Bisbee daily review., 1906-10-27
REPU UBL|CANS $ HAVE RALLY
 AT LOWELL
Says Roosevelt Was Misin- formed About Conditions in Arizona-Pays Tribute to J. B. Foraker.
Continued from Page l.

man to assume to ask for the fran
 ehise of his fellow citizens and his
 election in a great. large, prosperous territory like Arizona, he assumes a responsibility that he should ponder
 over earnestly and long. anu resolve. that if elected. should labor to the utmost for the benefit of those people | who repose sufficient confidence in
 him to honor him with the nomina- ton.
 The campaign we are in now is a different one from what we have been
 in before. The old rule of campaign is
 like the rule of court-there must be l an issue. one man is after title to
 something and the other man is after
 the same thing, thereby raising an is
 sue to be tried.
 The Democrats and the Republi- cans of this territory, of our own Ari- zona, met at Bisbee and said: There is no issue in this fight at all; we all
 believe in preserving Arizona for Ari- | zonians and we will resist to the ut | most any attempt to join us to any
 other territory, on the face of the earth
 We can go back over the years, we look to the history of this territory. We read and we hear from the lips of those who have lived here all these years and We know what sterritory was fifteen years ago. when a part of mans chief occupation was avoiding a plains lie the bones of Gods noble men, they who gave up homes in the cast and came west and fought and went through fire. death and hell, yes, even hell, for the prosperity of poster ity and of the territory for the bene- fit of mankind and died. And after them came those who followed and continued to build up the magnificent territory of Arizona, that scratt he'd her hills with pick anu shovel and found gold, silver, and later copper. and shall we give her away to our neighbors across the line in New Mex ico?
 I don't want to be understood for one moment as saying a single word ueliliflcHiai tO tfie. lnleiestS or A>SN Mexico. While have never had any intimate acquaintance. at the same lime I am thoroughly convinced that there are noble citizens in New Mexi- co, as well as in Arizona There are good men and women in New Mexico. as in Arizona, but I am Arizonian enough to be just a little bit selfish hn,,t tavr;tor,, rfo otrrS
 Many of my friends and neighbors Ere in fav6f of joint statehood with New Mexico, making one grand state' but I am satisfied absolutely that not one of them would ask for joint state hood with New Mexico if they believed for single moment that it was pos sible for Arizona to become a state alone. I believe we all want statehood the right of an American to govern himself but I believe, as I said, we want statehood alone.
 When the joint statehood bill was passed and the apportionment of del egates was made to the Constitutional Convention. New Mexico was allowed sixty-six delegates to that convention
 
 That apportionment was based on the population of these two territories, and as in that convention New Mexi- co was to have sixty-six representa- | tiyes and we forty-four. that Is the proportion of say that we would have | in making the Constitution for the | new state if joined to New Mexico, is, n Arizona So exceedingly generous. so | exceedingly kind, so exceedingly in terested in the welfare of our neigh bors in New Mexico, that he is willing
 to ieopardize Arizona's interests. If | I were to say that I believed it to be a good thing you would say I was crazy.
 | .I respec. every mans opinions. and
 1t may be a good thing for us to be joined to New Mexico, and I may be wrong in my reasoning, but until l
 can see with another light. I must
 say that I am opposed to joint state
 hood.
 II am satisfied that the president
 has been misinformed as to the con ditions. while I believe his intentions
 were good and his heart was right, he
 was mistaken as to what is good for Arizona and l believe he has been nisinformed by persons who know ab-
 solutely nothing about the conditions or they made falsified statements to
 him. and several men went from this
 territory to Washington at their own expense to plead the cause of Arizona. l MT, J. B. Foraker Is the man whose big heart gave us the right to say on
 the 9th of November whether we want | joint statehood with New Mexico or
 not--now 1t is up to the people to de-
 eide. It iAup to the people to say
 whether they will accept this bill or not.
 l The attitude of the Democratic party on the statehood question re-
 minds me of the story of the small
 boy going to school in a pair of pants
 that his mother made for him. When | ho f<. orl NA