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Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

the pittance of 81 each. Our representa-
tive says; Il stopped at Cienoguilla rs
you desired and saw several of the old
persons whose deeds were obtained by
Joseph. | promised not to deyulge their
names, as they are all in mortal dread of
Joseph, whom they think would drive
them away from their little cottages and
gardens and otherwise injure them
if he knew they had answered questions
as to his actions. The first house I visit
ed was that of an aged couple, evidently
very poor, but with good, kindly faces,
that of the woman especially being a
striking one I asked If they were among
the ones who sold the gram (the deeds
showed their names,) and both answered,
"Yes." How much did you get for your
interests" asked. "Only 81 EACH" said
they. You don't mean you only received
that" said, what did the Others get?'
"That is all any of US got except vigil
they answered. But why did you sign
for that?" ooh! we were all poor, in
nocent, ignorant people" said the woman,
1--WE did not know about the business ex-
cept what they told US and we believed
them" I'VE were all fools, that is the
reason said the man. 'Antonio Joseph
came with an alcalde and made us think
it was all right, and we signed. We were
fools, that's all. Oh! the thieves they
robbed u.s." Yes, the thieves, they cheat
ed US because we were ignorant chimcd
in the poor old woman. AS | looked at
this aged couple in their restitution, tell
ing with Indignation of the way in which
they had been robbed of all they pos
sessed, could not see how any one could
have the heart to deceive them.
| next saw young man who was
gathering in his vegetables. He had been
present at the meeting where Joseph and
his attending alcalde had obtained the
signatures of q number of the people.
He denounced more fiercely the deceit by
| which they had been induced to sign away
their rights for nothing, using strong
terms against the perpetrators, at was
a fraud" he said they told US what was
not true. The people were ignorant and
knew nothing of the business and were
| deceived"
This is the burden Of what every one
said: 1t was the same old story of de-
ception. Some understood that they
were signing to have road made, others
that they were giving II power to present
| their papers to the surveyor general,
none ever thought of signing away all
their rights. But afterward they found
that the papers were regular deeds and
their property gone. Joseph was the
man who did it all accompanied by the
alcalde to take the legal acknowledge
ments Thus this great grant which in
the application Mr. Joseph claimed to
contain 10000 acres, and which was al
lowed by the surveyor general for over
10000, was obtained from all its owners
but one for 81 paid to each,
It is said that the shares in the Chama
grant which Joseph sold to Messrs.
Blackburne & Co., for large sum was
obtained in the same manner In fact,
j oseph has been q land grant Spectator
of the worst kind for years, nearly all his
money being obtained from these tran
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07
HOW JOSEPH BOUGHT THE CiEEEGUILLA GRANT.

On October 8, 1884, the New MEXICAN
published the editorial below reproduced.
1t is eight years since then and Mr. Jo-
seph has not been able to refute a single
statement made therein. 1t is therefore
right and just to concede that the charges
are true.
And this self-same man Joseph is the
one, who now goes about the territory,
asking voters to vote against Hon. I. B.
Catron, because the latter owns large
landed interests, for which he paid just
and fair prices.
Read and Judge for yourselves:
THE LAND GRANT CANDIDATE AGAIN.
We gave to the public few days ago
some developments regarding the pecu-
liar methods by which Mr. Joseph OBJ
tanned deeds from the poor and confding
owners of their rights in the Cieneguilla
grant. These showed that Mr.. Joseph
was largely interested in various uncon-
firmed land grants which are now await
ing the action of congress, but that the
manner of obtaining them had been the
reverse of honorable.
The gentleman whom We requested to
make inquiries at Cieneguilla has now re-
turned and corroborates the worst state,
merits that have been made. 1t seems that
after Joseph secured the man Vigil as @
decoy for the other owners, by paying
him a considerable sum, the rest of the
owners, 113 in number, were all cheated
out of their rights by misrepresentation
of different kinds, and actually received
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

A defeat Of the Republican ticket from
MIR. Catrou down will, as surely as to-
morrow will ho Tuesday, endanger the
location Of the capitol here, will prevent
the building of the military post here,
will drive investors and capital out of
this city and county and increase taxa
ton.
Tomorrow will be election day; choose
for yourselves. and if you do not vote for
the Republican nominees you will find
ont your terrible mistake in due season.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07
Notice for Publication.
Homestead No. 4031.
LAND OFFICE AT SANTA FE, N. NJ,
November, l, 1892.

