Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-02-28

from appearing. One such occasion
was the dinner given to the governors.
Second to the White House functions,
the receptions by Vice President and
Mrs. Sherman have perhaps been the
most popular affairs of the season. In
the cabinet set Secretary of the Navy
and Mrs. Meyer have been conspicu-
Gus. ! do not know how much WASH
ington social matters interest the
country, but they figure largely here.
Notwithstanding the fact that for
eigners charge us with snobbishness
and plutocracy. Washington ut least
on the surface is democratic. There
is scarcely Il capital in the world that
has so few feathers and so little cere-
mony. In the Potomac basin cabinet
officers and government clerks are
seen skating side by side. the presi-
dent walks about the streets unattend-
ed. senators and other functionaries
are as simple in their habits as news
paper men or shopkeepers. and any
body can see anybody else. even the
president. if he has any real business
and many times when he has not.
From this aspect. the form side, Wash
inGton is most democratic. How it is
the form. am not so sure. That
there is an undue kotowing to wealth
is perhaps true but that is not con-
fined to Washington nor yet to Amer
lea. There may also be Il spirit of
Snobbery here. but if so it is for the
most part concealed. Washington is
what the country has made it. Men
congregate here from every corner of
the land. bringing with them the pre-
dominant traits of their secti0ns-the
delightful courtesy of the south. the
informally and fIiendliness of the
west. the unaSsuming but real kindli-
ness of the east. Washington is the
nation in small compass, and Snohhery
does not thrive in this atmosphere.
The statehood bill for Arizona ana
New Mexico has gone to the sen
ate and is practically assured of pas
sage. 1t has the approval Of the pres
ident and has been agreed to in Il
general way by the leaders of the two
houses. 1t provides in the usual way
for the election of delegates to a con
Sttutional convention in each of the
territories and the submission of the
constitution adopted by these convcn-
tons first to the president and con-
gross and afterward to the voters OF
the territories. If the measure goes
through at this session the two new
states will probably be admitted in
time to participate in the presidential
election of 1912. With Arizona and
New Mexico in the Union all the terri
tory in the United States proper will
have been carved into states. There
will then be forty-eight stars in the
flag and no new ones can be added un
less some of the present states are di
vided or some Of the outlying territory
Alaska, Porto Rico. Hawaii or the
Philippines-is made into states. Eli
Their contingency is remote. For all
practical purposes it is safe to say that
Arizona and New Mexico will be the
last of the American states. The only
unadmitted territory in our own prop
err boundaries will then be the District
of Columbia. which must ever remain
politically a No Mans Land.
Not only do the representatives come
up for election next fall. but thirty of
the senator's 80 out of Office on March
3. 1911, and In most cases the lesislA