Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-07
REPUBLICAN BLUNDERS.

"Whatever may be the position of any
citizen who has affiliated with the Repub-
lican party in the past, in the present
campaign he can not but regret that such
a condition exists in New Mexico as pre-
cudes possibility of uniting the voters
who have yielded loyal allegiance to that
party, under it's banner, in the next cleo
tion," writes Representative ID. P. Carr, of
Silver City, in the Las Vegas Optic of the
4th inst. Continuing, Mr.. Carr says:
y The first nisstep was taken at the terri
torial convention, at Albuquerque, on the
23d of March, when the representatives OF
the party failed to declare it's position
upon either the tariff or silver. was
not delegate in that convention, but at
tended it, as Republican, especially in
terested in what 1t should do in regard to
the silver question. Many of the dele
gates will now recall the persistent efforts
which made to have the following reso-
luton brought before that convention for
consideration and adoption:
"'Resolved, That the Republicans of
New Mexico are in favor of the complete
demonstration of silver and use of the
standard silver dollar as money of final
redemption, and believe that the bond
holder and money changer should be
compelled to accept in redemption of
treasury notes and other evidences of in
debtedness of the government the same
forms of money as are paid the laborer
for his hire; and we are in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage of both gold
= and silver, upon equal terms at the minis
of the United States, at the ratio of lC
toll
"In that convention motion had car
ried that all resolutions be referred to
the committee on resolutions without
reading, and that no resolutions except
those reported by the committee would be
considered by the convention. The com
mittee on resolutions, with exGov,
Prince as it's chairman, avoided all ref
erence to the silver question as well as
the tariff, and the Republican party of
New Mexico now stands before the peo-
pie upon two issues-statehood and Mr..
Catron. The first has been effectually
disposed of by the Republican national
convention, which declared for statehood
for the territories when "regard for the
interests of the United States" renders it
desirable, and which nominated man
for president whose immediate following
are the most venomous, unreasonable
and uncompromising opponents of state
hood for New Mexico. The latter issue
may not be presented to the people again,
and need not be discussed at this time.
"a more humiiating spectacle l have
never witnessed than that of the distin-
guished gentleman, whose voice has so
often been heard in behalf of the cause of
silver, making excuses for the presenta-
tion Of the report of the committee on
resolutions In that convention, emitting
all reference to either the tariff or silver.
But for that act, Gov. Prince would be
the logical candidate of his party for
delegate to congress, but the voters will
never accept the lame excuses offered by
him in that convention for his alb ect sub
mission to the party bosses, not the least
of whose objects was to place him in a
compromising position.
"In urging upon delegates to that con-
vention the ACCESSIBILITY of declaration
upon silver in harmony with the senti-
ment of almost all the voters of the party
in the territory, regardless of the dicta-
ton of the bosses, and warning them of
danger of the proposed course of ig-
noring tho issues, was met with con-
tumely, threats and peviling. Within the
past six weeks, several of those who were
delegates to that convention have said to
me: Carr, you were right at Albuquer-
que. We should have declared our posi-
tion upon the issues of bimetallism and
protection in that convention, and now
we would have something to rally the
voters in our party
"The proscriptive spirit of portion OF
the party press of the territory after that
convention and before the assembling of
the national convention, demanding the
alb ect surrender of all principles in the
interest of one candidate for president,
did not contribute to condition of har-
mony. Nor has the PRONUNCIATION of the
decree that all who do not accept the
financial plank of the st. Louis conven-
ton are debarred from further affiliation
with the party tended to promote more
harmonious feeling.
"When the Republican convention as.
sembles at Las Vegas, in September, and
the logical sequence of the cowardly
act of the March convention follows in
the Endorsement of the national Republic
can platform, including the gold standard
plank, many hundreds of voters, where
there are now only few, will, as l have
refuse to follow the banner of the party
in this campaign"