Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-31

thing on hand. These facts can stand
without comment. The scheme is simply
gigantic, Mr.. Joseph is committed to it
and any Mexican irrigator who votes for
Joseph simply places his head in the
lions mouth. When he feels the teeth he
must not vince. He is warned. vote
for Joseph means a vote for the de
struction of the rights of the owners OF
the present system of irrigation.
THE LAS CRUCES MEETING.
Notwithstanding Joseph's record the
meeting and procession were fair one
There were only two fights. Upon actua
count 1926 voters were found in line. Many
ladies and children participated. In ordel
to get the crowd out Joseph fed the hun
cry gave drink to the thirsty and lavishet
his money freely. Free grub and fret
whisky will always draw crowd. Tit
food was furnished by the Chinaman a
Las Cruces, and the drink was Bull
brandy At night nearly 500 people as
sembled in the rink to hear the speaking
The meeting was opened by A. B. Fall
who nominated Judge Thornton as chair
man, and NJ A. Downing, correspondent
of the New MEXICAN, secretary. Boil
gentlemen were elected.
THE OFFICIAL REPORT
is as follows Mr.. Joseph addressed thu
White Cap element of Dona Ana count,
on the night of October %, 1892, in La
Cruces, at the Rink" He spoke over al
hour, gave his audience a graphic pictur,
of his pilgrimage through the green pas
lures of Taos, the valleys of Colfax
through the silver hills of Grant, etc
assured them that the whole land was en-
veloped in a flame of enthusiasm for thu
Democratic ticket. He then worked of
his "cahoots and coon" story but the
audience never smiled as he was ratified
and left out the key word to the joke
Then he took up wool and asked why thu
wearer of wool should be taxed to pay tn,
wool grower profit.
HE WANTED FREE WOOL,
free whisky, free ballot and free count
He then told how shoddy cheapened wool
and showed how much he knew about i
by saying that shoddy was made of cot
ton. He did not, however, say that shod
dy was taxed almost out of existence by
the Mckinley bill. Afterward he pait
his respects to Major Morrison and re-
peated the old lie about the amount o.
his salary, etc. He then begged leave tc
pass from national to territorial ques
tions, neglecting to state when Judge
Morrison became national ISSUE He
magnified his record in congress, sale
that if the people were not pleased with
him they would not have reelected hin
so often by increased majorities of 5000
in 1856, and again in 1888, and 1890 by
bigger majorities. The figures must be
out of sight now. He had his recorC
read by Mr.. Fall; but took good care not
to make his old break about the certified
copy. He had nothing to say about tin.
HE DRAGGED 8. d. ELKINs
into the campaign; but as he knew Mr.
Catron had issued strong invitation to
him to join issues on the TERRA Amarillo
he only mentioned land grants incidently
but impressed it upon his audience that
| Mr.. Catron was
MAN VI bhAlNoi
until some of them thought if he went tc
Washington he would tie string around
the capital and lead it home fol
the use of the Santa Fe Ring
Brains are dangerous according to
Joseph and he thanked God very fervent,
ly he was not built that way. He reiter-
ated how Catron made 100000 by
specializing in $4,000 issue of terri
torial script but missed the opportunity
of charging him with stealing brick,
which the secretary corrects. He then
charged Mr.. Catron with being respon,
sible for all the legislation of the last
twenty-six years; and that he now wanted
to go to Washington to form Washing
ton ring and
Run THE COUNTRY GENERALLY.
He said that Catron was opposed to the
land court bill (Joseph's land court bill,
mind YOU and had written him to oppose
it, but that as soon as Catron opposed it
he knew it was good and supported it.
The secretary begs that the captious reader
will not take Joseph up on the fact that
he claims to have introduced and passed
that measure. Joseph makes these little
slips in the heat of debate, but they do
not really bother him or his supporters.
He was very much afraid that Catron was
going to lose money if he went to con-
gress by neglecting his law practice.
Joseph alludedto this journal as 'that great
Republican organ edited by that great
and honest man, Max. Frost" at which
there was great applause. Then he
AroLoGIsED FOR HIS IRRIGATION SCHEME
the bill for which he lied when he said it
was introduced 'by request" and tried to
explain why it was he opposed the
scheme to irrigate the Mesilla valley
from high line ditch. He then prom
ised statehood as a merry christmas gift,
and thanked the audience for the grand
est ovation of his life.
Mr.. Fall then took the stand in his own
behalf, and tried to exculpate himself of
many grievious faults which he said were
alleged against him, and was followed by
Judge Thornton, who on the general
Issue "Hoorahed for Hooray" and the
meeting adjourned to meet again on the
9th of November, when the candidate will
tell why they did not get there.
AS the foregoing is an official report of
the proceedings I regret that I can not
make it as interesting as usual. Joseph
is usually dull except when his state
ments are contrasted, and he was then
tagged out and is excusabe if he had
not strength to make as big fool OF
himself as usual M. A. d.