Arizona republican., 1904-10-15


 co pass with the all-pcrwerful and all- saving pIoviso in 1t that it should not | he effective until the constitution was adopted by vote of the people of each territory voting separately and the pur- pose of the resolution which MT Bur son introduced that morning wGs 70 ad- wise MT. smith ito accept the joint statehood bill with such proviso in is that 1t should never be effective with out the consent of the people of Arizo- na.
 The resolution passed the council by a strict party vote and was totally misunderstood in the house and failed of passage in that body. If 1t had been adopted, and the joint statehood bill with such proviso in it had passed con gress, we would now be the custodians of our own independence and we would not he on our knees begging democrat ic senators to ffllbuster against repdb- Ilican inicuity.
 Mir. Ives in discussing unimportant details is unfortunate in failing to re- member them correctly. For instance. he next says in his letter:
 You. MT. Ely, entirely agreed with the view I took that morning in the council chamber. You co-operated with me in the preparation of the resolution. ! While doing so, you were in frequent i consultation with Mir. Vickers. between whom and myself, for personal reasons. | there was no Communication. You told me that the Arizona Republican had received the n;sht before a discatch stating in strong language ishat it Vas the determined purpose of the admin istra ton and the incoming republican congress 70 pass a joint statehood bill Ir lthat you in your morning issue had mutilated the dispatch rS-her than ex- pose in a republican newspaper the true purpose of the republican party t4ou were unwilling tsa. your rcbuh- lidln paper should show up your pa-ty in its naked vicioEsness and disregard of the rights of Arizona"
 Wha. MT. Ely did or did not do is Of no public interest. but the facts are Ithlc he did not co-operate in the pre- paration of the resolution. It was aI- ready written out when hurriedly glanced at. MT. Ives was in a great hurry. Inc fact that the resolution contained a clause accepting joint statehood was not observed unsil it was read on passage from the clerks desk. Mir. Ives had been assured tha- this was exactly the position of The Repub- lIaln-Arizona. should demand the right to vote on Ehe proposition separately. If the resolution had been confined to that. t would have seen not only un- objectionable but altogether wise. MT. Ives memory is at fauI. in another particular. He was assur- ed tha- The Republican agreed with him as to the danger in the future, and that the dispatch printed that morning was even stronger than as printed, and that it Ind been edited. 10 exclude statements that the president for in- stance. favored joint statehood. because the editor did not believe such state ment warranted There was no-hing said in the conversation about unwlll-. Iingness to show up the party in it's naked viciousness and disregard of the rights of Arizona"
 MT. Ives proceeds:
 ITO my amazemens, the next morn ing in a double headed editorial you roused the resolution and myself. Il seemed almost a breach of faith on your part. On meeting me you apolo- gized, saying that the personal host.li- ty of your paper to myself was such that they could not forego the oppor- tuntty to attack mo. which the failure of the lower houses to understand the resolution was created-
 Wrong again. The Republican next morning did not abuse Mir. Ives. A re- | ference to our files shows that our com Iments were in the best of humor. It was pointed out that the resolution as worded yass a deplorable step in the wrong direction-as it was. And in the conversation t was explained that the objection of this paper ran to the clause accepting union with New Mex ico under any conditions.
 MT. Ives proceeds with his generous defense O. MT. Smith:
 .It will be observed that MT. Smith knew nothing of tSts resolution, never suggested or COunseled it.
 "Lt is true that in my letter of the 14th-twalve days previous-I had suggested that under certain circun- stances he send me wire "wni n would be ncn-committal and which I could take as d kind of a tip" I shovel the letter to the members of the coun- cll, DOJn deHlOcratlt ana republican, anl frankly asked whether they deemed his telegram of February 26th such tip as l had called for in my let ter.
 Tt seems to mo that his worae enemy cannot construe the telegram into such a suggestion. His concluding words urging that we unanimously memoral- iZe the next congress against the bill would make it void of such inference
 Assuredly, that was not MT. Ives un- derstanding when he was urging the council to adopt the resolution? He was ce-a-.a-y acting in perfect good faith then, was he nos? He believed did he not, that the telegram was 8 tip for the passage of the resolution he presented? MT. Ives proceeds: The incident was closed by the fol IOVVfrrr .fa1a o--ef-, .froN, NF-