The advocate., 1895-09-11
Maxwell Grant OOmpauy's "Handbill'
Letter Treated With Great Respect
and Promptly Answered.
Settlers Petition for.the Enforcement Of
Certain Laws Treated With Lsvity
and Pigaon-Hole Contempt.
NO XIII.


closed in letter to President Cleve.
\ land "handbilP' headed "DedsnceP'
and "Contempt for that which is con-
temptible, " signed by the agent for the
\ settlers. quote the worst part Of the
"HANDBILL"
After having, for several years past OK.
hAustsd all peaceful remedies to induce pub
lic officers to compel the Maxwell Grant com
pany to respect the authority Of q secretary Of
the interior, you have at last said to that law
defying, thieying corporation: "Hsnds OIL
Get out OF these mountains" And from Stone.
wall, Colorado, to Morino valley. New Mexico,
not Maxwell grant thief dares show up.
The war is on; the precious blood OF set
tiers has been she'd and we must fight IL out on
this line. No quarter now for the foreign land
thieYes and their hired assasstns, who, in de.
hAnoe OF the secretary's valid decision are
attempting to svict American citizens from
their homes, ranches and mines.
In your name, then, settlers, hurl defiance
90 the foreign corporation. / say to those for
oign svictionists: Your supreme court de-
cision, purchased at so great price, is con-
eempttble Illegal abortion; 1t is entirely too
collateral; the secretary's decision, In spite
oft, is still law so, then, you bloody handed d
Dutch, English and American corporate land
thieves, you government. .defying, courtcor-
rupting, assassination.plotting scoundres,
hands ofi-git or bo gotten.
President Cleveland waxed wroth
over this red-looking "handbill," and
Immediately wrote a letter to M. p.
Pels, Esq, dated September 27, 1887,
In which he says this:
Those who counsel resistance to the law, or
BY false and inhammatory statements such as
are made In the handbill submitted to me, at
tempt TO impose upon the ignorant by advis-
Ing an appeal from the judgment OF the high.
est court In the land to lawless force, are the
worst enemies OF those whom they mislesd.
MANSION CRIME.
But the president himself is partly
to blame for that "handbill." After
had obtained the report of Commits.
sloner Sparks that the decision of Mr..
Secretary Cox in the Maxwell grant
case was final and valid, the enforce
ment Of that valid judgment was indi-
rectly refused; that is to say, as Secre-
tary Lamar could not refuse to grant
the enforcement Of the valid decision
OF Secretary Cox, he concluded to re-
fuse an application that the petition
did not make. l tried to get Secretary
Lamar to reconsider his letter re-.
fusing to grant an application
that was not. made in the
petition. But in the presence
Of Hon. Anthony Joseph, delegate to
congress from New Mexico and my.
self, he positively declined to have
anything more to do with the Maxwell
grant case" then appealed to Presi.
dent Cleveland from this. criminal pro.
cedure, and was before the president
several times trying to get action on
my appeal; but the president unmind
ful Of bis oath OF office, took no action
Ia the direction of enforcing the seCre-
tary's valid decision and order.
President Cleveland had not long de
layed action on the appeal before the
supreme court decision in the Maxwell
grant csse came unexpectedly on-the
said case being lifted from the bottom
ot the supreme court docket, fiyeyears
down, to the top. The Maxwell grant
company, in getting the Maxwell case
from the bottom to the top
Of the docket, was evidently