Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-08-26
EDITORIAL COMM EN- rs.

SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO RESPECT THE LAW.
The Democratic sheriff of Santa Fe
county plead guilty to the charge of as
sault upon a prisoner in irons and in jail
Those who enforce the law must be
taught to respect lt.-San Marcial Re-
| porter.
THE WORST ISSUE THEY COULD MAKE.
The stand our Democratic friends are
taking in regards to the statehood ques-
ton is going to lose them quite number
of votes not only in Colfax county but
all through the territory. The Demo-
Gratis are not all so dumb that they can
not see the good parts for their county
even if their leaders do consist largely of
blockheads. The leaders will find to
their sorrow that their opposition to this
movement was the worst issue they could
make.-Folsom Metropolitan.
SHOULD BE READ By EVERY GOOD CITIZEN.
With this issue We publish the address
OF Hon. J. Frank Chavez, president of
the constitutional convention, submitted
with the constitution to the voters of New
Mexico. Read it. We commend it to the
careful peiusal Of every man in New
Mexico, whether he be Democrat or
Republican, that is enough of an Ameri-
can to rise above his party prejudice.
Read it, you will be well repaid.
Chieltain.
IT'S CHIEF NEED IS ADMISSION.
The amendments to the New Mexico
constitution which have thus far been
made by the convention in session in
Santa Fe, will likely tend to make that
instrument more acceptable to a majority
OF the yeople. We are not sure that the
amendments are in themselves good, but
they may be expedient in view OF the
fact that there is likely to be considerable
opposition to the adoption OF the proposed
constitution. The chief thing for New
Mexico to aim at just now is admission
into the union.-Denver Republican.
MORE LAw-ABIDING THAN KENTUCKY
AND ARKANSAS.
On the first page of this weeks Liberal
will be found very interesting dispatch
from special correspondent of the New
| York Sun who has been attending court
down in Kentucky. According to the
charge of the Judge to the grand Jury there
have been hundreds of murders in Perry
county, to say nothing of other crimes,
and no criminal has been brought to JUS
tiee. If there was county in the terri
tory of New Mexico where there WAS one
bundredth part of the crime that there is
in this Kentucky county, there would be
such a howl in the 'law abiding east" as
would prevent the president from sleeping
nights until he had sent the whole United
States army out here to quiet things. BY
the side of this record the fence cutters OF
San Miguel county sink into lnsgnif-
canoe, yet the associated press has been
filling the columns of the eastern papers
with full and supposed to be- accurate
accounts of the doings of these San Miguel
petty criminals and these statements are
used as arguments against the admission
of New Mexico to the sisterhood of states,
and the officers of the Santa Fe road sit
in the offices at Boston, read these reports
and request the president to send troops
to guard their property in New Mexico.
For law abiding people and the ability to
take proper care of its criminals New
Mexico will stack up alongside of Ken
tucky-to say nothing of Arkansaw.-
Lordsburg Liberal.