Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1894-10-22
WHAT HAS DELEGATE
JOSEPH DONE?
ST0P,L00K,L|STEN!
While the Record Speaks

During the campaign of two years ago,
between the same candidates which the
two great political parties of this terri
tory have placed before the people in this
congressional election, the Democratic
party drew the "deadly parallel between
the two candidates., Hon. Antonio Joseph
and Thomas B. Catron, and took its can
didate's cause manfully and confidently
before the people on his record as their
faithful servant during eight years in
congress.
That record, of unusual fertility, carried
for more than month in upwards of
twenty newspapers in parallel with the
unusually sterile public record of Z. B.
Catron, was continuous challenge to the
opposition, but neither Candidate Catron
nor his supporters attempted to deny the
record truth-the fertility of the one aud
the sterility Of the other.
| An intelligent and discriminating con-
stituency saw the parallel, appreciated
and approved the campaign of education
thereon and reelected Delegate Joseph
on his record.
The Democratic party again and with
people of New Mexico as its candidate
for delegate to the House of Representa-
tives of the 54th congress and respectfully
asks public attention to the splendid ad.
ditions he has made to the proud record
presented two years ago.
During the first session of the SD con.
gress, to which Mr. Joseph was elected
two years ago and which closed its long
session during the last days of August
past, over 5000 bills were introduced by
the 358 members that constitute the House
of Representatives, in which delegate
from territory merely has seat with.
out vote. But 1900 of these bills be.
came laws. This made an average oi
three and one.half bills passed to each ot
the 35S members. Delegate Joseph passed
ten of these, thus SECURING ABOUT THREE
TIMES THE AVERAGE OF A FULL-FLEDGEI
MEMBER who has vote with which to work
and on which to trade.
Think on it, men of New Mexico! Your
poor, weak, voteIess delegate, represent
ing people aspersed and insulted in the
halls of congress by infamous minority
reports" at the hands of the Republican
party, and denied by Republican leaders
even the credit Of capability for the rights
and dignities of full citizenship and
measurable self-government under state.
hood-this voteless delegate, standing in
congress for people that had been dis.
credited by Republican aspersion, instead
of aid, during the many years of that
| partvta pspan1annu IN ba o1
ernment, has been able, by dint of his
sheer devotion to duty, to outstrip the
proudest of them who are accredited as
the orators and statesmen of congress
sional halls and whose famo rests rather
upon their ability to win the applause OF
the galleries than upon incessant and
fruitful ploddlng and prodding in com.
mittee rooms and in departmental routine
where Delegate Joseph's 80 securely rests
Let US look somewhat in detail at these
late additions to his uniform record.
FOR STATEHOOD.
After passing bill for the admission
of New Mexico through the Democratic
house in 1885, again in 1888, and again
in 1892, each one in turn defeated by a
Republican senate, he has finally, in the
first session of this congress, not only
pushed his bill for the fourth time
through the House, but he has also pushed
it through the committee and on to the
senate calendar, where it now, with hun
dreds of like important bills, awaits &C.
tion by that slowly moving body at the
remaining session of this congress next
winter. The steady pursuit and courage
of his purpose in this regard has been
one of the notable features of recent con-
gressional history and has been the sub
ject of frequent comment at the national
capital. As often as he was defeated by
Republicans in one congress, "dauntless
he rose and to the fight returned" in the
next.