Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-09-28
THE STATEHOOD MOVEMENT GAINING
DAILY,

THE STATEHOOD MOVEMENT GAINING
The constitutional convention complet'
ed its )abors Sunday morning and adj
journed to meet at the call OF the presi
dent OF the convention or upon the re
quest Of ten members. The constitution
although quite voluminous, is a mosl
Creditable document 1t is to be submit
ted to the people ut the regular election
next year unless hereafter otherwise or
dered. In the meantime tits to BE- laid
before congress and an effort made tC
have it accepted by that body. We
doubt il congress will take much interest
in the matter until assured, in some tan
gible way, that a majority of the people
OF New Mexico really desire statehood
Ration Range,
Our esteemed and courageous Contem-
porary, even when opposed to any meas
ure, is always fair and decent in the treat
ment Of the question. We are gratitied
to see that it is OF the opinion that the
constitution sis most creditable docu-
ment," as in fact it is.
We presume from the tone of editorials
that have heretofore appeared i'll the
Range, that the papers sentiments are
none too friendly to the statehood move
ment. But be that as it may, we think
from all appearances, that the paper is
mistaken in that point, that a majority OF
the people do not favor statehood. Let
us consider the situation.
Some fifty citizens Of New Mexico, and
among them some OF the most patriotic and
best within her borders, assembled here
and gave their time and labor without any
recompense whatever and simply because
they honestly believed admission as
state would be OF great benefit to the peo-
pie and would act as great and powerful
impetus upon the advancement and prog
ress of New Mexico. This surely shows
that great deal OF interest was taken. II
is not often that any one sees anything
like it in political life.
Again, right good and respectable vote
was poled in the election. The Range is
well aware how hard, and in fact very diff
cult, it is to get out vote of any kind,
when there is absolutely no opposition and
when one party takes no part in the cleo
lion. We think the vote brought out,
some 1000, shows that considerable inter-
est was taken.
Again, the action of the convention has
been so patriotic, respectable, careful OF
the peoples interests and desires, and free
from chickering's, that great deal of adj
verse feel ng to the movement has changed
and it can now be truly said that public
sentiment is rapidly crytallizing in favor
OF the movement.
Again, the constitution framed is such a
liberal, advanced, progressive and fair
document, especially in all vital matters,
that when it is submitted to the people in
connection with state ticket, composed
of excellent material, and which will rep
resent the Republicans of New Mexico,
and not faction or clique, it will be
adopted by an overwhelming vote, in our
opinion. 70 show how careful the dele
gates have been in all their actions, its
simply necessary to mention two points;
One, the very insignificant expense at
tending the holding of the convention,
and the other, the resolution adopted to
submit the constitution to congress and
obtain an enabling act before submitting
the matter to the people. This was done
to save expense and not to unnecessarily
arouse political feeling and create political
excitement.
WE think that there are but few Re-
publicans to-day who would earnestly or
bitterly oppose the admission of the terri
Jory, and we are of the opinion that by
the time the matter is to come before
The people, these gentlemen will have
been won over to the support of the
As for the opposition of papers like the
Observation-Disclosures, and
similar Doodle sheets, that sort of thing
will only strengthen and aid the move
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