Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1905-12-23
santa Fc. Decembe, 10, 1905.

Santa Re. December 10. 1900.
To The Evening Citizen,
In The Citizen OF the 18Th inst, APP
pearod the following article:
WHY Is PRIcHARD AGAINST
sTATEHooDY FRIENDS OF THE
MEASURE ARE HEARTILY ANUS
ED AT HIS CONDUCT THE TURN
or THE LEAF.
"The special received by The Citi-
zen Yesterday. telling Of tho part At
torney General George W. Prlcnard
and other New Mexico politicians are
taklug la the iight againsg joint State
hood az the national capital. brings
10 the mind at the writer the conduct
og Mr. Pnchard previous TO his APP
poiuumeni 20 tho Office Of attorney
g2ncial. thus obligating himself 20
Governor Otero. It's n case of the
sensitive palm OF tho leaf ri the plant
turning with the sun. aud basking.
prod1ing and growing under It's rays.
AT the outset Of the Join, statehood
movement no more ardent supporter
OF IL could be found that Colonel
prichard OF White Oaks, Lincoln
county, and II was quite compliment
tary 10 the movement 10 have the Cpl-
Oncls support tie was an attorney
NJ law Of reputation, and a gentleman
of deep Thought one who had lived
under f~rriturial form ~ government
for many years and was Of vide oX-
perience.
Colonel W. 5. Hopeweli says thai be
remembers when Colonel Prlchard
came 20 him and congratulated him
on she stand ho had taken for joint
statehood Even In California last
summer. The writer remembers thar
Colonel prichard took great delight In
talking Joint statehood 10 the Hon.
Marcus smith. delegate from krIrUun.
W. II. Greer waa aLothCr New MeN-
can who took delight 100 talking i1'nt
statehood 90 The Hon. Marcus Smith,
and s0 ardent were these Fehflemen
In thrii support Of iOini statehood sni
so fertile were their arguments Hnt
Nr Smith auaily ned io Catalina is-
land in enc pariac ocean. % escape
them
"Thcn those who Witnessed and
heard the able speech made hy Cole
oneI prlchard in support 81 Hon. p s,
nodey at lhe last territorial repuhil-
can convention. VIII also REMEMBER
that che colonel Immediately after ihe
convention made trip over the igr
riiory campaigning for TIE nominated
candidate Directly after that came
paisn. the politicians Who had on Two
uccasiOrg defeated him for the ap-
polnimeat Of diairlo, Judge, made him
attorney general.
The influence Mr. Prichard ought
10 have on the members 81 congress-
0n the statehood matter should act
very much as a boomerang"
1 ASH OF you little space ia your
valuable paper 30 Hay Ia reply 10 the
abuvo, that a no time or place. IN
pablo or In private. verbally or In
writing. have eyer said That I was IN
favor Of Joint statehood az against
separate statehood The writer 81 the
article above quoted may have boon
inspired lO tank that because took
the position "a the las Vegas congon-
tlon, a year ard half ago IN favor
Of declaring for statehood simply
without any qualifying ciauaea. that I
favored l0int Statehood bur there was
noi an act or o word Of mine al that
time npon which % draw such infer
once.
wis ln the Albuquerque conyeu-
/ lon last iali and WIS on the commit
lee on resolutions al that time and
drew and presented the following sop
arate statehood resolution to the com-
mltieo, ami 4 was unanimously adopt
ed namely,
"Sleichood il the most Important,
question before the pople Of New
Mexico a. this time Our loyalty %
the general government, our great
pTorrcss la natural wealth, our sya-
tom Of nNaguliicent hoola. our code
~ civil and criminal law. our freedom
from mob law. our respect for che
courts. the extent Of our great terri
tory, ard the Intelligence of our peo-