Henry Fountain Ashurst has represented Arizona in the U. S. Senate since that territory became a State in 1912. His tall sleek figure, his shiny black hair, his resounding rhetoric, his theatrical by-play with black-corded glasses have caused many an ignorant observer to mistake him for a onetime Shakespearean actor. His secret hope is to win future fame as a great diarist of the current era. Today he is the senior Senator from the Southwest.
Like many another frontier politician, Senator Ashurst has long fired his imagination with dreams of U. S. territorial...
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