Bisbee daily review., 1910-10-02
(Arisona Gaxette.)

There Is no more chance of the Sixty-second congress turning down an Arizona constitution into which is written the initiative. referendum and recall. than there is of a celluloid cat being chased through hell by a birthstone dog"
 The speaker was Henry D. Walker, Washington correspondent of the Newark, N. J., Evening News, one of the most powerful opponents of insurgency in the United States. Walker is recognized as one of the best informed and cleverest political writers in the country. and his copy is accepted as gospel throughou. the land.
 While his winter habitat is be- heath the big dome, during the sea- son when the festive statesman is engaged in fence repairing. the con- noiseur of their ways and means tours the country seeking whom he may immortalize via the keyboard of his .rusty typewriter.
 This summer he has been playing onenight stands throughout the West That fig. the real West. The West that is west of the Mississippi. and not that part of the states" which a New Yorker means when he describes his western" trip, which may, in- deed, have extended as far as San dusky, Ohio.
 Walker has been putting in his time to excellent advantage this sum- mer studying the humid political con- dittons of the western states and wis fling the great reclamation projects which the government has under way. He has written lot of mighty good stun, too. So good in fact, that his paper wants him to keep the Held until the bell rings for the next assembling of the next session of congress.
 He is accompanied by C. J. Blanch- ard, or. more correctly, he accom- panies that gentleman, who is pub fisher of the Reclamation service and is making a tour of Inspection of the projects and obtaining data for his next best seller" Blanchard knows more about reclamation than some folks do about the price of turnips. and the newspaper man is getting a lot of valuable information at first hand with which to surprise and en- certain the natives of the effete East.
 Walker was in Washington state during the PoindexteF campaign and made several telling speeches along the lines of fundamental democracy. Poindexter was opposed by the ad- ministration and unlimited dollars, but the result is history, and shows the list of the wind.
 Walker Is much interested in Ari- zona and in the result of the recent campaign. Let Arizona write a short, simple constitution, including the referendum, initiative and recall" he urged, flor with these provisions | in the fundamental law, all legisla- tion is in the hands of the people, and there will be no occasion for burdening the constitution with lot of material which should come under the head of statutory law. This mis- take was made in Oklahoma and should by all means be avoided here"
 Speaking from a knowledge born of experience, the visitor continued: The probabilities are not that your constitution will be rejected if 1t contains these progressive measures. but with the advent of the progress sive democrats and republicans to the Sixty-second congress. the constitu- ton would be more likely to be re- jected if it does not contain them. The next congress is sure to be pro gressive.
 With Joe Cannon a lay member; {; with the rules revised and gag law no longer effective: with an enthusi- astic progressive majority assured in the lower house, the Arizona con stitution, short and to the point. will Imeet no opposition, and the senate. in view of what is happening throughout the country and what will happen in the November elections, and with such men as LaFollette, Bristow, Cummins. Bourne, Owen. Gore and Chamberlain fighting for it; with Aldrich gone and the opposition unorganized and without a spokes. man: with Taft on his knees. and state after state swinging into line