Bisbee daily review., 1906-11-04
TO THE DEMOCRATS OF cocHIsE cOUNTY-AN OPEN LETTER.

TO THE DEMOCRATS OF cocHIsE couNTY-AN OPEN LET1 Eh.
 The democratic party of Cochise county, through its elected representa- tives to a county convention, has placed before the voters of Cochise county set of men for county offices. who for ability and high qualifications. have never before been equaled or excelled in the political history of Co chise county.
 The Review does not belong to that class of newspapers who believe in voting blindly party ticket, for local offices. when men have been placed upon that ticket who are notriously in, competent, but in all this campaign the republicans have not been able to criticise the fitness and qualifications of the democratic candidates for the offices to which they have been nomi mated. On the ground of their fitness and ability. honesty and experience and in the interest of good govern ment, economically administered, the democratic candidates arc entitled to your votes.
 With joint statehood already defeat ed, the democrats of Arizona can con fidently look forward to state gov ernment, singly and alone. at no dis tant date. Politics then will be fac tor in every election, and democrats will have an opportunity to vote foI those principles as enunciated in dem ocratic platforms and to send represen tatives and senators to Washington tc carry out their wishes.
 It behooves the democratic party of Arizona, and particularly the demo crats of Cochise county, the banner democratic county of the territory, to hold their forces together in a solid phalanx for the struggle in the new state, which is not far distant.
 The democratic party is the friend of Arizona and the people of Arizona When democrats go to the polls on election day it will be well to remem Der that it is the republican party that is attempting to force Arizona under the domination of New Mexico; it will be we'll for democrats to remember that in the last Congress the demo cratic party was the friend of the working men of this country and stood sponsor for every bill that was intro duced in favor of laws to better their condition; it will be well to remember that a republican president has sent his highest cabinet officer into the state of New York in an attempt to defeat a democratic candidate, while he orders republican postmaster in Cochise county to keep his hands of of the joint statehood struggle in this territory.
 The democratic ticket in Cochise county represents the principles of the democratic party of the nation. The. republican ticket in Cochise county, on a platform which endorsed Roosevelt, in all of his acts, is the representative of the republican party. Every little republican candidate in Cochise county, if he had the chance, would be voting for Roosevelt on next Tuesday If he had the chance he would be voting against Hearst and in favor of Hughes, and yet some of these satellites of Roosevelt and the big stick have the unmitigated gall to come around begging democrats for democratic votes.
 Now is the time for democrats to stay with their party when the record of that party in Cochise county is for a clean and economical administration of government, and in the nation as the true friend of Arizona and her people
 Let's have no republican struttine around Cochise county on the day fol lowing election. Let the word go back to the east that Arizona is democratic to the core. and let 1t be notice tc Theodore Roosevelt that his insolent interference in our affairs has me with the stern rebuke such an unwar ranted action deserved.
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