Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-03

OF Kansas, now dead, he always remarked
"Catron, Catron, Catron." The speake
pleased the audience by using the follow
ing remarks:
Now state to this audience that never
saw Senator Plumb in my life and Senator
Plumb never spoke to me in the whole OF
his life. never had particle of relation
with the gentleman in all my life, and ]
always had the greatest admiration for
MIN, as he was one of the biggest men
that the country possessed at the time of
his death, and think that the Republican
party lost more when it lost Senator
Plumb than it did when it lost any other
man in the country.
Mr. Catron's defense of what he did re-
lative to the Silver City convention, and
his actions at the Minneapolis national
Republican convention, to which he was
sent as delegate, was satisfactory to his
hearers, and he was oft times interrupted
by loud cheering.
Referring to his land possessions, es-
pecially to the TERRA Amarillo grant,
which occupied some of Mr.. Childer's
time Thursday night, the honorable
speaker made the following strong allu-
sions:
! came to New Mexico TO benefit my
fortunes, attended to my business; at
tended to my clients business and re-
mained sober.
The last word Sober" seemed to take
the vast audience in the nature of a cy-
clone and the storm of applause was so
great that it was at least five minutes
before he could proceed, which he did in
these words:
did not run about at night, l saved
and took care of my means which had
accumulated. 1 kept my eyes open and
invested my money in places where I
thought would do me good, and as re-
suit have accumulated a small amount
of property. The gentleman says l hap
pen to be the owner of the TERRA Amarillo
grant in Rio Arriba county. That is true,
and paid my honest hard money for it,
and no man from whom 1 ever received a
title pretends to say that obtained it
under false pretenses; no one says did
not pay him full value for what received.
Is it sin on my part that own the land /?
but Mr.. Childers says that ought to have
gone on and colonized that land.
After asking what right Mr.. Childers has
to dictate to him how he should dispose of
his property, Mr.. Catron continued:
l will state for his information that
possibly if he would go there and see that
land he would see at the least calculation
5000 people living on it; and every one
of them living there by my consent and
my license. And every one of them gain |
a livlihood without paying me one dollars !
from it. l am satisfied |
with my people; am satisfied with these
men who are living there; we are living
harmoniously together.
The speaker then entered into a lengthy
account of his action in the territorial
legislature relative to the school bills, and
proved conclusively to his hearers that he
is and has been friend of education in
the territory.
Amid much cheering he referred to the
charge of Mr.. Childers that he was a"bull
aozer" both here and at Washington, and
in substance replied that if there is any
place where 'bull dozer" is needed,
God knows it is at Washington" He
also replied that if sent to Washington.
II he could he would "bull doze" them in
The interest of New Mexico.
Mr.. Joseph was then taken in hand
and, among other things, letter from
Senator Platt was read which showed CON
,lusively how Joseph had perjured him
self in speaking of Mr.. Catron's work in
advancing the cause of statehood.