Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-24
WOULD cURTAl. ASIZoNA,s REPRESENTATION.

One feature of paramount import, | &ace to the entire west as well as to I Ar:ozna. in the statehood question, has attracted little if any comment. The people of Arizona and New Mexico owe it to Themselves and to their posterity to do nothing to re- siuce their possible representatitu in the senate.
 To accept Joint statehood now. in. s.eai of waiting for single statehood, eFea though long deferred. would re- senbie Esaa's selling his birthrlght for mess of pottage. We have m right to do it; such action wouldAbe treason to cur posterity.
 IL does not require keen observer to perceive the sectional lines acw drawn in congress between the east aad west. However much it is to be regretted, such is the case, just as they were drawn in the '40's and '50's setweea the north and the south. The cast is now bent upon domination of legislation. If the territories are fin atay admitted as. separate states, he east will predominate in the senate. To keep that predominance as narrow as possible, we should not forego the possibility of having four senators instead of two. Increased representa- tien will be good for the west as well as for the country at large.
 Even more conspicuous than the mere element of partisan politics in the joint statehood scheme, has been the purpose to make impossible the menace of four more senators from the west Arizona and New Mexico are destined to have vast populations, whose interests in national legislation will be vital as those of other states. What we do now, will endure for gen erations, if not forever, for the wei fare or disadvantage of the people of New Mexico and Arizona, and of the whole west. Western states are ad- vancing in population and wealth with astounding strides. On the basis of actual population, the west Is already underrepresented in the san ate. Although our representation in the house will grow with our popula- stion, it will remain forever the same in the senate and Arizona must get all she will be entitled to for years to come when admitted to statehood. She must forfeit nothing which will serve her for generations to come. California, destined to have popula- ton far greater than New York, is permanently limited to the same rep resentation in the senate as has that state as well as the states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Isl and, and Delaware. whose combined NOT ENCOURAGING
 TO MIR. TAFT.
 The moral effect ef Secretary Tafrs keynote" speech in North Carolina may have been considerable, but it's political effect was not immediately encouraging. The next day. after he mad denounced the rotten organization of the party in that state, and told the republicans that they could aoi expect to win, and would not deserve to do so, unless they changed theiI leaders. the state convention met ir the city where he spoke and reelected the old machine chairman of thu state committee after factional figh that threatened to come to ~blows ol pistols" The party organization re mains in the hands of men described by the secretary as little coteri' of politicians who devote themselye solely to the election of delegates U national conventions, and whose who'll object is the securing of federal paf ronage" If the voters of North Cara Ina act upon Secretary Tafts admon i-ica as the voters of Ohio did las year when they trampled on Dos Cox and defeated Gov. Herrick, tn democratic majority in the cid "ta state" will be larger than ever
 As if this were not enough discpr from the keynote, Senator Dick | C5ic. after a conference with the oa cers os the republican state commi tee. declared that the state conyentio
 to be held next month twill not ir
 dorse Secretary Taft or any other car
 dldate for president" His explan;