Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-10-19
Our Next Delegate.
(San Marcial Bee. J

Pedro Perea, who in all probability
will be the next delegate to congress
from New Mexico, is one of the most
highly respected and best known men
in the territory. TO those who know
him only by reputation and have never
had the pleasure of a personal &C
quaintance with him, a hrief sketch of
the man will prove Interesting reading
Like many otfii1r distinguished citi-
zens of New Mexico, he is of Spanish
| origin, his ancestors having come from
Spain to the territory in 1893. The best
| educational facilities of the south and
west We're utilized in qualifying him to
assume a commanding position in life,
| socially. commercially or politically,
according to the trend of his mind and
ambition when the period OF ripened
manhood was reached. He soon devel-
oped an aptitude to successfully han
| 4lc large agricultural interests and be-
came the recognized leader in his own
vicinity of Bernalillo county, the lars-
| est and richest in the territory, as a
sheep raiser, farmer and h~orticulturist.
His own and the social standing Of his
family advanced in a corresponding de-
araa, and it soon became the rule with
prominent Americans, as it mad long
been with the leading Spanish families,
that not to know Pedro Perea was an
| admission hat you were not III the
| swim in Il social, financial or political
way.
Mr.. Perea's early study of political
economy convinced him that the prin-
ciples of the Republican party were
those OF justice, safe government and
national advancement, n he has been
an earnest champion of every legisla-
tive movement of the party, locally and
notiayaIlv thot hoS oyo1naitu h1It ~ rn
ly placed the country in the command
ing position it occupies among the lead
ing nations of the world today
MIR. Perea has had ample opportunity
to demonstrate his fitness for the posi-
ton of congressional delegate. He has
served four terms in the upper house of
the New Mexico Legislature, and al
| ways has been the recognized champion
Of measures tending to advance the in
terests of the territory. He sturdily
supported, and still supports, every
measure to place education on a higher
plane; introduced legislation looking to
the fostering of railways, the introduce
ton of capital and the announcement
of immigration; he favors statehood
and, like a progressive citizen, is enthu-
siastic in speaking Of the great benefits
that will result to New Mexico there
from; he has no race prejudices and
recognizes the great benefit that will
accrue to the territory by a more equal
~ balanced mixing of the MeXicans and
Americans; he stands squarely upon
the st. Louis platform, and never al
lows an opportunity to pass that ena-
bles him to enlarge upon the improved
conditions of the cattle, sheep, wool and
other leading interests of New Mexico
since the day of President McKinley's
election and during former Republican
administrations. He is as enthusiastic
as the most Jealous American concern
ing the glorious victories of our army
and navy in the recent struggle with
Spain: and by example and precept he
has shown that the honor of being New
MeXico's next delegate in congress will
be carefully protected, and that no
omission of vigilance on his part will
occur to deprive New Mexico of advan-
tageous recognition at Washington.
Everywhere. and OF all occasions, Mr..
Perea is the same sturdy, honest, out
spoken, genial. whole-souled gentle
man His frank, social ways are free
from the slightest faint of affectation,
and he wins friends and supporters
without special effort and almost un-
consciously. Yet when in the legisla-
tive halls he champions what he be-
lItNN We w pC IlSil ANU ueIlOlllltGS WHAT
he believes to be wrong. He is unfinch-
ing in his demands for beneficial legis-
lation and justice, and he has made his
influence felt in connection with i'm
portant public questions at all times.
Respectable people of all classes, from
the Wealthiest to the poorest. and aside
from religious, political or social diff
~ferences, delight to grasp his hand, OBJ
serve the play of his keen eyes, the ex-
preston on his placid c~ountenance and
the makeup of a distinguished citizen.
AS for the shafts hurled at him by
his political enemies, Mr.. Perea carea
nothing. Men of all political shades will
rally around the Perea banner with a
degree of determination and unanimity
hitherto unknown in congressional
campaigns in New Mexico. 1t will be a
campaign of protection, for Republi-
cans and Democrats alike. No sane ar
tisan, farmer, stock raiser or business
man Will boost Democracy with Cleve-
lands glaring record of incompetency
still fresh in his mind, and the national
and local strides of prosperity since tho
advent of the Mckinley administration
ever before him. To do so would be a
worse example of industrial suicide
than carrying Goals to Newcastle.
The Republican party Is in power to
stay. The foremost Democratic states
men of the day admit this contention.
The school children of the land are be-
ing instructed on that line; the leading
European governments and business
interests are being carried IN with the
same end In view. From every stands
point it is clearly the duty Of the voters
of New Mexico to send a Republican
delegate to congress at the present