Arizona republican., 1911-07-21
No Danger At Washinaton.

No Danger At Washington.
 One of the pleasing results of the vote on the statehood resolution on August will be the end of these fool. fake telegraph" dispatches from Washington. purporting to dscribe some new and startling phase of the situation.
 To the man of average horse sense the publication of these manufactured dispatches seems worse than pur- poseless. but perhaps the feble- minded think they will serve some end.
 Another which never came to PhOe- nix over any wire was printed yes terday detailing a plot to keep Ari- zona out of the union by attacking in congress the initiative and referen- dunn provision of the constitution.
 As We have previously explained, if it was the wish of the president and the regular republicans to bar Ari- zona. they would not find it necessary to resort to pretext. They would have only to do nothing; the exclus- ion of Arizona would take place au- tomaticaly next winter or rather at the end of the next session of con gresS.
 What has been done in the present session including the adoption by the house of the Flood resolution and the agreed upon Nelson amendment, has been done solely for the purpose of saving Arizona from an apparently hopeless situation.
 Nobody is trying to keep this ter ritory out of the union; that is mo- body. but a few demagogues and well meaning theorists here and a small group of insurgents in Washington who would, use the defeat of this territory for campaign purposes in 1912.
 As campaign ammunition we do not felieNc it would be in the slightest degree effective but the insurgent group evidently thinks it would be.
 We have had no doubt and we have none now, that Messrs. La Toilette. Bourne and Bristow would regard ae a disappointment the approval by the president of Arizona's constitu- ton. as it was written and rati- fled To them his acquiescence in the Flood resolution would be an equally great disappointment and the successful issue of the Nelson amend inent as a lesser disappointment for that will leave them a small rem nant of their cherished ammunition
 8ut the failure of that amendment by any accident would be hailed by them with as great delight as if state hood had failed in the first instance.
 We have digressed from the subject of this fake statehood dispatch mere " to point out briefly in what quarter the real opponents of statehood are to be found.
 There will be no opposition on ac- count of the initiative and referen- dunn clause in the constitution. No serious attempt will be made to re- quire its elimination for the course of statehood legislation has been agreed upon by the president by the regular republicans and by nearly all the democratic senators.
 It is possible that formal amendments directed against the initiative and ref erendum clause will be offered, but if so they will be voted down. There will be speeches by senators against the prin- ciple 6f direct legislation. Notice has been given of such remarks by two or three republicans and by at least one democratic senator. They will perhaps be no more bitter than the speeches on the same subject, of MT. Littleton of New York and MT. Legore of South Carolina, both of whom after denouncing the prln- ciple in the house debate on the Flood resolution, voted for the resolution.
 So will the senators who may be opposed to this principle do on Au- gust '. They will speak against 1t and vote for the amended resolution.
 We need fear that nothing adverse will happen to us in Washington. We may maintain ourselves in tranquill- ity until the question comes up to us and then it will be time for us to get to work to the end that more friends than enemies appear at the polls on election day.