Arizona republican., 1904-03-04
A ROAST OF RODEY
Delegate Wilson Resents His nissiOn-
 ary Work in Arizona.

lon. J. r.. NllSOll, uel6SdIe lO Coll- gress from this territory, resents the interference of Delegate Rodey of New Mexico with the affairs of Arizona and also charges him with having violated an agreement made with him as to their course in statehood legis- lation. The Republican yesterday re- ceived the following letter from Col Wilson of the datel of Feb 27:
 "On the arrival of the papers from Arizona sonie days ago l was treated to another surprise, sprung by Rodey of New Mexico, by the announcement by the papers Gor it was the first mo- tice l had had of iD that ROdey had been writing to the newspapers of the Territory and appealing to them for personal correspondence with view or inducing public sentiment in Arizona to adopt the hated plan of joining Ari- 2ona and New Mexico into one state. Seeing that such an underhanded play is going on it behOoves me to make a few plain statements concerning it.
 "Therefore. state first: That last summer. because fo personal cor leepondence bctu cen Rodey and my self. a conference was agreed upon and we met at Albuquerque, where
 
 inc purpose of arriving at q positive agreement as to what our course would be with reference to the coming laS!s- latfon for statehood for the two terri tories. At that conference it was pos itfveIy and unequivocally agreed be- tween us thak the idea of joint state hood for the two territories would be fought to the bitter end by us both;
 "a Gt a two territories would be battled for without warp or yielding to q final finish: and, that the question of ac- cepting jointure should never be con- sidered at all.
 secondly: On my arrival here dur ing the first week in November we met and the same policy and the same ob- ligations were renewed between us.
 Third n order to further our ad- vantages on this line we adopted kind of system Of free masonry be tween ourselves, gathering all the in- formation we could, secret or other wise. and imparting it to each other afterwards. Each seemed to impose perfect confidence in the other, so acted.
 Fourth: In view of all this. with out notice or warning to me in any way. Delegate Rcdey, late in January, wired to the newspapers of New Mex ico and to the republican central com r7fttee then in session that. unless otherwise instructed by a majority of his people he was going to accept iCin,ure. which could only mean that he had intended 10 go over to the enemy and aid in it's accomplishment knew nothing of this intended change of purpose until saw it in the pa rers. True. in our private conversa- ton he had insisted that it was better to take joiutjAe than not to get state hood at all. but he never told me Cf lis intention 10 surrender. and | was given no notice or warning of it until after it was published to the world.
 Fifth. In addition to i, all and, to my greater surprise still, in violation Cf all ethical rules, and still with cut notice word. or warning, he seeks. by stealth. to prOselyte the people whom represa mt, whose commission I hold. and whose instructions l am seeking to obey, to his views by writ ing this invasive letter to the news papers Of the territory to do with. the people of Arizona what he is trying to do with his own constituencies suit bag and whip them into line to obey his views and the views Of those 10 whom he seems to have surrendered instead Of their own.
 .'I might add that. on the day his telegram went to New Mexico giving notice of his intention to surrender, his central committee was in session in full force at Santa F. and. they promptly took action ucaairlously ! cordemring his position and condemn ling the idea of joint statehood fer the l territories of Arizona and New Mexico. ! He says there was one vote against ii | Gone out of forty-five) the papers say none
 seventh: All this happened only a | few days after Delegate Rcdey stood ! before the house committee on terri ! tories and solemnly declared that more | than so per cent Of his people were 1 opposed to jointure and therefore, he 1 would have to obey their will.
 "In the face of these facts and be-
 cause of his invasion of my territory | in what I believe to be an evil effort
 10 pros5lyte my people and caus, | them to surrender a sovereign Ameri- ! can right for his own view of paI tisar advantage, I feel called upon as a mat ter of duty to those whom I represen l to make the above plain statement o facts in order that the people of tn. l territory and elsewhere may draw theil 1 own conclusions in the premises. The English language furnishes plenty o
 plain weil-meanins words with whicl t0 describe such action as this. They | need not be spelled out here.
 "On the other hand, ] have not 1T
 any way. word. or wire. either by ac tion, word, or deed attempted to in l nuence a single man CT body of meI | in New Mexico 10 lend their hand tC | strike at the back of their delegate. no
 do I intend 10. His conduct speaks fo itself and must be left to him, his con | science, and his people. But. after all
 he may rest assured, and so may tn, people, that whatever may come, thi | infamous plan Of joining the two ter