Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-10-22
Special to the New Mexican.

SpeCldl W lH6 NtW hCAiSuh.
Las Cruces, n. NJ, Oct. 22.-Enthus-
iasm ran high at the Republican mass
meeting held on Saturday evening and
which was attended by all who could
crowd into the court house. No fur
ther evidence was needed to indicate
in which direction the tide is running
in DOna Ana County and to assure
Delegate w. H. Andrews that Dona
Ana County will give him the largest
majority on November 6, that it has
ever given any candidate in its his
tory. The addresses by Delegate w.
II. Andrews, Hon. Fl. o. Bursum and
Colonel George w. Prichard were ap-
plauded repeatedly and vociferously.
While Senator Andrews lays no claims
TO eloquence, he spoke straight to
the point. Hon. H. O. Bursum has
never posed as an orator, but those
who will read his speech, which fol-
lows in another column, will acknoWl-
edge, that in some respects, 1t is the
most remarkable address that has
been recorded thus far in this cam
paign. Colonel Prichard is probably
the most eloquent orator in the Ter
ritory and his address on Saturday at
Las Cruces served to maintain this
reputation.
to nd c,n,lrn 90 fp11nyyu .
Address OF Delegate W. n. Andrews
Citizens of the Mesilla Valley:
But few days ago the Secretary
of the Interior called for bids for fur
nishing the cement for the initial work
on the Rio Grande or Elephant Butte
project and only on Thursday of this
week the bids were opened for the
construction of the Penasco Dam
which last, when constructed, will
mean constant supply of irrigation
water for $1,000 acres in your val
ley. These are prosaic facts but they
also appeal to the Imagination, they
open vistas of greatness in the moi
far distant day when Las Cruces vii
be a metropolis of $4,000 and mort
people commanding not only this val
ley so fertile, so beautiful, but also
the highlands and the mountains be
yond | am not an eloquent man, my
enemies have advertised this fact fal
and wide and have made the most o.
it, my friends know it and do not de
ny it, and therefore cannot paint yol
word picture of Las Cruces ant
the Mesilla Valley of the future which
! see in my imagination but ! car
emphasize fact which you all shoult
remember, that the southwest owes Il
Theodore Roosevelt, President of thu
United States, and to the Republican
party, the Reclamation policy, tina
great law which will turn deserts in
to gardens, which will be a monumen
to our great President, after man.
other deeds of other men now deemed
important have been forgotten II i
fortunate that you will be among th
first to share the blessings of thi
Reclamation Act which is giving Ur
Gle Sam new empire of wealth an
will give homes to the homeless an
prosperity for you all. And you dc
serve it; our forefathers and some G
you grayheaded ones among my aud
ence remember the days not so lon
gone by as 70 be forgotten when yo
held this valley against the bloo(
thirsty Indians when raid after raj
devastated your lands, when you lif
was in peril day and night. Thos
were heroic days and you were pit
neers as strong, as brave, as steadfas
as those which landed on the May
flower; your achievements are not on
whit less noble. 1t is for this reaso
that am working might and main t
secure pension for every one VIII
fought in the Indian wars, for ever
veteran of these sanguinary can
paigns which even though history ha
not written them as large as tn
mighty conflicts between north an
south or of the United States wit
European nations, We're yet importar
in holding the skirmish line for civ
lization and pushing the outposts {
progress into the Pacific Ocean. TIL
veterans of these wars were hero5
Just as much as those VINO charged tn
hills at Gettysburg, even though the
marched not to the strains of musi
and in columns of thousands. Their
are times when it is easier to fac
battery than the skulking Indian
ambush. And just as am endeavo
ing to see to it that every veteran {
these and other wars gets mis- ius
deserts so am working with whate
er little influence | may possess
hurry the day when you will no lon
er anxiously watch the Rio GranJ
River, the Nile of this continent,
discover whether the year will be OF