The Coconino sun., 1904-09-24
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Adopted by the Recent Territorial conven-
 ton. Single Statehood Declared For.

oieu uO nefeDy redIurln our utNotlOu to the policies and principles of the republican party as enunciated in the national republican platform; and, further, we approve those principles and purposes as embodied in our na- tional legislation of the past. And comparing our present leaders with our great historic leaders, we believe them to be worthy of our most earnest support.
 We endorse and approve the admin istration at Washington and especial ly that high diplomacy which has so magnified our country's prestige and influence in foreign affairs, which se- cured to us the Panama canal, the building of which we believe will re- suit in worldwide benefit to all man. kind and secure to the United States the political and commercial supre- macy of the Pacific ocean. We espe- cially and particularly endorse and approve the promotion and passage of irrigation laws for and on behalf of the territory of Arizona and other portions of the arid west, by the re- publican majority in the national congress, and we call especial atten- tion to the fact that President Roose- welt was the first and only president of the United States who called the at tention of congress to the needs of the arid west in the matter of irrigation and made possible the passage of the present national irrigation law.
 We commend and approve the ad- ministration of Theodore Roosevelt and heartily endorse the action of the republican national convention in placing him in nomination for ;he presidency of the United States of America. We approve and take pride in his unswerving fidelity to duty, his genuine Americanism, his lofty pat riotism and fearless enforcement of law, his loyal support of republican principles and policies, his broad
 
 of all sections and classes of this great republic. We endorse Governor Alexander O. Brodie and his efficient and impartial Administration of his duties as governor of this territory.
 We desire the admission of Arizona into the union as separate and sov- apairrn St afa and nnttally anl ,,r alterably opposed to the admission of the territories of Arizona and New Mexico into the union as one state, preferring to remain a territory inde- iinitely rather than such a union, and we deeply regret and deplore the ac- tion of the democratic majority in the last territorial council in passing resolution favoring joint statehood and transmitting said resolution to the president and national congress as the joint action of the two houses of the territorial legislature all of which was done against the earnest and united opposition of the republican members of the council.
 We again remind the people of Ari- zona, that it was the republican party who formulated and maintained that policy of protection for labor which has made the American laborer the most independent of workmen and the peer of every citizen of the United States. The republican party today, as ever, stands for the best interest of labor, and we are in favor of and en- dorse all proper and reasonable legis- lation looking toward the material in- terests of labor and the enactment of