Arizona republican., 1910-06-28

now celebrate, I shall content myself with a word more as to the future.
 shall take you into my confidence with reference to what shall be my official conduct and relation as to the eXecu- tive duties imposed upon me under the enabling act As you know, the ap- portionment of delegates to the consti tutiOnal convention has already been
 made. This apportiOnment was made with entire fidelity. as we saw it, with the terms of the enabling act. In fact the result was reached by the appli- cation of the simple rules of arithme- tic. I shall in the next day or two is sue a call for the election of Gegerates to the convention under this appor- tiOnment. The date which have fixed for that election is the 18th of Sep tember. I have carefully computed the time necessary under the enabling act for the doing of those things which shall preced our final admission, and have set the date with reference to the speedy ultimate accomplishments of this end. I estimate that with the cleo tion held on the 18th of September, the convention will be in session on the 1VNAi Ol ONlObtls anu dllONlIS lOuI Cdl- endar weeks for the work of the con- vention, a veto on the adoption or re- jection of the constitution can be had on the 9th of January, thus permitting the constitution, assuming it to be adopted, to be in the hands of the president and congress early in Febru- ary. in ample time for action thereon before the adjournment of congress on the 4th of March next. Assuming that we are wise enough to adopt a consti- tuition which will meet with the ap- proval of the president and congress, l predict with a feeling of absolute certainty that our star shall be added to the national emblem on the 5th of July. 1911.
 In introducing Eugene Brady O'Neill the mayor said it was high pleasure to present a speaker who had lived in Arizona for many years and who knew perfectly the story of the struggle of her people for state hood. He had been selected as loyal Arizonian who. though differing in politics from the other speakers, was like all Arizonians proud of the success of the issue of statehood for which all had sought so long regard less of party affiliations He then presented MT. O'Neill who was to speak as representing the democratic sentiment of the territory
 TRIBUTE TO THE GOVERNOR.
 MT. O'Neill spoke eXtemporaneously and with his usual vigor He recited much of territorial history and, in glowing tribute to Governor Sloan. He began by reciting the earlier his tory of Arizona. including the in- cident of its organization as terri tory, the bill for which was passed February 20 1863 He told of how that incident had been described to him by the late Colonel C. D. Pos ton, AriZona's first delegate to con- gross and one of the men who ac- complished the organization of the territory. The story was used in the pointing of a moral which was that the fight for statehood had been a long one and Arizona in the course of it had not always been right in all things; in other words there had been times when selfish interests had pre- as in the case of the or ganizatiOn of the territory. Not that  he criticized the latter but merely to show that though it resulted in the of a great state it was un- dertaken for selfish purposes. He said that Col. Poston had told him that the conditions in Washington back in 1863 when territorial organization was asked for were about as follows: When the enabling act was first asked for many of the congressman did not even know where Arizona was, and the bill was finally put through by a lot of hard work and lobbying by those interested. It was finally put up to congress in this way. that there were a lot of people out in this country. just about enough of them to fill the offices, and that they were an enterprising, energetic lot and that if the territory was or