Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-09
WHO ARE PURE AND uNDEFILEo,

WHO ARE PURE AND uNDEFlLE0? With the governor of the territory oar with an announcement that taxation, and not joint-statehoOd, is the para mount issue in the approaching cam paign; with the element of the Repub- iican party favoring joint-statehood claiming that theirs is the only true and orthodox Republican platform, II appears at this writing that the bur den of the anti-joint statehood fight will devolve upon the democrats be- tween now and the election to be held in November. g.
 Governor Kbbey, and the ether Fed eral appointees in Arizona, do not propose to take a prominent part in the anti-joint statehood campaign from this day hence. The Review does not wish to be understood as making the charge that there has been change of heart on the statehood ques- ton on the part of the Federal ap- pointees. but it is plain, that in defeT- ence to the powerful appointing power at Washington, that our Republican friends at Phoenix have concluded to stay at home and not lift their voices in the approaching anti-ioint statehood fight We believe that President Roose- welt impressed this policy upon them successfully during the recent call of Governor Kibbey and Judge Kent at the White House little more than six weeks ago.
 Now comes the editor of the Nogales Oasis, in a way Federal appointee himself. and says;
 Myself and other iointists are the real thing in the Republican party"
 Listen to the bard of the Santa Cruz laying down. the doctrine: sra-
 Recently the assertion was made fIatly, in these columns. that an Al legged republican newspaper opposing jcinture, is not republican, Where at the Arizona Republican denied the charge. and ayerTed that the anti jointure position is true blue repub- Hcanism, because the last territorial republican convention declared against jointuTe two years ago. Very true. But party policies are not made by terri tcrial conventions, nor by state con yentions They are made in national conventions; and where national con yentions are silent. the policy is that of the majority of>$he party caucas in Congress. The last National Repub- lican convention was silent upon the question of statehood for the terri tories. And then the party caucas in Congress formulated the policy as en- braced in the Hamilton bill. That is the party policy; that is true blue Re publicanism: and those in Arizona who stand for that policy are the true Republicans. All others may palaver or prevaricate as much as they please; they cannot get away from these in exorsbie facts.
 Fellow Republicans:-This great question of statehood for the territo- ries will be settled only in the way that the republican party has decreed by it's congressional caucas. in fram ing the Hamilton bill by majority of three to one. That is the ultimate DO s:tion of the Republican party upon the issue of statehood, and the party has taken that position because the position is right. Do not be deludec bv the assertion that by voting dowT statehood now the people of Arizona Will secure single statehood in th' rear future. or in the remote future The party policy is crystalized in th' Hamilton bill: and 1t will not change The bill is the voice of the great mas of the people of the great East, an the protest Of few thousand peopl here in Arizona will avail nothini against il"
 The Review believes the Oasis ha correctly quoted the Republican part policy on the statehood question. is cause for reorganization, howeyel that there are many stalwart Repul Iicans in Arizona who recognize tha the defeat of the Hamilton joint stat hood bill, having for it's purpose tn yoking of Arizona with New Mexic and the absolute domination of or affairs by the voters of New Mexic
 is the paramount issue in Arizona
 he approaching election and refuse
 longer fell6~ the policy advocated
 the Republican national administr
 ton when they know that policy to
 iaimical to the welfare and prosperi
 of their territory.
 These stalwarts are neither feder
 sppointees or straight-laced party m