LAND OFFICE AT SANTA FE, n. M,
November, l, 1892.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim, and that said proof will be
made before the register and receiver at
Santa Fe, N. NJ, on Dec. 6, 1892, viz.
Florencio Duran, for the W 4 ne a,
W I lots 2 and 3, sec. 6, tip. IS n,
+. 10 e.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation Of said laid land, viz: Nico-
las Jimenez, Jeronemio Benavides, Ro-
mulo Benavides, Francisco Dominguez,
all of Santa Fe, N. M.
Any person who desires to protest
against the allowance of such proof, or
who knows of any substantial reason,
under the law and the regulations of the
interior department, why such proof
should not be allowed, will be given an
opportunity at the above mentioned time
and place to cross-examine the witnesses
of said claimant, and to offer evidence in
rebuttal of that submitted by claimant.
A. Il. MORRISON,
Register.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

The recent riots and blood shed in
Tennessee, caused by the working of con-
victs in mining coal, brings wildly to
mind the narrow escape Cerrillos had
few years ago of the same condition of
affairs. On the End day of February,
1887, an act was struggled through our
Legislative houses in some mysterious
manner and hurriedly signed by Gov.
Ross, providing the means for the pen
itentiary authorities to employ the con-
victs in mining coal" The history of
this attempted fraud and crime against
honest labor is too well known here to
need repeating. But now comes the in
teresting part. When the act came be-
fore the committee in congress, Anthony
Joseph favored its confirmation. Black,
Kansas Republican, moved to strike out
the provision quoted above, and Joseph
opposed. So it seems that Mr.. Joseph,
the standing candidate for delegate, was
in favor of filling the coal mines of New
Mexico with penitentiary convicts, in
stead OF giving honest miners chance.
Is he the sort of man to look after your
interests; coal miners ?-Cerrilos Rustler,
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07
TER RIFORIAL PRESS COM
MESTS.
Joseph Has Done Damage to New
Mexico.

5DScgn gRHS DtNt Dtlhdwt 10 New
Mexico.
Had Mr.. Joseph never done no other
damage to New Mexico than to aid in
the passage of the infamous alien land
law, that alone were sufficient to obliterate
the recollection of every other federal
favor that trickled naturally to our
benefit, despite his insuficiency. The
land law has been blight on every in
terest and industry in the territory. 1t
has been Il direct curse to every man,
woman and child in the broad limit of
New Mexico. 1t caused the withdrawal
of $3,000,000 of foreign capital, and pre-
vented the Introduction of two or three
times as much It stopped the sale of
mines, of ranches, of all landed estates,
and prevented borrowing money on
landed security. 1t was a blow under
which New Mexico has staggered for
years, and under which she is staggering
to-day. Yet this accursed law is the result
of New Mexico's having Democratic
delegate in Democratic congress, and
that delegate not competent to look out
for the enterests of the people he SO
fearfully misrepresented--Cerrllos Rust
Ter.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07
TAX FUNDS IN SANTA FE COUNTY

Every cent of public money collected
by Sheriff Conklin up to date has either
been properly accounted for, turned over
to the proper officials as the law directs
or is in the bank deposited to the official
credit of the sheriff and collector; not a
dollar has been used for election pur-
poses and not cent has been embezzled
as was the case under the Democratic
sheriffs in this county; the books and the
accounts are ready for inspection.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07
JOSEPH, A PROVED LIAR.
Law Office Of o. II. 81 j. p. Plat, !
Meriden, Conn.,, Sept. "a, 1899.

