Show THE VOTE ON STATEHOOD The joint statehood bill cOmes up for fora a final vote ote In the senate today and western people will watch with interest the attitude of the western senators on the question It may be taken for granted in advance that no western senator who has due regard for the rIght will vote to make New Mexico and nd Arizona come In as one state Certainly Certainly no sentor from whatever state will vote to compel the two territories to come in as a without giving the people of tho those territories an opportunity opportunity to express by vote vole their views on ona ona a matter which affects them so vitally All of the administrations excuses for attempting to force a union he have been published and def defended fully ully In Inthe I Ithe the senate yet no senator has so far farhad i had the temerity to plead anything but partisan for compulsory joint stal sta hOod Sifted down the one reason advanCed for the administration policy Is the fear fer that both New Mexico and Arizona might elect Democrats to the United States senate if they were ad ly The plea Is so pu that even the presidents parti partisan san sar have been put to it to find arguments to support their peal position ties tion FOr a senator ator from Utah or Wyo Wyoming ming or Nevada or Idaho or indeed any western state to Support the joint stat h od bill Is incredIbly CO cowardly a Nevada Neada joining with the men in the tho senate who have de derided derided their state as a sagebrush rotten borough t him joining with thorn to defeat separate statehood for forthe forthe the men who have built empires amid the mountains and deserts of New Mex Ice and ArIzona under conditions which wo would ld have discouraged any but butan butan an Ame can pIoneer or prospector Imagine a W Wyoming senator support supporting lag ing the argument that the territories now flow seeking admission as states have not population or wealth or IntellI IntellIgence genes gence enough to entitle thorn them to enter the th Union separately When the same ch rge was as made to def defeat at admission the men mesi of the w west st stD stoOd d b pk e sue suo r Us Is tIIt t be belIttle lIttle snort shOrt Of t IngratItUde and hd o rd J ice for the W senators to desert th southern territorIes in this crisis AS for the Utah senators while they have not committed themselves on the question it is Impossible to believe beHeye they can be so weak as to join the admin forces against New Me Mexico co and Arizona after the tight fight Utah made to s secure cure statehOod and the loyal sup support I port it found from the westBy west westBy By all the ties ot of blood of geographIcal Ical neighborhood of simIlarity in con by every consideration of right and ind justice the territories now fighting for indivIdual statehood are entitled to have Utah stand behind them to the thelast thelast last ditch |