Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1900-10-20
.CATRON'S SPEECH
Delivered at Republican
Convention.
What He Said in Nominating
Judge ROdey,
Ringing Republican Document From
Beginning to End.
READ AND Reflect.

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Mr. Catron's brilliant address befor,
the iste territorial convention. IN an,
nouncins iae caucds decision In fave,
OF the nomination " Mr. Rodey has At.
trected 80 much attention In az part,
or the territory that the Journal l. Dem.
ocrat presents below a verbatim re-.
port OF the gontleman'a remarks.
"..' Chairman and 0enilemes ~ the
Convention
IL IL with great pleasure that am
able 90 come before you and announce
70 you tha' the republican party is In
absolute harmony. tAppiausal Tbrre
are no divisions among ua here. The
hopes OF the democratic party. which
VIII probably meet this afternoon. have
been dissipated. (Applause) We have
reached unanimous conclusion. and Il
has been assigned 70 mo to lay before
you the results of our dellbera tions
snd before the people OF this territory
what We expect of them BUT before I
mention the candidate who will be pro-
posed TO you 20 be voted upon / Wish
10 call your attention 10 some OF the
Issues between the two political parties
which arc now contendlng for suprcm-
acy IN this country. ono or them b.
the united and grand old republican
party tapplauHe). the other 10 p mon
grci--a mixed. composite party, having
neither Ideas nor sentiment in com.
mon.
what "a the democratic tandldate7
ho IL the populist candidate. the free
silver candidate the socialist candt-
date, the anarchist candidate. gentle
man. tApplauso) what iova the
democratic party advocate that viii
help our people7 They wish 10 repeal
the law establishing the gold standard:
70 repeal the protective tariff ana again
establish free trade. 20 reduce the
value OF your property They VIII ro-
duco the laborers wages. establish an
uniixed standard OF currency. and will
leave gs all al sea with reference To
our finances, and bring before you a
pinnntom in the shape of Imperialism
and trusts. What DO they mean By inn
pertallsmg We have no such thing In
this country Il IL a mere play upon
words They mean 10 tear down the
fiag and trail u In disgrace and degra-
dation from the Philippines. Can the
people give their votes In favor OF this2
These men who would tear down the
feg claim that wo are hghting In an
unjust cause. and that our soldiers
have volunteered 20 elevate an empire
and so destroy our Institutions. No.
gentlemen, you must not believe that.
We want the Philippines and we want
them tor one reason n for no other.
and that n 90 preserve the last resting
place of the man who would have been
our candidate here unanimously (Ap-
plausel n the gallant Max Luna was
living tapplause) q would make no
difference whether he was hero or
whore he was. the people of this terri |
tory. with tnelr spontaneous voice.
would say 10 him 60 do--as he aid IN |
the battles iu cuba and IN the Philip |
pines-to take the rag % the republi- |
can party tgreat applause) OF the terri |
tory ~ New Mexico and carry &c 60
Victory and loiu aa our representative |
those patriots In Washington who will |
be headed by the noble Roosevol, who |
has lately been ~ grossly insu5ted by /
the democrats IA Colorado.
What does the democratic psrty ~. /
fer your they talk about trusts II
takes a union of individuals 20 bring /
about large results This they seek to
tear down. our friend bryan said in
81. Is0uis a few days ago. that " the
republican party favored the man-made
corporation the democrats ought 20
faEor the God-Inade man. That means
60 say that no corporation should be
founded IN this country.
capital should not be- brought into az
ton. manufactures should 60 down.
railroads should not be built mines
should close. u means that everything
that pertains to the welfare Ok the peo-
pie should be- abolished and every thing
relsgated % capitalists who are indi-
vlduals. We remind them 0f the stand
ard OF people. who own millions upon
millions and are mostly democrats.
which ~ the better. 10 have e hundred
persons put thousand dollars in a
corporation. and by thsir votes and In
auonce bring about greater results Or
to turn this country over 10 hair a
dozen multi miiilonairesf That la what
they seek lo have you 40 our party
comes before you and stands FOR sound
currency We believe that the wages
ana products og every mans labor
should be paid Tor in money that has
uniform value. We tell you that We are
in favor u protection 20 the lndutsriea
OF this country by a tsrin which VIII
protect our products and workmen
from foreign importaiiou4 w bniirFa
In a tarfi that will raise the wages.
afl there n not a product IN this land
except gold and silver which Is not
anccted by the tarin and gold and sii-
yer are affected likewise. because by
Increase IN the value n our wages aud
products we are bringing over hve
hundred millions annually sfsm Europe
10 mi our Golfers The balance " trade
10 with us now. and a. long a. We keep
the present administration ths balance
u trade wili continue with aa just
think of a.. gcnilsmsnl What an In
crease of wealth VIII grow up IN this
country. n We can bring ave hundred
millions annually a. ths balance of
trade IN our favor
We ere In favor " building up a na'
w. building W what 70 called the mef-
chant marine, that is merchant and |
passenger vessels 10 10 ah0ra ~ The
most truflg0rthY statistics that over
Two hundred millions each year are
PAID by our people % foreigners 10 90
bur frsiEhilng for us. Why n0t place
that money. or ten hundred millions
n nve years. into ships and 90 our own
We can b. Independent Of
me whole world iH these things. u'ro-
0nged applauHe)
New. gentlemen. after having made Z
.hess observations OK spms of ne few
ssnes that are involved in this cam
1aign ! address myself ia the fubiect ,