Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-15
ROOSEVELT CLUB ID EXPERIENCE
 STORMY LIFE
Local Republicans Are Begin hing to Inquire Why They Should Send Delegation h. structed for Big Stick.

After an absence of several days spent in the central portion of the ter ritory on private business, and looking after the interests of the Roosevelt | Third Term Club. president c. l. Me Reynolds of the local organization. has returned to the city. There is no doubt that Mack carried the compli- ments of Boss Michael E. Cassidy 60 Boss Colonel Sturges, and that al ready the wires are laid for the organ ization or a club at Tucson for the purpose of perpetuating the name of the Teddy Bear and increasing the membership of the Ananias club.
 Those returning from the territorial fair. and where incidentally the Ter ritorial Postmasterss' Association. bet ter known as the Amalgamated Order of Federal Boosters. is also in session, state that the path of the new ul s.ai,- fzation will be bv no means sfrewn with roses in that vicinity. Mikes lieutsnarts have been there. but there are others who pyodded bv ambition also want 10 start a Roosevelt club
 Already the crowd or federal office holders in answer fo the sienal given hv resiav in this cnuntv. are break. ing their necks to form organizations, with their avowed object of keeping their master. the Terrible Teddy on the presidential job. They are "reso- lutings endorsing and everything else. to show that they are the real old "fast-black-warrsnted-not-to-run" arti- cie.
 But in spite of the activity of all including the crowd that rushed to the standard when it was raised by LassI- dy, some forgetting presumably, the fact that they had declared publicly and in newspaper interviews for Sen atcr Foraker the real old wheelhorse of the c. o. P. in Bisbee, are not be, coming hysterical witl' enthusias sm over the new organization
 Among the republicans of Cochise 1 county and Bisbee for years past have spent valuable time and money stand | ing side by side with Democrats try ing to get for Arizona her just due l single statehood In all of the fights they were earnest and carried them
 selves well, but in none of them did | they have to put forth such desperate | efforts as only short time ago, when the man, at the mention of whose name some would now have them
 leap for joy, used all the power of a mighty office to wipe Arizona off the
 map and condemn der citizens to DO litical servitude by joining this terri
 tory with New Mexico
 | Now the argument is being used that
 Roosevelt wanted to get the senti.
 ment ot the people of the territories,
 but that this Is absolutely untrue from l he conversational records where 1t shows that the presidents consorts ! led by Boy Wonder" BeveTidge tried to force thS oill through without giy. | ing Arizona chance to vote on the | proposition. The thorough spanking which the "boy wonder" got at the
 hands of the territoryis old time | friend, the senator from Ohio, he will
 not soon forget. It was Foraker wac
 kept Roosevelt and his outfit from
 getting the stiletto between Arizona s ribs.
 Remembering all of this the old l timers of Bisbee look at the latest ut terances of the Erratic One in regard to statehood, and smile. They are not much on talk, but they know as well as Roosevelt does that Arizona comes third in the roll call of the Republi- can National Convention, and that now 0eeing himself walloped into line, he Is going to be real cute and say that he fayors single statehood. thereby making everyone forget the past, and shout with ioZ whenever they hear Dis name. But again the old uBers display mere sense than ne gives them credit for. and want to be shown" He may be for single statehood. but be has to consult with the party leaders" They have had one set-to 'SIh Precocious Bever.dge, and the "Venerable' Uncle Joe, and are pre-. pared to tell Teddy to either stand on his own feet or quit the job.
 The Roosevelt organization, even in the hands of Michael E. Cassidy, whose consummate ability as a politi- cal leader no one even doubts, will have a stormy life. In a quiet, calm manner many are asking; What did Roosevelt ever do for Arizona?' and What did Roosevelt try to DO to Arizona?"
 According to the best information, the membership of the local organi- zation has not increased much since the first couple of weeks, and the chances are that some of those who were first for Foraker, and then for Roosevelt. will soon forfeit their membership.