Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-07-26


little or nothing to say Ia regard 10
the action Of this convention, has join
ed In the abuse of no n of its mem
bers, aud has not taken up the cudgels
In their defense.
All good democratic have hoped that
after n few defeated aspirants for Office
aud honors, vented their spleen, that
the democrats would get together and
exercise their brain power as well rs
e%loquence in a fight against the COD
mon enemy. But the abuse, vilifca-
ton and lying is still kept w.
The howl from the sore headed and
disgruntled Santa Fe Sun" which has
never forgiven the democrats Of the
last legislature for refusing TO stop all
Legislative work and cause u dead lock,
IN the interest Of the public printing
for that democratic journal, is echoed
from the traitorous sheet edited by the
Democratic Judas Iscariot of Albu-
querQue, to the plains of Deming,
where IL is caught up aud hurled back
in n long drawn cayOte like whine, not
from the venerable old gentleman
whose name Is at the head Of the Head
lights columns, but FROM the corrupt
and %cowardly crowd whose leader
must have been pictured in Carlyle's
minds eye when he wrote ''Fhe man
Hog, aud the Hog man."
LET US LOOK BACK.
Now, the nominal cause for all this
row is that Ferguson, Martinez, Fall
and others, lowered the democratic
standard" by electing Fielder and ere.
warding t%reachery, even over the pro-
tests Of w. b. Childers, who has nor
brains than the balance OF the mem
bers of that convention"
-Four year ago, on the democratic
ticket were Lindauer and Hewitt for
the council. One of the strongest OPP
ponents of Mr.. Lindauer In Grant
county, before and after the conven-
ton, and during the campaign, was
MIR. &. G.. Posey, a true and honest
man. MIR. Posey openly proclaimed
that he would not vote for Mr. Lin
~dauer-this was well known to Mr..
Childers and ether leaders, was It not9
And still Mr.. W. b. Childers, that
brainy man who is now engaged with
Christ and the figurehead at Deming in
whiting out a democratic yard stick,
named Mr.. g. &. Posey in st. Louis,
as the democratic national committee
man for New Mexico.
Still-Mr. Childers has never Clover
ed the democratic standardln Nor do
we think hat it was or could have
been a lowering Of any standard to
put il in the hands of G.. G.. POsey,
whose e~scutcheon was without a stain
but who always had the manliness to
assert his convictions. Yet Mr.. POsey
opposed Mr. Lindauer aud II is for Mr..
Felder's supposed opposition to the
same man, at the same election, shat
he IS being abused, in spite of his
denial that he did oppose him.
Where will this bitterness lead usi
{. What sense is there in keeping up this
, abuseP Crist has no cause of com
plant: he was elected temporary and
permanent chairman Of the convention
by those he was opposing,-and then
!. was discourteos and small enough 70
} make a sneerlng side remark 1t this
. majority; and now takes a ~despicablE
advantage of IL. b. Ferguson and Idu:
= l.. Fielder, to abuse them through hi:
paper, knowing that they can only re
ply by personal letter through the
I columns Of some other paper.
4 W. b. Childers drew the call for the
convention, after consultation with
7 other democrats upon its provisions
d and in particular that specifying tina
no proxies would be recognized, excep
as held and voted by a resident Of the
county from which It vas obtained.
, Finding that they were IN the minor
ity; w. b. Childers surrendered hi
e credentials as delegate from Bernalill'
q and came into the convention with TIVE
proxies from Valencia. j. H. Girls
came in with, / believe 10 proxies from
San Juan and Rio Arabia, and still
l. by the sufferance of the men whom
Il they and their friends r nov abusing
: they we're allowed votes and voices
|, for these illegally held proxies.
Are these papers democratic, or havI
they sold out to Tom CatrOn, and a
a his command, still occupying position
behind the democratic breastwOrks on
gagged in a ~treacherous and coward,
fight for plumber and spOils, from thosN
who have supported and aided them
/ have always been a democrats
have labored for the cause of demOcra
cy when l had to go TO the polls II
Q democrats TO 1877 Negro republicans
with a pistol in my pocket, not for tn
d purpose of bull-dOzing other voters
bat of protecting my BALLOT.
have fought the fight as best | knew II
y DOna Ana county when a hegira Of tn
leading democrats took place-anI
It even when they were in the county
y and alone / had to struggle before tn
canvassIng board with Col. Rynersou
ii Col. Fountain, Judge McFie, E. I
y Wade, John H. Riley, s. b. Newcom
aud a host Of other trained veterans
Side by side with that old democrat
10 war horse, Thos. j. Bull, with De
METRO Chavez, Brigldo Garcia, Leo
!. Albarez, and others Of the old guard,
have gone into battle. / have locke
Q, on with swelling heart and sparklin
ID eye 10 see the young guard fall int
line behind such leaders as Vinoen
:. May, BENZ. MichealsOn, Oscar LOhma
: Sam Greek, Roman Bermudes an
o. others.
Bat il Christ, Ross, Albright and tins
M Xix are 60 dominate the demOcratl
party of the territory; il they are a
lowed 10 measure the standard Of d.
81 mocracy and to carry its banners II III
nt democratic party Is so cowardly thi
w il will be whipped into line, or has
little courage that 1t wall not deien
those who have the ~manliness, honest
% and earnestness 10 avOW and advOcal
to what they beliVe TO be democrat
az principles II II - not great enouq
~ aud magnanimous enough TO forgi'
and pass by an occasional mistak
honestly mauei ana ABOVE all II ~
1t to be governed by the Deming Hea
re light, the Santa Fe Sun, the Albuque
ut que Democrat, on the lines which the
are now following, then-I, for on
N saw. "demOcrats Of bona Ana count
np for years you waged a fight such as
other county IN the territory has see
You have fought an enemy, strong su
he tie, INSCRIPTIONS and united; you ha'
~InanaW WnnnfwnA ma cant nN mnnl
from the territorial democracy-an
you have In It's campaigns been
re- nOred except by that tired and tr
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