Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-18
TaE TINE HAS COME.

that the territory Stands In a diner
ent attitude from any IL ever occu.
pied before in a territorial campaign
What ever we might have thought al
the time, never before has anything
ever been involved except the choice
for delegate in congress of man who
called himself democrat or a man
who called himself a republican
Though we thought we were voting
for statehood, it never would have
made the slightest difference whether
we elected this man or that man. Per
haps, one or the other of the candi
dates possessed better qualities as a
business agent, to look after matters
affecting us in congress, than the 9th
er, but both were equally powerless to
do anything for US in the great mat
ter of statehood. The fact is; int
time has never until now been ripe
Now for the first time 1t makes dit
ference, not whom we elect, but the
party for whom he stands. For the
first time congress is ready to give
us statehood on a certain tacit, but
none the less, well understood condi
ton.
Also for the first time we. are at
tracing the attention of those outside
the territory. Chairman Hitchcock OF
the republican national committee Is
taking a deep interest in the result OF
the election, for the very evident rea-
son that he believes It will have OF
may have an effect upon national poll
tics as it certainly viii have if the
territory goes republican. If, demo
cratic, there will naturally be no eff.
feet.
Mr.. Hitchcock, of course, has more
than political managers interest in
the result. He is friendly to the ter.
ritory and he has a warm personal
friendship for the republican candI-
date as well as for the leading repub-
lican managers. His powerful innu-
ence would therefore naturally be ex-
erted in favor of admission, IL infiu
ence should be needed. If Arizona
should send a democrat back to con-
gress, no influence Wculd be powerful
enough TO secure us statehood at the
short session.
Democratic speakers and papers
during the campaign have sought to
arouse partisan spirit by pointing
out that republican conventions be-
fore the last have made statehood
pledges which were not afterward re
deemed. That is true, if convention
can make a pledge, and so did the
democratic national convention OF
1892 Yet, the Cleveland administra-
ton and democratic congress denied
us admission.
The face is that territorial dele
gates were needed in all those con
ventions while in tue late republican
national convention they were not re-
quired for any purpose. It means that
the republican party was at last ready
to make more states.-Arizona Repub-
lican.
In the above the Republican again
pleads guilty to the deception which
the republicans of Arizona have been
trying to work on the people of Ari-
iona for the last dczen years. If it
has been immaterial in the past about
what party the delegate from Arizona
belonged TO. it is certainly immater-
ial now There can be no statehood
issue now in this campaign if the re-
publican party is honest in its prom
ises to immediately admit the terri
tories as states; if the republican
leaders are still opposed to the adj
mission Of sArizona as a state the
election of a republican TO congress
would have no influence on them. The
Republican would have the people of
Arizona believe thas the republican
party only tacitly agreed to the ad-
mission of the territories; that the
promise was made with the well I'M
derstood reservation that unless Ari
iona voted the republican ticket this
fall there would be nothing doing in
the matter of statehood.
Such logic is hard on the C. o. P.
It puts the republican party in the
position of trying to coerce and bride
the people of the territory tot fall
down and worship al the feet of the
very party and men who have been
solely responsible for the great injus-
tice of keeping us away from the
right of self-government. We do not
believe there are any democrats IN
Arizona who would for a moment lis
ten to such a proposition; the citizen
ship of Arizona we believe has the
courage TO stand firm for principle;
We do not believe tire democrats of
this territory would consent to cringe
and fawn at the feet of BeveridgeI
and Cannon who have denied them
justice in the past and who It is
threatened viii still deny justice to
Arizona unless the people of the ter
ritory elect Ralph Cameron, the weak
ling, to congress. Away with state
hood, If it has to be bought by a de-
sertion Of the PRINCIPLES which alone'
promise relief from the conditions in
to which the country has fallen under
the rule of the republican party. if
it has to be purchased with deception
and by the debauchery of the politi-
cal manhood of arizona
Democrats stand by your guns IN