Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-03-06

I N"SASNS 80 ess aSSNN Nhsse WIS w
again arise IN AriSona-the issue OF
Joint statehood. and IL the people of
s,rizona allow themselves 20 be ca
so,ed into voting for Joint statehood.
they win learn to their CONSERVATION
and amszement, when it is everlast-
ingly too late, that they have voted
away the most priceless boon that is
guaranteed TO Americans, their liber-
ty and their right TO be free; and if
the people of Arizona are deluded in
10 accepting joint statehood they will
learn TO their sorrow, when it is too
late to make amends, that they are
doomed to be ruled with an iron hand
by an oligarchy of corrupt politicians
over in New Mexico.
1T is regretable that in Arizona
there are some who favor this mon
strous iniquitr. But it seems that
such is the melancholy history of
mankind, for even in the apostolic
cabinet, there was a denying Peter, a
doubling Thomas and a bribe-taking
Judas, and it is due to the citizenship
of Arizona to say with few exceptions
that the only persons within her Dor
ders who favor joint statehood are
the Perkin Warbecks, Guy Fawkes,
Wat Tylers and Jack Cades, who hope
that joint statehood wiz open an era
of graft and spoliation.
1T matters not how pure the pri-
vate character of the president, he
can never be forgiven at the bar of
public opinion or in the forum of con-
science, for his attempt (by joint
statehood) to ruin the hopes and
ideals of 10000 people in Arizona
who are as good American citizens as
he can ever be, and when he is slum-
bering in oblivion, Arizona as single
state will be flying an eagles flight,
bold and forth and on; and we shall
always cherish the memory OF those
brave souls in the house and senate,
particularly those republicans who
defed the party lash, placed patriot
ism above politics and voted to pre-
serve the integrit~ of Arizona. But
there is one name in this list of hon
ored great which, hike the name of
Abou Ben Adhem, leads all the rest.
For the past twenty years, both as a.
private citizen and as congressman,
here in Arizona, from the forests of
Coconino on the north, to the old
Mexico line on the south; wherever
the democratic hosts strung their
bows for battle, in the forefront of
| the conflict and with a bow that no
one in all this Ithaca can bend, there
has ever been found this peerless
knight of political chivalry, this stain
less gentleman, this faithful public
seryant-Marcus A. Smith
in congress he has challenged the
traducers of our territory, and has
given them blow for blow on many
hard fought field. In the focal fire,
his waving plume has ever been seen,
and the vigorous years of his life that
men usually devote to their private
affairs, have been spent in faithful
service in Arizona's cause. For the
past two decades.he has stood in that
fierce, white light that beats about a
public man and no tainted breath has
ever dimmed the bright mirror of his
character and reputation.
when the battle of salamis had
been fought and Greece again kept
free, the several victorious command
ers who participated in that great
conflict, delivered their sufFrages at
the altar to determine who was the
most worthy. Each general voted for
himself to be the first in honor. but
they all agreed that ThemistocIes was
second; and when this great battle
against joint Statehood, which involves
the rights of human nature, shall
have been thus happily concluded, in
the golden urn of memory Of the
people of Arizona, they shall upani-
mously declare that whoever else was
second, Marcus A. Smith was first.
"This is a crucial time in our his
tory, and with our distinguished and
honored leader, Mark Smith, in con
gress, we may yet be spared the