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President Roosevelt would like a report from the Department of the Interior about how Isaac Taft Stoddard, Secretary of Arizona Territory, construed the departmental permissions to allow himself to set up an outside business and rival former Secretary Charles Henry Akers. Roosevelt will lay the matter before the Attorney General.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-08
Ernest H. Liebel recently stopped at Theodore Roosevelt’s office to discuss the political situation in Arizona. Roosevelt’s secretary informed him that Roosevelt received letters on the matter and that there would not be any editorial comment on the issue until Taft reviewed it. However, the secretary suggested Liebel contact Roosevelt to share his knowledge of the “judicial rottenness of Arizona.” Liebel firmly believes that Arizona will not vote for statehood “at such a cost so disgraceful a sacrifice.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-20
O. D. M. Gaddis describes the meeting of the committee considering joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. While many are sympathetic to the cause of statehood, some representatives at the meeting felt pressured to oppose statehood. Arizona Governor Joseph H. Kibbey got the mining corporations involved in the statehood issue. Near the end of the meeting another committee of Democrats and Republicans was appointed to consider statehood.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-06
O. D. M. Gaddis spoke with Charles Henry Akers, editor of the Arizona Gazette, about the matter of joint statehood. Akers is eager to use his paper to support statehood, but fears a loss of advertising business might result. Gaddis asks if a sum of five thousand dollars can be raised for Akers to “start the ball rolling.” Gaddis argues that if they secure Akers’s support, their cause will have a leading daily and the only Republican paper in Phoenix, Arizona.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-06
William H. Andrews encloses newspaper clippings related to the meeting of the Democratic and Republican Territorial Committees on joint statehood of Arizona and New Mexico, as well as two letters from O. D. M. Gaddis. He notes that Charles Henry Akers, publisher of the Phoenix Gazette, is anxious to provide his support for joint statehood but is also indebted to his paper. Andrews reports that he has heard nothing from Senator Boies Penrose regarding the matter of President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-07