Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-03

in new and UNEMPLOYED fields. We are
not going to abuse Judge Kent, Mr.
Dunlavey or Governor Kibbey, bat
they are all public officials and sub
ject to legitimate criticism. We don't
blame these political office holders for
their efforts to maintain their hold on
the offices they now fill: we don't crit
icise them for their efforts to gain
control of the new state; it is a Ie-
climate ambition, but we reserve the
right of a newspaper to oppose and
expose their methods. The people Of
Arizona believe in home rule; believe
that the men who bear the burdens
of government ought to take part in
its affairs of state; they do not take
kindly to carpetbag rule. We have
had to submit to it since the territory
was born, and are becoming some
| what case-hardened to the use, yet
| the fact remains. We feel that the
citizens of Arizona, the men who have
borne the burdens Of the day, who
have watched Arizona emerge from
| crude, uncivilized, barren solitude,
to a magnificent, paerless principalt
ty, will not give the ir sanction to, or
permit our new state to be governed
by men, whose only interest in the
territory is that of office. This is the
issue today that ccnfronts the citf
zens of Arizona; 1t is not Cameron or
Smith; it is not democratic or repub-
Iican, but the real vital issue of this
campaign is, are the people Of this
territory who have braved its dangers
of the past, who have redeemed the
desert and plain, who have by their
patriotism, thrift and energy planted
civilizations starry banner high on
the ramparts Of intelligence and
thrift, ready now at this day and time
to lay the proceeds of their magniti- |
cent efforts in the lap of these Arizo-
ma carpetbaggers.
Twist as they may, shrek statehood |
and Cameron as they will, the only
desire and hope of these men are set
forth above They TANK by this Cam
eron statehood cry t. blind the eye
of intelligence, to appeal to the peoples
sense of parisanship, to mislead |
them into the belief that they are our
only hope of statehood.
That Cameron, Kibey and Kent will
lead Arizona out of the wilderness;
that patriotism, love of home and a
sense Of public duty is the motive and
only wish of these Arizona onice /
holders. Never since history was writ |
ten. since time began. has an ufflce |
holder been known to advocate a /
cause that would separate him from
his official emoIuments; it Is contrary |
to nature and mans sense of justice; |
1t Is the unselfish ambition of all man.
kind to hold fast to that what they |
possess, and reach out for more, yet |
IN the face of this incontrovertible |
truth, In conformation to the history |
of upwards Of one hundred years of |
government in this republic. where
men in public life have held tenacious
ly to their official positions, we find
here in Arizona today every federal
and territorial Office holder from Gov
.ernor Kibbey up and down, either on I
the stump. or advocating the election ,
CT Cameron. for the purpose as they
tell you of securing Statehood for Ari-
zona, when as a matter of fact, fact
that not one of them dare dispute
that should Arizona be admitted as a
state, there. is not man IN public Of
fee in Arizona today that could be
elected an officer If the new state.
yet these men have the audacity to
come before the voters of Arizona to
day and try To blind them to the fact
that they are honest in their pleas for
statehood: that they are sufficiently
patriotic and unselfsh enough to try
to remove themselves from office.
What pitiabIe firDsy plea, what
parody on intelligence. The people of
this territory win have It in their i