Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-09-23
UP IN San JUAN.
Messrs. Oatron and Bartlett at Farming
ton and Largo-Telling Talks
The Pinacate Party.

The Pinacate Party.
special correspondence of the New Mex can.
LARGO, San Juan county, N. NJ! Sep
l9.-The meeting Saturday, Sept. II,
7:30 p. M, at Pennington, was rousin
Mr.. Day, editor OF the junction Gil
Times, deserves the highest credit for tt
management of the preliminares of tt
affair. The building was crowded. Man
good observers stated the number preser
at 400; but conservative estimate woul
be 25O men and fifty ladies. Tie meetin
was presided over by Judge Bowman.
Mr.. Catron made a ringing address, an
under the genuine enthusiasm OF the OF
caslon grew really eloquent as he present
ed the evils of the present condition an
the remedy 10 be found in statehood
The presentation Of the complication
arising out Of the
DIVERGENT RIGHTS eF WATER ...
appropriation in an adjoining state an,
territory went home TO the audience an,
was the subject Of much thoughtful com
ment. The action OF the house of repre-
sentatlyes in putting wool on the free lis
was OF course loudly condemned by {
community OF wool growers. Making
silver lead ores free also had influence in
warning Democrats from iron clad al
leRlance to their party candidate for dele.
gate. Mr.. Catron's speech was very
earnest ard forceful effort. Every SEN
tence was rounded out, and the thought
or each item considered was clear cut as
cameo. The exposition Of the operations
OF the anti.alien bill in turning capital
away from the resources OF the territory
was telling; and in community without
railroads and with immense riches in
farm and range products the party that
passed such law, and the delegate who
sat silent during it's enactment, and since
has made no effort for its repeal, of course
suffered in the estimation of the people.
This argument for statehood and the
election of man strong enough to &C.
compish this was invincibe.
GEN. BARTLETT
followed with strong and witty speech.
He described the meeting Of Mr.. Catron
and on old gentleman whose children
has gone to school to him. This patriarch
announced himself as Democrat Just as
he Was forty years ago. Mr.. Catron
said, when first knew you you were
not Democrat but Henry Clay
Whip. in favor Of abolition and protec.
tion."
eyes, that is so," assented the old gen.
tleman, "the Democratic party has now
just about got around to my first posi-
tion."
Here was man otherwise intelligent,
whose actual progress in forty years had
been 80 little that the staid, conservative
and ponderous car of Democracy had just
overtakeu him, and he was now COM
paratiyely seated on the baud wagon.
THE PEOPLE OF FARMINGToN
are among the most cordial and hospi
table, and the party Of political mis-
sionaires will long remember their pleas
ant association.
This meeting at Pennington was, as l
say, success, but the meeting on Sunday
1t Alcatraz was even more gratifying.
By actual count there were pre-
,ent at the school honse ninety
our native New Mexico citizens from
Canon Largo and Blanco. Mr.. Catron
addressed them in Spanish. He followed
he same ground as al Pennington, the
,nly difference being that the rythm of
he Spanish secured to lend fire and vim
o Mr.. Catron's usually thoughtful style.
The wool and water question visibly
lfected the audience, but the reference to
he miserable position OF the territory, cut
If from attending to its own affairs, and
'ften burdened with incompetency and
ignorance of rank outsiders forced on us
" political pap distributors, reused an
Indignant protest from the hearers.
hessrs. Catron and Bartlett start out OF
he county this morning. l remain to
omplete the work assigned me by the
JEw MEXICAN.
1 can not refrain in this letter from
epeating
AN AMUSING INCIDENT.
A gentleman, whose we'll known mo.
esty compels the suppression of his
anne, was by invitation present at the
Meeting of the local White Caps to effect
n organization. The small crowd WAS
omewhat at sea. None of them was
yer before forced to handle the machinery
[ deliberative body. and the cranks
i'd not work. Our friend was
nally requested to state the object Of the
,eeting and help out. He began:
Down in Arizona. where once lived,
here is bug called Pinacate. 1t is a
estiferous little beast, and nature has
acked all it's legs close to it's neck, so that
'hen angered or disturbed it throws itself
1to what an architect would call rear
levation. It gets it's back mp at every
hing. Now all you fellows here seem to
ave got your backs up, and present quite
n interesting spectacle; and, for want.of
more appropriate name, move that we
anne this local branch of the party not
no Peoples but the Pinacate party and
scommend it's adoption by the national
ommittee." t.. M. A. D.