Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-04

congress, would you have voted for II g
Dingley bill?" To this Mr.. Ferguson
answered: II vote for such a robber
tariff act? No, never."
This does not sound very much as ii
Mr.. Ferguson wanted to protect the
industries Of New Mexico as he tries to
make the people believe. But ii will
of the people, but he cannot DOL all OF
them, and the Sth of this month will
prove it to lin.
Mr.. Ferguson has probably been led
is trying to make the issue of the cam
paign one of race and prejudice, but he
has been misinformed. What Mr.. Perea
and his friends have said in the cam
and Interpretation. | have made some
! addresses in this campaign and am
neither afraid nor ashamed to repeat
what | have said. In one of my adj
dresses I spoke in Spanish without The
! aid of an interpreter, and some of the
things said We're as follows:
Gentlemen, if you elect Mr.. Perea to
congress you will have a man in Wash
ington who, in the first place, will be in
accord with the national administra-
ton; you will have a man there be-
longing to the Republican party, and
who will carefully guard your smallest
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selves: a man who was born here and
who will die here; a mar whose per-
sonal interests are identical with those
of your own: a man who tills the soil,
as many of you do; a mar who herds
sheep, as a great majority of the people
of this territory do. He will see that
this territory does not return to those
hard times through which We passed
administration, and of which we We're
relieved by that grand old party, the
Republican. Gentlemen, the tail of a
lamb today is worth more than the
administration. If you wish to return
to hard times and wish to destroy the
sheep industry, vote for Mr. Ferguson.
But ii you wish a continuance of PROS
the Republican party. Gentlemen, If
you send Mr.. Perea to congress-, as l
said before, he will see to all your
wants. 1t has beer stated that Mr.. Fer
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him; true enough, so will Mr.. Perea,
and he will reply to you in the language
you prefer, either in English or in
Spanish, and when he attends to your
requests and W your letters, he
will not do it because he wishes tc be
renominated two years hence. II he
sends you seeds, as Mr.. Ferguson mas
done, from the allotment made to him
by the government, he will do it to i'm
prove you crops and not to better him.
self, or with any other end in view. He
will not come to o two years hence
and say: I sent you seeds, I answered
your letters. and now it is our dut.' to
repay me by sending me back to con-
gress.' Mr.. Perea, while a member of
the legislature, I have no doubt, did
many favors for the people in the diff
ferent sections of the territory, but I
defy any person to step out and say
that he has ever called attention to
them; he did them and then forgot all
about them. He is not asking the peo-
pie to vote for him because Of past fa-
vors rendered, but on his past record
and good standing. When Mr.. Perea
knows he Is right, he does not care who
he helps or who he hurts, he does his
duty. MI. Perea is a conscientious
man, and always acts as | heard a gen.
tleman say, If you send Perea to con-
gress l guarantee that he will not come
back two years from now and boast Of
what he has not done and try to make
you believe what is not true He has
a little more personal pride than that;
he does not boast of doing his duty, and