Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-11
DESIRE OF ARIZONA
Separate Statehood or to Re-
main a Territory.
ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES
Representatives of Many Interests
Here.
NO UNCERTAIN TONES HEARD.
They Say That the Sentiment at Home
is Almost Unanimous Against
Union With New Mexico.
Representatives of Many Interests
0 UNCERTAIN TONES HEARD.

| A delegation Of Arizona business and pro-
fessional men, composed Of Mr. Roy Good
| rich. lawyer. secretary Of the Anti-Jolnt
| Statehood League; Dwight B. Heard, cat
! tleman and agriculturist; DR.. A. ]. Chan
| dler. Irrigation farmer; w. 8. Sturges, cat
| tleman and member of the republican ma
| tional COMMITTEES from Arizona; ]. j. Riggs,
| cattleman: Rev Mr.. Shields, Gen. A ].
| Sampson. former minister to Ecuador; Bar
ry Goldwater, merchant, and Frank Cox.
attorney, reached Washington today. They
come with the purpose of opposing the joint
| statehood bill, and they claim that the
| chief reason that should actuate Congress
| in preventing jointure Is that If Arizona and
New Mexico were made one state over $780,
| 600 Americans. who came from eastern
states and Invested their lives and fortunes
| In building up a new country, would be
placed under the domination Of a people
different In race language and customs-a
situation that would be intolerable.
Opposed to Joint Statehood
1.-THE people Of Arizona" said Mr. Good
| rich. learned recently that the report was
| being spread in Washington that the only
| objection in Arizona to joint statehood
| with New Mexico came from the mining
! and railroad interests. which were MAIN
| tanning a powerful lobby in Washington
| We also heard that the Hamilton bill was
to be forced through the House of Repre-
sentatives without chance for amendment
or even discussion Our presence in Wash
| ington is to show beyond possibility of sue
cessful contradiction that all interests In
Arizona and nearly every individual citizen
are unalterably and intensely opposed to
any jonture of the two territories
| we do not ask for SIMPLE statehood ,,ou
! but We do ask to be let alone so that we
can work out our own salvation under
| our own laws. and not under the DONNA
ton OF people different in race language
and ldeals-a people who would outvote us
| Two to one. We shall always have the
amDluon 10 become q state, but we are
| wiling to wait until our great resources
| are sufficiently developed to meet any test
| or ILLNESS that Congress may see fit to
| make.
! Arizona, to Santa Fe, the capital of the
| proposed new state. 1t takes twenty-elght
| hours to go there, and costs one way. $50.
| The Inconvenience of such state govern
ment can hardly be overestimated
MY own property interests are such as
| my father and l have built up in residence
| of twenty-five years. They consist of city
| real estate solely. 1 have come here as sec
rotary of the Arizona Anti-Joint Statehood
| League. with delegation of men who rep
| resent all interests of the territory, and all
|
| ton and a vote on the merits of our case
/ We inherited the principles of the Deeiara-
| ton of Independence and the Constitution
| of the United States as birthrights, If the
| United States could carry on a war to free
! Cuba and then grant her autonomy l can
| not see how the same government can Just
| ly take away all hope of autonomy from the
people of Arizona, who are American citi-
Zens."
| Opposition of Organizations.
| DR.. A. ]. Chandler president of the Con-
soadated Coal Company of Mesa, Ariz. a
| corporation that is redeeming fifty thou
| sand acres of land through irrigation. said
to reporter for The Star that he had come
to Washington with the expressed purpose
of declaring that fully % per cent of the
residents OF Arizona were opposed to the
| joint Statehood bill.
ITO show that L represent the sentiment
of the territory" said DR.. Chandler. every
organized body in Arizona with which am
| familiar, and l think there is hardly an
| organized body that has not declared itself,
| Is opposed to joint statehood. Boards of
| trade, county supervisors, city councils live
| stock associations, territorial teachers the
| ministerial associations, the territorial
| church associatons-all have expressed
| their opposition to the plan of joining Ari-
| iona with New Mexico.
Il have been a resident of Arizona for
/ eighteen years having gone there from
| Detroit. have the greatest confidence in
| the possibilities of the territory. While
| there have been many obstacles to over
| come, and development has been slower
| than was anticipated, the resources of the
| territory are boundless and we are lust
| coming to the point where the future is full
| of positive results.
Want to Be Let Alone
| TT would be nothing less than a crime
| to tie us up with New Mexico. 1t has
| been demonstrated that we have immense
| bodies of rich ore-gold, silver, copper
| and Lead towns are rapidly springing up;
| our irrigation systems, through the aid
| of the government, being developed
| at a tremendous rate, and with the richest
| soil in the world, capable of maintaining
| dense population, with a population COM
| posed of aggressive, wide-awake American
| citizens, feel that if permitted to work
| out our destiny without association with
an alien race. we will soon convince the
| country at large that our claim to the
| right to individual statehood is ndisputa-
| bic.
AT the present time we ask only to be
| let alone. knowing that the territory is
entirely fit for statehood, yet we are will
Ing to relinquish rights for years to
| come rather than be united to New Mex
| leo. If the members of Congress who are
working to bring about jointure of Ari
1 IONA and New Mexico were to come out to
/ the territories and learn for themselves the
/ true situation regards people and GUS
/ toms-if they could come in contact with
| the masses of Americans who build
! ing UP Arizona do not believe that a
single one of them, possessing a desire
| TO be fair. would indorse the unholy
scheme that is now being sought to be
| forced through the House of Representa-
| tives
|