Arizona republican., 1906-11-03

| =. Greenhut, the former mead OF the
whisky trust, long time a client of
Judge Ainsworth and the present head
of a syndicate holding 100000 of
worthless New Mexican bonds which
would be given par value by joint
statehood.
! Closely associated with Judge Aims
worth i'm this campaign is Thomas
Fitch. who also has a counterpart in
American history-the Hessians hired
by England for the subjugation of the
struggling coIonists. Colonel Fitch
came to the territory three months ago
to sell his silver tongue to the highest
bidder. Astute as he was he had been
msled by the jointist stories of the
corruption fund which the corporations
had contributed for the defeat of joint
ure. Colonel Fitch was therefore
against jointure, which he described in
an interview given to The Republican
as an unspeakable evil. He discovered
that there was no anti-jointure corrup-
ton fund; that no financial provision
had been made to meet the legitimate
expenses of a campaign against joint
ure. He learned also that there was a
huge fund gathered from dark and
mysterious sources to be used in behalf
/ of jointure. Colonel Fitch thereupon
/ entered upon a period of what he has
since been pleased to describe as fur
! Their examination and more ample con-
sideration' from which he emerged a
champion of jointure. He had found
/ a market for his silver tongue
! OF the lesser jointists it is hardly
necessary to speak. Some of them
have been misled but the rest Of them
/ are discredited politicians for whom
the territory holds out no hope To
! them separate statehood would be as
/ hateful as a continuance of a terri
/ torial form of government. To them
| a throwing of the two territories into
one would be as acceptable as joint
| statehood They only desire a jumb-
ling, hoping to grasp something of
political value in the confusion which
would ensue.
| Now as to the methods which have
been employed throughout this cam
paign. The Republican. the anti
jointure press generally and the anti
jointure orators have been entirely fair
in their statements and arguments
! We have had the unpleasant duty OF
pointing out the distressing conditions.
financial, social and educational, which
prevail in New Mexico and which to
a ruinous extent would necessarily
spread throughout the whole state in
the event of jointure.
No statement regarding these condj-
tons has been made by The Republican
which has not been supported by off,
cial records, such as the reports OF
the New Mexican officials and the
latest United states census bulletin.
These have all had reference to the
schools, conditions with respect to ilIit-
eracy. the Indebtedness. the system
and weight of taxation in New Mex
leo. No coloring has been given to
such facts and figures as we have pro-
duced. They have been presented in
all their CHASTITY nakedBess. Nor have
we endeavored to draw from them i'm
proper conclusions. on them we have
affirmed that joint statehood would be
ruinous to ArizOnisns.
on the other hand the campaign for
/ jointure has been continuously smeared
with Misrepresentation. deceit and
brazen lying. The jointists have stead
! lily debased the resources and the citi-
/ zenship of this territory and have ex-
allied the conditions and the people Of
( New Mexico. our Indebtedness has
/ been exaggerated and our credit has
been assailed. These methods are cal
/ culated to injure US abroad and no
/ doubt they have done 50. The New
Mexican Indebtedness has been be-
Titled by lying or perverted figures.
The jointists. in command of a large
slush fund contributed by those who
/ have not now any interest in Arizona
but who hope to reap rich profits from
worthless bonds and the public domain,
have flooded the territory with false
representations. They have spent
thousands of dollars in a subsidized
press and have bought the support Of
the ignorant at so much per head in
some cases and in others they have
purchased it by promises which can
never be fulfilled.
! They have sought to excite race
prejudice by saying to the Spanish
American population in this territory
that their opportunities viii be greatly
! improved by jointure with a territory
in which people Of their race predomi-
nate. Thanks to the intelligence and
patriotism of the Mexican element
jointist efforts in this direction have
not met with success.
Anti-jointure people have urged the
predominance of the Mexican element
as an objection to jointure. In doing