Arizona silver belt., 1898-11-03
in Tucson and Florence against it


 where I heard him myself. And now, he has the gall of a government mule to go before the people of Arizona and tell them, that the only thing which will pull them out of the mire is to vote for Col. Brodie and statehood, which, if they did get. would be under the very constitution he did everything in his power to have rejected. .s-,ss ..-,,,s
 It is further matter of facts, that last spring, when statehood, and af- forwards home-rule bill came up be- fore the present republican congress, every prominent republican in Arizona, of the bread and butter brigade, burnt the wires between Phoenix and Wash. ington, and some of them even went to Washington to have sad bills dofeated. They succeeded, and if any one will take the trouble to read the territorial republican platform, he will see that it points to it with pride. And he will also see that, the very same platform says "The republicans of Arizona are for statehood,' giving the lie to their own actions, and to which "they point with pride"
 asked the Hon. Mir. Wright to OK plain how we could get statehood from a republican administration and re- publican congress, when the present republican congress refused it. He said we could get it by electing Col. Brodie, who would have such Q great influence in congress that they would not refuse it to him.
 Now let us see about that. It is Q matter of facts, that when the state hood blll came up before congress last Spring, Thos. B. Reed, speaker of the house of representatives, who has only to point his finger ct his "reconcentrs- dos" and say Thumbs up" and thumbs go up, or, 'thumbs down, and thumbs go down, was against the statehood bill, and so were congress- men Dingley chairman of the Ways and Means committee, Hill, chairman of the committee on Foreign Affairs, and Grosvenor, one of tue most prom inent republicans of Ohio.
 Now, has the Hon. Mir. Wright the unmitigated gall to tell us Col. Brodie's influence in Washington would be so great that he could overcome the infu- ence of the men I have named? No, Mir. Editor, it is too preposterous for man with any sense to believe it. It is a film. fam game of the rottenest kind,
 There is another party I want to mention in connection with this three card monte statehood game while I am at it, and sec how he stood in the past, and where he stands today. The said party is R. c. Brown. who has been particular, personal friend of mine for a long time, and is to-day one of the editors of the Globe Times. During the years 1887, 'SS, 'S9, go and '9l, the Arizona Enterprise was published and edited in Florence, Pinal county, by R. c. aud G. W. Brown. If one will take the trouble to hunt up the files of that paper for the months of September, October and November, 1891, while the question of adopting or rejecting our constitution was being discussed, he will see that said paper did everything in its power to have said constitution rejected. Now, one of the editors of that paper and who is now one of the editors of the Globe Times, comes out and says Vote for Col. Brodie and statehood" which, if we did get it, would be under the very constitution he (R. 0. Brown) did his very best to have rejected.
 do not blame Brown so much, be. cause I Lave the highest respect for him :; besides he is poor man like my self who has to work for bis living, and if he did not publish what his political masters want him to, he would just naturally lose his job.
 Respectfully,
 FELIX LEBLANC.