Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-19
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 In a letter published in the AIbu- querque Corporation Sheet, Saturday last, ex-Delegate B. s. Rodey takes William E. Curtis, staff correspondent of the Chicago Record-Herald, to task for not booming joint-statehood and for telling some truths about Albu- querque and other places in New Mex ico. Mir. Rodey also insinuates that Mir. Curtis was sent to make this trip through New Mexico and to write the letters he did, by certain capitalists who are opposed to joint-statehood for New Mexico and Arizona. It is a thousand dollars to a dollar that MT. Rodey has not a scintilla of evidence for this assertion. That he may think so and believe it, the New Mexican isl free to admit, but that his belief and suspicious are unfounded. is also cer- tain. Mir. Rodey's letter is an unfor- tunate effusion and in all likelihood will hurt New Mexico a great deal more than it can possibly do harm to MT. Curtis.
 The trouble with the Albuquerque crowd of joint-statehood leaguers isl that they imagine they are the whole cheese" ard that the people of the ter ritory. or at least o5 out of every 1q9, who happen to be of different opih ion on jcint-statehood or any other political natter do not exist The New Mexican is pc fectly willing and glad to give MT. Rcdey credit for the good work ne did as delegate to con gress and for his efforts to obtain single statehood during the first three. years of his term. It has done sol many a time and will cheerfully reiter- ate the praise that he then and there. deserved. Mr Rodey has a perfect right to favor joint-statehood, to work for it with might and main, to spend his time advocating it, to send out tons of literature in favor of it and to do any and everything proper and fair to further his object. On the other hand, the thousands and thousands of citi- zens of this territory who disagree with Mir Rodey upon this question have a right to disagree and to act up- on their own ideas without being as sailed by the Albuquerque Joint-State- hood Leaguers or Mir. Rodey. If there are thousands. of citizens who want single statehood, they have as good a right to express tNeir views as lave MT. Rodey and the Albuquerque Joint Statehood Leaguers. Mir. Curtis looked mon the situation as he saw it and used the knowledge gathered by his own investigations, by the examina tion of official reports and by talking with prominent citizens. That he did not fail in with MT Rodey's views is very natural because where he me' one citizen of New Mexico who favor ed ioint-statehood. he found fifteer who did not favor it, or who insist up on separate statehood and quite nun her who still desire to remain in th' territorial condition. These men arr neither Inaves nor are they unpatriot fc nor are they backbiters and knock CTS. They simply have the courage o their convictions despite their abus' by the Albuquerque Joint-Statehoo' League and will express them regard less of what that league or MT. Rode. think about them and regardless O their displeasure. In the first part O his letter MT. Rodey states in ehec' that MT. Curtis consulted only wit territorial officials while in this cit and received his cues upon the state hood question from them, fell in wit their views and hence wrote letter opposed to jointstatehood for the tw territories. The New Mevxican is i position to state that this assumptio is not a fact MT. Curtis and part reached this city Friday afternoon, r' mained Saturday and Sunday, leavin Sunday night for the south. The prir eiusl portion of this time was spent b