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HON. 7. B. CATRON'S SPEECH
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DELEGATE MUST BE IN SYMPATHY WITH
THE ADMINISTRATION.

on this Throne, would you employ as
Christ, or the base, contemplate Sa-
tan? Would you send a person in har.
mOny with God himself. or n who
sought to teal down his throne? II
you send as your advocate a member OF
| your church, or would you place the
mission in the hands of an atheist ?
Would you take a man who favored the
is the situation. They ask you to dis
card the mar who is in harmony with
the president of the United States, with
the senate and house of representa-
branch of the Government and with the
principles of the government as axe
cuted at the present time, and instead
send a man there whose avowed views
are hostile to every branch of that gov
eminent with which he will come in
contact. Which of these two men can
do the most for you? I ask you as
sensible men if you do not believe it
would be better for this country not to
send a delegate at all if you are to send
one who has no sympathy with a sin
gle branch of the administration, who
cannot approach the lowest clerk and
say to him, my friend, I ask you to
help me in this" who cannot approach
a single executive officer and say that
l represent the Republicans or l repre-
sent the people of New Mexico, who
are in harmony with you and who have
requested me to obtain for them such
and such favors; who cannot approach
the president, even, to recommend a
person for office with the hope of his
kind of a man or will o leave the
place blank rather than send such a
one? You do not have to leave it blank.
You have a mar whom you all know,
who was born here, brought up in this
country, whose interests are your in
%terests, whose every thought is in ia
vor of your welfare. A man who will
make the president of the United States
know the fact that the people of this
territory sympathize with his admins
tration, sympathize with his party and
it's policies, and that the people of New
Mexico are in line and abreast with
that line, for progress and prosperity
throughout this Union; hat we desire
to share in the prosperity now at hand;
and hat we believe in advancement;
that is the gentleman whom o will
send to congress-your W fellow citi-
zen. But these Democrats and their
sympathizers, those who are around
doing the dirty work for them, those
who seek to slip out of our party and
pat them on the back and vote with
them in the election, say they are op-
PEREA A FRIEND OF THE POO
posed to Pedro Perea because he is de-
Tending these poor people in regard to
the waters of the Rio Grande. This is
the effect of what they say, because
when you look into the action of Pedro
Perea, he does not seek to drive capital
out of this country; he seeks to pro-
tect these people; he says that he and
his ancestors, you and your ancestors,
have lived in this country for the last
200 years; o nave occupied the soils,
cultivated the lands and used the
waters of the Rio Grande, you have OBJ
tanned property rights in those waters,
and there is no law under the sun, be it
here or in any government from which
we obtained this country, that does not
recognize in the first appropriations Of
water the right to it's use. Pedro Perea
is seeking, in defending those suits, to
see that your rights are not trampled
Onto see that the courts protect you
in those rights. He says to those peo-
pie, fix the rights of the poor people in
the waters Of the Rio Grande and you
may take whatever surplus there may
be, but he says that surplus does not
mean what may flow beyond Bernalillo
when we get through, nor what may
flow beyond Los Lunas when they get
through, nor what may flow beyond AL
when they get through: but
it means what may flow beyond Ell
Paso after the whole territory has got
enough. This is the doctrine on which
he stands, the doctrine that nothing
but the absolute surplus of this water
can be used by those companies. Those
people he asks to come here to collect
his surplus water if they can, and God
speed them in doing it; they may make
their bitches and reservoirs, and run
into them the surplus water and open
up the lands of the territory, but while
they are doing it they must not touch
the waters which belong to the people
and to the lands of the people in this
valley; that is all he says and that is
all he wants, and there is no court I'M
der the sun that will not so decide it.
But they use this as an argument
against Pedro Perea, saying that he is
DEMOCRATIC IDEA OF PROGRESS.
not progressive. The Democratic idea
OF progression, gentlemen, is that you
ought to give up all that you have to
capitalists, who may come here
from the states, and allow them to ap-
for instance, all this water,
and have you buy it from them. That
Is the Democratic idea Of progress. You
your pocketbook and say to him,
take what I have got; l worked for
this, my father worked for this, my
children worked for this, my family
needs it, but that makes no difference
me; you are a kind hearted capital
list from the states, take all I have got,
and sell me the water afterward at
your W price. This is the effect, gen.
tlemen, Of the Democratic argument.
The Republican party does not desire