Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-12
GLORIOUS VICTORY
Hon, 7. B, Catron's Speech at Re-
publican Ratification Meeting
Wednesday Night.
TRUE DELEGATE ELECTED
New Mexico Will Be Represented at the
National Capital by Practical Business
Man-Protection to American In
dustries Endorsed.

Mr.. Chairman, ladies and fellow-citi-
has been called to express our senti-
ments in regard to the victory which
has recently been achieved, not only in
this county, but also in the territory at
large. 1t is always agreeable, it is al
ways pleasant for us to know that the
people of the county and of the territory
agree with us in our views as to politi-
cal government and as to what we de-
sire in regard to the future welfare of
Il country. For the last seven or eight
days-I may say 10 ~days-since the
county convention was held, it has been
my part, as we'll as that of many of
your fellow citizens, to travel through
this county, and through this territory,
advocating the cause of protection, adj
vocating the aust of a sound money
standard throughout the government of
principle that the Republican party
maintains, from President Mckinley to
the lowest constable in the United
States, and as l said before, it is eX-
people of this territory, and this county,
not only agree with me and my other
fellow-citiZens who contend for office,
but that they agree with that party
two years ago and placed in the presi-
Dental chair that greatest of modern
statesmen. William Mckinley. Gap
plause.)
1t is pleasant TO me to know that you
all agree with me, and with that great
party in it's principles of protection to
American industries and American la
Dor. We are the party which has ad-
this country: We are the party which
has sought to raise the price of every
product of this land; we are the party
which has sought to increase the wages
of every laboring nan throughout this
country dong and heightened applause).
We look to the laboring man; we look
to the producer; we look to the capital
ist throughout this broad country, from
Maine to California, and from British
America to the Gulf of Mexico, to stand
by the principles which we have
ciated. Two years ago-a little more
the Republican party assembled in con-
vention at st. Louis in the state of Mis-
souri,, for the purpose of nominating a
president, and for. the purpose of declar-
ing the principles on which that party
should carry on it's campaign, and for
which that party should advocate the
election of William Mckinley. It's
principles We're adopted in it's behalf
and those principles consisted. in the
main, of two single things: One was
American labor; the other was the
adoption of a single standard for the
moneys of this land, SO that whatever
money prevailed it would be determined
had gold; if you had silver; if you had
paper money, the gold of this country
would be the standard, and the paper
dollar and the silver dollar should be
wherever you went throughout the land.
We favor the single standard: We favor
gold; we favor silver: we favor paper
money; but every dollar must be equal
the money We can; W. wish to go in the
mines and dig it out; we wish to manu-
facture it when we can do so legiti-
mately, but we wish something as a
standard by which to be governed, so
that when we fix a standard and make a
dollar in silver, or a dollar in paper, we
say hat it shall be worth just as much
as a dollar in gold. We don't desire to
advocate that silver shall not be coined
as the Democrats would have o be-
lieve. We wish to make it all into
money, but we want it all to be equal in
value, never to become one dollar less
than another. We want it understood
that, when your employer hires you,
if he pays you in silver, that silver shall
be worth as much as a gold dollar. We
it understood that if he pays you
in paper, that paper dollar is worth as
much as the gold dollar, and that the
gold dollar shall be worth no more
than the paper or silver dollar. We
want it understood hat there is but one
standard for everything. We don't want
it understood that if you go to a store
in his town that there will be two yard
three feet long and the other
10 feet long, and that you "a buy goods
by either measure, and pay the same
price for them; but we want it under
stood that there is n ri of 33 inches,
and one only, and whatever you desire
to buy, whatever kind of goods, wooden
or cotton or of any other character, it
will all be measured by that one single
standard yard stick, and that is what
we want about money. If you turn it
over on the other side we want it esti-
and hat every dollar shall be that way.
So much for that principle. If o are
paid in any other kind Of money, you get
the full value Of your wages; o take
the money and you buy just as much
with it; if you do anything else with it
you receive the same value. 1t makes
difference what kind it is. If you
have a product to sell you sell it for a
dollar; IT makes no difference whether |
the dollar is gold, silver or paper; you
get the dollar and we say that the dollar
shall be a dollar, whatever kind 1t Is.
We not only protect your interest, but
protect your money; we protect your
The Republican party is pros
yressive; it is the party of advance
nent; it is the party Of education; 1t Is
The party Of equality; it seeks to raise
every one to an equal plane with every