Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-26
TELLS OF
 ARIzONA'S HOPES

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 B. A. Packard. old time Arizonan, successful business man, rancher. cattle man and banker. now presi- dent of the First National Bank of Douglas. spent Monday in Tucson, returning home from the coast where he attended the "big doings" of the Hassayampa club. He was delighted at the passage of the statehood bill and that delight be- came greater when he learned from a representative of the Star that the president had signed the bill and that now Arizona is almost at the final goal. says the Tucson Star. While pleased with the certainty of immediate admission into the union, he is equally pleased that the presi- dent has required the elimination Of the judiciary recall for this he has opposed from the very outset and has maintained that it is a vicious principle and that it would cost Arizona statehood if it should be insisted upon.
 ' Arizona certainly needed state hood and that need was urgent, DO said Mir. Packard. but badly as she needed it, have always believed and still believe that she did not need it badly enough to have such clause in the fundamental law of the recall of judges. I have said and done all that l could to have the recall of judges eradicated and the action of President Taft was. therefore. pleasing to me, and I be- .lieve that he acted wisely and for the interest of Arizonans when he took the course which he has pur- sued and forced the eradication Of this radically wrong provision.
 We have won what We strived for these many years. for I believe that the people will take tine acuon that is required of them when they go to the polls and will not vote 50 as. to keep themselves out of the union, and so say we have won it. I cannot imagine anything occurring so absolutely foolish and foolhardy as it would be to refuse statehood when 1t is offered.
 Admission means So much to Arizona that we have the greatest reason to rejoice Great strides will be made by all industries when we have been proclaimed a state hy the president after the election, which is soon to be called It will ;izess ;ilzess;ss :. insinx nf canitaI for investment in our industries and one and all of them will reap the bene- fit It will mean added wealth, added resources. added prosperity, and venture to prophecy that Ari- zona will show the most remarkable growth that has ever been known in all of the history of these United States.
 ITO those of us who have lived long in Arizona the present situation is extremely gratifying We have worked in season and out of season for the one idea of statehood; we have beseeched, pleaded and urged, yes Insisted, but always in vain un- til now and all of this time We have sought to make Arizona worthy of statehood, the brightest star of them all. I had feared that statehood was again lost and that we were looking at a mere mirage, but re- cent events show that this fear was , groundless. It is almost too good : to be true"
 Mir. Packard is an old line demo- ] crat, who has served his party well , and faithfully in Arizona, and has always been a consistent party man. His services have not been for party , alone, but have redounded to the benefit of the whole people
 Mir. Packard has been mentioned in Cochise county as a possible nominee for governor of the new state at the first election.