Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-10-01

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DR.. M. f. Desnarais offered another
minority resolution declaring that the
statehood question is not a party mat
ter but should be decided by eacn
voter without party dictatlon.
Spirited Debate.
There followed brief but sharp
debate. Speakers by vote of the con
vention were limited to five minules
each, owing to the lateness of the
hour and this was later extended to
ten minutes. There was a wrangle
over this time limit but the diplomacy
of the chairman and of w. e. Martin,
who desired to speak in Spanish with
out an interpreter but finally yielded
to the request for an interpreter, I'M
raveled the snarl.
Colonel George w. Prichard opened
the debate in favor of separate state
hood and his eloQuence, even though
1t failed to convince his auditors,
charmed them. His was the ablest
representation OF the separate state.
hood cause heard at the convention.
w. B. Childers replied on behalf of
the joint statehood advocates and he
made splendid and impassionel ar,
gnment. He attacked Colonel Prich.
ard upon his proposition that the
statehood matter is not party ques-
tiOn and showed conclusiyely that it
is. He also questioned the consisten-
cy of endorsing President Roosevelt
and Senator w. Fl. Andrews and
then speaking and working against
joint statehood
Hon. I. B. Catron followed with
an address that promised to be the
most effective of the evening but
which dwindled into a bitter appeal
to race prejudice 'As sure as there
is God in heaven, Arizona will vote
down this proposition and you by vot-
ing for it will convince Congress and
the Nation that you want Joint state
hood and not single statehood, and
you will not get either for thousand
years." were the opening words of this
remarkable harangue. He predicted
that Santa Fe and Rio Arriba counties
would each give 1000 majority against
joint statehood, and that San Miguel,
Taos ana other counties would fall in
line fully as strong. He gave his ma
tive hearers to understand that joint
statehood would mean depriving them
of the rights of holding office, of do
ing jury duty and predicted other dis
NAL acts of oppression for them; that
it would abrogate their present laws
OF inheritance, of property, etc. In
conclusion he promised to support the
nominee of the convention for Dele
gate to Congress, saying: 81 will not
support this measure; it is not party
question. will support the Delegate,
will do what | can for the party, but
they cannot cram this measure down
our throats. You have as much right
to choose on this question as you have
to choose a wife for yourself"
j, Address by Attorney General.
The assertions of Mr.. Catrcn about
the oppression of the native people
in Arizona, and an intimation that a
similar practice prevails in the lower
Pecos Valley brought Attorney Gen
eral William c. Reid to the platform
and he denied these assertions in the
most sweeping terms. He said tnat he
himself had addressed iuries in Chaves
County, upon which there were native
citizens; that native citizens are
nominated for Office in the Pecos Val
ley and elected to it. The misrepre-
sentations which have been given cir
culation that the native people are
being mistreated in the pecos Valley
are untrue. The only excuse for their
utterances lies in the fact that natives
of the neighboring republic, who had
come into the Pecos Valley and who
are not naturalized are under the laws
debarred from serving on juries, but
not only in Chaves but In San Miguel
and other counties as well. He said
that these misrepresentation are be-
ing made again and again by the ad-
vocates of separate statehood in order
to prevent .le very people, whom
Ley profess to love, from coming in
to their rights as American citizens.
Martins Grafton in Spanish.
W. =. Martin, of Socorro, then ad-
dressed the convention in Spanish. 1t
is known that his command of the
Spanish language Is that of a scholar
and that his eloquence is such as
to carry his hearers with him. I'm
like the other speakers, however, he
did not give way to excitement, to
passion; he was calm, deliberate in his
utterances but every word told and
he tore to shreds the arguments ad-
fulISCu ny WI. SdlIOI. HOoC III tiC
convention, who had feared that Mr..
Catron's appeal to the native citizens
would result in stampede in favor
of single statehood, regained their
confidence and knew after Mr.. Mar.
tin had finished, that the victory had
been won for joint statehood.
The Vote on Statehood.
Colonel Prichard withdrew his mi
nority report and the vote was taken
upon the report of DR.. NJ FDesmarais
1t resulted in a vote of 1870 to 46 in
favor of the rejection of the minority
report. The majority report was then
adopted unanimously, including its
statehood plank The following was
the vote on the Desmarais minority
report: For joint statehood: Berna
lilo, 8; Chaves, 4; Colfax, l3; Dona
Ana, s; Eddy, 2; Grant, G; Lincoln
2; Luna, 2; Mckinley, 3; Mora, 6;
Otero, a; Quay, O. Roosevelt, q RiG
Arriba, H.; San Juan. 8; Santa Fe. 5;
Sierra, 3; Socorro II; Sandoval, 8;
Taos &. Torrance &. Valencia. 13.