Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-26

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 tion of private property will perish. The administration has been thus far successful in showing that dan gers from individualism can be effec- 1 lively regulated and that abuses in the exercise of prvate property can l be restrained. Thus a great conser- vatiye victory has been won and the coming of socialism has been stayed
 In these words Judge Taft has talk en a position which the timid candi- dates are unanimous in permitting hin to occupy alone
 There is no occasion for surprise, therefore, that President Roosevelt. who has the. welfare of the republic so dearly at heart. is whola-heartedly for Taft as the next president of the United States.
 "As to Arizona, we can at best have but a small voice in the nauonal con vention. We have been deptived of four delegates by the national com mittee. As against six delegates in former conventions, We shall have but two at Chicago. We have lost four delegates, because certain candidates Fairbanks. Foraker, Cannon and Knox-felt assured that the territo- ifes would be with the national ad- ministration for Taft, and in an un- guarded moment they were able. through cunning management in tue national committee to cut Arizona's !, representation to two delegates, by providing in the official call that if we send more than two, a contest shall be deemed to exist--the result of which would be, of course, one third of vote for each if we send six delegates and each of them is seated.
 Tn robbing the Republican party of Arizona of four votes in the Chicago convention an outrage has been com mitted against the territory, which every true Republican in Arizona will resent Still, l believe, it is stated here and there that we owe all kinds of gratitude to the candidates who are so solicitous for our welfare that their managers deliberately perpetrated this outrage upon us.
 As l have said, We can have but little influence in a national conven- tion, at best. Nevertheless. once in every four years, we do have some thing 10 say in national affairs, by helping to nominate the president:
  gates this year, those delegates will have weight in the nation and in the convention if it shall be known be- forehand that they represent a defi- nite sentiment of the Republicans of this territory-if it shall be made known that Arizona has a cnoice among the candidates. There is but one way however, for us to have any real voice in the contest, and that is by instruct ing our delegates. Arizona is called at the foot of the list. after all the states. and invariably, in Republican conventions, where majority sufices to nominate Git requires two-thirds in Democratic conventionsl, the result is reached and all is over but the shout ing, before the formal call of Arizona is made
 If we have choice-and inquest ionably the choice of Arizona Repub- licans is Taft-why should we not have the manhood and courage to ex- press that choice, by instructing our delegates Unless delegates are in structed, nobody can say what are the sentiments of the people who send them and the choice of the convention depends upon the caprice of the boss es and the personal views or the per sonai interests of delegates. By in structing delegates to nation conyen- tion, the representative form of gov eTnment is carried to logical result. By failing to instruct, the representa- tive form of government is abandoned, and the masses of a party surrender their judgment and their interests to few individuals whose judgment may not be at all in accord with that of the people they purport to repre- sent.
 T hear it said, of course, that the party should keep it's own views in the background, and send delegates who will make the best bargain possible What kind of bargain. pray? Shall it be a bargain for future officehold- ing? Just such methods in the past have more than once brought the territories into contempt. If the Re publican party were to have no higher ideals, nor higher purposes, than to provide offices for this or that set of men. every self-respecting Republican would be ashamed of it.
 The very object of a national con vention is to give expression to the views of the rank and file of party, because the rank and file cannot at. tend in person. and they must send delegates to express the sentiments of the rank and file. It is only when the party has no choice, and is unable to make a choice, that an uninstructed delegation is justifiable. But so far as Arizona is concerned, since Arizona is for Taft, this territory would make ! itself ridiculous by failing to instruct. !
 Speaking of Senator Foraker, Gov ernor Kibbey said: tAll Arizonans ! who are opposed to joint statehood 1 felt grateful to the senator for his DO sition on that matter. As I probably l was as consistent, and as earnest. and ] risked as much in my opposition to l joint statehood as did any other man | in Arizona. I felt particularly pleased 1 that Senator Foraker opposed it. i felf just as grateful to all the Demo | cratic senators, because happily the | exigencies of politics likewise com ] peiled them to oppose the measure. i think. however. that common sense | and due regard for principle suggest 1 that there is a limit to which we should go !n the expression of our i gratitude. I think that no careful ob | server of political events has any idea that Senator Foraker's alleged ] candidacy for the presidency aspires i to anything beyond the defeat Of Judge Tafk
 T know that Judge Taft was op- posed to joint statehod, and If occa- ! sion were to arise would be opposed l to it again. and know that he. is | friendly to this territory and it's as piYations for statehood