The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
sequoyah at the Door.

St. Louis Republic.
 There is the tread of victory, the con- step with which Sequoyah advances to knock for admitance at the door of the Union. The justness of her claims is equaled only by the moderation and sented The Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1875 was not wiser nor more patriotic than that which will reconvene at Muskogee today to adopt and confirm a State Constitution than which there is none better.
 The brainest men in Sequoyah have, by the eclectic method of construction, welded into the Constitution of the coming State the best provisions of the Constitution of Missouri and other States, with original ones called for by their community. In all America there Is no fairer nor more productive spot than Sequoyah. She has the area and the resources for great and popular State. She has the people, more than sufficient in number and character. to entitle her to Statehood, and she has the pledge of the government in Wash people, that her Integrity ana Identity shall not be merged and lost in that of any other community. By treaty stipulatons, which the Constitution of the United States declares to be part of the supreme law of the lana, Sequoyah is entitled to separate auton- omy.
 All interests SGQuOyd 0hASC Ah asking fulfillment of the pledge. Who says that the American people shall break faith? Only narrow faction which has learned nothing by the his- tory of the growth of thirteen colonies into forty-five States, any they advance not even a plausible argument to give verisimilitude to their bald and other wise unconvincing assertion.
 Excepting Vermont, the first admit ted, Statehood has been more or less grudgingly. given to nearly all new members of the Union, but 1t has been given; and the older States of the Northeast have profited vastly by the growth of the Union in spite of their Jealous objections.
 New England objected to the Louisia- na Purchase and became somewhat hys- terical on the admission of Louisiana nine years later. By that admission, however, We fulfilled a pledge made to France, as by the admission of Sequoyah we shall fulhll pledge made to the Five Nations. It was the boast of so extreme a States rights man as John Randolph of Roanoke that he had never voted for the admission of a new State, not even of Ohio in 1902: but the Con- gress of the United States today Is not composed of Randolphs and Hart ford Convention men.
 The country has grown and Congress has grown with it, even more in breadth of view than in actual numbers. The country west of the Alleghanies sends more Senators and Representatives to than that east of the noun tains. and If the admission of new States is made a sectional issue the weaker section will be beaten, as mar row sectionalism always has been beaten in such contests in the past
 Joseph c. Cannon, Standpat Repre- sentative in Congress from the Etgh- teenth Illinois District. opposed. ham pared and helped to defeat the admis- sion of new States in the Southwest by his arbitrary exercise of the extraordf- nary powers of the speakership in the last COngresS Ills opposition may be expected in the Congress which meets in December but he Is not yet Speaker of the House in that body. The friends lican membership of the new House, are not pledged to give him their votes, nor are the Western Republican ad- vocates of reciprocity and tarin revt- sion. Mir. Cannon may find 1t unprofi- table to plant himself pat on too many questions all at one and the same fine