Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-01-18

that herewith follows, thanked the
House for the honor. He said.
Eloquent Address of Miera.
Gentlemen of the Thirty-eighth Legis'
lative Assembly Of the Territory OF
New Mexico:
There are moments in the lives of
individuals in which they cannot ade-
quately and appropriately express in
language the thoughts and feelings
yelling up within them and demanding
! expression.
| In accepting the position which you
have by your votes just rendered ME,
am at loss for words to appro-
nriately express to you the thanks
/ which | feel
10 be chosen to preside over the
deliberations of the body of men be-
fore me. comprising the Thirty-eighth
legislative assembly of the great ter
ritory of New Mexico is honor enough
20 come to any man in the prime of
life.
10 he your presiding officer,
charged with the conscientious duty
of doing exact justice to you, and
each of you, the chosen lawmakers OF
the people, is responsibility indeed,
Which cannot and will not be lightly
considered.
The speaker of a deliberative body
such as this, as you well know, has
lnuch to do VII the shaping of the
policies to be pursued and in the form
ulation of the measures to be enacted.
and the duty and trust thus imposed
upon me, | fully ,calize in all their
Importance and sacredness.
Filled with the feelings which the
| consideration of the duties and re-
| sponsibilGies of this position which |
am about TO assume, l approach it
with those anxious presentiments
which the greatness of the charge and
the weakness of my powers so justly
J inspires. Indeed would | have cause
| to despair were it not that your pres
eace reminds me that in you | will
! fad sources of wisdom, Of virtue and
of zeal, on which to rely in all diff
cuties.
To you, gentlemen, who with my
elf, are charged with the functions of
| legislation. look with encourage
ment for that guidance and support
which may enable us to steer with
! safety the important vessel in which
we are all embarked.
| here now consecrate myself, my
abilities, and my energies in the posi-
ton to which you have called me;
primarily to the people of this terri
tory and then to you, the chosen SER
wants of the people. To the Thirty
eighth legislative assembly of this
great territory, do the happy and
: prosperous people within her confines
| confdentially look for intelligent and
Z beneficent legislation. They ask and
: rghtfully demand that at this time
particularly, in our history, standing
: as we do upon the threshold of her
{ entrance into the sisterhood of states
} when the eyes Of all the people of this
great Union are upon New Mexico,
that the very best that there is in us
! will with generous and lavish hand be
! bestowed upon her people, to their up
: building, to their happiness and to
their prosperity.
On this occasion, and here and now,
! seems an opportune time for us all to
: pause and consider how the best re.
: suits may be obtained from the
scheme of our government wherein
every citizen forms component part.
5 have always felt, and | sincerely be-
| lieve, that little that Is great or good
} or permanent can be accomplished
? without the instrumentality of party
S and ] have believed from my soul
A since arrived at manhood, in the doc.
e trines and principles of the great re-
, publican party, but realize and we
of the majority should realize, that
!, the minority here are the chosen rep.
) resentatives of the sovereign people,
and that our partisan zeal should be
at all times tempered by proper ap-