Weekly journal-miner., 1911-01-11
(From Saturdays DaiIy)

President will approve of Arizona's Constitution, becomes more evident with the return of various visitors to Washington who carefully stud jed the situation. Governor Sloan was the first to sound the warning. Then E. s. Clark came from the na- tion's capital and corroborated the statements of the Governor as to con ditions that prevail there, and now Attorney LeRoy Anderson, who re- turned yesterday, emphasizes all that has been said on the subject, and is even stronger than the others in ais opinion that there is no chance for Statehood, if the proposed Constitu- ton be ratified.
 "While East l spent some ten days in Washington, visiting my fam fly, and tried to honestly learn the exact status of Statehood, and while there I talked with many Senators and Representatives" said MT. An dersOn, concerning the Statehood situation for Arizona, and mad the pleasure of calling upon the Presi- dent concerning this matter. Dele gate Cameron took Hoval A. Smith of Bisbee, Ned Creighton of Phoenix and myself to see the President.
 "The President is very much in terested, as also are the leading Sen ators and Representatives in the pro- posed Constitution for Arizona, and as you know it is an unwritten law that those people are not to be quoted, yet say as emphatieally as I can possibly make it, that there will be no Statehood for Arizona un- der the Constitution as adopted by the late Constitutional convention, for even though the people of Ari- zona ratify it on February 9th, next, it will not be approved by the President and the Congress of the United States. You can make that just as emphatic as you please. There i, not shadow of a doubt about it. On the other hand, the Constitution for New Mexico will be approved at this session of Congress.
 ''I have read Governor Sloan's statement of the situation, and he is absolutely correct, and knows posi- lively what he is talking about, and incidentally let me say, that Governor Sloan stands very high at Washing ton, as well as he does in Arizona, with the overwhelming majority of Arizona citizens.
 The only chance in the world to secure Statehood for Arizona in the next few years is for the people of Arizona to reject this Constitution at the election, February 9th, and then take steps to re-write the pro- posed Constitution, eliminating the radical features: the initiative, the referendum and the recall
 "They say in Washington, and elsewhere, that they have some rights concerning this matter, and the Rep resentatives from other parts of the United States propose to exercise those rights. They pointed out to me that Arizona represents only about one five-hundredth part of the United States. We have rights in this matter, yet so have they, and in asmueh as the proposed Constitution, in their opinion, is contrary to their ideas of a Republican form of gov ernment, as defined by the Constitu- tion of the United States, they are not disposed to let any new Territory become a State unless its Constitu tion conforms to the established idea of a Republican form of government.
 "The adoption of this proposed Constitution by the people at the election cannot help us in the slight est degree, but as has been pointed out several times before, by Gov ernor Sloan and others, it will de- stroy our last chance of securing Statehood. The only chan'e we have of Statehood is to turn it down and go about the matter right and write proper Constitution. Not only will we secure Statehood in that way, but there will be A greater benefit to my mind, even than this, and that is the re-establishing of our good repu- tation. If we turn this Constitution down we can prove to everyone that we are not so impossible as a peo- pie as this proposed Constitution would make it seem.
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 He will leave today for Kansas City to consult with other directors