Arizona republican., 1906-11-27
THE STATEHOOD VOTE.

hood and territorial election, published
 elsewhere in this issue of The Repub-
 lican present some interesting facts
 corroborative of the claims of the op-
 ponents of jointure while the Hamil-
 ton bill was pending in congress.
 It was represented by them that not more than ten per cent of the people of
 this territory were in favor of joint
 ure. Some of them indeed. believed
 that not more than five per cent of the people SO favored this proposed unnat- uaal union. By the people" it is of course assumed that voters were meant.
 An analysis of the figures shows that both estimates may have. been very close. The joint statehood vote was 1888 per cent of the total vote boiled and 16.1S per cent of the vote cast on the iointure proposition. It was also 9.5S per cent of the total registered vote which may be considered the basis of those who predicted that 20 per cent of the people were against jointure.
 But the registered vote is always much less than the number of those who are entitled to registration. If all voters had been registered, following the ratio which is established between the comparative strength of jointure fin the total boiled vote and the vote on that question, it might easily be believed that the joint ure vote was not more than five per cent of the number or all who were entitled to registration.
 In explanation of this reasoning we point to the fact that the jointure cam paign was much more persistent than the anti-jointure campaign Ten times as much money was spent in the con- duct of it, and care was taken by the jointists to see that every voter of jointist tendencies was duly register ed.
 Also. the joint statehood vote includ- ed many who were not in favor of it but voted for it on the representation that it was a Roosevelt. and therefore a party measure. Their mistaken loy- alty to party induced them to favor at the polls, a sacrifice of what they be- lieved to be the best interests of the territory.
 Nine thousand of those registered did not vote at all, and 1000 who voted made mo expression as to joint state hood. 1t is naturally assumed. and we believe correctly, that an overwhelm- ing proportion of those votes if cast. would have been against jointure Ev- cry jointist may be presumed to have voted, for that business was uppermost in his mind. To him it was the great. if not the only issue of the campaign.
 On the other hand, We know from the testimony of many opponents of jointure in Phoenix, anc this county, that they had neglected to vote on the proposition because they had forgot ten it. It had not been been suff.c- iently impressed upon them and So. when they had disposed of the usual form of the ballot it did not occur to them at the moment - vote on state hood.
 Then again, whatever may have been the jointure sentiment in the territory when the bill was before congress it received some accession in the course of the campaign. The jointists had everything to gain and nothing to lose, and they made some gains by misrep- resentation and by active work among their friends. Statehood sentiment. | however, as the iointists themselves admit, reached the height of t strength two weeks before the election, 1 and then began to wane.
 These election figures also give tht lie to statement made and circulated l before the statehood fight was fairly begun a year ago. reiterated by the | jointists and congress and persisted in | by the jointists or rn.s rerrI5ory throughout the campaign. That was. that the big corporations constituted | the backbone of the opposition: that l but for the corporations jointure would | be adopted by Arizona. In the course | of the campaign Cochise was the | county especially described as domin- 1 ated by corporations; yet Cochise cast 1, a heavier vote for jointure. 60s, than any other county in the territory. ! There too. is Graham county, the bulk | of whose vote is in the shadow of the smoke stacks of the Detroit and Ari- zona Copper companies. Graham coun- ty cast 400 out of 1s27 nearly % per cent for joinrure.
 These percentages in favor of joint gre are exceeded only in the small