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

was of a certain race or descended from
a certain nationality. But have our op'
ponents done the same? Have they
stood upon their platform? Have they
been that true and that honest? Look
at the returns of the election; see where
the delegate has been scratched; see
who has run ahead in certain districts
where certain populations live, and
show me a single place where there is a
population which prevails of the same
blood and same race as n a or Pedro
Perea, where FERGUSON has beer
scratched (applause) and Pedro Perea
inserted. You have shown your loyalty
to your party, be you Republicans or
be you Democrats; you have shown
your integrity and your capacity to
vote your party and vote your princi-
pies. That is the one redeeming quality
in our Democratic fellow citizens o,
Mexican birth or descent; they have
stayed by their party; they hav sup
not scratched their candidate for dele
gate and voted for Pedro Perea; they
have shown NJ race prejudice; and for
that deed, my fellow citizens, / thank
them and give them all honor. I leave
it to you to say who the scratchers have
been; l leave it to o to say who have
been the persons who desired to raise
the race issue; | will simply say that
tho =, n :, who hos dana ~ ic MT n po-
publican; he does not belong to our
ranks, nor did he vote for Pedro Perea.
AS 1 have said, we have placed before
you an American citizen. We placed
him before you because he represented
our principles; because he will bear the
banner of our party to victory and COM
mand the American vote, let it be of
whatever nationality or class. This re.
minds me of a story which l have heard
and l will tell it and close. Mr.. Perea,
as I say, is presented to you as al
American citizen only. We care moth
ing about his race, nationality, or the
blood that courses through his veins.
The story goes that on one occasion the
Democratic party in the city Of New
York had a meeting of it's principal
men, and there the party is made up OF
all nationalities. There are Scotchmen
Englishmen, Irishmen, Germans,
Dutchmen, Italians and the various
other n%ationalities. Now, when they
were together in a kind of caucus, they
said, Let us determine our ticket that
we are going to run for the next cam
paign." Well, the Irishman got up and
said: Il present Michael Rooney,
gentlemen, a man of Irish birth,
and he will be able to control the Irish
vote" They applauded him and said,
1--WE will take Mr.. Rooney; we will put
him on the ticket" A Scotchman then
got up and said: II present the name
of Mr.. John Macdonald, a S%cotchman,
a man of character and reputation, and
all those things; he will be able to car
ry the Scotch vote" And the English
man said: II present Mr.. John Thomp-
SON, who will be able to control the
English vote" and the German pre-
scented the name of Phillip Schneider,
who could control the German vote, and
the italian presented the name of Mr..
Giovanni, who could certainly control
the Italian vote. Well, they agreed to
give each one of them an office, or a
place on the ticket. But there still re-
manned n single little offlce>an insig-
nificant one. There was a man who be-
longed to the party-he was there pres
ent, and he then got up and said: Gen
tlemen, I suggest to you Mr.. John
Smith; he is an American citizen, and
he will be able to control the American
vote" (Laughter.) They all jumped
to their feet in a minute and said: "Who
Is he? Where is he? Kill him! Throw
him out of the window! Drive him out
of here!' applause and laughter.)
Gentlemen, we. have presented to you
the Hon. Pedro Perea, an American Cit
izen, whom our Democratic friends
have tried to kill politically; have tried
to throw out of the window. They have
traduced his character, villified him.
simply because we said he would con-
troll the American vote" (A%pplause.)
And he has controlled the American
vote. I thank you, gentlemen. ZAP
plause.)