Bisbee daily review., 1904-10-01
NafiOnalDemoCratiC Ticket.
 For President ALTON B. PARKER,
 ol New York. For Vice-President, HENRY C. DAVIS, of West Virginia.
THE PLAIN ISSUE.

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 It was hardly necessary for the Hon Marcus 4. Smith. in his speech at Kingman last night, to deny the insiH- uation of the Republicans that he ever wavered in robust. persistent. active opposition to the scheme of merging Arizona with New Mexico in state hood.
 To begin with, the joint statehood scheme is 'strictly Republican in con ception, promulgation and support, and Mir. Smith is not in the habit of sup porting Republican policies. In the next place, it is a matter of plain his tory that can not be disputed, that wer 1t not for the opposition-the earnest, persistent, aggressive opposition of MT. Smith. the joint statehood bill would have been passed as substi- ute for the omnibus bill in the winter of 1903. Senator Gay, of Pennsylva- mia, the most influential and active of the Republican leaders supporting statehood, urged Mir. Smith publicly and privately to accept the merger of Arizona and New Mexico. but Smith would not assent under any condi- ton or circumstance. Delegate Ro- dey, of New Mexico, was just as much opposed as was lIr. Smith to the mer- ger scheme when it was first suggest ed, but under the pressure of the Re publican leaders. including President Roosevelt, Rodey yielded and made joint statehood a tenet of his political faith. If Arizona had been repre- sented by a Republican delegate to con gress either in the last congress CT i1 the present one. the bill annexing Ar zona to New Mexico in statehood would have been passed and the merg- CT would now be an accomplished fact.
 The people of Arizona should net lose sight Of the main issue. Practi- cally all the Republicans in both houses of congress are committed and pledged 10 the scheme of making one state of the territories of Arizona and New Mexico. This policy is advocat- ed by President Roosevelt. The only way it can be defeated is by the Dem ocrats Of the Senate exhausting parlis. mentary procedure in opposing it. A Republican delegate to congress from Arizona would have no influence with the Democrats Of the Senate. If Ari zona should turn it's back on the Dem ocratic party and cringe and walloW in servile obeisance to the party that has sentenced it to vassalage to NeH Mexico, it could not be expected tha the Democrats of the Senate would gC out of their way save it. For, i Arizona should elect a Republican dei egate under existing conditions, Demo crats and Republicans alike woull construe it to mean that the peODl. of Arizona approved of the join statehood bill supported by the Re publicans in botl houses of congress On the otheL hand clear cut, emphat ic Democratic victory in Arizoni would be accepted as proof that th' people of the Territory were opposed to statehood in conjunction with Nev Mexico, and the Democrats of the Sen ate would regard it as sufficient war rant to exhaust their powers to defea the merger bill.
 It will not co for the Republican candidate for Delegate to Congress t' claim that he is personally opposed t' joint statehood. The national Repub ncan party is in favor of it. and Mir Fowler would be compelled by his par ty leaders to follow in the footstept of Rodey, of New Mexico, and accep the medicine provided by the Republi can caucus
 The issue is plain and simple. l Marcus 4. Smith be elected delegat' to Congress by a substantial majors!