Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-22
THE POLITICAL plH.covSrHR.

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Pecos.
j. d. W. veeder will address the Bryan
silver club, Tomorrow evening, at the
regular meeting.
E. @. de Baca and Marguerite Romero
are on the book for speeches at San Ger
onimo In the near future.
1t is said that blood shed was narrowly
avertei In the old town the other day over
political matters. Politicians should keep
their heads and make the fight a good ma
tnred one. "a
At a republican meeting at Upper Las
Vegas, last evening, a debate ensued In
which the union party men came out first
best, much to the chagrin Of the republic
can speakers.
Felipe Sanchez writes from Rociada that
he will support most of the Union ticket.
as he has no use for scrubs This 10 . hard
lick, coming, as 1t does, from . leading and
Influential republican.
Hon H. B. Ferguson will get many .
| gold bug vote in San Miguel county, a. Il
was a frequent expression Of many when
Catron SO ~disgraced the Territory last win
ter, that the man OF brass and "brains"
would never receive a vote from them on
any platform.
General A. j. Sampson, who Is quite well
known in these parts and who is now .
citizen of Phoenix, was g passenger for
Arizona on No. / last evening. He had
been campaigning for Mckinley sixty
days in the states of Missouri, Kansas,
Ohio and Illinois and will give the balance
of his time to his home Territory.
Socorro republicans have taken q bold
stand, and come out with a straight ticket
of their own, upon a platform that they
can conscientiously work for. The cause
is headed by such men as John w. Terry.
Juan Jose Bacs, Nepomuceno Castillo,
Severe A. Baca, j. K. Smith, e. W. Eaton,
Jose A. Gallegos and many others.
The Nep Menican made an error In
printing the interview with r.. A. Mapza-
mares, a few days ago. 1t had it, "Wool,
in this Territory, has been as high under
the lowest tariff as IL was under the high.
est" 1t should have been: "Wool, In this
Territory, has been about as low, under q
high tariff as 1t ever was under the low
est" This sounds about the same, bat It
means a great deal different thing, and
shows that the financial condition Of the
country really governs the price Of the
products Of the country, wool of course
included.
The populists are still working on county
matters and Col. T. B. Mills said this morn
ing that the assessment made on each IN.
didate this year would be 81. Whether
the pops will claim this Unconstitutional"
and kick on it, the same as they do on most
everything in the world, remains to be seen.
The ticket has not yet been fully decided
upon but the following will probably be
the final outcome.
Council, M. M. Milligan and Sam Pate;
Legislature, f. A. Blake and A. E.
county commissioners, o. L. Barker, Ro-
man Ortiz and Lewis Lutz; collector, NJ.
K. Morris: assessor, j. ID. Aber; school
superintendent, G. Rudolph; probate
clerk, A. G.. Mckee; probate judge, y. F..
Dunn; surveyor, r. B. Rice; treasurer,
T. Hainlin; coroner, G. Leibschner.
POLITICS IN THE PULPIT.
We have no wish to speak hastily anent
the attitude one hot-headed preacher of
Las Vegas is assuming in the present
political contest. When a would. be-
teacher Of Christian love and forgiveness
is hurting bans of social and moral excom-
munication from the pulpit against citi-
zens of opposite political faith, then 1t Is
the duty of the press to remind the public
that a minister's should be the broad and
mature view; mis- should be the balanced
mind and the measured speech, the free
dom from any bigotry and narrow mind
ness; above all he must have the faith In
human nature, the pride in his own coun-
try, to refuse believing that any great ma
tional party could deliberately advocate
dishonesty, reputation and anarchy.
The reckless use and abuse Of epithets 10
the pulpit is the clearest proof of the pull
unftness for his sacred Office.
Thank heaven, this modern disciple of
is powerless to imprison, to torture
and burn alive! Otherwise we political
could expect no better fate than
which befel Michael ServeLussi
1868. The clergy's assumption to dictate
and quarantine the political convictions Of
citizens may have been possible In the
sixteenth century; IN 1876 o minister's
prostitution Of his pulpit, bis rash and un-
warranted talk OF ~repudiat'on insSoao q