Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-10-29

gate done: he sent Beveridge down
here to report and inspect us; then he
got the Associated Press to tell Mr..
Beveridge that he lied. He got ten
thousand things like these, and he got
them all for us. and as our reward Bev'
eridge promised him that he would
place at our disposal ten millions OF
dollars for our educational institutions,
when he permitted Mr.. Rodey to place
us in the armament Of states. Ger
tainly, we, the constituency, have not
grasped the greatness of the services
of "our little voteless delegate"
Had the great Nebuchadnezzar heard
the little delegate make speech, he
would not have recorded his own Won
derful deeds upon the tablets, to be
buried under the northeast corner of
the eastern monuments. The little del
egate is, in his own estimation, greater
than the old Babylonian monarch, for
while the former originated his great
undertaking, the latter only claimed to
have restored the Temple of the Seven
Spheres, etc.
"What in the world have all the del
egates to Congress (before mel been
doing?" Here "the little voteless dele
gate" said something more about his
heroic fight for statehood, and how he
did more in framing the Irrigation Law,
recently passed, than all the combined
previous efforts Of Congress. This, OF
course, will be news to the officers and
committees of the Irrigation Congress,
who had been spending years on that
document but the crowning achieve
ment of his great effort was the many
banquets, fetes, ETC., by means OF which
he did that never before attained by
congressman: won the friendship OF ev-
cry congressman, senator, cabinet Of
ficer. diplomat, ambassador and the
President. To do all this, in addition
to twenty thousand dollars salary, he
spent fifteen thousand dollars of his
own money to say nothing OF the DO
muses. received. All for us, by our '4it-
tie voteless delegate" Well, we are
certainly grateful for such generosity,
but such prodigality on the part OF a
statesman, opens the question: Wheth-
er one given to such lavish conduct is
safe, sane, or sucker!
So far. voteless Rodey received lit
tie cold Democratic applause. His next
and final move was an appeal for Dem
ocratic votes. which was summed up
in the fact, that as a Democrat in
Republican congress, Mr.. Money could
do nothing, and that the Democratic
central committee was so impressed
with this condition. that at their last
meeting in Albuquerque, they consid-
cred the advisability of removing Mr..
Money, and putting ''the little voteless
Rodey" on the ticket; this, he thought,
however, had been passed for unknown
reasons. No Democratic applause was
heard at this announcement.
There was that, though, which must
have sealed forever the love of the au-
|-dience for the speaker, !. e., the charity
of his great heart which withheld him
form giving utterance to the many
heinous things he knew Of w. H. An.
drews and his eastern associates,
which, could he get the consent of his
conscience to reveal, would convince
all that the sending Of Mr.. Andrews to
Congress would set New Mexico back
twenty-five years in her course Of pro-
gress.
Charity suffereth long, is kind !;
I charity vaunteth not itself, is not puff
fed up" 1t would be depreciating the
(; little. voteless delegates" services
, however, before the congressional com
mittees not to say that they are worth
twenty-five thousand dollars.