Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-10-26
Rodey Addresses
Big Meeting
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him TO run independently and stating
that his friends would not even 90
to the polls unless ne ran. He devot'
ed some time to showing that he. him.
self was a man who could do things"
He said he had removed the prejudice
| which had existed against New Mex
| leo for half a century; he had written
q grand" letter to the senate which
had been read on the floor by Sena'
tor Patterson and had been put In
the Congressional Record TO be read
by 10000 different editors; he had
brought a million and a half OF capital
into the territory In pension money.
an appropriation for q dam for the
Zuni Indians; $4,000 for q school at
Santa Fee; $4,000 for the A. e. M.
college; 100000 for an Albuquerque
Indian school; he had saved the Rio
Grande river for New Mexico; had
fought, single handed an Ubiquitous
land grant measure which would have
put all New Mexico east Of the Rio
Grande into one immense grant; ne
had striven to get a public building
for Las Vegas and Albuquerque but
had really no part In securing the ap'
preparation OF $4,000 which had been
secured for Albuquerque. The speak
err went on to disclaim any part In the
removal Of the p~ostoffice from the
town 0 fLas Vegas for which the mis-
representations in the report OF the
special agent sent by the department
was responsible.
The speaker then stated that the
election OF Senator Andrews would
put New Mexico back twenty-five
years in her progress; that 1t would
be a thousand times better for Mr..
Money to be elected as delegate than
that Senator Andrews should repre-
sent us In Washington; that the only
thing which would save New Mexico
would be to elect himself and he
would then continue the battle which
he had begun for our rights. The
speech throughout displayed the mod
esty for which Mr.. Rodey is famous.
Mr.. Rodey then launched into a
description OF the Albuquerque con
vention. charging the governor and
Senator Andrews with treachery to
him and; stating that they had
brought about his defeat by securing
proxies from his friends and voting
them for his opponent. This has be-
come an old story and together with
Mr.. Rodey's tale Of woe about the
''officeholders' beating him has be-
come so familiar that its repetition Is
neither interesting or enlightening.
He then described at length the work
he had done in writing newspaper
articles for the purpose Of removing
the prejudice which existed against
New Mexico and answering the vitu-
perating charges OF those opposed to
the admission OF the territory to state.
hood. Mr.. Rodey's work In this re-
spect Is familiar to all citizens OF
the territory. He said he could not
tell 1t all II he were to talk a month.
Next he discussed the statehood sit
uation. He proceeded to tell how he
had shown attention to Mr.. Hearst
and his party while in New Mexico
and to take unto himself the credit
for the advertising the territory re.
ceived through the Hearst papers
which he modestly estimated as worth
$7S0.0o0. His closing remarks dealt
with the statehood situation and the
utter futility of New Mexico attempt
Ing to ecure admission under It's
present name or with Its boundaries.
He charged Senator Andrews with
dupllcity In working for joint state
hood with Senator Quay and then
milking a campaign on single state
hood.
Mr.. Rodey spoke for about IN hour
and a half and following him Mr.. Ro-
nero closed the meeting with a short
speech.