Arizona republican., 1906-09-03
ROUGH RIDER M'CABF
 REPLIES 10 ANDREWS
Another Letter Concerning Statehood
 Buttons, Public Sentiment Etc.

| c. J. McCabe former postmaster of Bisbee, and a former Rough Rider, re- ceivcd one of Bull Andrews now fla nous letters, assuming his interest in jointure, enclosing a button as usual, and asking for a reflection of public sentiment. This is MT. McCabe's re- ply:
 My Dear Sir: have the honor to acknowledge the due receipt of your favor under date of the 23d inst, my i address having reached you through my esteemed friend Major LIewellyn, comrade of our Rough Rider regi- ment and accompanying your letter came also to hand the circular booster emanating from our president and the picture button for the jointure propa- ganda
 ''In accordance with your suggestion I am addressing you concerning the sentiment locally on the matter of joint statehood and from my Knowledge of facts here which bear upon the situ- atiOn
 At the outset, however. I beg to re- port due diligence on my part to con form to your request and locate a wearer of the joint statehood button sent on by you. I aCcOsted every resi- dent. man and woman of American or
 
 subject throughout the ten miles trav- ersed by US in reaching my home from the postofice on the day of the receipt of your letter. and our community is well populated by such, and presented the button to each. and that he wear the design as a supporter of the presi- dents views on the subject. They baked, every one of them, and baked hard The button was examined care fully about forty times and the like ness of the president surveyed admir- ingly but the sentiment lettered on the button wouldn't go, and senator, that sentiment never will go in Arizona. To make the consignment of statehood buttons you propose sending on ac- ceptance. single will have to be sub stituted for the word joint
 "In the main the president has the esteem and hearty cOmmendatiOn of the people of this territory. We are at a loss, however. to explain his zeal for jointure so far as Arizona and New Mexico are concerned. It cannot be that a matter of such vital importance to one great section of the country is being made the subject for a grand stand play; that a hatched-up union of these two territories is to be the culminating event in MT. ROosevelt's second administration; that the date of the admission of Greater Arizona is one to be looked back upon in future history
 "We feel that Arizona finally got a fair shake in the passage of the en- ablng act at the last session of con- gress and the people of this territory will now have a voice in a matter of the utmost importance to them and their interests, and mark you. my dear sir, when this matter of joint statehood is passed upon by the voters of this territory at the polls next November, Mir. Roosevelt and the nation will learn in no uncertain terms how Arizona re- gards this make shift for a statehood proposition which Arizona of right ought to have offered to this territory.
 "Our people here for the greater part are not countenancing a trade on New Mexico. it's people or institutions We regard our territory as the people of Pennsylvania regard the people of Vir- ginia. as Illinois does Wisconsin. As western territories we know tIht we have some interests in common. As citizens of the United States. and of another territory. we look to the people