Bisbee daily review., 1904-10-15
THE MAJORITY SHOULD BE GREAT.

0E OREAt.
 At the election in November the re suit in Cochise county should show the largest per centage of Democrat ic votes ever cast in this county There are excellent reasons why suci a result should be recorded. The is sues involved in the congressiona campaign are clear cut and agreed upon by both andsdates-Smith ana Fowler The latter. when he accept ed the nomination at Prescott, stated in a speech, that he was willing to ac cept statehood as the paramount issue in this campaign.
 Well and good; then it becomes nee essary for the voters in the territory to consider and examine the records made by both the Democratic and Re publican parties on the question of statehood and see which party has in the past showed Q disposition to grant to Arizona the same treatment in it's admission as a state as other territo- 1ies received at the time of their ad+ mission to the sisterhood of states in the Union.
 For twelve years the Republican party in its national conventions, prior to the meeting of its last convention in Chicago this year, gave an expres- sion on the question of statehood for the remaining territories. Twelve years ago and again eight years ago the Republicans in their national plat forms declared that the territories should be admitted whenever they were considered eligible for the honor and responsibility, CT words to that effect. Four years ago the Republi- cans went further and put plank in their platform declaring flor the early admission Of Arizona, New Mex leo and Oklahoma as states The pledges of that platform were never redeemed, and at Chicago this year the Republicans remained silent on the question of statehood.
 In the fall of 1902 Mark Smith se- cured the passage of what was known as the omnibus statehood bill through the lower House of Congress, and oui people thought then that they were about to have conferred upon them the right of self government which had SO long been denied. It did not oc- cur fo them that the Republicans would refuse to admit the territories 10 statehood after giving the uncondi tlonal promise in their national con rention that they would do so.
 When the omnibus Statehood bill appeared in the Senate it was soon demonstrated that administration lead CTS. who were all powerful in the Sen ate had agreed among themselves thai the statehood bill should not become q law. 4 fex oI the Republican Senators. headed by the late Quay oi Peansyivaria. favored tne omnibus bill but tae administration Senators under the direction o. sanction ol President Roosevelt. would not allow the bill to pass. Let it be remem pered that when the omnibus bin was before the Senate every Democratic senator was ready to vote fer t whe1 the Republicans would allow it to g to a vote. During the last session ol Congress the Republicans put the las1 sheaf on their aiaboiical treatment oi Arizona in it's aspirations for state hood by passing the joint statehood 5rl through the lower House of Con gress making one State out of the two territories of Arizona and Ne" Meueo. This bill will come before the Senate next winter. and Repu01 can success in Arizona next month with the election of the Republican