Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-12
STATEHOOD PROBABLY WILL BE RECALLED.

WILL BE RECALLED
 The constitutional convention ha gone to the the utmost extreme o radica ism by agreeing to write int the Constitution of Arizona a re call provision which will be applie able to judicial as welr;a executiy, officers. The delegates now framing the constitution at Phoenix never re ceived and mandate from the peo Die of Arizona to thus attempt tt embarrass and hamper the courts o Arizona In only one or two coun ties was the recall mentioned by tho democrats when constitutional dele gates were selected h Cochise county the democratic declaration regarding the recall was this:
 Believing that all officers should be responsible to the voters who choose them, and that no man should hold office after he fails to represent the senti- uents of his constituents, we favor a provision for a recall of delinquent officers with petition for the submission of such Ques- ton to the voters of twenty-five per cent"
 In the campaign which followed that declaration MT Elinwood, one of the candidates explicitly gave to the people his reasons for not apply ing the recall to the judiciary. Re garding the recall section of the platform Mir. Ellinwood in his speech delivered in Bisbee, Douglas and throughout the county said:
 Thus the platform favors the recall to be applied to executive 7 and legislative officers. but ex- cludes the idea of recall of a judge A judge has no constit- uents, and by his oath is pre- ended from representing any one. 1t is his duty to declare fhe law feariessly and impartial Ny regardless of sentiment. The recall is in effect a direct i'm peachment without a judicia, hearing, ard Is largely influenced by hearsay testimony: therefore. Tn my opinion, should only be made operative by a two-thirds voter
 The Cochise county platform fay ors the recall of officials who fai to represent the sentiments Of thei' constituents. A judge who wouf undertake to represent the sentimen of anyone, either the majority O minority. would be unfit to sit O the bench of any court in the lane 1,s;c;al action is expected to | based on an honest interpretauo A, written law or constitutions. ar -sueh action certainly should not controlled by the sentiment ot an one and to place the judiciary Arizona under a sword of Damocl as proposed in the recall agreed bv the convention should arouse people of Arizona in protest, eiti now or at the election for the II scation of the constitution. 1;
 How much farther the radl majority in the convention will go inc work of discrediting Arizona only be imagined, but to our nj the recall provision. as alre agreed to. will be sufficient to ca the rejection of the constitution Washington. Believing this our vice to the people of Arizona is vote against a constitution which
 olready gone farther in the re than the most freakish radical
 vision in the Oklahoma constitu and which would give opportu to the agitators with socia.istic anarchistic bent to be continu bowling about and ascaulting
 courts of the territory.
 Why do we advise this? Beet if the people themselves turn d a freak constitution they wir an opportunity to frame another - stitution and thereby save statel
 under the present enabling act
 they approve it and it is tu'