Law Office OF o. II. 81 j. p. Plat,
Meriden, Conn.,, Sept. "a, 1891
I. B. Catron, Esq, Santa Fe, N. NJ.
Dear Sir: The following extract from
what purports to be an interview with
Delegate j seph has been sent me:
"He told me distinctly that Senator
Plat, chairman of the committee on tor
ritories, had promised him that the act
should pass after getting through the
house. H0 told this to me, also to III. u.
Ferguson, and to members of the senate
committee on territories. After getting
1t through the house, which did by spe-
cial favor from MT. Springer, 1 had no
doubt OF its passage through the senate
after what Catron had told me. waited
q reasonable time ard then went to Platt
about tho matter, told him what Catron
had said and showed him q letter from
him to the same effect. Senator Plat was
surprised, and not only denied having
made any such promise to Catron, but got
indignant and said that he, Catron, in say
ing such thing, was the most unbIushiDg
liar he had met nth during his public
career. You will now understand from
these facts that Catron Ia not only DELHI
erate liar, ut is moreover an enemy of
statehood, and quite likely to do all in
his power to keep Now Mexico out of the
Union as long as possible"
deem it due to you to say that Mr.. Jo-
seph never showed me any letter from
you whatever; that never used the Ian
guage that Is attributed to me in the ex-
tract or anything like 1t, either to Mr.. Jo-
seph or to any one else. MIR. Joseph must
have been misrepresented, think, in his
interview, and he owes it to yourself, to
me and to the public, to say that he never
made the statements that are attributed
to him. Yours truly,
tSigned) o. II. PLATT.
And in view of the above can honest, de-
cent and truth-loving voters vote for Jo-
seph, who is a proven liar?
Gan honest men vote for him conscien-
tiously?
Joseph has not yet said that he was mis-
repres ented in the interview In the Dem
oeratt
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

The election OF the Democratic candi-
dates for the Legislative assembly means,
in all likelihood, the removal of the cap
ital from this city; the Albuquerque Demo
cratic bosses have raised $4,000 to bring
this about and the Democratic candidates
from this county, if elected, will have to
vote in the assembly as Joseph and the
Democratic ring at Albuquerque demand.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

For the Council-Ambrosio Pine, OF
Galisteo.
For the House-Beniamin NJ. Read, II.
S. Clancy Of Santa Fe.
Probate Judge-Aniceto Abeyti3, OF
Santa Fe.
Probate Clerk-AtanaCio Romero.
SHERIFF.. NJ. Conklin.
Assessor-Trinidad Aarid.
County Commissioners, lst District
G. w. Dudrow.
I'd District.-A. /. Kendall.
Sd DistriCt-NiCtor Ortega.
TreasuTer-I. B. Cartwright.
Superintendent of SCHOOLS. }. ortiz
Surveyor-Wm. White.
Coroner Vigil.
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Notice.

The capitol custodian committee in
their meeting held this day, have decided
to clean and have hauled away the rubbish
from the late capitol building to nearest
point in the river; and to that end they
want ten wagons or more to commence
hauling on Nov. II, and will give ample
assistance for loading and unloading and
will pay at the rate of 1925 per day
Those wishing to do work may call at Sol
Spiegelberg, secretary.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

ta&ation and want to lose THIS SUN OF
$3l 500 COLLECTED BY CHAVEZ as collector
and Low due, justly and lawfully due this
county, let them vote for Democratic
sheriff, clerk and county commissioners.
But then they should not grumble at
higher taxes and stagnation in business.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

The assassins of Faustin Ortiz are
making once more desperate effort fol
the gang ticket; they are working with
might and main for the election Of a
Democratic sheriff and the Democratic
county ticket; ticket that has the sup
port of such assassins deserves defeat
from head to foot.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07
DEFEAT EASLEY BY ALL MEANS.

