Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25
and successful contradiction is ohallehg-

and successful contradiction is challeng-
ed in emphatic terms.
Let some one Of his defenders point to
a single public act of his that marks him
as a patriot and profitable public SER
want Of the people-an act that win fill
up n line of the above blank.
While waiting for something from his
friends with which to fill up this yawn-
ing gap in his public record, or even to
reduce it's size by a line or two, let us go
on with his record as be himself has
written it.
AS United States District Attorney
for about six years, in the seventies, his
administration of the affairs Of that Of
fee was characterized by such abuses Of
his official powers and duties as resulted
in investigation by the Department Of
Justice Of the administration under
which he was holding the Office, the re-
suit OF which was one Of tbs everest re-
ports (Angels Report) ever filed against
a public officer, followed promptly by
Catron's resignation. The .ecords amp
ly sustain the statement that he quit
the Office in disgrace with his own po-
litical administration at Washington.
HIS legislative record, written princi-
pally while he was occupying stolen
seats, Is of a piece with that made while
he was United States Attorney for New
Mexico and the popular report thereon,
even in his own party, as voiced IN I'm
measured terms in the past by the lead
ing republican newspapers Of the Terri
tory, such as the Citizen, the Optic, the
Enterprise and the Range, il full as So
we're as the report against him as a u. s.
Official. These and the other republican
newspapers can now find no single act Of
his in his extended Legislative career to
which they can point as an earnest act
OF what he would accomplish il elevated
to a seat in the National Legislature.
But they can find plenty Of vicious
legislation Of which the records fasten
the. paternity Of patronage upon him
such as
An Act Familiarity known as "the Su-
preme Court Practice Act" which
should have been called San Act for the
relief of the clients Of T. B. Catron and
TO legislate their cases into court"
"An Act to limit the time within
which certain suits may be brought"
etc, familiarly known as the " Limitation
BILL" which should have been called
"An Act to enable iand-grabbers TO COB
BILE up Spanish and Mexican land. grants
and Gust the small holders and settlers
thereon
San Act to punish false personation,"
which should have been called San Act
TO intimidate the Governor Of New Mex
leo and reconstruct, by the puny arm Of
the territorial legislature, our govern
mental structure by wiping out the CO.
ordinate executive branch"-the most
monstrous rs we'll as supremely rldicu-
| la.- Afa.u - IuAfn1wNfan nurnw nNNOumaNu4
on this old earth Of ours,
San Act ia relation TO change OF vens
ue," which should have been called "An
Act to enable the Maxwell Land Grant
Company to drag all the settlers on that
grant into the courts Of other counties
and thus worry and weary them in sub
mission and settlement, and for other
like uses by other land-grabbers."
IAN Act relative to imprisonment OF
persons charged with CRIME" which
should have been called San Act to turn
loose the jailed murders Of Dumas Pro
vencher."
aAn Act TO define the offenss Of libel"
etc, which should have been called San
Act to protect I. B. Catron and such
selfish public servants as he, from
criticism upon their public records"
But enoughl And yet these are only
specimens. Catron ~was;either the father
OF the powerful patron OF these and
other legislative diagraces, and when
the late democratic House repealed the
Libel and Change OF Venue laws, Catron,
as chairman Of the judiciary COMMITTEES
OF the Council, pocketed the repeating
bills aud they were never heard Of
again.
So much for his record as a public Of
fetal.
AS a private citizen dealing with the
Territory, he has also a discreditable
record, Of which has penitentiary brick
deal Is q specimen.
As a private citizen, dealing with large
numbers OF private citizens, IN particu.
lar sections OF the Territory, he has
likewise a discreditable record, Of which
his TERRA Amarillo land grab Is a splenl
did specimen.
Upon this record, composed simply Of
specimanH aud which can be duplicated
by others from his long public oarool
10 which be has done nothing for the
people but has built up only ~ d. Cat
ron and his enormous fortune, can the
people afford 10 elect him 10 C0nRrosl
and thus increase his power and tho 10.
huenoo 10 be used ia the future, 30 ID
the past, for r. b Catron,