Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-27
PRESS COMMENT.
The Citizen and Senator Teller.


To the Editor of the Optic.
Silver City, N. NJ, May 20, 1S96.-A few
days before the assembling of the Colo
RADIO state Republican convention, the
Albuquerque Citizen advised that body
to UNLOAD" Senator Teller as one days
good work. In Yesterdays issue of the
same paper is found the following:
If the Democrats want Senator Teller,
the quicker they get him the better for
the Republican party. The one-idea fell
lows who imagine they are better than
their party can be dispensed with by the
Republicans this year.
Through some strange perversity, the
Republicans of Colorado did not accept
the advice of the Citizen, but, on the CON
trary, elected him as the leader of the
delegation from that state to the national
convention at st. Louis-instructin the
other delegates to follow his lead, what
ever course he may decide upon. Now
the assumed leading Republican paper
of the adjoining territory, the interests
of the people of which are identical with
those of the people of that state, suggests
that it would be to the advantage Of the
Republican party for Senator Teller at
once to affiliate with the Democrats.
Against this [, for myself, and l believe
voicing the sentiment of thousands of
Republicans in New Mexico, most earn
estly protest. Two years ago, the Re-
publican party of this territory, in con-
vention, declared in most positive man
ner for "protection and bimetallism" and
for the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer.
At the last session of the legislature no
member opposed the passage of the sill
yer memorial, which had the honor to
introduce in the house, and it received
the vote of every Republican in both
houses of that assembly. There was no
ambiguity in the language of that resolu
tion, and the representatives of the Re-
publican party in that body went on rec
ord in favor of the principle now so ear
nestly advocated and represented by
Senator Teller.
Does the Citizen pretend that because
of the apparent probability of the ma
tional Republican convention adopting
a gold standard platform, the entire Re-
publican party of New Mexico have de-
serted the cause of silver, which they so
recently indorsedr
Does the Citizen represent the masses
of the Republican voters of the territory,
or only those who would keep in sight Of,
the pie counter?" It is my belief that
upon careful canvass the editor will
the latter class.
Senator Teller is not a "one-idea man."
The patron saint of the Citizen is the
"one-idea fellow" who would attempt to
restore prosperity by increasing the bur-
dens of taxation, without providing the
means of paying them. Neither candi-
date Mckinley nor the Citizen will dare
to attempt to make the American people
believe that high protective tariff will
add one cent to the price of bushel of
wheat, corn or oats, or one-sixteenth of
a cent to the price of pound of cotton,
while the gold standard is maintained.
Senator Teller is consistent in advocat-
ing protection and bimetallism, and is
right in demanding that they shall not be
separated and silver sacrificed upon the
altar of protection.
To me, Senator Teller is the most COM
handing figure in American public life
to. day--the bravest, purest, grandest
pdullOu VI al VIM uAO poOpl0
and defy the shafts of the place-hunters
and time-servers, who tamely follow the
lead of the plutocrats, who have all but
sapped the foundations of American lib
erty.
1t will be pleasure and duty for me
to follow whittier he may lead. have
hitherto declared, as he has: II will not
follow the flag of protection into the gold
standard camp" I meant it then and I
reiterate it now.
Should the issue be made, as it now APP
pears that it will be, for Mckinley tariff
and the gold standard by tho Republican
party in the national convention, Henry
M. Teller may go to the Democratic party,
if it shall be controlled by the masses and
champion the cause of the people in favor
of the full demonstration of silver. And
when he goes the state of Colorado will
go with him and thousands of as good
Republicans as John Sherman and George
F. Hoar, all over this land, will follow his
lead.
l do not hesitate for an instant to say
that I will go with him, and, while do
not claim to have any personal following,
l know of many in this county who will
90 with me, because they believe in the
of such movement, and it
is my belief that in every county in the
territory there will be scores OF Repub-
licans brave enough to pass the Rubicon.
ID. p. CARR.