The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-06-11

In Qand when they come and are 81
dy to report, / wish you to announce
it to mel / want to tell you that I
have been watching the signs Of the
times for the last few weeks very
closely, and I believe. when I come
to Chaves county and to this good
come, and see such a magnificent con
v~ention n audience as this, and feel
the influence of the contagious enthu-
siasm that is in every mans face and
voice, it makes me feel hat this is
indeed, as a been before pronounc-
ed on this platform, a Democratic
year. The influence of this convention
is not only great in the county of
Chaves, it is great, and will be in
~creasingly so, all over the Territory
Of New Mexico. We read in this eve
ning's paper (the Daily Record) il
your city of Roswell, that Henry Wat
terson has called on Bryan. And you
tell me that this convention is not
influential! The proud and naughty
Watterson, who has stood aloof a loag
in Chaves county and has already
gone to call on Bryan. CHEERS and
laughter). You tell me that we are
not going to win? Aye, if you see the
blanched faces of the Republicans on
your streets here; and if you see
them coming around and joining thu
little squads of Democrats and want
ing to be friendly, they see the hand
writing on the wall. They want to
get ia out of the wet, because the
storm is coming. All, my friends, we
are not only going tonight to nomi-
nate a candidate for delegate to conf
gress. We are here, in this epoch
making Democratic convention, gos
ing to nominate New Mexico to be
a Democratic state (Cheers) whenev-
er congress is pleased to tell us in
New Mexico, "Your intelligence has
at last dawned on us; we nave wax
ened up from our ignorance; we have
kept you out of statehood, 10, these
hlduy YEARS.. ouI IuS SISdI llOou VI
western immigration that has reach
ed the great Mississippi river, theh
reached the states of Iowa n Ka4-
sas, and OF down into western Texas,
still pushing westward by the irresi$-
tible force that has brought the great
white ace from the plains of Asia,
as they say, first to eastern Europei
then to central Europe, then to westt
ern Europe and the Atlantic ocean,
and pushing it across to settle the{
Atlantic coast, and from there west-i
ward, reclaimirr. great middle !
art of the United States, is still be-
driven by an irresistible force
westward, and so has come to the 1
of New Mexico,-why, it I
anne two years ago, when Roosevelt i
county began to be settled, and it
as grown from casting a few humid
ed votes but two years ago, to cast |
Democratic vote in a Democrat f
c primary, of over 5000 votes. The ,
,reat tide of immigration is moving +
With resistless force. 1t has struck us
n eastern New Mexico, and these !
and, I say prejudiced men il I
fearful of the liberty loving
spirit, that it will escape the
lold of corrupt corporations, and I
hey have kept us out of our just {
lights. But, like Oklahoma, when she t
,ecame filled with these pioneers and
her admission from congress-; I
it from them by their num-
'ers, by their intelligence and their
as American citizens, and :
do not care who is elected in Nov
we will be a state, in my :
pinion, in two years, by force of our :
and our capabilities. And
o 1 tell o my friends, that we are
OF only nominating our delegate to :
ongress. Tonight we are nominating
he state of New Mexico, and to my ,
hind, my friends, this sort of a con-
ention means that We are nominal T
1g a new Democratic state in New
Iexico; that we will be like Oklaho-
Ia, a surprise to the East. Oklahoma, T
has shown by her constitution
her laws that she is equal in in
diligence to the best in the United :
tates, and hat she is superior to =
of them in her love of liberty :
nd individual and state right to =
ght oppression. So. my friends, this r
an important occasion. 1t means, u
s / believe, the beginning of that a
which will make New Mex :,
20 a Democratic state. Talk about =
ascension in our ranks when such "a .
object as that is IN view. :
ak about rivalry for Offices in this =
hort time, covering the next election !.
a delegate, Or a trip to Denver. q
ak about d~issension and kicking out !,
t the traces when ali this magnif :,
prospect spreads out before us. n
5 our chairman said today. we will 9
ut aside little rivalries and gracious n
bow to the will of the majority
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