Bisbee daily review., 1910-06-22

while the democrats in and out of were pleading for justice for the territory So far back as 1894 the voters of Arizona were as sured the election of a republican delegate to congress would result in the immeriate passage of the state hood bill. Hon N. O. Murphy was elected, but after that event republi- cans kept Arizona out of the Union for seventeen years. Since then our democratic delegate in congress, Hon. Mark smith. three times passed a bill through the lower house of congress for the admission of Arizona as a state, all of which were killed by re- Dublicans in the senate. In the face of this treatment of Arizona during these long years. we find the follow ing in the Dispatch of yesterday 
 The republican press of the territory and of the country at large yielded all the powerful in frence at its command in favor of granting to the southwestern  territories the rights to which their resources and the qualified tions of their citizenship entitle them
 statehood has always been a republican proposition and has al- ways been supported by repubh- cans in public and private life.
 Because the statehood bills presented before congress were
 republican measures. the demo
 cratic press of this territory, as
 well as of New Mexico and of
 states where the issue was only
 of relative interest, have found
 fault with their provisions and
 have thrown every obstacle in
 their power in the way Of accom-
 plishing statehood"
 Let us remember that the state hood bill which has passed congress is the one substituted in the senate by the committee on territories O that body. and introduced by Sena tor Dillingham;, which annuls th' election laws of Arizona and force the submission of the new state con stitution to the president and cor gress for their approval. Now le us see what the Dispatch had to sa about this measure last Februar when it was first proposed The fo lowing is from an editorial publishe in the Dispatch at that time:
 With the president this com
 mitted. and determined that an enabling act shall pass, Arizonans
 have only to exercise a little pa-
 tience. Statehood is assured, at
 this session, and without any hu-
 initiating provision that its con
 stitution shall be subjected to
 approval by congress before state
 hood shall be granted
 well 1t is stated in the Miners
 Washington special that any
 measure containing such a hu- initiating proposal could never [ carry in either house of con gress. It would be an insult to the manhood Of Arizona. the most sturdy manhood that ever built the IOuuQdllOu oi all A44-Si -~e--
 none of his disciples need have
 any fears about the constitution
 Arizona shall form. It will be
 Arizona's constitution, formed by
 men responsible for a system of
 public education second to nc
 state in the Union. There need
 be no fears of constitution
 framed by the representatives oi H C people who have placed a high u CT premium on education tha' D any other state.
 e But if Arizona should fram' it the freakiest kind of a constitu 'r ton. it would be the business f. alone of Arizona"
 )r Concerning this same senate e. which has now become a law uni d which Arizona may come into er Union the following resolution
 adopted on February 11th last,