Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-11-02
NO CONSISTENT
DEMOCRAT SHOULD
VOTE FOR CATR0]N
John P. Victory in Forcible and
Cogent Language Gives Undn-
SWerdble Reasons.

To the Democratic Voters of the Coun
ty of Santa Fe:
Astonished and disgusted by the un
holy alliance brought about on Tuesda,
the 25th ult, by the influence o
T. B. Catron over few disgruntle'
Republicans and wayward Democrats
announced myself publicly as tn
| only Democratic candidate from tn
county of Santa Fe, for the office O
| Member of the Council of the 36th Les
islative Assembly of the Territory O
New Mexico.
Most of you share my astonishmen
and disgust, but such of you as hav'
been misled by the Republican arcl
conspirator, T. B. Catron, may, hope
be brought back to the true Democrat
ic path, by consideration of this appeal
to your conscience and political honor
I have lived in this county twenty
one years and more. Many of you were
mere boys when took up my residence
in Santa Fe, and do not know from per-
sonal observation and experience what
the older members of the Democratic
party know of the treachery and other
wickedness of the renegade Republican
who now assumes to be your political
master. l assure you that T. B. Catron
is not a Democrat, although he sets
himself up as the leader of Democrats.
He is an outcast Republican who hopes
by Democratic votes to gain place in
the legislative council wherein he may
worry his Republican opponents in
qualification of his malice against them,
and in the ambitious purpose to COW
them into submission of his own sell
fish will in order that he may become
again the bulldozing boss of the Repub.
lican party of this county. If, in this
attempt, he should fail, the result to
you would be humiliation and disgrace
with no compensating good, and, if he
should succeed, he would merely sneer
and laugh at you, and you would re-
main defeated and dishonored.
The life of party is dependent upon
the principles which inspire it, and if
you sacrifice your Democratic princi.
pies to help the selfish ambition of this
political outcast, we will be no longer
Democrats, but merely contemplate
outcasts ourselves.
The public record of T. B. Catron dis
closes~too many deeds of selfishness
and iniquity to be told in short ad-
dress; nevertheless, will refer to a
few which are characteristic of the
man.
Most of you will recollect that Hon.
Antonio Joseph, whom Democratic
votes placed in Congress for many sue
cessive terms as the delegate from
New Mexico, made it his uniform prac-
tice in the nomination of cadets to the
Military Academy at West Point, and
to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, to
hold those valuable positions open for
competition among the young sons of
his constituents. That delegate want
ed every boy in New Mexico, who was
qualified to be cadet, to have an equal
chance for a cadetship with every 9th
er qualified boy Thereupon Mr.. JOS
'eph appointed examiners and invited
every New Mexico boy to present him.
self before them for examination in or
der that the best boy might have a
chance to win. This course was pat
riotic and noble on the part of Mr. Jos
eph, and no selfish motive was ever
attributed to him. Contrast Mr.. Jos
eph's conduct with that of T. B. Cat
ron, when he was New Mexico's dele
gate to Congress. He could not lay
aside his selfish instinct. He cared
nothing for the sons of his constituents
On the contrary, he named one of his
own sons for appointment. Not content
with this, he made each son alternate
for the other, so as to give each of
them two chances for a cadetship in
total disregard of the claims of your
sons or the sons of any others. 1t was
only when he had exhausted the chanc.
es in his own family that he appointed
to West Point John Symington, whose
subsequent career as graduate and as
an officer proves that good material for
public service can be found by dele
gate outside of his own family. It is
rather shocking to add that the criti.
cisms of the public press throughout
the United States on the nepotic ,fav.
oritism shown by Mr.. Catron in his ca
det nominations were without avail to
restrain him from like conduct equally
censurable. Not long ago it was open.
,ly stated in the Territorial press that
Mr.. Catron had persuaded the present
delegate, Hon. B. s. Rodey, to nominate
third Of Mr.. Catron's sons to ca.
detship' at West Point. understand
that this nomination is in anticipation
Of . preliminary examination which