Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-05-25
DELEGATES RETURN HOME.
A Little Talk with Governor Prince
Relative to the Work of the
Trans-Mississippi Congress.

Gov. Prince, Hon. T. B. Catron, Solici
tor-General Bartlett, Judge Thornton an,
others of the Santa Fe delegation to tn
trans Mississippi congress returned hom
yesterday from Denver. All express
themselves as highly gratifed over tn,
work OF that body. 81 think it was al
fully successful as could be expected,
said the governor. 1T brought togeth
er large number of representative men
most of them active in business life, from
the whole region west of the Mississippi
and there was every desire manifested tc
have harmonious and effective meeting.
l do not know what influence it may
have on legislation, but whatever weight
it carries will be in the direction of the in
terests that are most important to US. OF
course its effect is only moral one, and
on most Of the questions discussed the
public opinion in this part OF the country
was well known before.
1.-The only thing" continued Governor
Prince, (which marred the occasion was
the extreme demagogism OF some of the
speeches, notably those OF some of the
Colorado and Wyoming delegates. These
seemed to vie with each other in abuse of
the section Of the country to which their
states are indebted for everything that
they are, and their narrowness, bitterness
and ingratitude were simply astounding
l had no idea that such lack of broad
patriotism existed anywhere in the land.
You would be amused at some of the
preposterous assertions that were made in
the most positive manner. One man for
instance, when talking of cession of the
arid lands, said that all the land really be-
longed to the people in the locality, as
it was theirs originally and they ceded it
to the United States Considering that
every foot OF land west of the Mississippi,
except Texas, was bought by the nation,
the great part being paid for exclusively
by those east of the Alleghanies, and that
the influence of the northeast had passed |
the homestead act, and built the railroads |
which had populated the west, this was
refreshing. And there were worse things
than that. The speakers must have
known better, as they included some of
he most prominent members, and the
hing that shocked one was that pub
ic sentiment should anywhere exist that
would make such sentiments popular. 1t
IS pleasant to know that we have not a
single community in New Mexico from
Ration to Lordsburg where such speeches
would be tolerated, or where the people
would not Indignantly protest against such
sectionalism.
Apart from this fault, which perhaps
vas the result OF the altitude, or some
'ther local cause, the occasion was a very
pleasant one, though the incessant rain
prevented the visitors from seeing much
If the city.
"The interests of New Mexico were
closely looked after and received proper
Ittention in the resolutione, that were
ldopted. The next congress will be held
n Omaha in the fall.
"The Rocky mountain region has great ,
interests which are most important to its
evelopment and welfare, and it is well
Or it's people to meet from time to time
u order to become better acquainted and
D secure unity Of action"