Arizona republican., 1898-11-14
ADDRESS TO VOTERS.
Chairman Gill Writes of inc Oppor-
 tuniiV of 1900.

To the Editor of The Republican, Sir
 The friends of statehood in Arizona
 waged a splendid fight in the campaign
 just ended, and although defeated,
 wish to call their attention to q few
 potent facts and to urge upon every
 voter who desires statehood for Ari-
 Zona regardless of what his political
 affiliation may be, to redouble his ef-
 forts for that much desired boon and to
 work unceasingiy from now i.ill the
 close Of election day in 1900 for state
 hood.
 The defeat of Col Brodie has shown
 that statehood cannot be secured
 within the next two years Many
 voters of all parties asserted tha. even
 with Brodie's election we could not
 secure statehood; that it was out of
 the question until the silver question
 was settled The election of last Tues day effectUally settled the silver qres-
 ,lon as it has been agitated the last
 two years, and eliminated it from
 American politics When such silver
 states as Kansas. Nebraska, North
 Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington
 and California repudiate the silver
 candidates i. shows that the question
 of the free coinage O. silver by the
 United States independent Of any other
 
 alone with Colorado. and even in Col
 orado the silver forces were reduced to small majority.
 Now let the voters look to the fu- ture and strive for statehood. And
 how can statehood De secured? By
 electing a delegate to congress and a legislature that is ill harmony with the national administration.
 In the election of last Tuesday the republicans gained ten United States senators and lGrt none. Wyoming and Washington which tine democrats clr- ried two years ago gave enormous re- publican majorities, electing almost the solid legislature in both states, 1 so tha. Clark and Wilson will succeed themselves or be succeeded by repub i licans. The democrats lost the sen- ators in New York, New Jersey, Della ware, Maryland, West virginia, In- diana, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Ne braska and California; and even in Nevada that great apostle Of silver, w. M. Stewart is confronted by an anti Stewart legislature.
 After the 4th of next March the re- publicans will have fifty-four mem- bers of the senate against thirty-six democrats, populiSts, silver republi- cans and independents Almost two- thirds majority and larger majority than any party has had in the senate since 1872 What does it mean? It means that with the most favorable conditions for the silver forces at every election from now till 1906 that they cannot secure control Of the sen ate. This is not a random statement. | Any man who will take the Congress sional Directory and look up the terms of the senators from the different | states can very readily figure this out ! for himself. Os there any man so | foolish as to believe that statehood | can be secured for Arizona if she con- | tinues in the democratic column while i the senate is thus in the hands of the republicans? Of course she cannot.
 McKinley's administration is prov ing the most popular one sinca Lin | coln's. He has successfully prose- cuted a foreign war; and when peace is made the stars and stripes will float 1 over all the islands of the seas for merly held by Spain. Mills and fac tories that were idle under Cleveland | are al work, giving labor to thousands and hundreds of thousands of men. Our experts exceeded our imports for the fiscal year ending June 30 last by more than $2C0,000, ,O00 You don't hear anything nowadays about gold being withdrawn from the treasury for export for Europe. Instead, it is com ing the cher way. The balance of trade is in our favor.
 That endless chain MT. Cleveland harDed about has disappeared. Ard these prosperous times will continue under Mckinley. As a logical s. quence Mckinley will be reelected president in 1900 Nothing can beat him. His administration of foreign af fairs, the prosperity of the country and the construction of the Nicaragua canal, which will be begun within q year, will all stand as such living testi- mOniais to Mckin1ay'S fitness that the people will endorse him.
 With McI<iniey's election will go the election Of republican congress. That is certain. Never in the history Of -hc country was a congress elected in a presidential year that was in opposi- tion to the mai elected president.
 As already pointed cut the senate will be overwhelmingly republican. I len wi.h Mckinley reelected and a congress the only way for Arizona to secure statehood Is to elect | a delegate and legislature in harmony 1 with the administration. This is not a political question. It is a straight $ business matter. Statehood would be It worth millions Of dollars to Arizona. $ now would be worth more ] to rizona in advancing ner n popula- l ton, wealth and rank in the Union ] han all the silver ger mined in the ( territory. l
 A man from Yavapai county said to : ne today that the people of his county I voted the democratic ticket last Tues day because they wer3 true 70 silver. and when 1 asked him to name single 5 silver mine in Yavapai courty he : could not do it. The alfalfa crop | alone of the Salt River valley in this 1 one year of 1893 brought more money { into Arizona than all the silver ever [ produced in Yavapai county has ( brought into the territory, and yet [