Arizona republican., 1904-07-03
A Silly Proposition Before the Board
 of Trade.

At the board of trade meeting next
 Tuesday night there will be an effort
 to secure the adoption of a resolution
 denouncing Senator Bard of California
 and requesting the people of that state
 tO defeat his reelection. To be con
 slsten: the resolution should also state that the omnibus bill of two years agc,
 now dead and buried, is more important to Arizona than the pending measure which provides for making a single state of Arizona and New Mexico. There can be no escape from this coE- clusion, for while it is true that Senator BaId did wrongfully oppose the onlN:-
 bus bill, he is the only senator from the Pacific coast who has had the courage to announce publicly and without re- serve his oppo sition to the joint-state iniqdity. A resolution against Bard Is logically a declaraticn, the~efoye. that his friendship is not wanted and his - against the pending pill next winter is not desired, and that the board of trade does npt oppo*e the merger, after all.
 We make .h-se pass-y suggestions out of friendship for the board. We See no occasion 10 follJe- up diScts- cussion of the Bard question. Whae few people in Arizona may say for or against Senator Bard will have little weight for or against his election. Tho people Of California will attend to that The question for Arizona people to con slider Is mainly one of ethics and san- Ity. Doubtless, there are some demo- crats, although not many, it is to be hoped, who would willingly psace Ari- zona and the Phoenix board of trads In ridiculous light in order to en- republican distsensions in Cal Ifornia. It is worth while, however. to repeat here what Delegate Wilson said in The Republican yesterday:
 Tt is admitted Colonel Wilson said, ! that Bard fought single statehood and that in doing so, in his speeches, he had maiigned this territory. He did that out of transformation, but wat ever he did then, in the fifty-seveuth congress. that is all in the past. The great fight of the territory is before us. It is a p'cre Ilomentous one than the single statehood fight and Bard IS one of the few powerful champions Of Ari- zcna.
 Bard is not merely passively opposed 10 joint statehood" said Colonel Wil- sro orous. so much so that he has separ- ated from his party on this quention He fourght the jointure bill in the com nittee and he denounced it as an out rage in the senatorial caucus, where | other republican senators from the west who had pledged their opposition To the bill weakened and came under | he party whip. Fte soId BeVeudge that | the bill could not be passed: that it | was a dishonest measure and contrary -o the public policy. Senator Bard | raised his voice against the bill on -v- cry occasion, and mere thar that, | whenever h. heard anything in con- 1ectior with the piop3sed legislation he informed me of il in order that I | might be prepaed. Thsre was nothing before the last session in which the l junior senator from California was more interested than the defeat of the | Joint statehood btll"
 According to the very sensible ideas | )f the people back of this fight aglins. 1 Bard, territory with desperate fight | ahead of it should refuse to welcome the aid of a former opponent!
 The proposed board of trade r.eoIu- ton is a fool proposition.