Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-17

respect us wherever they may find us.
Already the papers throughout the
east, the great periodicals have stated
that the vote in New Mexico and Okla
homa is sufficient to authorize us to be
admitted into the Union. Already they
have declared that the people of New
Mexico have shown their capacity for
statehood and self government. AL
ready they have declared that we have
shown our rights to this manhood
which we seek. We ask to pass beyond
the pale of minority. just as your
young man does when he passes from
20 to 81 years of age-he reaches the
place where he car vote, where he can
hold office, where he can participate in
the councils of the nation, and we ask
to be admitted as an individual into
that sisterhoOd of states where, as a
community of people, we will have a
voice amongst the other states, to ask
for our rights, to ask for our a%ppropria-
tons, to ask for whatever we may as
American citizens. (~Applause.)
Fellow citizens, this is what you have
met tonight to celebrate. You have
met to celebrate the victory which has
not only made it possible, but in my
judgment has made it certain that you
will be soon raised to the full dignity
of American citizenship. (Applause.)
AS 1 say, you have before you the dele
gate whom you have selected to do the
work. He will go with confidence be-
fore the committees of congress, and,
my fellow citizens, he will not wait I'M
til his term of office commences, but
he will go to Washington now, at the
meeting of congress on the 9Th of next
month. He will go before the commit
tee of the house of representatives APP
pointed to look after the affairs of the
territories. File will present to them the
vote of this territory. He will present
to them the platform on which he was
elected. He will say to the committees,
Here are the principles which we
maintain and advocate. Here is what
we believe in. (Applause.) This is
| what my people have sent me here to
represent before you. We ask of you
whether or not we are competent and
| capable, whether we are not worthy of
enjoying every privilege you enjoy" He
will say, For more than SO years we
have been waiting to be admitted to
statehood; for more han so years our
people have obeyed the laws; our peO-
pie have stood by the government; have
| served as soldiers; have defended the
Union, and they have never faltered
when called upon" He will say to
them, 1--WE possess sufficient people to
make a state, we possess sufficient
wealth to maintain a state, we possess
| sufficient intelligence to governs state"
He will say to them, 1--WE have your
guaranty in the constitution of the
United States and in the Declaration of
Independence, wherein every man is
declared to be free and equal to every
other, and under the constitution
wherein it was provided that we should
enjoy equal privileges" He will say to
them that the supreme court of the
United States has said that a territory
was only created for temporary pur-
| poses; only to get the people in order
to be admitted~to statehood; that a ter
ritory was contemplated by the consti-
tuition. He will say to them that the
constitution gives us the right of adj
mission to statehood; hat the treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by which New
| Mexico was attached to the United
States guaranteed that right, and he
will say to them further, that by laws
of humanity, by the principles Of right
| and justice we are entitled to this great
boon; and l tell you he will get a report
in favor of our admission, not only in
the house of representatives, but in the
| senate of the United States. That bill
| will pass, President Mckinley will sign
it, and Pedro Perea will never be sworn
in as a delegate. 1 do not know whether
he desires to be sworn in as a delegate,
but I do know that he is too patriotic, I
know that he loves his people toe well, I
knowthat he thinks too highly of your
prosperity to ever ask you to remain
behind one minute in order that he may
have the insignificant honor of taking
| his seat in the halls of congress as the
successor of that fraud who now fills
the place. (Applause.)
Gentlemen, 1 hope that every mar
feels as I do on this occasion. I believe
hat the county of San Miguel, which
has been raided and has been dragged
| and drawn, which has been injured and
| oppressed, which has been so foully
treated for years, not only by local Off
GERS, but by the judges who have been
placed over you, up to the present in
| cumbent, where the acts of justice have
been almost purchased by a man whom
| you have relegated to private life;
while you have been under the dicta-
| ton of the most insignificant of crea-
lures, the most unworthy of individuals,
the most corrupt of men-I say to you
that the present status of the county of
San Miguel, the lifting up of the peo-
| Pile out of the abyss into which they
were plunged is not only pleasing to me,
but it must be gratifying to every one
of you. 1t must be a qualification to
know hat o are liberated from the
Infamous bondage under which you
have labored. The county of San Mi
guel, like the state of Pennsylvania in
the Union, is the key stone Of the arch
the county of San Miguel goes Republi-
can, We will always have Republican
victories in the territory. (Applause.>
You are now in the list of Republican,
counties and I know you will never de-
| part from 1t again. 1 know hat your.