Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-09-24
STATEHOOD.

Mark Smith is industriously endeav-
 bring to make it appear that the only possible chance of Arizona becoming a state is to elect Democratic Legisla- ture this fall. Mark claims that Sen ators Teller and Wolcott, of Colorado, Stewart of Nevada, and Dubois of Ida ho, all Republicans, have assured him that the bill admitting Arizona as a state will meet with their support at the ensuing session of Congress, even though Arizona should send two Dem ocrats to the Senate of the United States; tbat what they want is two sil
 yer Senators from Arizona, regardless of their politics.
 Now We do not believe that Senator
 Teller, Wolcott, Stewart and Dubois
 have given Mark Smith or any body
 else any private assurance as to what
 their action in the Senate will be, in case Arizona should apply for admission to the union as state, under the only conditions upon which Mark Smith seems to desire our entrance into the sisterhood of states. We will not be- ieve'that Senators Teller, Wolcott, Stew art and Dubois, have assured Smith in advance that they would vote for the admission of two Democratic Senators from Arizona, in order to get two silver votes and by their action deliver the United States Senate into the power of the Democratic party for years to come, unless these senators so state to some better authority than Mark Smith.
 The friends of MT. Smith are not con- tent with claiming the moral support of four Republican Senators of the United States, in their efforts to make Arizona a Democratic state, but they are even asserting that President Harrison has assured Smith that he will sign the bill admitting Arizona as state, whenever it comes to him for his signature.
 Why should President Harrison, Sen ators Teller, Wolcott, Stewart and Du- bols, make Mark Smith their confident in regard to what their official action should be, as to tue admission of Ari> zona as a stateg
 There are Republicans ln Arizona who are on better and confidential terms with President Harrison, Senator Teller, Wolcott, Stewart and Dubois than Mark Smith is, and they have not been informed what the acton of the presi- dent and said senators will be in regard to the admission of Arizona, under the only conditions upon which the Mir. Smith desires to see our beloved Terri tory assume the responsibilities and re- ceive the benefits of statehood.
 Whenever Mark Smith button-holes Repu blican and tells him what Bssur- ance he.has received from the president and Republican senators in regard to the admission of Arizona, let the Re publican ask Mark how it happens that a Republican president and leading Re publican senators should give their confidence to him ia regard tO Arizona's statehood, when they know that ne. Smith, is trying his utmost to make a Democratic state out of Arizona. We do not believe there is even one Re publican in all Arizona fresh enough to believe that the leaders of our party have given Mark the aid or comfort of which he boasts, in his efforts to over throw Rspubl can principles here.
 President Harrison and Senators Tel Ter. Wolcott, Stewart and Dubois are not m harmony with Mir. Smiths efforts to make Arizona Democratic state. No matter what Mark may say, he has had mournful experlence from said sen ators and others that his feeble efforts to make Democratic state out of Ari- zona by ciap-trap arguments will not avail. Senators Teller, WolcOtt, Stew art and Dubois are not in league with Mark Smith or any one else to admit two Democratic senators from Arizona to turn the United States Senate over to D .mocratic control in order to get TWO silver senators into the senate. This miserable subterfuge exposss the ear of defeat which LOW confroBtS onr Democratic delegate, who until recently ,ae fondly hoped for the election of a legislature this fall, but LOW that hope is gone, hence these earsi
 What the Republicans of Arizona in-