Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-01

'ANN" iN' ehN 49,
and the enjoyment of every blessing
they have. The Republican party
scorns to appeal to race issues and race
prejudice. 1t knows no race or nation
atty except Americans, in our affairs.
The Republican party would like to
eliminate the use of the Spanish Ian
guage in the courts and by the electors,
but it only seeks to do so by the use of
language, something the Democratic
party refused to do as long as it could
control the Legislature and executive.
DEMOCRATIC POSITION ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
If the people of New Mexico ever eX-
pect to become educated and speak
English, they must ignore the Demo-
cratic party and it's precepts, the rarity
which expelled Levy J. Keithley, of San
Miguel county from the Legislature be-
cause he introduced and sought to en-
act a school bill for the education of our
people. This was prior to 1885, and if
that bill had been enacted, every man,
m and child would now be read
ing, writing and speaking English. The
assertion hat the Republicans desire
to disfranchise any one or to deprive
any one Of n right is absurd and
false. And what better guaranty could
the Republicans give against any such
intention or desire h has been given
by nominating as their candidate Pedro
Perea, a native of New Mexico, your
neighbor and fellow citizen? What
could more completely give the lie to
the insinuation that the Republican
party was hostile to the native people?
Republicans are ready to compare rec
ords in this regard. Who can believ
the Democratic party in their platform
closing part of their declaration of
principles" was not blatant deception
and bombast, intended only to deceive
and mislead?
Gentlemen, l will not take up more of
your time. I understand you have q
most harmonious convention; n that
will select a good ticket. I hope you
will select the best men in you county,
and / hope you will elect it and ad-
vance the interests of the county n
the territory. Do your duty fearlessly;
your duty without regard of what
your enemies may say. You are the
persons Responsible; you possess the
Intelligence and abilities of the county;
the county rests upon you for its adj
vancement. If you put it into the hands
of these DC fossils who say they are
REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC COUNTIES.
to compare the records of Re
with Democratic counties, you
will have a repetition Of the record OF
Santa Fe county, where the Democratic
sheriff, who was collector for eight con-
years, appropriated to himself
and party the entire evenue OF the
Do you desire to compare Ber-
nalillo with a record like that? 1t is an
outrage, gentlemen, to ask you to make
such comparison, an imputation upon
your intelligence, to YOU integrity and
your honor. Take the administration
of Santa Fe county while the Demo-
were in power, and such a COM
is odious. See what an effort
was made there to prevent a fair count.
They ever went into the vaults and
$3.50 --4 49, Lo1I~t Inyn- ctn1n nnI
spirited them away-Republican ballot
that we could not have a ma
jority and turn them out; and when we
compelled them, by a writ of man.
damus, to make the count, notW1th-
standing they had refused to do so, they
instructed their clerk to refuse to obey
the order of the court; they instructed
the clerk to refuse to enter up the rec
ord, and as a last resort they fled from
the county. Now they ask you to COM
pare the records of your county with a
record like that. We are willing to do
it, but it is an insult to ask it. Your
conduct of county affairs will compare
favorably with any board in the entire
territory, be it Republican or Demo-
Look at the record of all the
boards in this territory; which party
has counted a full vote on every occa-
sion? Which party has sought to sup
press the record and count a minority
a majority? In every instance, from
Taos to Dona Ana and from Union to
Grant, the Democratic party has stood
fraud and oppression. The first time
I ever attended an election in this ter
ritory, some 81 years ago, in bona Ana
when Colonel Chavez was your
candidate for congress against Clever,
DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS PRACTlCED.
they added illegal Democratic vote af-
ter vote in Rio Arriba, they struck u
Republican vote after vote in Dona Ana
they elected Clever. This has
been their rule of procedure ever since;
it has been the Democratic order at all
times. l do not claim the Republican
party has been immaculate; | do not
say IL mas not coilHllleu ooHie hio
takes, but l do say that they hav al
ways acted so as to protect your well
fare, and the welfare of the people of
the whole territory.
In this election, remember that your
fellow citizen Is a candidate for
office; remember that we are all look
ng to this county to see you vindicate
lin and yourselves. Work together;
work in harmony. When you leave here
70 out to- the different precincts and
make each a committee of n to visit
house to house, every man in the
county. Appeal to your fellow citizens
n behalf of your rights; appeal to them
n behalf of your homes; appeal to
hem in behalf Of your great party,
which has so gloriously carried through