The Florence tribune., 1900-03-24
M,coRp IN WASHINGTON.
The Ex-Governor Working for Admission
 of Arizona.
From the Washington Times

From the Washington Times.l
 Former Governor McCord, who re- signed the governorship of Arizona to take territorial regiment to the Spanish American war, is stopping at | the Ebbitt house. ''The Pacific coast states," he said last night, "are ex- ceedingly prosperous. The live stock l interest has prospered; the fruitindus- try has returned 8 bouutiful reward, and the agricultural and dairy pro duets have found remunerative mar ket in the Orient. The export of flour, beef and wheat alone, for the last year in China and Japan has exceeded $l2, ,000,000 This, for market that is entirely new, is very encouraging. The the same market have been sufficient to give great encouragement. The copper product for Arizona for 1899 was l50,000,000 pounds, which was worth in the market over $250, ,000, 900.
 ''our people feel that expansion and the open door policy has been of great benefit to them, and hence for that reason, if for no other, we are all ex- pausionists. If any party declares against expansion, that party cannot hope to carry any of the coast states. The silver issue is dead. It is possi- ble the democrats may carry Colorado and Nevada upon that issue, but they cannot carry Idaho or Montana, states they carried in 1896.
 "I am greatly in hopes congress will pass an enabling act for the admission of Arizona. We want and deserve statehood. During the war with Spain Arizona furnished more than five times its quota, and her men were en- listed and sworn into the service be- fore the quota of any other state or territory were sworn in. Arizona's sons were among the first to land up on foreign soil, among the first to shed their blood in defence of their country, and among the first to plant the American flag upon the enemy's works. An Arizona flag was the first flag planted upon Spanish strong hold.
 'There is not single valid reason why Arizona should not be admit ted. We have more wealth and populasio than the average of the states had at the time they were admitted for the last seventy-fve years.
 ''If Arizona is admitted by repub- lican congress and the bill is signed by republican president, it will be republican, sound money, gold stand ard state, and it will not be rotten borough, but credit and honor to the nation.
 ''It is probably true that some of our territorial officials are not in favor of statehood, for the reason that they fear they might lose their jobs, but the people and the business interests, in- cluding both the continental railway lines, the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific, that pass through the territory are heartily in favor of Arizona be- coming state.
 Another thing Arizona wants is for the government to build storage reser- voirs, for impounding the flood waters for the purpose of irrigation. A na- tional irrigation system is now ad- vocated by all the western states. Such a system would be g. grander scheme for internal improvements, and bring much better results than any scheme that ever challenged the wisdom of Henry Clay and his school of states men. A national system of irrigation would develop an empire where now is found nothing but barren desert it would afford homes for millions that now inhahit the oyercrowded cities, and the lands, when reclaimed
 would sell for ten times the cost ot
 reclamation.
 "But there is one thing that Arizona
 does not want, and that is to have tho
 government cede to the states ant
 territories the arid lands, as is advocat
 ed by Governor Poyuter of Nebraska
 Such policy would forever proven
 their reclamation. They would, tt use the language of Secretary Wilson
 'be gobbled up by corporations anC - syndicates."
 'Of course the people out there ar, . for McKinley's renomination, and h, : will receive the electoral vote of ever, < state west of the Mississippi with tht }. possible exception of Colorado, Utal : and Nevada. The democrats ar, z mostly for Bryan, because they be , lieve he will be nominated, but thinl the most of them prefer some one else for the very good reason that the, ; think he will be defeated if nomin ! ated.'
 z A New York dispatch says :-Th sale on exchange of 20,000 onnces o J silver at 61 is thought to indicate al }. impending movement by the Unite S e.