Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-13
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NEW MEXICO
 MAY BECOME SANE.

From every reliable source comes information to the effect that there is a revulsion of sentiment in New Mexico regarding the statehood ques- tion The Albuquerque Journal which a few weeks ago was doing yeoman service for the cause of joint statehood and predicting that when the political conventions meet in Arizona that one or both parties would declare in favor of joining Arizona and New Mexico into one state. has practically given up the fight for jointure.
 Now that both the democratic and territorial conventions have met, nom mated their candidates for congress and declared in identical language that a territorial form of government would be forever preferable to joint state hood with New Mexico, the New Mex ico newspapers and politicians are be ginning to realize the true situation and sentiment in Arizona regarding jointure.
 The Journal in it's issue of last Sat urday has this to say, which is can did:
 "The certainty of the defeat of the cause of statehood in Arizona has dis couraged the friends of the cause in this territory to such degree that it is impossible to work up any enthus- iasm among them upon the subject. Indeed, they have come to regard the matter with so much indifference that the chances are at least even for an anti-statehood majority in New Mex, ico."
 ~ The New Mexico press which has been leading the fight for joint state hood are none of them pursuing the subject with the same yigor and con fidence now as they were before both the conventions in Arizona declared that they favored a territory forever 10 joint-statehood with New Mexico.
 We believe the people of New'Mex- ico would prefer separate statehood for New Mexico to joint statehood with Arizona. We know that Arizona will never agree to anything but separats statehood for Arizona. That is fixed and settled beyond revocation. If the people of New Mexico will stand with Arizona and put their seal of condem- nation on the joint statehood proposi- tion good and strong, the result will be that the time for the admission ot both territories as separate states will be hastened.
 The people of New Mexico should now be convinced that the determined opposition of Arizona puts joint state hood beyond their reach and that in lending their approval of joint state hood by their popular vote they are only lengthenjng the span of their territorial life.
 Both territories should stand togeth- CT in demanding their right to sepa- rate statehood; in demanding their right to self-government; in demand ing the same treatment at the hands of the national government, which has been granted to all the territories | admitted as states in the past; in de handing the implied agreement of congress that whenever the people ol New Mexico should fit that territory for statehood the boon would be granted and that whenever the people lof Arizona fitted this territory fol statehood it should be granted.
 New Mexico cannot further. he claim to separate statehood by votini for joint statehood. Voting for join
 statehood will avail nothing in tn
 face of the almost unanimous oppos ton of the people of Arizona The pet . pie of New Mexico can only haste separate statehood by voting dow
 with a will the jointure proposition
 
 tTA2jEE REVISION.