El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-20
THE ANNEXATION SCHEME.
Is Not Looked Upon With Favor BY
the East Texas papers.


Recently the Houston Post copied
the entire article published in the
HERALD concerning annexation, with
the interviews of Judge Smallwood and
Senior Armijo. 1t followed these up
with some of the short interviews tax
en- from another Ell Paso paper and in
q late issue says editorially:
1.-THE New Mexicans should take
steps to people the solitudes they now
own before attempting to gobble up
goodly slices of Texas. In the mean
wet towel On Ell Paso's brow-dreams
of becoming new states capital ap-
pear to be rendering her feverish !"
The San Antonio Express in COM
mentlng on the proposed annexation of
q portion of New Mexico to Ell Paso
says.
''It is not probable that the people of
Texas will ever consent to division of
the state, or to the surrender of any
part of its territory for the formation
of new state or for the enrichment of
another commonwealth. Certainly
there is no considerable sentiment in
favor of such project now, unless it
may be within very limited circle on
the border of New MeA leo.
Several years ago when it was sug
gested for political reasons that Texas
be cut up into four states. thereby
quadrupling the representation from
the state in the United States Senate,
the people of Texas repudiated the sug
gestiOn almost as one man and it was
regarded as little less than seditious to
even discuss the proposition. Hardly
any one has ventured to agitate the
of the state in any
manner sincea
1.-THE proposition to form q new state
by looping off portion of West Texas
to be added to territory taken from
New Mexico and Arizona Is a scheme
which would naturally have the sup
ed individuals who would profit by the
change which would locate state
capital nearer to their land holdings.
1t would certainly be more convenient
to a number of people living close to
the border Of New Mexico and far re-
moved from Austin to have state
capital located at their very
doors. The same thing would
be true of every other corner of the
it would be necessary to divide Texas
into multiplicity of states and create
such burdens of taxation as could not
reasonably be borne. But even in Ell
Paso, where it is proposed to locate the
capital of the new state, there is q sem
timental opposition to the scheme to
dismember Texas on the part of native
Texans 1t is the newcomers only who
are at all favorable to it.
s'Probably little attention would be
paid to the project which some gentle
men in the far west have set on foot.if
Rn.attempt had not been madeto secure
on the part of the state
legislature which provoked the autago-
nistic concurrent resolutions introduce
ed by Representative Bridgers. These
pretty clearly Indicate the
of Texans generally as to
the preservation of the territorial
limits of the state intact. Texas
Is big and broad, but
she has not one acre of
ground to surrender to any other COM
N on wealth, nor can she be persuaded
to part with one foot of her territory to
further any scheme for the creation of
another state. This fact is so we'll un-
derstoOd in Texas that no one who un-
derstands the sentiment of the people
would ever advocate division of the
state in any manner if he had any
political aspiration in the sta e.
Texas, one and indivisable, is the
sen timent that has ever obtained and
will ever obtain in Texas, at last for
long time to come"