Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-07-20
Hale Of Maine Bears The Unenviable Distinction
Of Being The Worst Enemy To Separate
!. Statehood
SENATOR ALDRICH IN FAVOR OF JOINTURE
Beveridge Says Committee Of Territories In Senate
Expects To Pass The Present Joint
Statehood Bill
tBy B. s. Rodey.)

tBy B. s. Rodey.)
From the Interviews l have Ind
With different members Of tina house
and senate on the statehood and other
questions, ! am ia : position At the
present time TO Judge pretty fairly a.
% who are our best friends, and who
are our most pernicious enemies. At
IL present time We have no pernic.
Sous enemies in either house, except
On the question u separate statehood
Tor New Mexico. Al to that We have
zone implacable enemies.
II had to say who was our worst
enemy for separate statehood for
New Mexico, I would unhesitatingly
give the palm to Hon. Eugene Hale,
q Maine. ! went TO see him privately
three or four times. and Inundated
myself In my efforts TO gain his good.
win, but a crosser. more irritable.
uncomprising man I never met. and /
finally wound up by giving him a
piece OF my mind In an argument
that Was quite AZ lurid as he gave
me. In the f~ifty-eighth congress- j
went 70 . him again. and approach.
ed him III such manner az that In
nve minutes We we're on pcaceabie
terms, and We actually had q SPLEEN
did conference and came TO IN under.
standing. ! feel though that bis
changed attitude II owing TO the good
officss q my good friend. Governor
Powers Of Maine. Hale treats New
Mexico and her claims nov ~ she
shculd BE- treated By any gentleman.
bat he 10 still against separate state.
bod and WIN never vote Tor II. He
= . positive advocate q the jointurs
= . solution Of the question. and q
sAclinsd to bs very liberal - to what
~ terms Of the bill shall be.
Senator Aidrich. Of Rhode Island.
Ne sphinx Of congress. who leads
vAiis appearing 70 foilow-the most
ssticent man In the national iegisla-
tsre. 10 now our friend On the join-
turs. He was one Of our worst enc.
nies In the fight in the ~fifty.seventh
congress, and, from 0 which I
adopted. I could learn what he said
to many people and got a good deal
Of Information about his ideas ON
statehood that he had no idea ever
came TO my ears. When one Is In q
great fight and inaugurates d system
as TO getting information in this way
as to what hts enemies think. he ii
thrice armed when he meets them.
Knowing what Aldrich had done and
the plans he laid to thwart our e.
forts. ! was enabled 10 approach him
on common ground. and | have now
made friend OF him. and he Is. also.
q positive advocate Of the Joint state
hood bill, but is as ~implacable an
enemy "a ever OF separate statehood
for either New Mexico or Arizona.
The letter from him. which I publish
ed IN The Optic about three months
ZN A H.
ago, shows bis attitude. He was FOR
putting a joint statehood plank In the
republican national platform, but Re
va oyerruled BY others who did not
understand the situation as well as he
old. lie ID now our friend.
Strange a II may seem. after all
our battle. and after the many things
] have At times said about him. sena,
Beveridgc and myself have be
the best Of friends. During the
second half Of the ~ffty.seyenth con
many a time ! attended ban.
uuets, receptions and other places
when Beverage would be present.
and ~ nearly every one II these
functions, some question would arise
where intermeddlnig BY ISLANDERS
would start a sparring match be.
'~een myself and Beverage. II re-.
luired a good deal Of tact At times 10
these Intermediates mind their
affairs. and 80 70 conduct oneself
Is that at least there should occur
% loss ~ dignity Beyeridee is 10.
lay az l~mpracable an enemy as he
'ser was Of separate statehood for
Sew MEXICO or Arizona, but be Is The
advocate 10 congress of The
o~intgfe, and he Is advocating more
Iberal terms than any other senator
lis support carries the greatest