Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-16

Mexico as separate states or the un- ion" Not a word about waiting tfll the session of the next congress. Not syllable or a hint of delay. It put the party squarely on record for i'm mediate statehood. Remember that. and draw your own parallel between that unqualified declaration and the shifty dodge of MT. Taft's letter. and then put the two side by side with that extraordinary scene little be- fore the adjournment of the last con
 akess when Beveridge returned to the familiar job of pulling the Aldricn chestnuts out of the fire. If there
 has been tragedy about the state hood drama of Arizona and New Mex leo that scene furnished the bur lesque.
 For Beyeridge. left without a pre- text, void of even a patch of bog to stand on, had to fall back on the position that there were bad people in
 New Mexico. that there were frauds
 in New Mexico, Gas If there weren't frauds and bad citizens in every state and territory of the union.) And the
 climax of the ridiculous was reached
 when Beyeridge was made to act the
 part of a political clown for the sake pl AluIllh. "A iiASP
 Lawler, was summoned, and the li.de girl testified that to her own knowl- edge there were some pretty disrep-
 utable citizens in New Mexico' And on evidence of no more significance
 than that. AIdrich, Beveridge and Mir. Taft had found what in their eyes
 must serve them as an excuse for fiat
 repudiation of the pledge staring them in their faces from the page of their own party platform. It went down with the republican congress anything would do for delay-and
 congress adjourned with Arizona and
 New Mexico exactly in the situation ! that they were before. No statehood | for that session.
 And if not then, when? Have the
 two territories any guaranty for the | future? We will answer that ques ton by another. What ground has
 anybody to believe that a party which
 deiiberately overrides its own pledge will not continue to repudiate It False in one thing. false in all, fl
 a maxim which applies to a poiitica policy just as aptly as il does to th' testimony of a witness on the stand | The republican promise of imme diate statehood for Arizona and NeV Mexico had fulfilled its object-o catching votes The fish were in th' net, and what more did the Aldriche and the Beveridges want? The dcla locratic platform said: Admit Arizon' fnd New Mexico at once, and } meant it. The republican platform
 raid the same thing. and it did no
 mean it. And it is fraud that car
 not be cured. No matter what an ] republican congress shall do in thl
 business 1t cannot get around tn fact that the last republican congress deliberately went back on the pllgh ed word of it's party-its solemn trot to the American people. lmmediat action was promised. there was an pie opportunity for it, the statehoo , question did not even call for : hate. if had been exhaustiyely ca
 yassed. not only every senator ar representative but every intelllgen ; voter in the country knew the merit of it, fl had been thrashed out by tn Q discussions of twenty years. In tnel , platforms, the two great parties wer at one on it. The voters who respe'
 lively stood by those platforms, it fo - lows as a matter of necessity Wer ' united on it. The conclusion is incl 5 orable. The Aldrich-Beveridge stat ? hood hold-up al the last session congress was not only a direct rep' , diation of their party's pledge. bt , was an out-and-out insult and defanc - of solid national opinion. ! Neither is there any possible avoi' 3 ance of the fact that Mir. Tafts lett' T to AIdrich puts him in the light t one who countenances the Aldrlc > methods and makes him a paruc .,I pant in that colossal wrong Of twe
 ty years duration-the denial of stat T hood to New Mexico and Arizona.