Arizona republican., 1906-01-31
PHoENIx. ARIZONA, JAN. 81, 1906.
An Attempted Crime.

The san Francisco Chronicle speaks plainly of the ernie of jointure:
 "we say it deliberately that no man who proposes to join together in state hood. against the will of either. two political entities so utterly diverse as New Mexico and Arizona can make any pretension whatever to states manship. No man who proposes to force through a law which he believes to be unstatesmanlike. and, therefore, improper, can make any claims to po- Iitical honesty. If there is anybody in Washington whom either of these coats fits ne can put it on.
 "The real reason why the statehood bill which passed the house did not require the assent of the people of each territory separately was that it is known that the people of Arizona would refuse assent. The majority of the house, therefore, voted to coerce the people of Arizona into a political association which they abhor. The real reason for that outrage was to prevent the democrats from getting net gain of two democratic United States senators. If admitted as one state. the two territories will send two democratic senators, who will be offset by the two republican senators from Oklahoma to be admitted under the state law. The Chronicle is as much opposed to more democratic senators as any one need be, but we draw the keen them out-partIy, we trust, from a sense of decency, but largely as we confess, because we believe that such political crimes will lose the republi- can party more than two senators. It will lose it it's honor, for one thing"
 MaxwelTs Talisman, in a long and vigorous denunciation of the jointure project, takes the president to task for his obstinate desire to control legis- lation. It says:
 If Theodore Roosevelt. using for such a purpose the overwhelming power of his position as president, should as he seems determined to do-succeed in forcing Arizona irto a union of statehood with New Mexico he will commit a political wrong SC great that the evil consequences of ii will follow him to the end of his days and be a blot on his political career that time will never erase.
 "There has been a good deal in the press lately about the waning popular ity of President Roosevelt. That he has as yet lost much of his popularity with the mass of the people is to be doubted, but it is quite certain that very large number of thoughtful mer who once believed in and followed the president with implicit confidence ant faith in him, are beginning to feel thai he does not live up to the politica ideals that he breaches, and that he is too ofen guided by what he believe! to be politically or otherwise expedi' net, and that when he has once SC his head on doing something like fore ing joint statehood between Arizona and New Mexico he becomes obliviOu to all questions Ot right and wroni and pays not the slightest heed t' facts or reason in blind, autocrati determination to carry his point There has been more than one in stance that might be cited where tn president himself has furnished tn best possible argument against en trusting to an executive the arbitrar and uncontrolled power that Presi dent Roosevelt has apparently deter mined to centraIize in himself"
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