Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-01
SPEECH OF SLOAN NOT VERY
PLEASING TO THE ORGANS

The speech made by Governor
Sloan upon the passage of the state
hood bill. made on his return to
Phoenix from Washington gives more
credit to others than Ralph Cameron.
republican leaders and politicians
than will be pleasing TO the republl-
can machine of Cochise county.
Governor Sloan said in part:
Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens:
Insofar as this demonstration is
personal in character. | am sure Il
is not prompted by an exaggerated
potion of what / may have person
ally done towards the passage of the
enabling act. II is. as l take it.
prompted rather by a desire to afford
me as your governor. and hence in
way authorized 20 speak for you.
an opportunity which I have not here
tofore enjoyed. TO express the graft
tude we feel toward those who may
have contributed to the glorious re
suit through all the history and dur
ing ali the years Of effort to achieve
statehood.
In the excitement and enthusiasm
OF actual accomplishment we are apt
10 forget the toll, effort and weari-
ness of the way which We travelled
in reaching our journeys end. We are
likely also to forget those who help
ed US on our way and without whose
aid we might not have reached that
journeys end. Statehood has not
come to US in a day, although it did
seem at the end to come with a
rush. 1t did not come to us in a
year. or even in a decade OF effort.
The first Americans who came TO the
territory after It's organization looked
forward hopefully to the day when
he promise of statehood made in the
organic act should be fulfilled. The
first serious efforts, however. were
begun a little more than twenty
years ago. Since that time every
governor has asked for il and pre-
scented reasons for it in his annual
reports to the secretary OF the in
terror: and every delegate in con-
gress has introduced a bill for our
admission. Many of these bills have
passed the house Of representatives
Each of these worked faithfully, ear
uestly and courageously to secure
for the territory. That they
were not successful must not be cred
tied against them, for their efforts,
though not Immediately fruitful of
success, advanced our cause By edu-
eating congress and the nation as to
our fitness and the justice of our
claim. The efforts Of Governors
Murphy. Hughes, Franklin, McCord
and Kibbey, and the efforts OF. Dele
gates Smith, Murphy and Wilson
of glorious realization. Then, too,
should not be forgotten in this hour
the efforts of our delegates to the
national conventions, beginning with
1855. to obtain recognition by the
two great parties Of our claim to
statehood must not be overlooked nor
forgotten. The constant hammering
away Of our territorial press. and the
constant preaching by countless num-
bers Of our citizens, in season and
out of season, have had their effect.
But especially should We remember
the men and women whose industry
and good citizenship covering fifty
years OF history have made us fit
for statehood by building up this
splendid civilization we see about
us today In fact no one man or
group Of men can justly claim an
exclusively credit for statehood.
It is now an open secret that one
Of the disappointments which came
20 Theodore Roosevelt in the presi-
Dental office lay in the fact that he