Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-02-23
THE Bean BAKE OF
CARLETON POST
The Ladies Of the Woman's Relief Corps
and the Veterans Gave Delightful
Entertainment to the Two-Hun-
dred Guests Invited.
JUDGE JOIN R. McFiE PRESIDED
WITH TACT AND ABILITY

r., and the WOman'S Relief Corps, gave
delightful bean bake at Post Hall,
Saturday evening. 1t was a celebration
guests of the evening were the MEM
bers of the legislature and a few others.
Judge McFie, as post commander, pres
ided, and called on volunteers to speak.
Judge Morrison was called upon and re-
sponded with a high tribute to the gen.
ius of Washington. Hon. T. B. Catron
responded to calls for him in an elo-
quept tribute to Washington, the valor
of soldiers on both sides during the
Civil War and to Lincoln. Hon Pedro
Sanchez was called upon and eulogized
Washington and Lincoln. In his open
ing remarks, Judge McFie had feeling
ly referred to the passage of the bill
'to bury all old soldiers" A. B. Rene
han was called ON for a speech and he
protested against passing any bill "to
bury all old soldiers and thought it
was unjust to take any such action un-
til they were dead. He made vigor-
Gus plea that they be permitted to live
they should not be buried until after
death. Colonel George w. Knaebel was
called on and created much amusement
by pulling from his pocket the manu-
script of the speech he was $50 unex-
pectedly to deliver" Colonel Knaebel
spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen! Members of
the Rough Riders Post, Of Carleton Post
and of the Grand Army of the Republic,
I greet you all most cordially, and to.
thl -.ors, young and old, of the
South as well as of the North, have to
say, you behaved yourselves nobly. I
did not, and this is the truth, expect to
have been called upon to make any re-
marks this evening, but thought it pos
sible as I applaud others so vigorously,
in grateful recognition, might possi-
bly, be called upon by some one or more
of the previous speakers to make few
remarks. A few minutes before my ar
rival here this evening, therefore jott-
ed down few remarks that l would
make, if called upon, as I now am, with
special reason In view that would not
take up too much time, for / assure you
it will not take over five minutes for
me to read my remarks, If can de-
cipher the writing. I may say here, this
IL, In hi nf a NJ
try have thus bridled myself in read
ing my speech. Now I will light in, If
I may be permitted to use such elegant
words:
George Washington, the Father Of
Our Country! God bless your memory!
Would to Heaven you were alive today
(you would not be so very old, to
whisper words of counsel to the benigh-
ted Beyeridge of Indiana and thus de-
ter him from him pusillanomous efforts
to throttle Liberty in keeping New
Mexico out of the Union of States. To
you valiant soldiers Of the Civil and
Spanish wars, have to say, when the
eyes of the Nation were upon you, you
were standing in the jaws of death!
the monster was ready to crush you,
and in your valor you said, Crush
away! And may my blood, like the gem
tie rain from Heaven, freely flow, and
reinvigorate the spirit Of patriotism and
American liberty, SO valuable to our
country, and make them so deep rooted
in the heart OF the people that they
will forever flourish and thrive without
the need of more war. Those OF you
who fought in the Lost Cause" know
the blood of those who died In that
cause, flowed freely, but only on plant
that blossomed but to die. We love you
because you fought like men and be-
cause you sincerely believed you were
right, and we therefore respect the
memory of those who so freely gave
their lives and who SO manfully suffer-
ed the deprivations Of horrid war, in
defense of their principles, rights and
honor, as they then saw them; and we
also respect those Of the survivors, on
the side of the South, who still sincere
ly adhere to those principles. Thank
God, your powder and shot gave out,
for had 1t not done so, perhaps this
glorious Union would have been among
the wrecked republics Of the past. God
bless you all! You are with us! You
know how to fight, and together we are
inyincible, and make the hair of Eu-
rope stand on end like the Kaiser's mus
tache, when the suggestion Of war with
this nation, Is made. May we grow
stronger and stronger in our patriotism,
notwithstanding, in 80 far as we In New
Mexico are concerned, although good
enough to die for our country, still are
not good enough, 1t appears, to share IN
all the rights and privileges of full
grown citizenship, in company with the
illustrious Beveridge of Indiana. Bev-
eridge acts in my opinion. as If he felt
he was inspired by the Almighty tc
chfsel his name on the Pillar Of Fame
but, unfortunately for him, he has chis'
eled 1t in the "howling wilderness Of
New Mexico" upon its arid lands and
upon its restless Jack rabbits" When
we enter the Union, in spite of this
bitter Beveridge, that wilderness will
become a summer garden, the arid
lands will "blossom as the rose." and
Beveridge's pillar Of fame will be used
like other ordure, to enrich our soil
4 leaving only a stray Jack rabbit hers
and there with the name "Beveridge'
/ chiseled across its forehead. to sootl