Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-17
REPUBLICAN
PROSPERITY
Hon. T. B. Catron's Address at the
Las Vegas Ratification
Meeting,
STATEHOOD GUARANTEED
Freeing San Miguel County from Ring
Rule Commented Upon-Efsct of
Democratic Methods Upon the
Vote Cast.

ing held in Las Vegas last Monday
evening, Hon. II. B. Catron was the
principal speaker of the occasion, and
Hon. S. S. Duncan, chairman of the
meeting, introduced MI. Catron in the
described as follows by the
New Mexican's stenographic reporter:
Mr.. Duncan, ladies and gentlemen, I
now have the pleasure to introduce to
you the Hon. Thomas B. Catron.
cloud and prolonged a%pplause).
Mr.. Catron said:
Mr.. Chairman and fellow citizens: /
understand that we have met tonight,
notwithstanding the obstacles thrown
in our way by the Democratic city
council of this town to celebrate the
victory achieved by the Republican
party at the last general election. Gap
plause). The Republican party has
carried 10 out of the IS counties of this
territory. (Applause). Your delegate,
who now sits before you, carried II
out of the Is counties, and we have the
administration in IS, and I think in Is,
and by the help of God, for the next
| away. (Applause). We all like to re-
joice in success. Defeat is not pleas
ing to us,-but we can stand it, when
we know that we belong to a party
which is bound to succeed in the end,
when we know that we belong to that
grand, old party which represents
principles, which desires progress,
which desires to place the American
nation in the front rank with the ma
lions of the world, (applause), that
party which maintains your honor,
which ~elevates the laboring nan,
| which adds price to your products,
| gives you better wages, educates the
people, produces prosperity, and ex-
tends happiness throughout every nook
and corner of the land wherever you
may go. Gentlemen, this election which
we celebrate is a victory not only in the
territory of New Mexico, as 7 have said,
but from Maine to Oregon, from Brit
ish America to the Gulf of Mexico.
From one end of this land to the other
raised their voices and said mo longer
will we suffer under the denomination
of the party which desires to down the
laboring man, to place your products
at a lower price, which does not desire
the honor and integrity of your coun-
try, but we will stand by hat party
that represents law and order, that rep
resents progress and advancement, that
that represents good government and
represents the enforcement of the
rights of individuals.
What have We gained in this election?
selves in the front rank to ask favors of
the government. Your county has plac-
ed you where you merit the confidence
of the entire people of New Mexico, and
of New Mexico where that statement
which is written over my head, estate
hood for New Mexico" is bound to be
achieved. (Applause.) Where you will
be able to rejoice that you are citizens
Of the United States-that you are no
longer orphans-that you are no longer
to be governed by the guardian placed
over you by the federal government,
but that you belong to the class of in
dividuals that govern themselves, who
have the right of property, who can Sc
lect their governors, their judges, their
Legislators untrammeled by any limita-
lions fixed by congress. We have elect
ed, throughout the United States, a
sufficient number of state legislators to
add 20 additional senators to the senate
of the United States, and after the 4th
of March we will have IS majority in
that great body. That is all we want to
guarantee us statehood. The fear that
has existed in congress, that has kept
us out in the last few years, has been
that the territory of New Mexico would
run off into the heresy of free silver
and would not adhere to the single
standard of money, that we might pos
sibly want two standards of money, or
that we might desire two classes Of
money, so that a man might be paid a
half dollar or a whole dollar as the pay
master saw fit to pay. The Republican
party has favored no such doctrine Gap
plause); it has favored the doctrine
that every mar should be paid for his
products or his wages, the full value
thereof in money of one single value,
whatever may be the material of which
it is composed. That is what the Re-
publican party demands, and that Is
what we have been fighting for. That
is not what our opponents have de-
manded, and for that very a that
there was danger that a senate might
be formed which would take the oppo-
site doctrine, which would make our
money debased, they have said, eye
will wait until this money question Is
settled, and We will admit you to states
hood when it is settled. Thank God,
fellow citizens, that question has been
| settled. On the Sth of this month the
Republican party sent up its voice to
high heaven, declaring that the money
question was settled forever (%applause):
that the Republican party possessed
sufficient majority, or would so possess
it after the 4th of March, to trust any
western state OF territory. But they
need not "a they want to guard
against us. We possess the same doc
trine, we have maintained the same
principles, we have advocated the same
cause which they advocated and we
will stand by the Republican party.
(Applause.) We will maintain it's in
tegrity. we will guard it's finances and
we will help to maintain that flag
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