Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-09-20
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The following is an extract from
a speech recently delivered by Mr..
Stone, democratic candidate for
governor Of Missouri. II shows
how anxious the republicans are for
statehood for this Territory and
Delegate Joseph's position:
Il might with perfect propriety, for IL
Is a matter Of public record, call atten-
ton to another item Of recent history, in
which Mai. Warner and I both bore a
part-and he a very conspicuous part.
1 refer TO tho bill pending In the Fftieth
Congress for tho admission Of New Mex
leo into the Union as a State. Major
Warner was a member Of the Committee
on Territories. At that same congress
he and his republican associates joined
in recommending, advocating and voting
for the admission Of Wyoming and Ida
no. The combined population Of both
Wyoming and Idaho, as shown by tho
census Of 1890, was $4,000; and The total
assessed valuation Of all the property,
located in both, amounted s57,012 Z, 800.
At that time New Mexico alone had a
population Of 1858 souls; and her as
sessed valuation amounted TO e46,O41,-
0lO. The population Of New Mexico,
therefore, was larger than that Of Wyo-
ming and Idaho combined, and her prop
erty valuations we're nearly equal to
both. But Maj Warner opposed the ad-
mission OF New Mexico into the Union,
Whyf Why vote to admit Wyoming
and Idaho, and against admitting New
Mexico2 The democratic members Of
the Committee on Territories brought 10
q report recommending hat New Mexico
be admitted to statehood. The republi-
can members brought in a report oppos-
ing her admission. Major Warner sign
cd the report. It was charged in that
document that the people Of New Mexi-
co were untitled for American citizen
ship, because, among other things, a
large majority of them we're Extremely
superstitious;" that superstition "pre-
vailed to a greater or less degree among
all classes, the intelligent as well as the
ignorant;" that they had "an abiding
faith in saints and images and in "the
Virgin Of Guadaloupe;" that "some Of
the most intelligent OF the better class
looked upon bits Of wood as all powerful
in every emergency" In this rude and
unfeeling way the Catholics Of New
Mexico we're assaulted. Things sacred
to them were jeered at and scoffed at
The Mormons Of Idaho were good enough
to bring hat republican borough intC
the Union, but the Catholics Of New
Mexico we're too low and deDased by re
!, ligious superstitions. ALL yes, l re
member when Mr.. Joseph, the democratic
delegate from New Mexico, rose from
his seat, towering in his wrath, OnC
l hurled his bitter aud scornful invec
tive against those who had made this
{ brutal assault upon the religious con.
v%ictions and practices Of his people; anC
l remember, too, how the republican
authors of that outrage fled before him
, like frightened birds seeking shelte
! from the storm. They came clsmorinI
; up with disclaimers. Some swore the!
didn't mean it, some they didn't know it
some they were sorry for it. Maj. Wa
ner joined in the chorus with some apol
, ogy, excuse or justification. He cal
. give his own explanation, if he wishes, T.
t the public. But whatever the apolog.
{ or explanation let it be- borne in min'
I that Maj. Warner, in common with al
his republican sollegues, continued t
1 "stand up against New Mexico" and vot
b against her admission. The Major ca
= explain why he did so, if he wishes"