The voters of this county should defeat
Charles F. Easley at the polls tomorrow
he is Enthusiastically and unsafe; he has
gone back onthe men who befriended him
in his time of need he held down a seat
in the last assembly to which he was not
elected; he failed to defend the interests
of this city and county in the house OF
representatives. during the last session
he was the tool of monopolies and cor
porations. He should be defeated.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

IN November, 1891 from the vault in
the county court house ballot boz con-
tanning a large Republican majority was
stolen from the custody of the Democratic
county clerk; do you want repetitions of
this sort of business; if so vote for the
Democratic county ticket and Democratic
candidate for county clerk
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

The coal miners of Gallup, Carthage,
Cerrillos and Blossburg have very good
cause to vote against Joseph; he is their
enemy and favors the hiring out of the
penitentiary convicts to work the coal
mines in New Mexico for rich corpora
tiOns
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

The NEW MEXICAN has always been an
honest, live journal, and it dares any
man, Joseph, Ferguson, Easley or any
other to prove false from stump or office
any charge, this journal has made in this
campaign.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

kfiidayits from Pablo Lucero and Wife,
Maria Barbara Mestas, James A, Archu-
leta and wife, Antonio de Vargas and
wife and Maria Rufna Ortega of similar
import are on file at this office.
What has Antonio Joseph to say to the
charges made by these poor people in the
atiidayits:
Mr.. Catron for his land grant interests
paid value received and fair and equitable
prices.
Who're does Joseph stand?
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07
THE TAX PAYERS OF THIS COUNTY ARE IN
TERESTED.

The election of Democratic sheriff
clerk and board of county commissioners
means higher taxation and loss to the
county of $4,000 justly due from the
late Frank Chavez and his bondsmen to
this county, if the tax payers want higher
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

An contracts and bills fer advertising payable

All contracts and bills fer advertising payable
monthly. .,,,.,.,,.,
All communications intended for publication
must be accompanied by the writer's name and
address-not Tor publicRtion-buts rs an yidonce
OF good faith, and should be addressed TO the
editor. Letters pertaining to business shoAld DO
addressed to NEW MEXICAN Printing Co.,
santa Fe, New Mexico
ER-The NEW MEXICAN is the Oldest news
Paper In New Mexico. 1t Is sent to every fos'
Once in the Territory and has a large and grow
dpg circulation among the intelligent anu Pc
glessve people OF the southwest
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07

THERE are liars and liars-somo make
it pay, others do not. Joseph is now in
the latter class.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-07
JOSEPH, THE LIAR.

In an interview in the Albuquerque
Democrat, Antonio Joseph, candidate of
the Democratic-White Cap bosses for
congress, said as quoted:
"Catron is not only deliberate liar,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-11-23

further practical result that cannot
be overlooked. Every one knows that
newspaper is business enterprise, and
that money getting is the main spring
OF action. When, therefore, the Journal
temporarily abandons its scornful posi-
ton and descends into the public arena,
It's opponents at once suspect that the
campaign is to be attended by monied
influences. Nothing could be more
deadly to any cause. The great masses
are poor people, and they vote on the
side of the poor. The advocacy Of the
journal means TO them the advocacy of
money, and it ruins every cause that it
supports. Once the suspicion of money
gets abroad and cause is surely lost.
lt was this suspicion that cost the Re-
publican party the election of Mr..
Watson. 1t was, in short, the spas
modic support of paper whose political
teachings are cast on the side of willful
negligence, and it is time that the party
should, If 1t seeks success, avoid acts
which shall be SO unfortunate as TO meet
with the journals political approval.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-11-23
THE CITY ELECTION.

