The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-16
HOLD OUT STATEHOOD
Have the Nerve to Say That Andrews
is the Only Hope of Entry Into the
Union After They Have Played This
Pedal for Thirty Years, Always
With the Same Result.


publican meeting at the court house
last night was that the voters of New
Me ,ico should vote for Andrews for
lei2gate strictly as a business prop
osition, if for no other reason. His ell
ection as the only hope for statehood
was the cry from beginning to end,
and this, the same "spiel that the
Republican spell-binders have been
handing out for thirty years or more
did not sound very good to the Demo
Gratis present, who composed fully
half of the big audience. The speak
ers made no attempt to answer the
published questions of Democrats and
Democratic papers as to Mr.. Andrews
failure to "do things and relative to
the many things he claims to have
done but which are known to be trace
able to other agencies.
J. M. Hervey, Attorney General, pre-
sided over the meeting and opened the
program with good argument in ia
state, showing that the territory
has more resources, population and
atness for statehood than many 9th
er western states that have long been
in the Union. And then he tried to
show where the election of Andrews
was necessary to secure statehood at
this time, arguing that the Republi-
can national platform, the present Re-
publican president and Republican
congress are pledged to give US state
hood at the coming session and asked
why we should spoil all our chances
by sending a Democrat as delegate to
congress. Like the arguments coming
later, Mr.. Hervey seemed to be con-
vinced that the Republican national
pledge was simply bait to eaten
suckers, and was never intended to
be kept unless we did as we are told
by the territorial republicans. He tried
to show where Andrews is fitted for
the office of delegate and that LARA
| 1t in their power to give us statehood,
| and that the Democrats have not, but
| he failed to show why Andrews has
not already secured statehood under
precisely the same conditions in the
| past two terms he has served in con
gress, and why other republican del
| egates have failed, and why the repub
| licans, with all this power in their
hands for many years, have failed to
render US the statehood justly due us
He concluded by introducing w. H
Andrews, the present delegate, who
seeks reelection.
| Mr.. Andrews spoke just IL min
utes by the watch. He referred to the
beauty of the city of Roswell and the
evident intelligence of the audience
many of whom, by the way, were from
Texas. He said there was no politics
in this campaign, it was simply a Ques
ton of voting for statehood by voting
for the man who could get it, but he
did not explain why he has not alrea
DIV secured it in the past, when the
conditions were just as favorable a:
they now are. He said that il re-elect
ed, he would absolutely get statehood
for New Mexico at the coming shor
session of congress, if present condi
tions continue. He failed to say tina
of he was not elected that the repub
Iican congress and the republican
president would deliberately yiolat'
the pledge OF the republican nationa
platform, but that is what he meant
I AS to the securing of 975,000 acre
lof public land for the schools of tn
territory, he said that the Ferguson
lbilI, as originally passed had no va
lue on account of a technical error
, and admitted that he merely had thi
iremedied, claiming that by so doin