The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1906-10-13
AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS
In Behalf Of Republican Policies,
Delivered at the Las Vegas
Convention
BY HONORABLE II. O. BURSUM
It Aroused Unbounded Enthusiasm
and Gave the Speaker a Reputa-
tion

The address delivered by Hon.
II. o. Bursum before the terri
torial convention at Las Vegas
has justly attracted a great deal
of attention and given Mr.. Bur-
sum a reputation to sustain.
The Chieftain published a part
of the address last week and now
takes pleasure in giving its read
ers the benefit of the rest, as
follows:
This commonwealth has been
fortunate in having at the ma
tional capital the past eighteen
months a man who does things,
Hon. William II. Andrews; a
man who has surprised even his
most intimate friends in the vol
ume of work he has accomplis h
ed under the most diSadvant ag-
eous circumstances imaginable.
1t is no small matter for a man
to be the errand boy for a con-
stituency of 800, 900 people; to Sc
cure $50 pensions from a reluct-
ant pension bureau; to have es-
tablished new postoffices; to do
cheerfully the one thousand and
more things from getting an in
crease for clerk hire in a post
Office to securing a hundred thou
sand dollar appropriation for a
public building at Albuquerque
from out of the teeth of the
watch dog of the treasury, that
grand old m an, Speaker Cannon,
and am giving away no state
secret in telling you that lie will
secure ere long an appropriation
of $500, 900 for similar building
at Las Vegas. But it is even
more to be a constructive states
man, to gain and keep the conf
dence, the good will of con-
gress of almost five hundred sem
ators and representatives, each
with constituency of a quarter
million or more people clamoring
behind him for their share of
the good things they expect from
the government. Truly, New
Mexico has had at Washington
pleading for it not only a vote
less even though persistent dele
gate, but several score of con-
gressmen and a number of pow
erful senators, always ready to
hearken to the voice of our able
delegate in congress. Whether
you ask Speaker Cannon or Sena-
tor Penrose, whether the heads
of the great departments or the
chiefs of bureaus, they will all
tell you that New Mexico has
been magnificently represented
and that even though territory
it has been more to the front and
has received more recognition
from the government than the
greatest state in the union, all
through the tireless efforts, the
diplomacy, of the man whom his
opponents more fifty than they
knew, have called Bull" An
drews. Silent yet forceful, di-
plomatic yet fearless, he is truly
a man who does things, not for
himself but for the people, man
who gets there" when anything
is to be done for his constituent
cy.
When | advise the republican
party of the territory to acquiesce
in the provisions of the Hamil-
ton Enabling act that congress
has passed and that has been APP
proved by the president, for our
admission into the union as d
state with Arizona, l do so
without mental reservation and
with the zeal of recent convert.
/ do it because | realize that it is
the best and most generous meas
ure that has ever and probably
will be passed for the admission
of a state; l do it because l long
for the great privilege of Ameri-
can citizenship; because | do not
want to delay for one moment
the time when our people, my
fellow citizens. the humblest as
we'll as the proudest, the native
as we'll as the newcomer, will be
admitted to all the rights of free
born American citizens, a heri-
tage baptized in blood and prov
ed in the battles furnace; be-
cause I love this land of sun
shine, its rocks and rills, its
plains and hills, its people and
their traditions; because | want
to cast my ballot, if am
spared, and want to see
you cast your ballot for the