The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-16

Opposed 10 Being United While Wyoming
&c. Are single.


&C.. Are single.
Governor Prince, of the Territory OF
New Mexico, and Governor Murphy, OF
the Territory of Arizona, have, eacn, III
their annual reports to the Interior De
partment, presented glowing accounts Oh
the resources and increasing population
Of their respective Territories. And, nat
urally, speaking in the name and Oh
behalf Of the population over whose des-
TIMES they preside with marked ability,
the two Territorial Governors make out
strong case for the admission OF their
Territories 10 Statehood.
On sundry occasions bills have passed
one or the other of the two Houses or
Congress to admit New Mexico to the
sistcrhOod of States; but, as OH all these
occasions one or the other House, If not
both Houses, Of Congress. has had
majority OF Republicans, and as the pro-
clivities of the New Mexicans have been
undisguiscaly Democratic, il is almost
superfluOus TO recite the historical tact
that the bill for its admission has never
been allowed to pass both Houses in the
same session.
At the last session the House of Rep
resentatiyes passed bills to admit both
New Mexico and Arizona to Statehood,
the New Mexico bill with only three
and the Arizona bill with only thirteen
dissentient votes But, of course, the
Senate was too full of affairs of la haute
politique to be able TO spare time for the
consideration of such a trivial matter as
the appeal of over 2OO,00O American
citizens to be allowed their Just rights.
And now comes the very naive pr0po-
sition from the Republican side that the
two Territories, inasmuch as they are
contiguous to each other be joined to
each other and he admitted as one
State In their married condition they
would have more than the Congressional
ratio of 173.9O0, and would be entitled
to one representative and two senator's
between them This delightful propo-
sition, as it is set forth by the Phila-
delpha Press, has the codieil added TO
it, to give il a less lop-sided lock, that
the same process of marriage be perform
oh ON Nevada and Utah when the last
named shall have complied with the con-
ditions antecedent to such nuptials.
BY throwing away Nevada in this reck,,
less assortment of pairs, present ana
future. the Republicans no doubt hope
to be esteemed altruistc if not generous
in asserting their readiness, ut some
future time to sacrifice one Republican
State in return for the sacrifice by the
Democrats of one Democratic State at
the present time In other words, the
Republicans would swap contingent
for present advantage. That .they
would be ready to sacriflce NeVao,i,
moreover. ut a future date Is not qiite
so astonishing as it might appear when
we reflect that Nevada is, even now,
making n distinct threat to leave the
Republican side of her own motive ana
throw in her lot with the Democrats.
This wedock proposition. applied TO the
purely Democratic Territories or New
Mexico and Arizona, is so extremely
pretty that we are astonlshed the he-
nublicans did not think of it when they
were admitting within the last decade
halfdozen or so of Republican Ierrlto-
ries. What was there, for example, In
the shape of a cause or just impedlneht
why the Republicans should not nave
Joined together the two TERRITORIES OF
Montana and Dakota in pohtical matri-
mony? They are contiguous TO eacn
other, and when the former was hu-
mitted TO Statehood, the two together
did not have greater population than
New Mexico and Arizona together nave
now. Or why should not one state
have been made of the two contiguous
Republican Territories of Wyoming and
Washington? For. in 1890, the former
of the pair had population OF only o..
600. which was not nearly one-haif or
the population of New Mexico in the
same year. What is sauce for the goose
&c. ...,.
in their way. particularly when the pro.
nosed parties to the combinations are or
one mind and are disposed to combine.
In the present instance, however, New
Nexico and Arizona show no Inclination
r. pool their fortunes with a view to
c co p felicity, just to please the G.
O. p. And the obvious duty of the
States which are alread in, is to admit
two in severalty to full union and com
munion with them.-New Orleans Times
Democrat