Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1890-09-15

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sent out horde of special agents, bound
to report frauds or be discharged, to an
noy the hardy settler who was trying tC
secure little home for his children, un'
til immigration almost ceased. BY the
act of October, 1888, nearly all the land
in the territory was withdrawn from en-.
try ; and on the great question Of the set
tlement of Spanish and Mexican titles
nothing was accomplished but to intro.
duce new complications.
And as to land titles, we have seen q
strange sight. For the first time in his
tory, the president has shown a particular
interest in our welfare by devoting part Of
his annual message to Our case and asking
congress to give speedy relief Not con-
tent with this, the secretary of state sent
communication, the secretary of the
| interior made an elaborate report, and
early in July the president sent special
message to congress urging the earliest
possible action. And congress has acted
so promptly that the bill would already be
passed but for the opposition OF two
democratic senators, and at any rate will
pass before next March. Only two days
ago, the senators designated it as one OF
the few bills to he acted on before adj
iournment. And it must be noted that
this bill makes full provision for tardy
justice to the thousands OF owners OF
small farms in our valleys, to whom full
titles are to be given without any expense.
The people are not blind. They ap-
preciate the vast difference between the
treatment they have received from the
two parties, and they will show it at the
polls.
The contrast between the parties on the
broader field of national affairs is well
illustrated by q recent event at Silver
City
You remember that the last legislature
passed an act authorizing each party to
select some emblem to be printed on its
ballots. Naturally it was to be some
Thing appropriate to the party. At the
late democratic national convention, a
delegate from San Miguel, whose republi-
can education had given him some pat
riotic ideas, moved that the American
flag be adopted as their emblem there
upon the convention, with great unan-
unity and amid loud applause, proceeded
to reject the flag and take different en-
blem. This was proper and appropriate.
For the democratic party to disguise
itself under the American flag would have
been fraud, and the stealing of the
livery of heaven for very different ser
vice. Certainly We may congratulate the
flag. If it could have spoken it would
have protested loudly against the pro-
posed prostitution of its glory. Think OF
its being so used by the party. which so
long caused it to wave, not DER the land
Of the brave, but the land of the slave !;
which fired upon it at Fort Sumter ;
which for four long years dragged it in
the dust and riddled it with shot and
she'll which tried not only to tear its
stars from it, but to destroy it from among
the national banners of the world; which
after the war would have disgraced it by
repudiation; and even now seeks to sink
the labOrer and the artisan, who are pro-
tected under its folds, to level with the
peon and pauper workmen Of less favored
lands.
No, the flag is our rightful emblem not
theirs. 1t belongs to the party which first
made it truly the emblem of freedom;
which bore it aloft during the rebellion
until the triumphant elimination in VIC
tory, peace and union; which provided
by the constitutional amendments that
every one under the stars and stripes
should be free and possess equal rights
which preserved its honor by resuming
specie payments; which insists that every
citizen shall receive protection to his fair
wages, and which demands that wherever
1t waves there shall be free and fair bal
lot and a fair count.
Let us take it as our emblem, with not
a star erased, but carrying on its azure
field the entire forty.four, and with space
still left for the brilliant star which will
soon represent the new state OF New
Mexico.
When the Democratic convention re.
jected the flag, it chose another emblem
1t was barn-yard fowl, the personifica-
tion of brag, the bird which always crows
at the performance of another, which
makes much noise, hSt accompllshes
nothing himself. This was appropriate
for the party which is one of negation,
which for forty years has left no mark OH
the history OF the country, and which has
continually opposed all of the good that
has been achieved, from the days of the
war to the present; and which to-day is
even opposing the admission of New
Mexico into the ssterhood of states.
The governor then proceeded with
strong argument on the statehood issue,
clearly showing the advantages to be de-
rived from full self government. and ex-
pressing amazement that any one calling
himself a New Mexican should oppose
what in every other territory has been
unanimously sought for as the greatest of
boons. While it was not political issue,
but one in which all patriotic citizens
should unite, yet it was right that the Re-
publican party, as the friend of progress,
of education and of self government