Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-06-22

open to the inspection OF any one WnC
wishes to know the truth about our
condition. Each year shows deci-
ded improvement and advance; and un-
der the oath have just taken and my
obligation as a citizen, it will be my
| duty and my pride to assist in that ad-
vancement and improvement so far as
in me lies. Fellow citizens, do not ex-
pect to complete my four years term of
office. Before that time expires firm
| ly believe that my term will be ended
| by our admission as a sovereign state
of this grand union and that another
white star will be added to that glor-
| ious constellation that floats on the
azure field above us, whose lustre will
not be dimmed nor it's glory diminish
ed by any of those which have been
placed there before, for New Mexico in
war or in peace, at Valverde, Las Guas-
imas or Luzon, in Chicago, Paris or ST.
Louis, has always been progressive,
aggressive and more than loyal to the
United States and it's flag under whose
protecting folds it came fifty-one years
ago.
Then rang out the governors salute
of seventeen guns while the multitude
cheered. The different divisions of the
inaugural procession moved to position
ready for review. The cavalry band
struck up a selection, after which Hon.
w. e. Martin, who is undoubtedly one
of the most brilliant orators in Spanish
in the southwest, made an address in
Spanish which brought forth cheer
after cheer from the people. The ad-
dress was translated for the New Mex
lean by Colonel J. Francisco Chaves,
and is as follows:
ADDRESS BY HON. w. T.. MARTIN.
Governor Otero, Ladies, Gentlemen,
and Dear Fellow Citizens:
We have met here with the greatest
joy and pleasure from different portions
of the territory to tender our sncerest
and warmest welcome and congratula-
tions to the man whom the whole
people of New Mexico idolize and es-
I Miguel Antonio Otero, and to
| welcome him, not however fully as he
deserves nor even as is his merit, but
as slight token of our affection and
as mark of the high esteem in which
he is held by the people whose wise Ex-
ecutive he has been for the last four
years.
The electric wires waited the joyful
news of his reappointment as our gov
ernor on the 18th of June last by his Ex-
cellency, the President, re-echoing the
gladstone tidings not alone to the very
center of the arches of this most mag
nificent edifice, but also continuing and
concluding it's vibrations in the deepest
and most hidden depths of the hearts
of the New Mexicans. This was to
have been expected, because his wise,
economical, just and impartial adminis-
tration during the last four years man.
ifested as much, Notwithstanding that
there were envenomed fulminations
thrust at random against him. These,
however, fell harmless at his feet, fail
ing in their aim as straws driven by
winds. And not only this much, my
dearly beloved fellow citizens. They
who exploded these fulminations, have
fallen supinely at his feet, humbled, de-
feated, and beaten in the most shame
full and abject humiliation.
The solemn pledges of the National
Republican platform have been COM
pletely carried out, and the President
has not only given us home rule, but he
has done more, having given us a ma
tive-born Executive for second time:
a native in whom we find the possession
of all those qualities necessary for the
making of true statesman-capacity,
honesty, firmness and amiability, CIV
ing us to understand, not alone that
the present administration is perfectly
cognizant that we are capable of self
government, but assuring us Of the fact
that no long time will elapse ere our
Territory will be admitted to the sister
hood Of States. And when this shall
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