The Arizona sentinel., 1910-09-15
The Election

regrets the outcome of the con- stitutional delegate election and the victory for the democracy and it's programme of radicalism, it has no regrets over the course of the republican party therein nor for it's own stand upon the issues involved. Without hope of pecuuiary reward but because of honest conviction, this paper early in the campaign stated it's position clearly and unequivo- cally and it remains unchanged.
 The people of Arizona were not offered statehood as an inhe- rent right that had been deferred, but as a privilege granted by the nation at large, as represented by congress and the president, subject to certain conditions and limitations plainly intimated, but with full observance of proper and delicate consideration. The choice of action was left abso- lutely to their own will. While we must concede the choice they have recorded was made in all sincerity and perhaps after what they deemed mature considera- ton, we do not think iG has been a wise one, nor in accordance with the conditions the nation at large, as represented by congress and the president, had consti tutional right to impose.
 If the democratic delegates elected to form a constitution for the proposed state Of Arizona carry out their platform declara- tions and frame @ constitution incorporating the policies there by advocated, it is difficult to conceive how it can be endorsed by congress and President Taft without qualification, both of the administration and of the re- publican party, and without lend ing the party endorsement to principles fur from being a part of it's code of policies. It would in any event be an act of gra- ciousness without warrant of ex pectation und, besides, an injas tice to the stalwart republicans who faithfully stood forth for the party policy and programme, not because of partisan feeling, but because of honest conviction as to the fallacy of the revolu tionary democratic measures.
 It still remains to be seen whether the democracy has the essential hardihood to deliber- ately suspend the prospect of statehood over an abyss by ad- herring to their campaign decla- rations; on the other hand, what 0 farcical outcome of Mondays election if they failed to keep their pre- election pledges! And yet, what Q blessing to the whole people of Arizona-to get imme- diate statehood!
 As to the situation in Yuma county, it must be frankly con- fessed that it could not have been worse. There is coupled with this no criticism of the re- publican party managers; they coped faithfully ana valiantly not only with the union of dem- ocracy and socialism, but with widespread disaffection in their own ranks. This was especially true in Yuma precinct, where numbers of voters held an avOw- ed belief in the initiative and referendum above the clinching of statehood and party success. Deprive the democrats of their sOcialistIc and insurgent republi- can allies, and their actual straight party vote does not loom up so strongly.
 It may also be said that if the republican saloou men had been less jealous in managerial as sumption and been content to serve as individual auxiiaries, in view of the fact that their private interests were not dis tinctly threatened, it would have been better.
 As the results in Eastern elec- tions show, it is an off year for the republican party, anyway one of those recurrent periods of