Arizona republican., 1905-01-07
GENERAL LEW WALLACE
An Interview in Which He Condemns
 Statehood Jointure.

Mention was made in these columns a few days ago, of an interview had by a correspondent of the Indianapolis Sunday Star, with General Lew Wal lace in which the general spoke in defense of Arizona and New Mexico in the statehood jointure fight. Mrs. T. Herbert Taylor of this city, a cou- sin of General Wallace submits the article in full, from which the follow ing is taken:
 General Lew Wallace, war hero, statesman and author, is declining.
 He has not yet given all to the world that he desires to, nor has he accomplished for himself near all that he early set out to do. Enfeebled so greatly that he converses with the greatest difficulty even for a few moments with his friends, the old fighter dreams of more and greater conquests than those he has already made. Yet his days are all happy. He sits in the cheery sitting room of his beautiful home with his books, his cigars and his violin about him. There, his gracious wife always with him. herself a wonderful woman whose help to him in the preparation of Ben Hur'' and, indeed, in his later works, | tired in loose street. clothes about which is wrapped a lounging robe. Much of General Wallace's days is spent lying on a comfortable lounge though he usually spends several hours in his large easy chair.
 The mans ambitions are today greater, his enthusiasm warmer and his plans more extensive than when, a mere boy he looked forward to Q | career in law, with all the possibilities that the profession held out.
 That once erect, soldierly frame has l become stopped and the firm steI which once marked him the ideal mil | itary man is nc more. When he walks | 1t is with extreme difficulty and wiu | the assistance of a heavy cane. 1 But that wonderful mind-the in tellect that made the man the worlds | greatest living lterateur. genuine musician. a brilliant soldier, a sage | far-seeing statesman and diplomat an6 too. one of the most companionable men that ever lived-that mind is to- | day a active as it was fifty years ago | An instance of this is shown in the attitude he recently took on the state ] hood bill as related to New Mexico anc l Arizona.
 q consider it nothing short of 2
 criminal mistake" he told a friend 1 'that congress seems about to force New Mexico to accept statehood witt l Arizona T. means that the name New Mexico is to be forever lost and thu two territories to be known as thu state of Arizona.
 q love the people of New Mexico; lived with them two and one-half year as their governor, and I know thei condition and their needs. The bii now advocated by Senator Beveridg is bad. It means the practical dis franchisement of the whole people O
 both territories.
 Here the general swung into Ioni discourse upon the subject. He de tailed his life among the people; h
 told of their needs and their desires
 He caustically criticised both the me tho6s and motives of the man en
 cheering the measure. As he warme
 up to his subject his old vigor return
 ed. Fire Ieaped into his eyes as
 leaned forward in his chair and raise
 his hand. with the lean index hnge tremblingly shaking with the pentu