The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-10-26
TERRITORIAL STATES.

The advocates of the admission OF
Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahom'
to statehood are Busily at work
among the members OF the house and
senate trying 20 create favorable
feeling i'm behalf OF the project; but
the outlook is not as promising as it
was I'm the last congress The omni-
bus bin which passed the house so
easily. will not go through again
that shape. It would not have gone
through at that time if SC had not been
regarded as impossible OF passage by
the senate. Speaker Henderson made
"a mistake in opening the way for the
bin while blocking more important
measures u can De- safely assumed
taat no such omnibus measure will go
through the next house Each terri
tory Will stand ON It's merits the next
tine
The territory OF Arizona, with a
population of 92,9O3 whites, by the last
census. and lSlS negroes, win have
t.oublr IN getting admitted as a
state Tor a good while to come It re-.
quircs lgi1S2 inhabitants To- make tne
rg;ion for one member OF the house of
representatives. Counting indians,
Mongolians and everybody else and
Arizona fall about 10000 short of
enough inhabitants 10 ontitlc il TO one
member OF the house But including |
the whites and the negroes who have !
the right to vote and Arizona has not |
half enoueN population to cntitle IL to |
a member OF the house.
The increase In population in that
territory was only SiGSS in the ten
years up to 1900, and in the preceding |
ten years the increase was only 49, |
$50. II the increase in the last three |
years has been at the highest rate |
ever known there before the territory |
has only added about 10000 TO It's pop |
uiation and if all were whites or ne |
groes that population would only now |
reach 100000. or $1,000 short of |
enough to elect member of the |!
bouse. And yet it is proposed to give |
this small population the election OF |
two United States senators and q
member of the house.
New Mexico is little better OFF. 1t
had not sufficient white and negro |
population at the time of her last cen
sus to make up the ratio necessary TO
elect % member of the house Since !
1850 the highest increase in the pop |
ulation in ten years time was $4,000 |
in the last census period. II Is alb !
surd to talk Of admitting such pop
ulation to statehood. About $4,000 !
OF New MeXico's population are for ,
,igners not including the Mexicans.
Oklahoma has sufficient population,
but it should be admitted to statehood
in combination with the Indian Terri |
tory Neither one is, territorially
speaking, large enough alone or has
the qualifications for statehood, but
combined they will make satlsfac-
tory state
what has been done in the way OF
admitting other territories to state
hood has no bearing on the question !
of admitting further territories Mis-.
takes, and very bad ones, have been
made in the past But that is no eX-
Cuse for repeating that performance.
The Louisville Courie-Journal says |
that the question of adding six more
Democratic senators to the rolls and |
the electoral votes of three more |
Democratic states" defeated this pro
jCct in the last senate While the |
chances are that all three states would |
be Democratic, that did not decide the |
issue. II was defeated on its merits,
as it should be brought forward in tne |
congress Philadelphia Press. |