Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-08-27
arnest Appeal to Don Margarito and Others Who
Would Defy Authority and Set Law at Naught to-
Listen to Reason and be Governed BY Justice /
What the Legislature the Trustees and Courts ave Done En-
sure to Dwelers on the Splendid Domain Their
Rights Danger Of Losing Great Gov
ernment Enterprise.

worth Of property which YOU own in
san Miguel county ii upder the con.
troll OF the district court and the laws
#of the land Ii yonr ltfe II III danger
under an Indictment, II your liberty
is at stale, where do you so for pro.
lection? You come to this tribunal
You como before his honor upon this
bench. and gentlemen, | want 10 say
TO you thai il yon can set Justice any
where upon this earth you will set
/ 1t iii the Judicial tribunals of The land
Etslight applause.1 want 10 say 70
everybody that | stand by the court,
by the law, for order. and II you under.
take TO administer this grant, outside
of the courts, outside Of the law, you
viii be IN 4 general fight In less than
! ninety days from this date. Suppose
Won were All assembled together. and
Ione lot 81 you would say lets do 1t
| this way. and others would say let's
do that way, how would you decide.
] What are yon going to do with II?
Fl have confidenea in Margarito Ro.
nero isl!ke KIM. ana ready % stand
Eby him through thick and thin In
every proposition that reaches The
consent Of my heart and my indg.
ment; but suppose that Don Margarito
should die and new mayor be elect.
ed for the town of Las Vegas? Sup.
pose these honorable gentlemen who
are now In office are turned out In a
year from today, whose hands are you
going into; who will be the mayor In
a year from now. who will be the town
trustees In year from now, can yon
tell? Do you know where you are
when you 70 into the hands of the
town council that Is elected every
year? would be willing to trust thiF
case In the hands Of my friend, the
mayor Of this town. but he cannot al.
ways be mayor: n year from next
spring there will be an effort made
to supplant him, TO put him out.
hope II won't succeed would like
to see him mayor for forty years. but
who can tell; he may fall by a few
votes, Of being elected next spring
Powerful influences will bc arrayed
against him and II they are, with oil
his good qualities he may be put oul
of office and man who Is not youl
friend, may take his place. You can
mot tell how II Is going to be. Sup
pose the city council Of the city ol
Las Vegas, on the other side Of the
river, composed III good men. were II
here asking yoti ID turn over Tiff
lgrant 70 them, would you DO IL? No
| I don't believe YOU would. They arr
just as able, as honest, as experienced
but you would not turn II over Il
them. why? because It would not b.
4 safe. Suppose the little towns aboy.
here should organize, and Ma shoult
take IN Hot Springs and Los ylgiles
as q town, and they should ask yol
/ TO turn the grant over 10 them. woult
you do IL? VIII you turn this gran
over TO The trustees Of this town Jus
recently organized? To begin, m!
/ friends, you cannot do II, even thougl
You adopt thousand resolutions I,
i that effect. In the second place, |
Il unwise for you 10 make the nj
tempt. Are You not safe In the hand
OF the court2 II Judge Mills decide
wrong you can appeal TO the suprem
court OF the territory. n that cour
decides wrong you can go 10 the 81
preme court Of the United States. Sur
pose the town trustees % who yol
seek 70 turn this grant over, Shout
decide wrong. 10 whom will you ar
peal.
do you want 10 turn this gran
over. this great property upon whicl
many n you have been born, upo
which you have erected homes. wher
fcon,in,~d ~ p.a.s,