Arizona republican., 1911-08-22
Our Friends, Real and Bogus.


 The Republican takes no pleasure in pointing to the desertion of the statehood cause at the critical mo- ment by the republican insurgents in the senate, although their treachery abundantly fulfilled the predictions which had been made by this paper. It is, however, our duty to remind the people of Arizona that they were misIed. as We told them they would be misled, when they placed any re- liance on the little coterie of anti Taft senators.
 The situation is precisely as we described it all along. The insurgents cared nothing whatever for the wei fare of Arizona. Their one aim was to put the president in a hole somehow in connection with the state hood question. The result they hoped for most of all was the fail- ure of statehood, so that they could have another issue" upon which they could appeal to the country against MT. Taft. And when finally it came to a question in the senate of legis- lating for the admission of Arizona on terms acceptable to the president, the insurgents wanted to stand out for a proposition which would have meant the defeat of statehood. They failed in their scheme, because the democrats and the regular republicans refused to permit their mischievous scheme to go through.
 And all that the representatives or the high-sounding but ridiculous To- cal -'statehood league" accomplished at Washington was the encourage ment of these republican insurgents from the beginning of the special ses- sion to the hour that the winning res olution was passed. It was never necessary to convert" the leaders of the democratic party to the cause of statehood. They, like the republican Leaders. were willing that Arizona should be admitted at this session more than that, they, like the re- nublicans were determined that the necessary legislation should be enact ed. The only difference of opinion hatveen the democrats and the regu- lar republicans was over the terms of the resolution. To the extent that inc democrats followed the lead of the senatorial insurgents. statehood was delayed and placed in jeopardy. And when all the facts come out 1t will be shown that the democrats m congress were for some months fooled Inv the seIf-appointed representatives from Arizona who purported to speak for the Arizona people.
 If the democrats and regular re- publicans had been so foolish as 10 heed in the final days the pleadlngs of these Arizona emissaries and the senatorial insurgents, statehood would have been lost.
 The returning apostles of the 1u- dietary recall will, of course. be wordy in their explanations. They will try to show that the democratic congress was hostile to statehood, that the re- publican senate was hostile to state hood. and that statehood would have been lost except for the presence or these Arizona politicians at Wash ington. They will try to show that they are entitled to the undying grati- tude of the people of the new state; that they can never be fully repaid and that to elect them to the best offices would be only a partial pay ment of the public indebtedness to them. we done it," will be their cry
 As a matter of fact, the O'Neills and the Hunts and other gentlemen ol that ilk will be properly rewarded 1T presented with leather medals.