The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-15
THE CRIME AGAINST NEW
MEXICO AND ARIZONA.

For twenty years the Territories of
New Mexico and Arizona have been
qualified for admission as States. From
the time when the qualification was
demonstrated, h National Democ-
racy recognized 1t. For upwards
of two decades the Democracy has
striven for the great act of justice
which New Mexico and Arizona de-
mande5 as a matter Of right. For two
decades the Republican party has
kept New Mexico and Arizona out of
Statehood. 1t has. done this in flag
amt defiance of the spirit and mean
ing OF the Constitution. 1t has done
1T in open violation of its pledged word
1t has been guided by no motive of
public policy. 1t has had a prete1t
worthy OF the name. Its objects have
been purely political. 1t coufd not
tolerate the weight which the ad1nis-
sion of Arizona and New Mexico
would a added to the West, and
undoubtedly to the Democracy, by The
election of -four new United States
Senators. 1t could not bear the SUBJ
~stantia1 increase OF Western and De-
m%ocratic force in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
So the Republican party has lent it
self to a gigantic fraud. Its course In
the matter of separate Statehood for
New Mexico and Arizona has over
stepped the fatal dividing line that
differentiates political felony which
has only one parallel in American civ
ic fraud-that other Republican crime
whereby Samuel J. Tilden was cheat
ed out of the Presidency to which he
was lawfully elected. Over the Terri
tories Of New Mexico and Arizona,
one might imagine lowering the ghost
of Zack Chandler, with it's cry OF 1876
"Concede nothing" Nothing has been
conceded to New Mexico and Arizona
Nothing to the intention Of the Con-
stitution, nothing to the precedents
which lay prevailed in the prior a
mission of States, nothing to the OPP
Union of the country, nothing to the
protest of the Democracy, nothing to
innate Justice and immutable equity,
nothing to the honor of the Republi-
can party itself. The blockade OF
Statehood for two Territories which
| are States in everything but name
and privileges, is a steal by anticipa-
ton. 1t is a case of getting off with
1 u1e sway D6lOT6 Tie Tedl OWuG1 HIS
a chance to put himself in possession.
The republicans responsible for the
crime against Arizona and New Next
| co ave found a new way of assadling
the doctrine of State rights. They kill
these rights before they r born.
They nave taught their party the
| shameful lesson that humiliation of
State rights prior to their birth is as
effective a method as strangling them
in their cradle.
This drama of preventing the estab-
lishment of two great commonwealth
of depriving two populations of repre-
sentation in Congress, OF robbdng
| thousands of voters of the elective
franchise, has Its N1ephistopheles and
it's Faust. The Mephistopheles is AL
drich, the Faust is Beverage. Aldrich
is the inventor, Beveridge the tool.
Aldrich is the deviser OF ways and
means, who stands safely ensconced
in the shadows of the background, Bev
eridge is the puppet who takes the
odium. In any event, Aldrich is the
~protagonist of the play.
And to pursue the comparison fur
Their, the drama of Arizona and New
Mexico, like the drama of Faust, has
it's Wagner-the conventionafist, the
~temporizer in the person of President
Taft. Do you want proof Of this? Turn