Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-25
Address s.i Communications to THE 6iSSEE DAILY hGvteW,
 Bishse. Arizona.
PUT CONSTITUTION THROUGH PROMPTLY


 \ Promptness in framing the consti- tuition. having 1t passed upon by the people, and submitting it to congress at the short session is one of the sol emn duties Of the constitutional con yentioa The document should be carefully framed and considered, but it need not require half the time that some newspapers and delegates ap- pear to think will be necessary. The wishes of Arizona people, as shown in the election returns, are clear and positive. There is nothing compll- cated about it They want a pro gressiye constitution, placing control os the state government in their hands. Beyond that they demand nothing. except that the document shall be reasonably short. compre- ASASiNt anu luIudHleLNdi. lHt stOIy Of the creation cs the world was told in less space than is taken up by any of the present state consti. tGtions, and the shortest of these constitutions is long enough to con. tain all that the people of Arizona want. A long drawn out session might easily mean confusion. com. piications and 0superfluous additions. The democrats of Arizona have re peatediy denied the partisan charge that they proposed to enact a reg ular law volume of statutes, and the voters have taken their word for 1t
 Such constitution as has been ptJnised by the democratic dele gates, and indorsed at the polls would not be rejected at the short session Of congress. Such a document would be in direct line with .he overwheIm. ing sentiment of the United States. as revealed during the past few weeks Republican progressives all over the west have simply crushed the regulars or standpatters with just such propositions of government as Arizona demands and will have These republicans will stand by Ari. Zona They could not do anything else and remain consistent in the fight they have been making them. selves. It requires only ordinary per ception to understand that when Ari. zona submits a progressive constitu ton to congress and the president for approval the right of tke people to self government, not only in Ari. zona, but all over the west, will in measure be at stake, and if the standpatters want to deny it. even if they have the power. let them try 1t Such action would kill the last vestige of standpatism in this coun- try, and even the oldest mossbacks among the regulars probably know it.
 There never was any purpose among Arizona democrats or the voters to go to extremes. The cry about the danger of adopting the Ok 1ahoma idea of a statute book for a constitution has been coming exciu- sively from the republican bosses and organs. The cry was adopted merely te scare the voters, and never had any foundation. Even now the republican organs are urging radi. cal, impossible constitution. declar. ing. in their hypocrisy, that it is the verdict of the people Arizona will have a progressive constitution. such as the whole country approves. There will be nothing anarchistic in it: there will be no attempt to follow the Oklahoma example. Let such a constitution be framed with all pos sible dispatch. and put it up to con gross, with the people of the United States looking on