Arizona republican., 1906-10-14
ARIZONA CITIZENSHIP
 DETAINED LAST NIGHT
Continued From Pare 1.

CoVAtHuGQ from rare i-
 l This had all been gone over in his 1 speech Of acceptance though there was omitted from the address last night the story of the revelation which Senator BeveridSe had received from l Senator Quay after the death of the i latter.
 One of the reasons why MT Aims worth invited support of the jointure . now Was the impossibility of ever SC curing any other kind Of statehood ] The inference could only be that if single statehood were possible he would favor it rather than joint state hood. He related conversation he 1 had with Senator Foraker last winter in which the ohio Senator had said that it would be single statehood or nOthins- Mr. AinswoIth said he in- mediately afterWard tod the pres dent i what Senator Foraker had said. i whereupoH. President Roosevelt re- ! piled. Tell Senator t'oraker that if a single statehood bill ever comes tof me l will veto it." At this the hand clappcrs in front worked vigorously. and yipped and ki-yid at the prospect that the thing for which ArizOnians 1 had striven for a quarter oc a century could not possibly be realized within | welt.
 CONONEL FITCH'S TASK.
 Throughout the address of MT. Aims worth il was not shown how the ter ritory or any class of citizens of Ari- zona could be benefited by jointure. If he meant that the corporations would be more rigidly dealt with h. did nOt say so nor did he make an ef- fort to show in what way they could be made to bear a greater share of the burden of taxation. That was left for Colonel Fitch. that tyro in joint state- hood who has graduated from anti 1 joint statehood ranks within ten weeks. l The young man fresh from the uni | versity always knows better how things are to be done than the man who has tried to do them. Colonel Fitch therefore. must be overflowing with valuable information
 colonel Fitch is not quite hthe sil- ver-tongucd orator Of other days still he pleased the crowd which he
 had attracted. He has many of old mannerisms and all Of his old wit. He lacks indefinitely all of his old mag netism and his voice does not ring with that entrancing clearness of d quarter of a century ago.
 The Colonel was moreover. groping | tEa One who is facing an audience .gitn the purpose Of refuting statements of the most uucompromising character ] made hardly more than two months before naturally approaches the task with hesitation and some uncertainty. Colonel Fitch proceeded frankly. He admitted that he did not know what he was tallliAg about when he said that joiHture would be a crime against Ar.zona He had spoken hastily. with out forethought or deliberation. He had taken it for granted that things were as the opponents of jointure had ! told him they were. Since then he | had learned differently and he now | publicly recanted
 PENDING NEGOTIATIONS. | But in all the disc-.ssIon regarding | Colonel Fitch's change of views there | is one thing which seems to have es- 1 capped general notice and that thing 1 tends to show that Colonel Fitch had ! for a long time before that fatal i'm | terview been turning in his mind this question of jOinture. or not perhaps the | abstract question of jointure. but the more concrete question as 10 what he 1 should have to do with it.
 The jointists of this territory months | before had circulated the report they ]
 was going to take the stump for joint ure. There was no doubt about that
 and the statement was accepted with cut question by all Arizonians But l at that time there had been no definite ] arrangements regarding the jointurc | campaign. At the time of the visit Ge ] Colonel Fitch to Phoenix there were
 stin no definite arrangements. Much depended upon the result of the terri 1 torial conventions which were not t1 | be held until a month later. It was not kno-n whether there would be any | money for the conduct of a joint state 1 hood fight and quite naturally Col ! Fitch could not at that time see any
 advantage to Arizona in jointure. The | evidence at hand indicated however. ] that he had been approached on the subject by the yet impecunious joint ] ists and therefore he must have been set to thinking for some time before | his interview was printed in The Re publican
 His address last night was inter | spersed with pleasing narrative and | laUghable if not apt illustration and altogether. was worth listening to. as l a means of diversion from ordinary
 week day cares. But as an argumen, ] in favor of jointure it was lacking He l traversed much of the ground gone over by MT. Ainsworth in his abuse of 1 the corporations and then of the citi- zenship and resources of Arizona. But | it devolved upon him to show in what manner statehood could benefit the territory and remove the evils com pIained of
 HOW IT IS TO BE DONE. His theory was that the people of { the United States were engaging in l a successful instruction against the ! corporations and that this spasm of ]. revolt would result in changing cor ruption into interruption and that out of the body of citizens of both terri ] | tories. alleged by both MT Ainsworth !
 and Colonel Fitch to be now base and . venal q legislature would be chosen ! which the corporations could not buy . Colonel Fitch did not dwell upon or even touch upon the inevitable similar effect of this growth of virtue upon