The oasis. [volume], August 04, 1906, Image 8

About The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920

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Saturday, August .j, ic;o6
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in Advance.
dmd hafldiilitf lilt Wffk, but
; could iri(rc neither ttn tiinn nor
:ppace to tin o. Itct fMitly 1 1 1 1 Mfci-r
tioU V,m ni:t! t!;itlv, it) tln'ce
I column, that mi "alleged republi
lean 1 '-1 : 1 1 icr opposing jointure
5nt republican." Whereat tin1
I Arizona Republican denied the
: assertion and :i verrol that t lie
anti-jointure position is true blue
republicanism, because the last
ryil'U' in Anicrii'iui Money or its Eiulva
TiviTtMniriute mrt.i- known on an-iioH. ! territorial republican convention
tiV"i"Virt !"Trte.t ail subscriptions ; declared against jointure two years
mlvertl-ftm'ntx nml info iriiitii)g are payable 1 ,,, r,,
in Am. riau. M. ncy. ; ago. ery true. but party
Ad'lrrM all odinnninicHtiono to THE OasI.s, ! v . 1 1 . : 1
Nogaies, sanu Cruz county, Arizona. : policies are not made by territorial
Published Every SHturljr at okk1. Snnta
Cru County, Arizona, by THE OASIS
Printing Moue, Incorporated.
ALLEN T. HIKI, MiuiMtlng Editor.
l'ATT K. SULLIVAN. Hulne Manager.
PARTY POLICY CRYSTALLIZED.
conventions, nor by state conven
I tions. They are made in national
I conventions; and where national
! conventions are silent the policy is
I that of the majority of the party
J caucus in Congress. The last
i National Republican convention
j was silent upon the question of
The two territorial central com- j statehood for the territories. And
mittees of the great political parties j then the party caucus in Congress
will meet today at Phoenix to try J formulated the policy as embraced
and arrange a programme by which j in the Hamilton bill. That is the
there may be stifled in the minds j party policy; that is true blue
of the people the rising sentiment j republicanism; and those in Ari
of statehood, in order to keep upon j zona who stand for that policy are
the people of Arizona the chains ! the true republicans. All others
that have been forged upon them J may palaver or prevaricate as
by the tax shirking, grasping cor-j much as they please; they cannot
porations now ruling them. And j get away from those inexorable
that man in either party who be-! facts.
lieves that it would be better for Fellow republicans: This great
the people of Arizona to accept the j question of statehood for the terri
only form in which statehood is ' tories will be settled only in the
obtainable, is to be driven from j way that the republican party has
the party fold forthwith, and be; decreed by its congressional cau
compelled to be without party : cus, in framing the Hamilton bill
atliliations. At least that is the by a majority of three to one.
programme announced openly by That is the ultimate position of
the chairman of the democratic the republican party upon the
territorial committee, and the same issue of statehood, and the party
threat, while not openly avowed ' has taken that position because
by the chairman of the republican the position is right. Do not be
committee, is still meant and un- deluded by the assertion that by
derstood. This paper is not in the j voting down statehood now the
habit of making predictions, but people of Arizona will secure single
it will venture the assertion that j statehood in the near future, or in
the political manipulators who the remote future. The party
have arranged the programme pollicy is crystalized in the Hamil
mentioned will be apt to find long 1 ton bill; and it will not change,
before November that they "have The bill is the voice of the great
bitten off more than they can mass of the people of the great
chew." I East, and the protest of a few
Neither party is so strong that thousand people herein Arizona
it can aft'ort to drive from its ranks ! will avail nothing against it.
capable and effective men. When-1 ,
ever such a poMcy has been pur-1 Populists have asserted always
sued in Arizona or California, it j that there is no real difference De
lias been followed always by the j tween the republican and demo
most overwhelming party disaster. cratic parties. So far as may be
Local candidates, in all the court-' concerned the territory of Arizona
ties, will want the votes of jointur- at the present juncture their case
ites, just as well as the votes of is well proved. With Mark Smith
other legally qualified voters. And and Oakes Murphy, Ellinwood and
particularly will this be found true j Kibbey, all pulling against the
with regard to republican candi-1 policy of the National Republican
dates in all of the counties. None! Party, in the interest of tax shirk
of them have so sure a thing on ling corporations, what better proof
election that they can afford to j could be wanted? Not only should
risk their chances by approving of 'that satisfy "his whiskers," but
any attempt to dragoon jointure-j any intelligent citizen should be
ites. The latter have the advantage able to see through the combina
of being in line with the declared ! tion.
policy of the National Republican
Party, and they have the support
of a strong element among their
fellow partisans who are not say
ing much, but who believe in party
regularity.
Whenever a taxpayer in Pima
or Santa Cruz county gives
serious thought to those fraudulent
narrow guage railway bonds, and
recalls how the perpetrators of the
plaiouil territorial delegate in that
boilv, h" wonder what infamy tlw
gam: have yd in view that they
urge so t tenuously continuance of
a territorial condition.
With owl-like gravity both the
Republican and (ia.ette assure
ther readers about once each week
that ''joint-statehood sentiment is
losing jrround in Arizona." And
with the same gravity all other
issues of each newspaper assert
that "there is no joint-statehood
sentiment whatever in the terri
tory, and never was." Then Iioav
can such a sentiment (non-existent)
lose ground?
What puzzles The Oasis is how
Chairman Kibbey of the republi
can territorial central committee
can claim that there is anv show
whatever to elect a republican, to
congress in November, when upon
the only issue before the people he
is trying to drag the republican
party of Arizona in the wake of
the democracy.
Diamonds are said to be rising
in value, and as a permanent in
vestment are much sought after.
The same thing is said also of news
papers. Yet anyone with a lot of
diamonds they would like to trade
for a newspaper can learn where
the exchange may be effected by
apdressing "E. J. P., Nogales, !
Arizona."
Gold Dust and
Bullion BOIKjIlt.
M lor
Quotations.
"August 20-25 the biennial Moqui
snake dance will take place at the
village of Oraiba, on the Motjui !
reservation, in northern Arizona.
The anti-joint-statehood snake
dance will be pulled off at Phoenix
today.
is climbing into the same political
bed with him. A more vile and
infamous political adultery was
never committed.
Should Arizona vote for state
hood in November some of the
leading anti-jointure republicans
will have a hard time explaining
their own situation.
Attorney for the Copper Queen
corporation is the chairman of the
territorial central committee of the!
democratic party. Yet the chair
man of the republican committee
When The Oasis editor is will
ing to follow the lead of Mark
Smith and E. E. Ellinwood he will
go over to the democratic party.
Subscribe for The Oasis.
In this connection Tnrc Osis infumv wnrl-p,! n-n .lii
. ' J " ' ' " 1 fcwv 1.IVUI Ui ! UUjlJ
will take up a matter which it ' congress, with the aid of a com-
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