Arizona republican., 1906-11-07
THE PRICE OF SHAMt
 PAID 10 THE GAZETTE
Its Explanation of the Sale of It's Vir- tue to the Joint Statehood Campaign Managers.

The Republican. along withs most of the people of this valley seldom regard the Arizona Gazette seriously. It is
 looked upon as the village joke and is treated accordingly But now and then a joke may be carried to extremes and become a nuisance and then it has t1 be handled seriously, the same as any other stink or nuisance which distarbs the community.
 Night before last the Gazette which had been supporting anti-joint state
 hood so weakly when it supported it at all. that it's announcement of conver-
 sion of jointure was momentariy ex- pected. came out with a haIf-page ad- vertisement advising its readers to vote for jointure The advertisement
 was an argument in favor of jointurc
 It contained a summary of all that the
 jointists had said on the subject. In
 any other paper than the Gazette. even
 in hand bill the matter contained i'm the advertisement would probably have
 been more effective than anything that that had been said or printed.
 The Republican yesterday morning charged the Gazette with having en- gagged in open prostitution in the print ing of that advertisement. II was hint ed that while the Gazette by the ac- ceptance of that advertisement was mol less viTtUOus than it had been at any time during the statehood fight. there had not been on its part until then any advertised abandonment of virtue. The Gazette appeared last night with | an explanation Of its action. It want , ed the money, the princely sum of nine 1 dollars for half page advertisement. | That is much more groveIling than the original act of prostitution. II was ] bad enough for the Gazette to sell it. self at all, but for nine dollars, what a price,
 | No doubt. as most of the advertisers ! of Phoenix seem to be aware nine l dollars was enough considering the value of the space. but the open con fession by a daily newspaper that its 1 price to all corners and for all purposes ] is nine dollars for a half page ought 1 to put it in the black list of all adver
 tisers.
 The jointist managers offered the
 Phoenix Enterprise not long ago $500 for a page and the offer considering ] the nature of the advertising, was not entertained for a moment The En- 1 terprise probably would have sold the page for what it would have been will ] ing to take for the paper. provided of course the paper was for sale. II would have been of no further use to l it's prOprietors after it had been de- spoiled and the proprietors would have l been of no use to the community. As a 1 business proposition they rejeCTed the 1 $500 offer, just as the Gazette accept ! ed nine dollars as, what it calls, a ] business proposition.
 The proprietor of a Mexican paper ! of this city was offered $500 by the ! jointists a few weeks ago for column ! in his paper during the rest of the campaign. That was a much higher
 rate than the price of shame paid to l the Gazette. but the Mexican proprie- | tor taking into account the nature of ] the service he was asked to perform 1 did not regard it as ''a business propo- sition."
 The Gazette attempts to divert at 1 tention from its disgrace by aliuding ! Co it's record on the statehood question and so. creates a record of ! consistent opposition. when it knows ! that the whole town all through the 1 summer and fall expected to see it come out openly for joint statehood. I, ! is not forgotten that at a critical mo ment, when the statehood bill was in ! the conference committee where | Speaker Cannon said it should remain until Senator Foraker consented to i withdraw his amendment. the Gazette i reviled Foraker because he would not give up to the speaker and the presi- dent and predicted that his obstinacy would be disastrous to Arizona IT 1 further stated that it was not a true i friend of the territory because he in
 sisted that the territory should be all lowed to say whether it desires state
 hood
 At the same time the Gazette en- deavors to say that The Republican was for a time luke warm on the sub ject of joint statehood and that it diG not take a stand until it was forced to do so by public sentiment
 IL is generally recognized in this
 community that The Republican was
 one of the leaders of anti joint state hood sentiment in this territory: that it's campaign against jointure was be- gun actively about the time of the wis | iting congressman here more than | yeTr ago and that since then hardly an issue of the paper has appeared which l did not appeal to the people to vote against joint statehood and gave the i reasons why they should do so.
 The attitude of The Republican when the presidents message advocating 1 jointure was made public is not for gotten by the people of this valley
 But this has nothing to do with
 the Gazeue's disgraceful act of har- lotry. And the price. nine dollars. c. | Heavens.
 l THE HARVARD CLUB DINNER The second annual dinner of the Har-
 ward Club of Arizona. which will be