Arizona republican., 1912-07-27
The Temporary Chairman

Former United States Senator AL bert Jeremiah Beveridge, we see, has been selected as temporary chairman orgies will begin at Chicago on Aug ust ,. Arizonians will be pleased to be apprised of the honor set apart for MT Beveridge. The supporters of Mir Roosevelt in this state cannot more effectually serve the colonel than by heralding widely the fact that Mir Beveridge is going to be the chairman of his convention.
 Then. lest the people of Arizona have forgotten the services to them in times agone, of MT. Beveridge. let the Moosevelts of Arizona cause to be circulated throughout the state, copies of the report of Mir. Beveridge as chairman of the senate committee on territories, on the Omnibus Bill pro- viding for the admission of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma into the union as separate states. The report contains also the observations of sub committee headed by Mir Bever- idge, in the course of a tour of the territories.
 The report will do us as we'll as the cause of MT. Roosevelt, good It will be a cure of our vanity and puffed upness of spirit. It will re- mind us what we were in a time not now so far removed, when ac- cording to the report our population consisted largely of low Mexicans and when the saloons, gambling and prostitution were among our fore most industries. So far as the re- port shows, we had no decent citi- zenship, no schools, no churches. It was a fine advertisement. We can- not repress our gratitude to MT. Bev- eridge for showing us and the world what we then were.
 The Arizona supporters of MT. Roosevelt having put this report into the hands of the people as a cam paign document, they might supple ment it with descriptions of MT. Bev- eridge's tour of Arizona towns. There should be described the Central school house scene when all the school chil- dren of the city were drawn up along the sidewalks at the corner of Center and Monroe streets to make a favor able impression upon the visiting senator's
 Some of us may have forgotten; some of us might not have been here at that time but those of us who were here and remember, recall how interested all the senators were in the pretty scene of which we felt so proud, all, except MT. Beveridge who with averted gaze swept the other side of the street in search of low Mexicans. saloons and gamblers, all of which were to figure so prom inently in his forthcoming report
 Then, let it be told, after the re- port was submitted and we found that still a majority of the senate were our friends, how MT Beveridge prevented an expression of the sen ate in our favor; how he instituted a filibuster that threatened even the appropriation bills; how at last our we lost statehood.
 Then let our Arizona Roosevelt friends describe to loyal Arizonians the part taken by MT. Beveridge two years later in the joint statehood mat ter in which he almost succeeded in carrying out the set purpose of Presi- dent Roosevelt to create a state of magnificent distances, a devilish de- sign against Arizona, that failed only by a hair
 Beveridge and Roosevelt! Roose- Welt and Beveridge! To them do we owe much. Not so much for the things they did for us as the things they tried to do to us
 Every voter in Arizona who favored joint statehood, who desired the ef- facement of Arizona, who gloried in the libel against us and the resources and industries of the territory, who wanted New Mexican domination over this region, who wanted a part in the rocking political corruption of New Mexico, who wanted to bear a part of New Mexicos burden of debt and taxation, all these owe a debt