Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-26
JUMPING JOSEPH.
From the Silver Hills Of Grant to
Peaceful San Marcial and the
New Mexican Right
With Him.
Old Stories Rsvampe1-Tha Agricul.
tural College Appropriation
Another Piece of
Negligence.


special CorresTo. deur3 New Mexican.
SAN MAGICAL, Oct. 2l,-Mr. Antonio
Joseph has made some mistakes in this
campaign. Owing to the severe pounding
the New MEXICAN has administered he is
now trying to correct some of them.
Presumably Mr., j. J. Bell, OF Silver City,
who although Democrat, knows when
something hits him, has coached him
to some purpose during the last few
days. His flight by night from the MINI
bres county was blunder. If Mr.. Jo-
seph were Mexican instead of Portuguese
he would have understood the advantage
of spending Sunday inthat neighborhood,
but then he was probably ruled by the
counsels of Mr.. Skelly, the acknowledged
leader of Grant county Democracy. In
deed had Mr., Joseph not been SO very
DlsGUsTED WITH HIS RECEPTION
at San Lorenzo, where only seventeen
Democrats greeted him, and at San Juan,
where only thiHy-two gathered he might
eventually have gotten a good meeting.
Mr. Skelly loaded all the faithful at San
Lorenzo into two wagons, and carried
| them to San Juan. 4 good meeting
might have been had on this plan finally,
because like d rolling snow BAH the forces
of Democracy would have grown, and by
the time the party reached Albuquerque
a good crowd would be gathered. This
campaign is amusing. Joseph
wRIGGLEs LIKE A TADPoLE,
and some statements of his are so silly
that one is lost in wonder. For instance
he says he got 1900 pension claims al
lowed aggregating 100000. At San Mar
| cial he asserted that the number of claims
was 1900, but let us take 1900 and
average this statement. This figure di-
vided into 100000 will give just 93.3311
as the sum received in eight years by each
pensioner, A pension OF 4 little over $13
per year is liable to bankrupt the United
States. Either Joseph is wrong in this
statement or the pension law should be
amended. Ii is recommended to the G,
A. R, to look into this matter, If Joseph
will only attx u, Phi to his name, people
will not read it Doctor Of Philosophy.
ANOTHER MIsTAKE
with our present delegate is that after
blunder both he and his friends founder
At Silver City, Mr.. Skelly came to the
writer saying that the New MEXICAN ought
not to take up Joseph on such questions
as his certificate from the chief clerk Of
the house of representatives, that any
body could see that the paper exhibited
was only a copy of a certified copy Well
for the benefit of the leading Democrats
of Grant county, here is what Mr.. Joseph
SAID AT SAN MARo1AL.
Il have here in my own hand copy of
the official records in the Office of the
chief clerk of the house Of representatives..
There are a few articles in this list that
do not properly belong to that body; but
| have taken these reports from the Off |
cial records of the various departments
and | challenge successful contradiction
to the statement that | am about to |
make"
At Georgetown Mr.. Joseph said;
This is a copy of the journal of the
house of representatives certified to and |
signed by the chief clerk of the house of
presentatives, therefore no one can deny |
its correctness from top to bottom"
The first statement just quoted is salts
factory so far as it goes, because the
New MEXICAN would be very loath to
dispute an official certificate. AS to the
latter it appeals from "Philip drunk to
Philip sober"
Many items in that list have been
To-day the following is presented. At
San Marcial Mr.. Joseph said:
Il also secured the passage of bill
creating an agricultural college in New
Mexico. Then in 1886 and 1883 secured |
a bill by which this agricultural college
has been converted into an experiment
station, which receives donation and en-
dowment from the governmegt of $4,000
per year"
Note the dates, and the following letter:
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, / !
Agricultural College, Nd, Feb. H. 80 ! |
My Dear Mr.. Hadley
Altho' | may not have said so your let
ter of Dec. 26 came duly, and have not
been inattentive to the matter. We are
ms w oSp youi Pio'boo ipl tH6 Cul-
rent fiscal year. The department and !
Willis especially is helping, and I think
there is fair chance.
wish we would arouse the Hon Jo-
seph! he seems altogether too indiffer-
ent for success, Alone he would be------
--- Well, We are not forgetting you,
and will help you all we can. Best wishes |
to you and New Mexico. With pleasant |
memories of our November meeting. |
am yours very truly,
HENRY L. ALvoRD,
Chairman Executive Committee, Assn. of |
American Agricultural Colleges and Ex-
pertinent Stations,
If Mr.. Joseph got an appropriation in
1886 and 1888 what is the meaning of this
letter. But the bill establishing the agri-
cultural college at Las Cruces passed the
New Mexican legislature and was ap-