Weekly journal-miner., 1910-11-02
PROHIBITION AND SUFFRAGE ARE
 DOOMED

Special Correspondence.
 PHOENIX, Oct. 9.-Statehood has become the paramount issue in this constitutional convention. The tide against ultra radicalism is rising at a tremendous rate. Men are in Phoenix from all over Arizona, men of big affairs who are demanding that nothing shall be allowed to stand in the way of consummation of state hood, not even the proposition of the initiative, the referendum and the re- call. Many of these men who are now most prominently insistent for statehood first and all the rest to follow, are men who voted and work ed for the democratic delegates. They are men who are decidedly in favor of the initiative and referen- dunn as governmental principle, but they have come to see as the repubG- cans declared before the election, that the prosperity and progress of Arizona is largely depenent upon the consummation of Statehood, and that to allow anything to stand in the way of that eonsummation will be piece of short sightedness almost criminal.
 A big movement is on right here in Phoenix and the Salt River Val ley to so change conditions in the convention that nothing shall be al- lowed to stand in the way of State hood. Following the election, or rather, the passage of the enabling act, Phoenix had a big uplift move ment Now it is fully realized that this uplift was largely due to State hood possibilities. Now matters are practically at a standstill. The ex- peeted capital is not coming in for purchase and development purposes. Investors are waiting to see what the convention is going to do. It has been plainly evident that a power full faction in the convention, of whom Feeney, the bright, but ultra radical labor delegate from Coehise, is truly representative, will carry the Constitution to an extreme which would shut it out of more than the most casual consideration at Wash ington and insure the defeat of Statehood. The proposition intro dueed by Feeney, providing for Constitutional protection of picketing and putting a State ban upon all un- organized labor, is but one of num- Der of measures along the same lines which has aroused alarm everywhere, and Arizona is now suffering the con sequences thereof, and nowhere more so than in Phoenix.
 The trend of the Constitutional wind is indicated by the position oOf the Gazette, which abandoned the Re publican party for all time in the recent election and allied itself with the Arizona adjunct of Tammany Hall. The Gazette, sticking to it's ultra radical eolors, and scenting the coming revolt against that radicalism which is endangering Statehood right now, is demanding the fulfillment of every ultra radical pledge and the enactment of Constitution along Oklahoma and amended Oregon lines.
 It was learned this morning that in all probability the Committe on Legislation is ready to submit the Baker proposition, No. f, very early in the coming week, as the one em- bodying the committee idea on the initiative and referendum. This came from a very high authority and is probably right. This proposition pro vides for an per cent signature for the initiative and per cent for the referendum It is given in full be- low: