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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11
"MGRRv ~cHaisTMAs."

We are nasr1ng the Christmas sea
son--rhe hollydays; days when IL Il
well 70 remember that scriptural phil
osophy Which assures us that "it is
more blessed 10 give than TO receive"
This theory win help a man to H.
cure how. after paying IA enough 10
bankrupt him. for fttls gifts for every.
one he eve knew. he should be over
t0yed 10 receive q accent necktie
tmarked down from a quarterJ and
a pair Of misfii slippers.
Yet. despite its in~congruities.
Christmas Is a eason OF Inspiration, II
Is the best season Of the year. What
matters II II the same Noak's arks
are In evidence with their crimson
cows. purple pelicans and green graf.
les. and with the olive branch dove
the same size as the elephant. what
matters II II we stuff ourselves 10 our
personal discomfort? All these things
are a part OF Gle programme and every
man. woman and child should have a
hand In making the day one OF fellow
ship and cheer. and while enjoying It's
II would not be entirely
Inappropriate to recall what Christ
mas really means and to remember
the most marked incongruity OF
all Is our tendency to forget that.
though the Savior was probably born
In October, we are observing Dec. rs
as the day OF his birth.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

lng six states, Is st,ses square miles
the area o. the territory Of Arizona il
mor than twice as great. being 49,.
9i6 square miles,
The ares OF tle territories of New
Mexico and Arizona now proposed Ia
be merged is 235ll7 square miles, or
greater than Maine, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire. Vernon, Rhode Is
land, Connecticut, Michigan, New
York. Pennsylvania, Maryland and
New Jersey.
The distance from one side OF the
proposed state 10 the other Is as great
as II is from New York 10 Chicago; Il
Is 100 miles from the capital OF Ari.
IONA 10 the capital Of the proposed
joint state at Santa Re. N NJ. IL Is 500
miles from the county eat OF the
county OF Yuma. A. T., TO Santa Fe.
IL would certaih.y be wrong 10 force
this union.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11
ADMIT ALL CHINESE EXCEPT
COOLIES.

President Roosevelt drew a good
distinction when he said that the laws
respecting Chinese immigration should
be framed not SO as to put Chinese
students, business men and others OF
that kind in an exposed class, but so
as TO admit all Chinese except coolies.
In other words, the coolies would
constitute the excepted class. no re.
striction whatever being placed upon
members OF superior classes. II this
we're done much OF the friction and
bad feeling caused by the present re
striction laws would be removed. CHI
nese merchants and professional men
would In the case supposed recognize
that there might be reasons for exculd-
ing coolies when the exclusion would
be shown to be hased upon objections
peculiar TO coolies.
II is proper to exclude Chinese
laborers or coolies because II admit.
ted without restriction they might In
a short time completely over-run the
Pacific coas and other parts of the far
west. Were II practicable to distri-
butte them throughout the country In
proportion to the population of the DIFF.
ferent states, there would be much
less objection to their admission. for
It would require the immigration OF
many years to bring In enough Chi.
nese thus distributed to affect injur-
iously labor conditions In this country.
Denver Republican.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11
TOOK " BACK.

New Mexican: During a c G So
journ In the smoky City. (~Pittsburg)
j. @. McNary, editor Of the Las Vegas
Optic. was interviewed by several OF
the newspapers in thas Town. One OF
these, the Leader, made him say
things In his interview, concerning
Delegate w. H, Andrews, which ne
did not say. Mr.. McNary went after
that paper in hot haste and with char.
acteristic western energy. and the day
following his interview the Leader
published a crawl back" which the
New Mexican takes pleasure In repro
ducing. It Is a well known fact that
there are two or three newspapers in
Pittsburg and In Philadelphia. which
have It In" for the delegate and
which published many untrue and
false accusations against him, be-
cause they were opposed to him poi.
itically.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11
ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.
Kansas City Journal,

0A000 Sity JUuIudI.J
L seems to us clear that President
Roosevelt b wrong In his recommeu.
dalton that Arizona and New Mexico
should come into the Union a. one
state. Every citizen outside OF Texas.
and very many In Texas. have regret.
ted many times the great sfse Of that
state. IL expenses are 80 vast and
IT, various sections are 40 remote
from each Aother that. the whole idea
OF local government-the very founda.
ton Of the state PLANS lost sight OF.
Such a state becomes not a state in
which all the citizens are or may be
personally and directly interested, but
a kingdom. an empire. naturally drift
Ing into the hands Of a few who give
their whole time to the business OF
monopolizing Its power. The president
Is naturally tired Of the wrangle and
gets rid OF the whole business by ur.
ging that the four territories be ad.
mitted as two states. Oklahoma and
Indian Territory would make a state
like Kansas and Nebraska so far as
area Is concerned. The trouble about
putting them together is the difference
In the conditions east and west. But
In the case OF New Mexico and Ari.
iona there is every form OF incpm.
p~atibility between the two sections.
At present the two capitals are as far
apart rs New York and Chicago. It.
would be wicked to marry these far
distant sections into one state govern.
ment- Colorado and Kansas are a
thousand times filter to be made one
state, and they were separated for the
good OF the two sections. The sta
tistics relating to the size Of the two
southwestern territories have been |
printed before. but they should be !
kept In the minds OF all readers. Here
are some Of them:
The area OF New England, compris- !
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

There . be no doubt that the ma
jority sentiment OF both the city and
town Of Las Vegas 10 for q central post
office. No one knows just what the
next action on the matter In Washing.
ton win be, but 1t Is certain that II
Las vegans 60 after an appropriation
to buils . government building on a
central site. they will get It. The
postoffice department will ~undoubted.
ly recommend It. as one Of the Wash.
ington officials Of the department de.
clares that Las Vegas has caused
more trouble than any other postoffice
in the United States.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

The east Is afraid that New Mexico
and Arizona are not sufficiently civil
ICED TO each be granted statehood
and then their population Is not large
enough. Only large. highly civilized
eastern states like Rhode Island can
send such high-minded patriots az
Nelson ". Aldrich to the United
States senate to look after the inter.
ests of the trusts.-Topeka journal.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

The Las Vegas Optic was the only
daily in the territory. except the Rec
ord. that properly printed the Hager.
man interview on joint statehood. The
Albuquerque journal prefacesi It with
a statement that left the impression
that Il was given orally to a special
correspondent Of that paper on Friday,
while the New Mexican presented Il
as a speech made by Mr.. Hagesrnan
on Thursday night at the Commercial
club. The interview was prepared for
the Record by request and pr4nted
Friday afternoon word for word as
the main part If u appeared in the
other papers Of Saturday. Mr.. Hager.
man made M speech at all al the
club rooms. and did no, submit to the
uncertainties OF an oral interview
Roswell Record >
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

The democratic papersare right when
they say that the only fight made
upon Delegate Andrews lately has
been made by the Albuquerque Jour
nal. which doesn't stand for much Of
anything. The Journals denunciation
of Andrews on the strength OF reports
Of fiercely partisan papers In Penn.
~sylvania, Its attacks On the Albuquer-
que Eastern and Santa re Central
were AZ disgusting to people outside
Of Albuquerque as they must have
been to home people.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

The spectators at the football game
between Annapolis and West Point
Saturday were well described by one
reporter as the noncombatants:" It
was war between army and navy they
saw. managed a good deal like the
battle Of Sha.ho in M%anchuria. The
president vas a delighted onlooker.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

Speaker Cannon is expected to
place ex.Speaker Keifer Of Ohio on
the appropriations committee in order
to strengthen 1t. but whether that OBJ
ject will be attained may be ques-
toned. General Keifer returns to the
house over which he once presided,
after an absence Of many years.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION,
Homestead Entry, No. 6o7s.

Department Of the Interior, Land OF.
flee at Santa Fe. New Mexico, De.
cember l. 1905.
Notice is hereby given that the fol.
Owing;named settler has filed notice
OF his intention to make final proof
IN support Of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before United
States Court Commissioner at La
Vegas. New Mexico. on January 6,
1906. viz: Andres Gallegos, of San
Miguel county. New Mexico, for the
s W II, N y IA. W 10. 8 e II, Sec.
20. N w IL. N E IA. Sec. 20, r IA N,
r ~ e.
He names the following witnesses
70 prove MS continuous residence up
on and cultivation Of said land, VIZ. /.
Jose 6encion Gallegos, Of Tremenuna.
New Mexico; Dionicio Vega. Of IRE.
nentina. New Mexico: Isabel Angel,
Of Conant. NewMexico; Jose Ortiz. Of
Chavez. New Mexico.
MANUEL R. OTERO, Register.
1241
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

Moving pavements. under ground,
to connect the east and west ends OF
New York are contemplated. The
scheme provides for two platforms,
n moving at the rate Of nine miles
an hour and the other at four. capable
OF carrying $4,000 passengers an hour.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

George Meredith Is yet suffering
from a slip on frosty ground. several
weeks ago, whereby he broke 10th
bones Of the right leg below the
knee. 1t was on his daily morning
walk, on Boxhiil. Surrey. He Is "
years old. and not very vigorous since
his serious illness OF two years ago.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

Yesterday was the hundreth ami
versary Of tho birth Of WIN. Floyd
johnson and Boston wss the only
place In America that remembered It
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

The lie Of Senator Mitchell. while
It affords an example Of what may be
accomplished by ability and persist.
ance. affords also another evidence OF
the truth Of the saying. old as life It.
self. that the wages OF sin IL death.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

There seems 70 be no question
about the re-appointment OF Chief Jus.
uce Mills. Judge McFfe and Judge
Parker. The people Of New Mexico
are united on this point.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

Whatever may Be the abstract right
OF the case. tho nation felt mortified
that = woman only twentythree years
OF rge had been hanged In Vermont.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

The Globe-Democrat observes that
the president condenses only once III
his message and that IL when he roc.
ommends the admission OF New Mex.
leo and Arizona as one state.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

4 few days ago Berlin passed the
100000 mark in population. II had
1000. 900 people in 1915. The German
capital grows ~ though 1t were In
America.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

Drinking to q mans health pro-
longs neither the life Of the man who
drinks nor the one who is drunken to.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

U. 8. Marshal C. N. Foraker has
made an excellent record and merits
re-app0intment.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

Mr.. Hearst will have To hustle II he
wants to get into the mayors seat by
January /.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

Las Vegas stores offer an uncom.
monty attractive line OF Christmas
goods.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

The average man thinks about the
worst thing in the world is a doctors
bill until he meets an u~ndertaker's.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

Mr.. Roosevelt Is In danger from
misplaced switch.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

Events At the Duncan.
Dec. 18th, Tracy, the Outlaw" by
Gallatin and company.
Dec. 18th. Mahara's Minstrels-W. A.
and Jack Mahara.
Dec. 18th to
Dec. 23rd, The Mcdonald Stock ON.
pany.
Dec. 26th Hans Hanson
Dec. eth and
Dec. 18th, George eamusls' company.
Jan. lst.s East Side Fire Department
ball. 4
IAN. 18th. Murray Z Mack in Around
the Town
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

A line Of fine road wagons It
Cooley's repository will be sold at re-
ducec prices Get a good runabout
for the price Of q cheap one. s-144
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

"Et. tn Chauncey." said John A. Nc
Call when he heard II.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

Truth and popularity are unfortun
ately very often bad friends.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11
WHIT Us IrrrrR

freely and frankly. telling US all your
troubles. We will send Free Aaviee (in
PLAIN, sealed enveIopel. Address: LIZ
dies Advisory Dept.. The Chattanooga
Medicine Co., Chattanooga. Tenn.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

La Toilette cant get out OF the
eclipse Of the presidents shadow.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11
Do your Christmas shopping early.

chauncey still hung on to the sen
atorship.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

". NJ. Lewis. undertaken and EN-.
balmer. 612 Lincoln Ave-, both phones.
81
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11
EVERYTHING But A

! suffered" writes Virginia Robson.
Of Easton, Nd, until | took Cardui.
which eurea me 20 quickly II surprised
my doetor. who didn't know vas
taxing it,
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11

Remark heard IN passing "Now-
adays you have to look out what you
say" Didn't people always have to
look out?
The independent., 1905-08-17
A SUMMER BARGAIN

For $1.50 you can get the MA
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a clean and wholesome family news
paper, for one year, and THE NE.
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is open only for limited time. Fur
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The independent., 1905-08-17
NHIO LIBERTY BELlo,

Cincinnati, Ohio, r. H. Reemelin, Editor
and Proprietor. A so pg, Magazine. scots
wear: Is cts for g mos. 1t is not ONE IDEA prop
seandist, but clean-cut Populist hewng to theine.
It stands for SO clever reforms each logically put
Reads like a letter from old friend. You will
not regret sending Is cts for atrial subscription.
The independent., 1905-08-17
BLAME THE SYSTEM
BUSINESS MEN ARE ORGANIZED
TO BRlBE OFFICIALS
seIf-confessed Milwaukee Grafters say
Leading Citizens Have Been he
sponsibIe for Wholesale Corruption
In That City

Milwaukee, August Ito the
confession made by two members OF
the county board of supervisors, Ed
ward Strauss and Otto Siedel, is due
the recent exposure of graft in this
city and the indictment Of number
of rich men, as we'll as poor devils,
243 in all.
!, These men declare that certain busi-
ness men and politicians are in
combination for wholesale graft. They
say that a regular lobby was kept~to
watch for and corrupt new members
of the council and county board. The
first offer of bribe was big. After
a member had once taken a bribe, and
could not cry out against boodling,
they cut down his bribes to little or
nothing. They voted his vote as they
wished, without asking him, when he
was away. A large part of the paltry
bribes given was taken from the dis
honest members by newspaper clique
that threatened exposure unless
bought off,
Cries AS He Confesses
Otto Siedel, self-confessed CRATER,
sat on the porch of his little cottage
and cried like a child as he said:
s'The system has wrecked our lives.
This is killing my wife. | feel that
am going crazy.
"There can be no punishment in
hell worse than to wake up in the
middle of the night and find her
weeping silently, unless it is to have
to look every day into the face of my
little boy, who is stunned by his
playmates because his father is a
CRATER"
Edward F. Strauss, another self
confessed CRATER, wore sneer as he
stood in his saloon and said:
Nobody is honest Honesty? There
isn't such thing. 1t is graft on every
hand. Give me money enough and
| wouldn't be afraid to approach the
president of the United States, or any
other man on earth. Maybe | wouldn't
get him the first time, but I'd get
him. Look at the United States SEN
ate. You furnish the money and I'll
put anything through the senate"
Tells Pathetic Story
The boodlers' story is very pathetic
Seidel's is distressing. For Seidel is
a man with conscience, manhood
ability and love of family, who is now
out of job, with a crippled wife ani
lovely children who are tormented by
playmates with their fathers crime
He was a commercial traveller, hum
BILE, prosperous and popular, whit
went into politics, was elected su
pervisor and then county register. o
1 deeds.
The ring lured him into taking on
big bribe when he needed the $500 t,
save his wife's leg by an operation
and after that he was owned as
cheap CRATER.
81 started out to be honest. / didn'
even know that ring was maxim
big money out of country politics. TIL
newspapers had said nothing. Tha
was many years ago.
sT am offering no excuse for m
conduct, but if somebody had the
took me by the hand and suggeste
my obligation I might not be wher
/ am today. The good people ar
asleep most of the time, but tn
scoundrels are working always.
First Bribe Was Big
|
"The first bribe I took was the bi
gest / ever got. And let me tell ye
Please Mention THE iNDEPEh
.aJisi1ssNek q ettT Npe gfstT
The independent., 1905-08-17

Mention THE INDEPENDENT When You Write Advertisers
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-04

auase. literature religion or political understanding in common with people from English speaking countries, u will be seen how very, very rapidiy ours is ceasing to be an Anglo-Saxon country. if indeed it ever was.
 The subject of immigration must, in view of this enormous increase ana inc character of the bulk of the immi- grafton now pouring among our people bacome of greater concern than ever to representatives in Congress. The in, migration laws and regulations are far from perfect end lack, such as they are, much of being properly uniform in their application.
 It was in 1920 that the nrst record was kept of immigration to the united States The year beforc-lsis-the nrst legislation on the subject or nm migration by Congress was enacted II was merely provided that a record
 should be kept of the number or pas
 sengers arriving in each customs dis' trict with their sex, age. occupation and the country of their birth. Fol many years there was no concern about | immigration among United States folks except a little exultation over the In creasing number of arrivals as tending | to add to our national wealth. to say l nothing of providing an asylum for tht | earth's poor and oppressed. It Is true | there was once-in the fifties--a big az itation by the Know -Nothings for tenn | porizing political reasons directed l against aliens coming among us. but
 even that led to no restrictive legisia- | tion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-04
More of Mrs. wilcox.

While living at the Hermitage, near Nashville, Emily Donelson attended the "Old Academy" a school for girls in
 Nashville. Tn 1S46 her father was ap- pointed by Presi lent James K. Polk Minister to Prussia. the family accom- panying the appofntee to his post. The Don elsons remained in Europe five years and during that time Mrs. Wilcox studied and mastered German. French, Italian and Spanish. Of her life at this period Miss McCollum writes:
 Miss Donelson had the remarkably thrilling experience of being witness to the terrible revolution in Berlin on
 March IS. 1s4s. In September of the same yea~ she was at the Theater Fran cais the night the great Rachel voiced
 the peoples wrongs against Louis Ma roleon in her first recitation of the
 Marseiilaise hymn.
 Returning to the United States in 1851, the Donelsons settled in Wash ington, where for some years Major Donelson was associated with Mont gomery Blair in the publication of The Union Signal, at that time the organ of the Democratic Party. Here Miss Donelson met John A. Wilcox, of Aber- deem, Miss, who was then a member of Congress, and had not long since come out of the Mexican War with a highly creditable record as a member of the
 Mississippi Rifle, commanded by Jeff ferson Davis. They were married and Colonel Wilcox, falling of reelection
 the couple removed to Texas. The min ister who performed the marriage cere- mony was the same who had off1ciated
 at the White House christening of Baby
 Emily Donelson. Colonel Wilcox was
 elected a member of the Confederate Congress and died in Richmond, in 1864
 After the Civil War Mrs. Wilcox re-
 turned to her fathers home near Nash
 vile, only to find that he. like herself
 had been impoverished by the war. She
 taught school in Nashville until the
 goodness of General Grant advanced
 her fortunes. Her husbands brother
 Cadmus Wilcox. afterward a distin-
 guished Confederate major general
 had been General Grants groomsman
 at his wedding When President. Gen. eral Grant had Mrs. Wilcox appointed
 a translator in the Postofice Depart ment. which, accepting in 1874. she came to Washington to live. She was
 subsequently promoted to a like posi-. tion in the Treasury Department.
 Mrs. Wilcox was one of a family oi two daughters and two sons by hel fathers first wife. One of the sons was Andrew Jackson Donelson, who was
 graduated second in his class at the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-04
old Hickory and old satan.

Standing. with Martin Van Buren. his Secretary of State, President Andrew Jackson, both acting as godfathers at the christening of an infant who had been born in the White House. put satan behind him as Andrew Jackson had the way of doing important things The infant was Emily Donelson. who grew to be favorite of the President. living at the White House with his mother. the wife of Andrew Jackson Donelson, the Presidents private sec retary and afterward at the Hermita ee in Tennessee. The infant of the christ ening. which was in 1929. was Mrs Emily Donelson Wilcox. who died in this city on Monday last.
 full description of the ceremony of the christening of the first baby in the White House appeared some years ago in the Ladies' Home Journal. writ ten by Miss Alice Granham McCollum. Of the incident she wrote:
 When, in the course of the ceremony. the clergyman read the question: DO you fin the name of this child renounce the devil and all of his works" Jack son stiffened himself grimly and re- piled in his most emphatic tones: I do. sir; I renounce them all bringing a smile to the faces of those who knew what was the more ritualistic reply. :" Miss McCollum states further that among the guests present was Robert E. Lee, then young lieutenant of en- gineers. having just been graduated from West Point.