Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-12-19

Wrangled a while over the knotty
question whether Chairman w. B.
Walton could cast the votes OF Chaves
and Eddy counties which had been en-.
trusted to him. A recess was then
taken until p. m, to permit the com
! mittee of resolutions to formulate a
platform. This committee assigned
the task to a subcommittee consist
ing of H. B. Ferguson of Albuquer-
que; w. B. Walton of Silver City; J.
H. Paxton of Las Cruces: A. A. Jones
OF Las Vegas; and J. H. Crist OF Mon
ero. This committee had labored as
siduously and its product satisfied
the whole committee except in one
particular, the clause relating to the
public lands, and this was modified.
1t was after 10 p. M, when the re-
port was read to the sleepy conven-
ton. 1t aroused no enthusiasm, there
was no handclapping-what Is worse,
| it aroused no opposition. There was
q moments silence. Then those in
favor of the resolutions were asked to
say AYE" There were half a dozen
faint "ayes." Then the mays" were
called for and there were half doz-
en- still fainter nays" and the chair
man declared the resolutions carried.
However, the resolutions were care
fully guarded; even the Democratic
newspapers present were refused
copies. Sunday was spent in still
further whiting them down and pol
fishing the rough edges. The resolu-
tions perform the seemingly impossi-
le task of reconciling two irreconcil
ing positions, of riding two horses in
the opposite directions at the same
time .In that respect they are a mas
terpiece a model, a literary gem of
political craftsmanship.
The Boundary Question
Then came a surprise, which any
where else would have aroused
gathering of New Mexico men to
some demonstration of interest. But
it did not on Saturday evening. ]. H.
Crist moved that the committee on
resolutions be authorized to draft a
separate resolution on the boundary
question to be sent Delegate W. H.
Andrews without reporting back to
the convention. Isaac Barth aroused
himself sufficiently to remark that it
was rather unusual to empower a
committee to draft resolution and
adopt it for a convention without the
convention knowing the purport OF
the resolution. Mr.. Crist then un-
limbered He told of the successive
attempts Texas has made to swipe
| 200 sections of land from New Mex
leo, and how Delegate w. H. Andrews
had instigated" Hon. Serene Payne,
only at the last session OF congress,
to defeat the iniquitous Culberson res
olution which has again made its ap-
pearance in congress. He said that
Delegate Andrews at his own expense
had printed thousands of copies of a
brief, which was irrefutable, and that
thereupon, congress had laid on the
shelf the Culberson resolution at its
last session..
w. R. McGill made feeble reply
in which he made several startling
statements. But he modified those
statements by saying that they are
merely the opinion of jack leg law
yer. One of these was, that the de-
filming of state boundaries was not
state question but national ques-
ton. (He had evidently never heard
that every state constitution defines
the boundaries of the state.) He de-
clared that congress alone had the
right to fix state boundaries. CThis
proposition put into effect would
cause another Civil War; He topped
these statements by saying that the
Texas New Mexico boundary dispute
had been settled. That it was no
longer an open question. (He evi-
IDENTIFY has not followed the frantic
efforts of Texas lately made to have
it adjudicated.)
But the convention kept on slum.
bering. Crist in despair withdrew
his resolution, but Isaac Barth now
came to the rescue. With stentorian
voice, he moved that special COM