The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-10-24

1 S ARGUMENTS FOR STATEHOOD B
= S MADE HERE BY REPUBLICAN, CAMPhloNEKo e s


tor a ycar and three or Tour months,
who is confirmed or reelected by
a republican majority. The inter.
ence is Immediately drawn by the
wise men OF the east that New
Mexico is likely to become n re-.
publican state, and that when Mr..
ANDREWS returns reelected for the
third term to ,,Ie halls OF Congress
and introduces and calls up for
consideration in the short session
which will v in December
that same statehood hill which he
has been urging upon them during
the four years he has been there
and Tor eight years before that;
when he calls up that statehood
bill again: he will say, Gentle.
men, here is a republican state,
m~aniieslly so, and what We are
asking Tor at this time is admis.
sion. Are your maIorities i'm.
paired in the lower house; are your
maiorities threatened in the senatcP
There is one hope OF our getting
statehood; we might tail to get
statehood at the short session and
still with a republican delegate 20
on knocking al the door. That is
the question OF political expedi.
ency today.
That is the type OF man who is
TO represent US; | state that IL you
are going to hire a matchmaker
YOU would not employ a black.
smith; 1t you are going to employ
a stenographer you would not EN-.
ploy a good dancer; so il is with
us, we are looking Tor a diplomat.
We want a nan to represent us IN
the halls OF congress in this op.
perfume time who knows absolutely
every string, eve more, every in
tiuence that moves men. We
want a mar who knows men. We
want a mar who knows public al.
iairS, we want a man that moves
other men; we want a man who
cannot necessarily make a good
address, but who can sit quietly
hour alter hour and present the
claims OF New Mexico; a man who
al talk about New Mexico with.
out referring to it; a nan who can
bring influences to bear in favor
OF New Mexico without mentioning
It; a man who "a see who pos.
sesses influence and says: Yves
can do a little good, and gets
something accomplished without
ms ever realizing that be is doing
itior INN; that is the kind OF man
we will have to have. II o
were the Emperor OF Germany,
inc Gar OF Russia Or the King OF
England and were TO select a rep.
ttScntative AT some foreign court,
u YOU had some delicate ncgotiat.
my to do, do YOU think YOU would
take somebody's cousin, or take
somebody whose sister was good
looking; could YOU possibly be
moved 10y any other consideration
than the good OF your country:
you would look through your
schools, colleges and lists OF pro.
iesslonal and business men, until
finally you would nix upon a man
whose temperament, whose train.
ing, whose education, whose every
part absolutely adapted him to do
yonr work in that foreign court.
NV friends you are kings; O
are rulers OF a great people. Con.
sidering the selection OF n nan 10
perform that duty for us; we are
seeking out not a voice, not a rep.
re~scntativc OF any special nation.
atty, but we are seeking an instru.
mcnt to do our work, and when
MIR. Curry said that il he were
there he could o begin to do one.
tenth OF the work that that mar
could do Tor US, he was telling
The truth. You may say what O
please, but years oil experience in
practical affairs, and many &C.
quaintanccS OF public men in this
country, skilled in negotiations,
skilled IN manIpulations, those are
the qualities which we mus, have
absolutely.
DO YOU think there is a virtue,
a peculiar virtue TO be- born in New
Mexico, or TO be born in Pennsyl.
wanna, or IN any place when it
when II comes TO do that kind OF
work. 1t Is nc virtue my friends
70 have lived here ten, twenty or
thirty years. There are those who
wIll likely say that they are an old
timer or a new conner, that is a
good thing; YOU old timer Who has
been here forty years have abso.
lutely nothing that in the history
Of The time is not mine; and those
who have lived here either FIVE,
ten or fifteen years are lust as
much a part OF New Mexico as
those born here, and what.
ever we can do Tor our home we
are delighted to. The man who
represents New Mexico for the
next year, the mar who should
represent New Mexico by the
choice OF its people during It's next
term oil congress, that man is lust
as much a part OF New Mexico as
though he had been born here;
and so my friends we are not ask.
ing yon 20 choose q partisan, not
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