Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-04
TAFT NEVER ATTACKED.

Misrepresentation of the presi- dent of the United States is a se- rious offense and when committed willfully and with the deliberate in- tention of deceiving the voters it is the more reprehensible. The demo cratic press bureaus in this and oth- CT counties are endeavoring to hood wink the voters into the belief that President Taft is really in favor of the Oregon plan and they are dis tributing political documents one day to the effect that the Oregon idea is the Taft idea: and the next day they prate about the humiliation which the enabling act places upon the people of the territory in pro yiding for its approval at Washing ton. The democratic candidates know that a constitution such as they are advocating would defeat statehood; Eugene s. Ives and E. E. E1linwood, the railroad lawyers who are the democratic leaders in the present campaign are well aware of the same fact and yet they have de liberately written a platform for the counties of Pima and Cochise and have sent carbon copies to Gila. which instructs the delegates nomin- ated thereon to work for constitu- ton, which is substantially in line with the Oregon plan
 President Roosevelt denounced the Oklahoma constitution and admitted that territory to statehood only be- cause the enabling act gave him no right of disapproval unless it were found that the fundamental law sub mitted was in conflict with the con- stitution of the United States
 If he were president today he would not hesitate to reject the okla homa brand of constitution, such as the democrats are contending for. and his successor in the White House, is if possible more emphatically opposed to the Oklahoma idea than was Col onel Roosevelt As for the congress, the senate and house by a tremen- dous majority are against the blend ed Oklahoma-Oregon brand."-Arizona Citizen.
 No one having the smallest particle regard for truth would write such as the above, which amounts to no . more than brazen attempt to de- cei1e. the voters of the territory. There Afafs not sbeen a democratic platform written in E a sri sssInngfs5d,nty,sss the territory which n mentions. the Ok lahOma constitrttgn, .ss6S the Okla .Eoma constitution makes book of 400 pages. filled with many. statutory provisions: ths democtes. ot aSAz2na have distinctly declared that only fun. damental principles of government be written into the Arizona constitution. one of these being provision for the initiative and referendum.
 When the Citizen says that either Ex-President Roosevelt or President Taft would veto an Arizona constitu- ton because it contained the initia- tive and referendum plan of Iegis- lation it does so on it's own responsi- bility and is not supported by any word from either of these men on the subject President Taft in his speech in Oklahoma did not oppose the prin- ciple of the initiative and referen- dun, but stated that it was perhaps a bit radical Roosevelt has never said anything against the initiative and referendum that anyone outside of the Citizen ofice ever heard of.
 The people of Arizona cannot be accused of flying in the face of Presi- dent Taft by advocating the initiative and referendum until something can be shs~5 from Taft that makes 1t plain that ne opposes the initiative snd referendum and its Incorporation