Weekly journal-miner., 1911-02-08
Editorial Comment

that state government as to extend the principle of the recall to the judiciary itself. No more pernicious, no more destructive doctrine. was ever propounded. To apply the re- call to judges on the bench is to hold the bludgeon of momentary pop ular prejudice or passion over the decisions of the bench and to. make majority vote at the polls the ulti- mate tribunal of appeal. This has been well characterized by Charles P. Taft's Times-Star of Cincinnati as "a proposal to incorporate lynch law is State Constitution
 "We are not informed as to the prospects of ratification next Thurs day, but can imagine the local tempt atiOn to hasten the arrival of State ] hood, even at the cost of a tremend- Ous initial mistake Better nun dred times to wait a little and start the new State on American prin- eiples.
 Fortunately, the vote at the polls next week will not say the last word as to Arizona s future. By the State hood act the veto of a foolish or dangerous Constitution rests both with the President of the United States and with Congress. If Con- gress and the President approve said ConstitutiOn,' the act reads, 'or if the President approves and Congress fails to disapprove the same,' tie process goes on to cOnsummation. Thus the disapproval of the Presi- dent, without regard to action by Congress, may prevent an irreparable public misfortune.
 ! "What President Taft thinks of the Oklahoma style of Constitution is already known to the people of Arizona. When there, in October, 1909, he warned them against doing that which this deplorable eonven- ton, inflamed with extremest and most violent notions of Bryanism, Bryanite pOpulism and Socialism, has now accomplished and thrust upon the people for 'yes' or mo- MT. Taft besOught the people of the Ter ritory to consider maturely the in strument of their Statehood.
 "At the Territorial capitol in Phoenix he said, on October 13, 1909: If by a caution I can restrain the desire of those who are most full of i the idea of having limitations on government from making the Consti. tuition other than a fundamental law, with simple rules of limitation; if l can halt and induce the people of this State to take time and deliber, ate over the instrument that is to follow them so long in the history of their state, I shall not have let the day go without profit
 "Two days later, at Albuquerque in New Mexico, the President con, , tinued his good advice to the people of the two Territories You want to trust your Legislature, and you ought to follow the model of the Constitu
 tiOn of some of the other States which have also modelled after tho !, Constitution of the United States An amendment to the Constitution is a difficult thing, as we are find ing out now in attempting to amend , the Federal Constitution and so you will find it ill the State Constitu tions. Therefore, put there only gen s eral principles, and don't attempt tc
 legislate every fad of every man whC
 is voluble and gets into your Consti
 tutional convention
 "'I say this with a great dea of fervor, not as a partisan, not al 1 Republican or a Democrat, but 1T the interest of your State, whether you vote the Republican or the s Democratic ticket. I want, if we art f responsible for your coming into tho