Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1897 — Arizona’s Big Claims. [ARTICLE]

Arizona’s Big Claims.

The population of Arizona in 1890 was 59,620, including Mexicans, Indians and half-breeds. The total is now “claimed” to be 80,000. This is about half the population fixed as the ratio for a representative in Congress. And yet it is proposed to give this fraction of the congressional ratio two Senators and a representative in Congress and three votes in the electoral college. Its population is less than that of Portland, as returned by the last census. And yet If it was admitted to the Union with its sparse population it would be the equal in the Senate of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio or Illinois of the larger States, or of Oregon or Washington. —Portland Oregonian.