Graham guardian., 1904-03-11
FRIDAY. MARCH II. 1904
Letter From Colonel Wilson,
Honse al Representaiiyes,

Dear slr:-On the arrlNai oi inc
papers from Arizona few days
ago | was treated 60 another sur
prise, sprung by Rodcy Of New
Mexico, by the announcement by
the papers (for il was the frsi
notice l had had of iO tha, Rodey
bad been writing TO the ncwspap-
ers in the territory and appealing
10 them for personal correspond
ence With view If inducing pub
lie sentiment in Arizona TO adopt
the batcd plan # joining Arizona
and New Mexico into one state.
Seeing that such an underband
play is going on it behooves me to
make few PLAIN statements con-
cerning il.
Therefore, / state first: That last
summer, because Of personal COR
respondence between Rodey and
myself, a conference was agreed
upon aud we met at Albuquerque,
where many of his friends were
present, for the purpose Of arriving
AT positive agreement as to what
our course would be With reference
TO the coming legislation for state
hood for the two Territories At
that conference il was positively
and unequivocally agreed between
us that the idea of joint statehood
for the two Territories would bel
fought TO the bitter end by us
both; and, that separate statehood
for the two Territories would be
battled for without warp or yield
ing TO final finish; and, tba, the
question of accepting join ture
should never be considered at all.
Secondly: On my arrival here
during the first week of November
we met and that same policy aud
the same obligation were renewed
between us.
Third: In order to further our
advantages on this line we adopted
u kind of system OF freemasonry
between ourselves, gathering all
the information we could, secret
and otherwise, and impartlug it to
each other afterward. Each seem
ed to impose perfect confidence in
the other, and, so acted.
Fourth: In view of all of this, {
without notice or warning TO me /
in any way, Delegate Rodey, late
in January, wired 10 the newspa- ]
per in New Mexico and TO the Re- $
publican Central Committee then i
in session that, unless. otherwise I
instructed by majority of his {
people, he was going to accept a
jointure, which could only mean I
that be intended to go over to the g
enemy and aid in its accomplish !
ment. l knew nothing of this in ?
tended change Of purpose until /
saw il in the papers. True, in our
private conversations he had iu
sisted that it was better to take S
jointure than not to get statehood S
at all, but he never told me of his
intention to surrender, and / was l
given no notice or warning of it S
until after it was published to the I
world. {
Fifth: In addition TO it all and,
to my greater surprise still, in vio- S
lation of all ethical rules, and still P
without notice, word or warning, I
be seeks by stealth, to proselyte G
the people whom | represent, S
whose commission / hold, and F
whose instructions | am seek G
ing to obey, to bis views by writ. A
ing this invasive letter to the L
newspapers of the Territory seek N
ing to do with the people of Ari B
zona what he is trying to do with B
his own constituents-"sui bag" NJ
and "whip them into line" to obey NJ
his views and the views of those l.
10 whom be seems to have sur G.
rendered, instead of their own. B
l might add that, on the day his 81
elegram went to New Mexico Civ 81
ng notice of his intention to sur G.
'ender, his Central Committee was II
n session in full force at Santa Fe; r
md, they promptly took action c,
unanimously condemning his posi- Ii
ion and coudemning the idea Of d
oint statehood for the two Terri III
ories. He says there was one Y,
'ote against it Zone out of forty Bt
ve) the papers say none. Lt
Seventh; All this happened only ID
few days after Delegate Rodey Pl
TODD before the House committee CT
n Territories and solemnly de- H
Jared that more than 60 per cent CC
i his people were opposed to the Al
1inture and therefore, be would
ave to obey their will,
In face of all these facts and be
ause uf his invasion of my Terri