The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-08-07


conclusion by this time by what
/ have said, that / am not in favor
of joint statehood for New Mexico and
Arizona, but I am for statehood for
both territories under separate gov
tied to it, know New Mexico is.
New Mexico will make a great state
in this Union. She has marvellous I'M
developed resources which in the next
ten years will be to a very large ex-
tent developed. and that person who
sits quietly at mis- Preside and who
has but a few brief months knowl-
edge of New Mexico's condition, or
those members of who as
sumo to know and do not know and
are unwilling to be informed, have
yet much to learn about the wonder
full advantages, conditions,
and wealth of New Mexico. She will
y Oh1y hldhC a SIOdI SIdtS IL SAC ID
admitted to the Union under present
territorial boundaries, but she will
make a state that even the eastern
congressman of today who nave sc
bitterly abused and who are so ignor-
ant of her actual and real conditions,
will say "she is truly a sister of whom
we are all proud"
1t has been urged upon me purely
political grounds, and of curse
from a democratic point of view, hat
the State of Arizona would be demo
while the state of New Mexico
under separate government would be
This argument does not
influence me when the material devel-
opment and comfort, convenience, and
of the people of New Mex
leo are in the balance against it. I
would rather be in a republican state
with conditions favorable to the
growth and development of that
state, than to be in a democratic
with her people divided because
of an unwilling and enforced union.
The argument is urged by some that
New Mexico and Arizona separately
are Unfit for statehood but the two
would make a great state. l
That you can't make a good
egg by mixing two bad ones together
in the same dish. If they are unfit
for statehood separately, with which
I do not agree, they are still unfit for
statehood jointly; people and wealth,
not land, make great states. This, of
course is a congressional and eastern
argument,-one made by the people
who know the least about the cOndi-
tons of either territory, and the pur-
of the argument is and ought
to be seen by all of the voters of
New Mexico and Arizona, to destroy
the southwest influence in the senate
of the United States and to deprive
the two territories, when they become
of two of their proper represen
other grounds for such argument. The
people VINO say that two bad territor-
les untitled for statehood, can make
one good state, only AVE in their
minds the destruction of the senator
ial influence of those political divis-
which are envolved and which
are the objects of such arguments.
The argument is without weight with
me, wnen I realize the purpose Of it,
and 1 trust that my friends in New
will take the proper view of
the situation at the right time.
1 intend to defen& her name and her
people at the ballot box in November
upon these lines and I will continue
to do so, and 1 am one OF those who
believes that there are many others
in the Territory of New Mexico en-
similar views and dispose
to resent the attacks of ner enemies
whether they r made in the White
House. on the floors of Congress, thro
the press of the Territory n else
where, or by the politicians upon the
stump. Stand up for our rights like
men, don't be towards. Arizona does