Arizona republican., 1902-05-28
The eastern press is beginning to COT

The eastern press is beginning to con-
 Oklahoma will be admitted to statehood in the near NEW future, and it is amusing to VIEW. note the diverse views ex- pressed by the metropolitan dailies. It has been generally assumed that partisanship was cutting little. if any. figure in determining the action of congress, but there comes the demo- cratic Philadelphia Times with a howl | that the three territories are to be ad- mitted to further the diabolical pur- poses of the republican party. The Times is opposed to admission, Of course, and it bases it's opposition on the threadbare argument that the equi- by permitting relatively small com- munities like Arizona to have an equal voice in the senate with New York and Pennsylvania. Such arguments are founded on ignorance of the funda- mental principles of the government | Even superficial acquaintance with the history of the Constitution would remove the worry of the kickers. It was clearly the intention of the fathers | to give the larger states power in the house of representatives in proportion to their population, and hold in check the selfishness which goes with power by limiting these great states to repre- sentation in the senate on an equality with the smaller subdivisions of the union. And in addition to that it was the idea of the men who founded the | government that a United States sen ator should be something more than merely a representative of his state. 1 In a larger sense he was to represent the whole nation, and the allotment of two senators to each state was in fur therance of the idea that these repre- sentatives of the nation at large should come from ali parts of the union and not from the over populated sections. Accordingly, if harmony with the spirit of the Constitution be observed, it makes no difference to the nation whether a state counts its popula tion | in millions or in thousands-the essen tial question being whether there is sufficient popula ation to bear the bur dens and responsibilities of q local state government. But we give space to the Times:
 The politicians of the majority are to have their way and there will in all probability be three new states added to the list of those in the union within the usual limit of time after the en- abling enactment by congress. Only one of the territories in question, Okla l. homa, is fairly entitled by population to statehood; but such interests as ap- peal most to working partisans seem to dictate the policy of admitting all. if any, of them to the union at once. At present Arizona is represented in congress by a democratic delegate, and both New Mexico and Oklahoma by republicans: but the majority in the case Of the first named is not more than 1000. and it is hoped by the republicans that the change in the popula tion since the last election and the fact that ii will owe to them its elevation to state, hood will affect its political conversiu. rom the moment II Is organized tC govern itself In any event the repub- licans are sure to gain two senators and probably two representatives as a net result of these admissions to the union. and they can well afford to lei Arizona in, even though she remain democratic.
 Arizona. however, is the least quail fled of the three for complete auton. l Cmy According tO the laST cenS1ls SI,r has only 122,9 ,931 inha bit2nts. while New Mexico has 195, ,310 and Oklahoma. 39S,. 331. In assessed valuation Oklahoma has grown with wonderful rapidity il the very few years since her first gen.