Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-08-21
WHOSE ADVISE
SHALL We TAKE?
QuestionPr PROFOUND.
eddy w e. Kelley
of Socorro.
JOINT STATEHOOD MEASURE
Shall the People Turn Down
the President and Speaker
Cannon's Opinions.

W, Il. Kelley, a resident of Socorro
County for twenty-slx years, attorney
by profession, who was a member of
the Territorial Board Of Equalization
under the Prince administration and
also served as delegate to the con.
stitutional convention in 1890 having
read the recent communication in
this paper by Ex-Governor NJ. A.
Otero and U. S. Senator Henry NJ.
Teller has asked space in the New
Mexican to PROFOUND a question of
great interest to the people, to the
writer's Of these letters. Mr. Kelley
says.
"Socorro, n. NJ Aug. 30, 1906.
Editor New Mexican
"The SocoTo Chieftain of August
18th reproduces the letters printed in
your issue Of the nth of Senator II.
NJ. Teller, of Colorado, and ex-Gover-
nor NJ A. Otero in opposition to joint
statehood for New Mexico and Ari.
zona.
THE undersigned is forced to ask
this pertinent question with regard to
the letters from these eminent gentle.
men, Whose advice shall the peo-
pie of New Mexico and Arizona fol
low on the statehood question now
before them for their consideration
and determination at the coming
November election? That of Senator
Teller and Ex-Governor NJ. A. Otero,
or that of President Roosevelt and
Speaker Joe Cannon"
Mr., Teller from the time the State
of Colorado was admitted into the
Union in 1876 as the Centennial State
to 1898 was almost continuously one
Of its senators in Congress and had
been active in the councils of the Re
publican party of his State and the
nation because he had advocated the
principles of the party, and h,Haase
OF his supposed sincerity and adher.
ence to the principles Of the Republi-
can party he had been highly honor.
ed by the Republicans Of his state and
the nation with Office
Tells of Senator Teller's Record.
in 1896 Mr. Teller as a delegate
to the national Republican convention
held in St. Louis which nominated
William Mckinley for president, and
because that convention declared in
its platform for sound money and
against the free and unlimited coin.
age of silver Mr.. Teller saw fit to
withdraw from the convention and to
cast his lot politically with the W.
]. Bryan party with it's falacies on the
money question: shedding as he left
! the convention, copious tears of what
was then supposed by his former
friends to be regrets, because he felt
he must leave The Republican party
with which he had been so long iden.
titled and whose principles he had so
ardently advocated; yet this same
| Mr.. Teller who later in the state of
Colorado. either at Colorado Springs or
at Pueblo-the writer has forgotten
! which -- when a candidate for re-elec,
ton to the United States Senate from
| his state, in a speech made the state
ment that he had never been a Re,
publican in principle during all he
years that he had acted with it. and
accepted Office from its hands only in
so far as the question Of slavery was
concerned.
Following Mr., Teller's example the
Republicans of New Mexico in 1896,
in their Territorial convention at Las
Vegas, saw fit to amen the nat
ional platform as adopted
at st. Louis that year with regard to
the silver question, and declared in
their platform for the unlimited free
coinage of the American silver pro
duct-hence no statehood for ten
years,
al the election in November, 1896
New Mexico elected that most un'
compromising, wild and woody, unlim
tied free silver coinage advocate, H
B. Ferguson as delegate to Congress
and who took his seat in the Republic
can Congress, majority of which
was elected with Mckinley as presi
dent on the gold standard platform
Could it be supposed that President
and a Congress that had been elect
ed on sound money platform
would be very strenuous in favor Of
the admission of the Territory of New
Mexico, to statehood, when the people
by their votes at this very critlca
time had shown their opposition sc
plainly on the main question at issue
. in the election of a majority of it'
members?
Mckinley Never Recommended Sin
gle Statehood.
"Mr. Mckinley never recommends
the admission of New Mexico to sir
gle statehood, and no sane man, mncl
less a politician, would suppose tina
under the circumstances he would. MI
Ferguson of course introduced hi
statehood bill, and it died with hi
term in Congress, though that Coz
gress gave him all the land he aske
|, for. Mr.. Perea, his successor, intrt
duced his single statehood bill, and
! died with his term In Congress. The
} came B. s. Rodey, whose advocacy {
, single statehood for New Mexico ha
! been the strongest ever made |
! Washington by any Delegate, and sut
e ceeded in securing the passage of hi
bill through the House, but, which