngest member of the judiciary com- 
 mittee, his soundness as a lawyer enables 
 him to sit worthily at the table with such 
 eminent lawyers as Senators Culberson, 
 O'Gorman, Borah, Cummins, Sutherland, 
 Nelson, Hoke Smith and Reed. 
 * * * 
 
 After two years' service, Senator Ashurst 
 was selected chairman of the committee on 
 Indian affairs, one of the most important 
 committees of the Senate. The Indian bill 
 annually carries over $10,000,000 and deals 
 with $1,000,000,000 worth of property be- 
 longing to the Indians, held in trust for 
 them by the Government. Of this vital 
 
 committee the Arizona Senator is the able 
 chief. 
 
 To manage successfully a large appro- 
 priation bill, direct its course through the 
 Senate, and instantly and accurately to give 
 an analysis of each item in the bill when 
 called upon, requires an equanimity not 
 easily disturbed and a mind that works with 
 precision. Senator Ashurst, in successfully 
 piloting the Indian appropriation bills 
 through the Senate meets the test and 
 measures up to the requirements. 
 
 During the celebrated filibuster on the 
 ship purchase bill it was believed by the 
 Senators in charge of the bill that a roll- 
 call might be secured, and, of course, after 
 one Senator had answered to his name, no 
 further debate would be in order. Senator 
 Ashurst's name is the first on the roll-call; 
 so, with Oriental patience, he sat in his 
 seat almost continuously during the famous 
 fifty-four-hour session of the Senate, wait- 
 ing for his name to be called. Therein lies 
 the lesson of his strength — patience and 
 
 preparedness. • 
 
 * * * 
 
 Three years ago Senator Ashurst spent 
 several weeks investigating the necessity of 
 a Government armor-plate factory, and a 
 bill recent^'- passed the Senate providing 
 for the construction of a Government- 
 owned factory. This factory will save the 
 Government upwards of $1,000,000 yearly, 
 and in addition thereto the people will 
 
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 know that defective armor-plate is not 
 being sold to the Government. 
 
 Senator Ashurst delivered the first speech 
 rrlade in Congress as to the necessity of a 
 Government plant for the fixation of atmos- 
 pheric nitrogen. The United States now 
 depends wholly upon the nitrate deposits of 
 Chile; the Chilean deposits will be ex- 
 hausted in 1923. Senator Ashurst made an 
 investigation, and consulted many scientific 
 men, and he ascertained that Germany. 
 France, England and Norway all had Gov- 
 ernment plants for the fixation of atmos- 
 pheric nitrogen and were not required to 
 depend upon Chilean supplies for their fer- 
 tilizers and for nitric acid in the making of 
 explosives. 
 
 Senator Ashurst has been an able and 
 forceful advocate of Federal aid for good 
 roads, a rural credits bill, and he has, on 
 two different occasions in the Senate, de- 
 feated "riders" that were attached to the 
 post office appropriation bill that sought to 
 cripple the Postmaster General's discretion 
 in the development of the parcels post. He 
 has at all times paid close attention to the 
 advocacy of constructive legislation, and is 
 an intellectual and moral force. He is 
 radically independent and is a militant bat- 
 tler for justice for the poor and lonely. 
 
 The most recent and one of the most 
 valuable services Senator Ashurst has ren- 
 dered to the American people is his force- 
 ful and uncompromising fight in favor of 
 the confirmation of Louis D. Brandeis to be 
 associate justice of the Supreme Court. The 
 President sent the nomination to the Senate 
 last January and it went in due course to 
 the committee on the judiciary. The com- 
 mittee held long, tedious, secret hearings, 
 and Senator Ashurst recently Renounced the 
 secret hearings and charged that an at- 
 tempt was being made to strangle the nomi- 
 nation. There can be no doubt that an at- 
 tempt was made to pigeon-hole the nomina- 
 tion, but the galling criticism and rakine 
 fire to which the tactics used against Mr. 
 Brandeis were subjected by Mr. Ashurst, 
 drew the attention of the people to the case, 
 and it remains to be seen whether the 
 powerful "interests" who are trying to de- 
 stroy Mr. Brandeis will triumph, or 
 whether justice and humanity shall tri- 
 umph. 
 
 The people of Arizona have excellent 
 reason to be proud of the courage, charac- 
 ter, brains and devotion of Senator Ashurst. 
 He is a credit to any constituency and is 
 gaining in power and influence with every 
 session that he serves in the American Con- 
 gress. 
 
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