Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-06-29
How New Mexico and Arizona
Kept the Resolution Out Of
the National Platform.
AGAINST A JO|NTURE
The Delegation From This Territory
Was RoyaIy Treated at Chicago
Last Week.

t in attendance at the national Republ
: can convention as chairman of tn
New Mexico delegation, looks well ant
, hearty, despite strenuous round o
political work and social pleasures.
: In speaking Of the convention hi
said that the New Mexico delegate!
were shown every courtesy and con
, sideration, both by the convention ant
the people of Chicago. The conven
tion was the most harmonious and en-
thusiastic in the history of the party
and the result of it's labors, the nomi
nation of Roosevelt and Fairbanks
will be ratified by the people in No
vember by an overwhelming and un
precedented majority. The platform
was not as cut and dried as the Asso
ciated Press reports made it appear,
and there was considerable discussion
in the committee over the insertion of
a statehood plank. Oklahoma and In
dian Territory clamored for a joint
statehood plank and Senators Lodge,
Beveridge and other leaders rather
favored the idea. H. o. Bursum, who
represented New Mexico on the COM
mittee, made strong plea before it
as well as before the subcommittee,
against the adoption of joint state
hood plank. Arizona's representative
on the committee stood by him and
| both territories set forth that each is
strongly opposed to merger.
Governor Otero, who is personally
known and on terms of friendship with
nearly every Republican leader of ma
tional prominence, also did strong work
in that direction and was seconded
with energy by National Committee
man Solomon Luna, as well as Frank
A. Hubbell, chairman Republican cen
trail committee, w. G. Sargent and Day-
id J. Les in making it clear to the
delegates tnat the great majority Of
the voters of New Mexico are as unal-
terably opposed to joint statehood as
are the voters of Arizona. They de-
clared that New Mexico preferred
omission of any mention of statehood
in the platform to an endorsement for
joint statehood. And New Mexico and
Arizona won the day. More than that.
Men high in the councils of the Repub-
lican party assured the two territor
les that they can secure separate state
hood just as soon as they can joint
statehood. Senator Clark of Wyoming,
and Senator Hepburn of Idaho, proved
themselves especially friendly to the
two territories in this matter, a fact
which the people of New Mexico will
not be apt to forget for long time to
come.
Governor Otero says that in taking
a stand for separate statehood the
majority of the New Mexicans at the
convention, only carried out what they
knew to be the wishes of the people of
the Territory, as they have been eX-
pressed through the columns of the
we'll as by the Republican convention
at Las Vegas that sent the delegates
to Chicago He is convinced that the
Republican leaders in the nation now
thoroughly understand the statehood |
situation.
. Charles B. Eddy, president of the El
Paso & Northeastern Railway, gave an
elaborate dinner at the Chicago Club |
to the New Mexico delegation, prov
ing himself a prince of good fellows |
and a royal entertainer. Governor
Otero was also one of the guests at
the dinner given by Thomas F. Walsh
of Colorado, and which brought togeth- |
er an array of some of the most dis |
men of this nation. 1t was |
an affair that was remarkable for its |
brilliancy and the good fellowship that |
prevailed.
The New Mexico delegates were
with the other members of the con-
vention who visited the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition at st. Louis. Gov
ernor Otero declares that the eXpOsi-
ton is a marvel and to his mind the
greatest in the history of the world.
The New Mexico building and exhibit
he found to be very creditable, and
that others are in the same way of |
thinking, is shown by the extracts re-
produced in another column from an
article in recent issue of the Rocky
Mountain News.
Governor Otero was honored by be-
ing selected a member of the delega-
ton that will formally notify President
Roosevelt on July 27, at Oyster Bay,
Long Island, of his nomination. AS the
chief executive of a great common
wealth, the Governor received every
and considerable attention at
the convention and did not fail to put
in good words for New Mexico and its
claims for separate statehood whenev-
er proper occasion offered. 1t is per-
haps, due to his work that the tide is
already turning in favor of giving
both New Mexico and Arizona. sep |