The thing first TO be noted about the
city election Of yesterday is that the re-
suit Is disappointment TO nobody
Well-informed people were convinced
that Mr.. Potter would probably be
elected, though the Republicans hoped
TO get out full vote and thereby secure
the election of Mr.. Watson.
This hope was warranted, 50 far as
the registration of voters and the record
made at the national election was con
cerned. If the same vote Lad been east
as at the national election, Mr. Potter
would not have been elected. The Re.
publicans cast 2,010 votes less than they
did at the national election, aud the
Democrats / $3.50 less. The Republicans
shrunk 5l4 votes more than the Demo
Gratis did. Had they shrunk only in the
same proportion Mr.. Potter would not
have been elected. Had they cast the
same vote they cast for president Mr..
Watson would have been elected.
II may not be very profitable to thus
contemplate the split milk of the city
election, but it indicates the line of
effort that Must be very sedulously cul-
tivated by the Republicans if they hope
TO again obtain control of the mayor
atty, since the Democrats have forced
the city election on TO strictly partisan
lines. The voters must be persuaded to
go to the polls and vote. Otherwise
there is no hope of electing a mayor.
How this is TO be done must be left to
the party managers, since they assume
that responsibility anyway and do not
need to ask the advice of the rank and
file.
In another column we discuss what is
probably the most potent cause for this
stay-at-hOme sentiment. The Republi-
can managers have got to overcome that
malign influence in some way, and
they have got to overcome it soon.
AS to tire other causes that operated
against the candidacy of Mr.. Watson,
1t may be assumed that they are well
known and do not require 10 he dis
cussed ut TINS Time. Tie ability, hon
esty. public spirited temper and record
of the candidate did enter into the
matter.
Mr.. Potter is, as we have said before
election, an amiable gentleman of un-
character. He will give the
city thoroughly respectable admins
tration, so far as the mayors Office can,
and there is probably no ground to anti
cipate any considerable scandal under
him. As for aggressive progress, that
must wait.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-11-23
THANKSGIVING.

Everybody knows that the Thanks.
giving of the present day bears but lit.
tie resemblance to the Puritan day OF
solemn and fervid religious exhaltation
from which it is popularity supposed to
have originated, and everybody is glad
that it does not.
The idea of the day, or the express
sion of the supposed idea, is the same
now as then. A good dinner is the
chief visible evidence in homes of the
thankful spirit the governors adjure
us to cultivate. Otherwise we have
substituted mirth and sportiveness for
the intense spiritual flavor given to the
day by our Plymouth Rock ancestors.
A noted New York preacher notified
his cong regation that he would hold no
Thanksgiving service in his church be.
cause he anticipated that a large pro-
portion of his congregation would pre-
fer to go to football game, and would
go. 1t is certain that only the most
conservative among the faithful mem
bership of Providence churches will at
tend the Thanksgiving services. This
is recognized by the churches, and they
scarcely make "a pretense of expecting
a congregation to assemble on that day.
They hold union services, which en-
ables about half the churches to remain
closed.
Thanksgiving did not, however. orig
mate with the Puritans. They pervert-
ed the true significance of the day. and
we are now beginning to get back near
to the more ancient understanding IF
its proper meaning and function. II
represents custom that is very ancient,
the central thought of which was reioic.
ing and merrymaking, giving thanks in
the most Joyous manner possible for the
harvest that enabled people to brave
the rigors of the winter.
Tomorrow all New England aud n
very large proportion of the rest of the
country will immediate itself upon the
wishbone of the turkey, which is in the
trucst sense the national bird.
Tomorrow is the day set apart by the
governors of the states for the expert
practice of gluttony. That is not what
the formal proclamatious say, hut the
uulucky wight who refuses to demand
of his digestive organs the labor of two
ordinary days Is eithe. TO Dc pitied or
execrated according as his sin is vplun.
tary Of involuntary. lie * wholly use.
less tomorrow. lie should eat at a
restaurant, out Of the sight of men. or
In the chill solitude of his chas8,l,e-.
There is no place among men to-mor-
row for the man who shrinks from eat.
ing twice as much as he needs.
In one sense the American people
never had 80 much 10 be thankful for.
In another sense they were never called
upon to more pOignantly mourn. The
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-11-23

year past has been one of great and sim
gular prosperity. The willing earth
produced SO bountifully the year pre-
vious that the people have been kept
very busy spending the money that
therefrom flowed into them. The
efforts of nature were aided by the pres
ent tariff law, and money that had been
accustomed TO go over the seas, has
been turned back into the pockets of the
people of this country
1t is lamentable circumstance that
the great policy of the present govern
ment is not to be continued, but even
that is misfortune that has its palliat-
ing point of view.
On the whole, let us give thanks, eat
turkey and see the football games.