Weekly journal-miner., 1910-09-14

may ing and affords food for thought It fish those make radical is McALESTER. Okla. Sept 9th, 1910 Editor Arizona Journal Miner
 Dear Sir have just read carefully recent issue of your esteemed paper and notice the heroic fight you are making for Constitution which will the approval of
 the President and the Congress and Statehood to the lgood citizens of the Territory of Arizona.
 feel very much interested in the matters you are dis cssing As you know have in very years here In Oklahoma gone through the making of Constitution land a State.
 As all realize now our Constitution was bur dened with many of the Populstc Sociastc issues which Iyou are conending against For instance we have the Socalstc initiative and Popuistic referendum
 As you may know, our Constitution was made almost entirely by Democrats intoxicated with political success and determined to make such Constitution as would permit the following Democratic legislature forty the party that political machine could easily control the State for generations to come
 Already since Statehood have had two unreasonable and wicked tests of the initiative The first upon the removal of the State capital from Guthrie Republican city, which the governor could graft Democratic Oklahoma City, where the governor has financial interests The whole force of the administration put oper aton carry the election the proposition that to take effect until the time provided by the Enabling Act but the governor before the result officially announced ordered the various state officials immediately their respective offices the capital and Sneaked his department away in the darkness of the night pre- vent injunction All this in direct violation of the Enabling Act, which provided that Guthrie should remain the State capital until January, 1913.
 The second dose of the initiative we received from the party power when they realized that the result of the State and Congressional elections of 1910 would be agas them, scheme to dsranchse all colored (sn- ply because they voted the Republican tcke which is follows
 No person shall be registered as an elector of this he here0 he be able to read and write any section of the Constitution of the State of Okahoma but person who anu ary ls 866 at any time prior thereto entitled to vote under any form of government or who at that time sided foreign nation, and nea descendant of such person shall be denied the right register and because of his inability read and write sections o
 This too in open violation of Section G. Art l. of our Constitution, which provides:
 "The State shall never enact any law restricting or abridging the right Of suffrage of color previous condition of servitude.
 These schemes, slyly thrown into Constitution induce the people dsrust themselves, and the Democratic party in Arizona, in Oklahoma seems to have grown accustomed to antagonizing wholesome leg sation and honest methods of administration, that they determined if they have the power destroy all hope 0f truly representative State government. The Repub- can party quite well afford trust its representatives in all matters and although occasionally may go wrong. therefore sacrifice the eternal principles of ruly representative form of government.
 In the initiative and referendum and recall we see good that be secured in the first place by ectng good and tried men, thereby avoiding all the expense of various elections required in initiating and erring and recalling.
 In the second place, claim that the time has n Arizona any State in this Union where the people annot safely trust the representatives of their ntel gent selection to do for them the things which they them elves would have done.
 Were in Arizona, we would stand for truly repre- entative government founded upon Constitution ramed by the peoples intelligent representatives free from ny new Socialistic Popusc scheme of experiment The