Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-08-26

dorslng Mr.. Catron, which we give
in full today:
Hon. FRANK SPRINGER.
Mr.. Springer, in taking the chair
said: Gentlemen of the convention,
i'll accepting the position to which
you have elevated me, / take it not
so much as a compliment personally
to myself, but as an evidence of the
intention upon the part of this great
gathering of Republicans to do still
further honor to the county of San
Miguel, whose humble representative
/ am. In selecting our county seat
as the place at which this conven-
tjtl should be held, you have already
lone us high honor; and in going
further and selecting one of her cit
izens to preside over the permanent
deliberations of this body, you have
added another compliment to our
people which trust we shall be able
to repay by solid work hereafter for
the success of the party; and that,as |
have once before had occasion to say,
l conceive to be the best return
which we could make, of more sub
stantial and lasting value to the
party, than any amount of speeches,
thai might be delivered by our
orators.
Something has been said already
by the distinguished gentleman who
has just vacated the chair, in regard
to the importance of this campaign
upon the fortunes of this territory.
1t is probably not necessary for me
to enlarge upon that subject. BY
this time every Republican in the
territory has come to a full realiza-
ton of the great burdens under
which we labor as people, and of
the measures which are now most
important in order to relieve us of
those burdens. There comes time
in the history of all communities
when some one question seems to
rise above and be paramount TO all
others, and that has come, gentlemen
of the convention, for the people of
New Mexico. That is the question
of admission into the union. (Cheers.)
l do not think that today, there is
any difference of opinion among the
people of the territory upon the sub
iect. The representatives of both
POLITICAL parties have declared in
favor of it. But for the purpose of
carrying it into practical effect it has
become apparent to every thoughts
full mind, that it is necessary to have
representative in congress who
shall be in harmony with the domi-
nant party in the senate of the
United States. That is the body
which holds today in its hands the
destinles of the territory of New
Mexico, and in my judgment, until
the territory of New Mexico sends
to congress such representative as
will show to that body that the ter
ritory is in harmony with the party
now in control of the senate, | en-
tertain the gravest doubts whether
we shall be able to secure the favor,
able action of the senate upon which
our admission depends. And there
fore, l say it is this question which
today, in its practical bearing upon
the future of the territory of New
Mexico, overhadows and dominates
all others.
We have had very near half a
century of experience in begging at
the doors of congress for the recog- /
milton of the few small rights and
privileges to which the people of A
this territory thought they were en- {
titled; and during that time, for the &
most part, we have begged in vain.
During that time, thousands, hun !
dreds of thousands and millions of i
people of foreign birth and extrac-
tion have come from across the ocean {
into the different states of this nnion (
and been admitted to the full privi- )
eges of citizenship, privileges which i
have been to this day denied TO the '