The Arizona sentinel., 1906-07-11
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 The fifth reason would sound better coming from PhoeaK politician than ! from 2 hgh-class railroad manager This reason IS brief HN'cw Mexico with here large majority, would scoop all cf the public institutions from Arzona proper over irto New Mexico
 That sounds so much Ike Phoenix which hes been scooping CT trying tc scoop all cf the territorial institutions ovel into Pbocrix. that we are compelled to insinuate that Colcnel Randolph has been cr.nang from the waters of Salt river especially so when he pleads that 'he in- sane asylum shall remain at Phoen:x,
 Does not the Colonel know that the statehood bill fixes the university al Iuc- son? If so, is he trying to defeat state hood to give Fhcenix chance 10 scoop ii over there. as she has been trying to do for the last fifteen years? She did scoop the lard office and 1t locks Ike Colonel Randolph was working in wi:h with Phoenix, CT IS he juct getting ready for the next legislature?
 Nol Nol Not he slightest danger cf New Mexicos majority doing any thing of the kind. Her people are noi the kind of lolks Colonel Randolph as- serts the Arizona people to be, for he is nightly mistaken in them. They are not half so selfish and grasping as he paints them. They work on a higher plane than that of grabbing everything in sight while looking for mere. "We are not that kind of folks, Colonel. No, siir!"
 FIarken to this knockdown logical ar gument against statehood. Colonel Ran. dolph says: HThe New Mexican major ity would govern the state, and they would be chumps fl they didn't
 No, Colonel, the republican majority would undoubtedly govern the state, and being greatly in the majority, nwouldn' t they be chumps if they didn't?H Did any one ever here of any state where geo. graphical lines were stronger than party lines? Does any one believe that the republicans of New Mexico are going to join with the democrats over there to swallow Arizona? Does any one believe that the democrats of these two sections won't lraternize, get together and stick together? Yes. Yes. They will; but what alarms the patriotic Colonel IS, IS there enough of them? It Is not the Mexican majority that IS disturbing the Colonel's sleep. It IS that big republican majority which is the nightmare of his unrest, th;s and nothing more. Yes, that IS what is the matter. I % many repub- Ecans over in New Mexico.
 The seventh reason answers itself. The Colonel states Fthere IS very little IT common between Arizona and New Mexico. They would not make happy and contented family. The law prac- tce, for instance, Is different etc., etc.
 The very contrary Is the fact. Ari- zona and New Mexico belong to the same family, the sama people, the same industries. Everything IS similar.
 Both regions were admitted into the United States at the same time. Both were conquered from the Apaches at the same time, and by the same people. The mountains and valleys were chfis- tened by the same Christian fathers, the same pioneers of the Gross. History, both prehistoric and modern, are the same. The conquests of both are the same---the clmate---all physical condi- tons, hopes, ambitions for the future, are the same.
 A union simply means going back to the old homestead, to join hands In mak- ing a grand and great commonwealth.
 As 10 the statement that the laws and practice are different: This IS mistake. New Mexico Is no more under the con- mon law than IS Arizona, and, if t were, then what of 1t? The laws of the state will issue out of the constitution of the new state. Not the slightest difficulty will arise from this source. Any lawyer who thinks SO had better go to blowing corn and potatoes, for he is a chump in his knowledge of the law, or in the ap- pHcation of its principles. The seventh reason raises the strongest argument in favor of joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico.
 Any one reading Colonel Randolph's reasons for opposing statehood, in the light cf the foregoing facts and many more not stated, can justly ask: HWhy any really honest, intelligent and patriotic ArRonan could. n so short an interview.