Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-19
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characteristics by public men and is
highly honored and respected for them
Mr.. Joseph has made very unprotit-
able mistake in attempting to unload his
political blunder on Mr.. Cross by ques-
tioning his veracity. He will not be be-
lieved in the slightest degree"
Senator Platt, of New York, also testi-
fees:
LAW OFFICE OF o. H. & j. p. PLATT,
Meriden, Conn, Sept. "a, 1892. !
T. B. Catron, Esq, Santa Fe n. NJ.
Dear Sir:-The following extract from
what purports to be an interview with
Delegate Joseph has been sent me:
He told me distinctly that Senator
| Platt, chairman of the committee on ter
ritories, had promised him that the act
should pass after getting through the
house. He told this to me, also III. b.
Ferguson, and to members of the senate
committee on territories. After gettingi it
through the house, which did by special
i favor from Mr.. Springer, had no doubt
! of its passage through the senate after
what Catron had told me. l waited a
reasonable time and then went to Platt
about the matter, told him what Catron
had said and showed him letter from
him to same effect. Senator Platt was
surprised, and not only denied having
made any such promise to Catron, but
got indignant and said that he, Catron, in
| saying such things was the most I'M
blushing liar he had met with during his
public career. You will understand from
| these facts that Catron is not only
deliberate liar, but is moreover an enemy
of statehood, and quite likely to do all in
his power to keep New Mexico out of the
Union as long as possible
l deem it due to you to say that Mr..
Joseph 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 it, either to Mr..
Joseph or any one else. Mr.. 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 attributed to
him. Yours truly.
(Signed) 0. II. Plat.
SENATOR woLooTT, OF COLORADO.
Mr.. Joseph has also stated that Senator
Wolcott, of Colorado, told him and Fer
gusson that he (Wolcott) was opposed to
Catron going to Washington as New
Mexico's representative. Senator VOL
colt has written Mr. Catron that the Ian
guage attributed to him by Mr.. Joseph
and his friends was never uttered nor
thought of by him. Again Mr.. Joseph 10
convicted of falsehood.
The people of New Mexico will rsmsm-
Der the
DwyER CAMPAIGN
of six years ago, when Antonio Joseph,
then as now, the Democratic candidate
for congress, charged all over the terri
tory-in the back settlements-that Col
Dwyer was a wild Texan, who delighted
in killing Mexicans, and that he had
killed so many in Colfax county that
their blood fairly irrigated the ground
When Mr.. Joseph was asked to desist
from such methods of electioneering he
orly shrugged his shoulder and said
something about "alls fair in love, war
and politics. His campaign of false
hood succeeded then and he is trying it
again.
SANTA FEE MATTERS.
The latest deviltry ressorted to by Jo-
seph, Crist and Gable, is to charge the
assassination of Frank Chavez, of Santa
Fe, upon Mr.. Catron. Chavez had been
sheriff of Santa Fe county, and Demo-
cratic papers and orators speak ~ him
as ''the best sheriff Santa Fe county ever
had," notwithstanding the well known fact
that he was in the habit of abusing pris
oners. On one notable occasion he went
into the Jail and kicked and beat shack
led prisoner until he was bruised and
marked beyond recognition: He went
and plead guilty to charge of assault
and was fined. His conduct was such
as to bring down upon his own head the
very fate he met. 1t is known, too, that
this same ''best sheriff" had been indicted
for the murder of Faustin Ortiz, and that
he was defaulter as sheriff to the extern
of $4,000. The probabilities that sug-
gest themselves to any fair mind, is that
some of the men whom this ""best sheriff
abused and maltreated while prisoners
dealt out justice to their former keeper,
as they understood it.
We had hoped that this election cam
paign would be decent one, and that
the respectable newspapers of New Mex
leo W ould not, in defense of their princi-
pies and their candidate, have to enlighten
the world again as to tho early history of
some of its Democratic statesmen. Dem
ocrats mostly know that their candidate