Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-09
A DIRTY BLOT ON
 REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Speaker Cannon are beyond the reach of the influence of public opin ion. they must now begin seriously considering the mistake they made in forcing the joint statehood bill
 through the lower house of Congress against the better judgment and con.
 science of the individual members
 It may be that the eyes of this pair
 of legislative bulldozers will be op-
 ened to the fact that an outraged
 public opinion is more powerful than
 the party lash, and be glad to have
 the statehood bill returned to the
 House of Representatives amended
 along the lines suggested by Senator
 Foraker.
 From one end of the country to the
 others the press has condemned the
 act of attempting to force Arizona
 into a joint state with New Mexico
 over the almost unanimous protest
 of the people of the territory. The
 acknowledgment of members of the
 House when the Hamilton bill was
 being whipped through that body will
 remain a lasting blot on the escutch-
 con of the republican party.
 In the face of the emphatic rebuke
 administered to bosslsm in the cleo
 tions last fall, the acts of the presi-
 dent and the speaker in dictating
 the action of members in opposition
 to not only their individual judg- ment, but in opposition to the Known
 sentiment of their constituents, is al most incoDceivable. Only the most hide-bound partisan papers have ap- proved the acton Of Congress on the statehood bill
 The New York World In recount ing the scenes in the House when the statehood bill was being considered, gives the names of the republican members who refused to obey the party lash, and we pr,nt them here that the people of Arizona may know who had courage to do justice to them. notwithstanding the pleas and threats of the president and Speaker Cannon. The list follows:
 Adams, Wiscons:n; Babcock
 Brooks. Colorado; Bede. Beidler, Bon ynge, Brown Calderhead, Cushman
 Darragh, Davidson. Esch, French, Full. l kerson. Gillett, California; Goebel
 Gronna, Hayes, Hermann, Oregon;
 Howell. Utah; Humphrey, Washing ton; Jones, Washington; Kahn, Ken nedy, Ohio; Knowland, Loud Mo
 Crearly, McKinlap, California; Me
 Lachlan, McMorran. Marshall, Minor
 Monden, Mudd. Murphy, > Needham Otjen, Reeder, Slemp, Smith. Califor
 nia; Steenerson, Thomas, Ohio; | Wachter.
 Continuing, the World tells much
 of how the republican machine ] brought about it's victory in the state
 hood fight, of which the following is
 an extract:
 "It would have taken but fourteen l of the turn-coats standing true to re verse the verdict. It is perfectly plain that the insurgents had had | those fourteen. They admit it them
 selves. But they had them last week
 and the vote was taken today. IT the interval a tremendous amount oi ! work had been done by the House
 managers and the president.
 "The speaker personally saw the chairmen of the important commit 1 tees and warned them that they must come into line or the next insurree ] tion would be directed against them as this one was directed against the committee on territories.
 "Tawney was dragged into camp 8 ! couple of weeks ago by such a warn | ing. It is his first term as chairman
 of appropriations. and he is anxious ] to make a record. The speaker told him that if this insurrection succeed ed he would probably be the next \ victim Until today the insurgents did not know of Tawney's surrender Rhodes of Missouri was summon ed to the White House. He with | stood Mir. Roosevelt's methods of per suasion, but succumbed when the speaker promised to put through for him the bill giving the Missouri Home Guards a questionable status. The
 Missouri Congressmen have failed in session after session to do anything l for the heroes of the Home Guard Rhodes is a new Congressman. He saw his chance to make record and l 1t was too much for him.
 Less easily persuaded was Dixon of Montana. who insisted on seeing the goods first. Dixon was one of the most strenuous of the insurgents up till two minutes before the House ad- journed last night. At that moment by permission Of the machine, the
 House passed bill of his. establish. ing a new land district in the Grow Indian reservation. in Montana" In consideration of the fact that the