Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-08-10
FLAG PRESENTATION
Military Pomp and Political Oratory
in Prescott Arizona Threw
Bouquets at Herself
CAPT. FALL TO THE RESCUE
New Mexico's Patriotism Eloquently De-
picted-Exercises Held in Open Air
5000 People Present to Witness
the Ceremonies.

Whipple Barracks, Aug. 6.-The pre-
sentation of flags to the New Mexico
battalion and Arizona fractional bat
talon occurred in Prescott today. The
ceremonial was supplemented by the
presentation of an elegant sword to
Colonel McCord, from an army of devot-
ed Arizona admirers.
The day was most propitious and the
occasion is doubtless deemed highly sat-
isfactory by the Arizonians in attend
From some points of considera-
ton, it was successful. The sentiment
prompting such exercises is grandly en-
nobling, and cannot fail to kindle the
fires of heroism and loyal
ty, lying dormant within each patriotic
breast, to flames of passionate fervor.
If the features embodying tedious
speech-making by politicians with axes
to grind, could be eliminated from such
occasions, their impressiveness would
be rendered much more lasting. Over
700 soldiers stood in line two hours in
front of the county court house, listen
ing while the deeds of heroism of va
rious Arizonians were recounted and
predictions offered of the glorious fu-
lures of other embroyo heroes from
Arizona. The audience of enlisted men
paid rapt attention to a number of peo-
pie who for some reason or other did
not see fit to enlist, but had no com
junction whatever against boring those
who did enlist, with designations OF
things constituting martrydom and
loyalty-which would doubtless be ex-
empliiied by the volunteers from Ari-
In fact Arizona 'threw ST many
bouquets at herself, that everything else
was lost in the shuttle.
Arizona lost a captain before Santi'
ago. He was the only man who fell in
that noted battle.
Arizona furnished some men for the
Trough Riders" They were the only
ones who did any fighting.
Arizona presented a flag to her volun'
teers which was planted within the bat
Elements of Santiago. 1t was the only
flag there. All other flags were in the
| rear about 'steen miles.
Arizona men were in the ranks wher
| Santiago fell. They were alone. Al,
others had fled. Had the Arizona con
tingent been elsewhere Santiago woulC
be alive and well today,
Poor Oklahoma and Indian Territory
were not mentioned at all. New Mexico
suffered a similar fate, until Captain
Fall mounted the platform and indicat
ed New Mexico's right to consideration
Sorrow, indignation and irony fashioned
phases which poured from his lips il
torrents of oratory. He made it cleal
to his listeners that New Mexico mourne(
q number of dead heroes who fell while
gallantly charging the entrenched posi-
tions about Santiago; that New Mexico
had laid human offerings on the altar o.
its country's honor who were returning
today, their shattered limbs indicating
shattered lives and hopes; that New
Mexico had furnished more volunteers
and left more dead on the field than any
other western territory; that in the
present instance, New Mexico was the
only territory called upon to furnish 8
battalion for the 1st Frontier Regiment;
that the New Mexico boys would not
follow the Arizona boys, for the worlt
did not contain canons deep enough MOI
mountains high enough to prevent then
from fighting side by side, shoulder tt
shoulder, with their brethren from Ari
IONA. At the conclusion of Captain
Falls speech, the hearty cheers which
rent the air exemplified in the stronges
possible manner, the fact that hi
words struck responsive chords in thu
hearts of every listener. Captain Fal
had no political axe to grind, and the
change in tenor owe previous speeches
was as welcome as it was refreshing
for it exhaled the sweet perfume of pure
patriotism devoid of the garlicy verbiag'
of the ward heeler.
And when Captain Borrodaile, of Albu
querque, senior captain of the regiment
presented that glorious flag in the nam
of the ladies and citizens of New Mex
leo, a yell, surprising anything Of thu
kind ever uttered by a regiment o
charging rebels, issued from the throat'
of the New Mexico volunteers. TIL
Santa Fe company was selected to fiji
the post of battalion color company
This is a mark of honor and can only b.
accounted for by a special ~dispensatioI
of Providence. Just why the Prescott
Phoenix or Tucson company was no
selected to carry the New Mexico color
will ever remain inxunfathomed mys
terry. The relegation of a favoritisn
which has covered matters of import a
l ,r,11 nc %Inso nf tha Vppct TRIVIAL not1ro
and the display of such open handel
Magnanimity, fairly takes the breatl
from the New Mexicans. Such thing
as the retarding of Captain Borrodaile'
promotion, the awarding of color com
pany to some territory which has no
| furnished a battalion and cannot boas
of a company showing superiority II
| drill evolutions, as well as the forcing o
cleft over equipment, etc, on the New
| Mexico boys, despite the vigorous pro
tests of the captains, are taken as
matter Of course. And to have tn
privilege of carrying its own colors is
source of great qualification to the Ne,
Mexico battalion. Verify, the grea
American politician who valiantly fight
his country's battles with his patriot
mouth, and loyaly sacrifices the "fowe
of his states youth" to his country
honor in the hour of need, will yet ge
his "pie augur" into the powder maya
zine of the great American army an
blow the whole shebang to the demni
ton bow-wows.
The flag presented to the Arizona bal
TALON was a gift from the Good Templar
of tho territory. Colonel McCOrd mad