Arizona republican., 1900-10-24

with il goes q sense of security to
 life and property which
 THE the territorial govern-
 REASONS ment is not popuiarly
 WHY. supposed to supply
 While we in Arizona know that personal liberty is not re- strcted here we must confess that in the states there is q deep seated feel ing that we are wild and woolly, and that the things which go to make life enjoyable are unknown to us. We have tried for years to overcome this feeling. but it exists and it will continue to ex- ist until the bars are let down. and we are given the same privileges as the people outside of the territory.
 We have the word of many promoters that the territorial form of government Is a bar to many worthy financial pro3- ects There is no doubt that water storage would long ago have been as sured to the Salt River valley if Ari- zOna had been a state. There is no doubt that the Tonto Basin. the Agua Fria. and other storage propositions would have been accomplished now but for this drawback. While it is true that investment in irrigation enter prises has been hindered largely by failures in the west. it Is. nevertheless. tachIng to q political division that is not a state has been the means of with holding capital that might have found profitable use here.
 All parties in Arizona are unanimous in their expressions regarding state hood. They say that statehood would solve all our difficulties. It would But how shall we acquire it? By sending a democrat to republican congress? Hardly. Granting that We are entitled to statehood, we yet must recognize the fact that politics dominates the ques- ton of the admission of any territory If the democrats were in power with only q small majority in the congress, they would not consider for q moment the admission of q territory which might produce three republican votes. The republican party has not admitted Arizona because of its doubt concern ing the political complexion of the ter ritory. Here is the truth in q nutshell.
 If Mark Smith be elected this fall, statehood will be as far away as 1t ever has been. Governor Murphy has the assurances of many prominent men in both branches of the congress. and of the president of the United States that if Arizona goes republican this fall it will be given statehood. The speaker of the house, MT. n. B. Henderson, a virile republican, has written tn friends in Phoenix that he will do his ut most to bring statehood to Arizona in the event that the territory shall re- turn republican delegate.
 The census reports just submitted show Arizona to have 122.00O pOpula- ton. q population much larger than that of Idaho or Wyoming. or many other states at the time of their ad- mission
 If elected Mir. Murphy will be armed with the best possible evidence that ! is in line with the dominant ' party and worthy of it's recognition, | and the people of Arizona may rest as sured that recognition will come with i his election. Every democratic voter | fin this territory should sink his per sonal feeling and make possible the | one action which would lift us out of our present unsatisfactory political po- sition. When admitted there will be ! plenty of time for q close drawing of political lines. If the people of Arizona want state hood, if they want the present unsatis- factory conditions removed. they will vote the republican ticket on Nov rni1er and pave the way for the territOry's advancement along political and busi- ness lines.