The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1911-11-04
JUDGE A. B. FALL MAKES PLAIN
MOTIVE OF HACERMAN AND OTHERS

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allow few of IT,, leaders 10 select t..
Themselves so.callcd republican. ~ make
np the democratic ticket. then ~ releases
every democrat in the territory ~ New
M"Ni"o from his party obligniion, aud
that he Is free man aud hns nn equal
right =" select for himself what rrpuhli.
eau he desires Z" east his y,fc for.
Now fellow citizens there are two
classes of campaign wngcd IN this tci
ritorv which are soon ~ be- settled. /
| have been with the republican cnndi.
lat" ior p"'ctnor ~ yariuu, counties ~
The state aud have heard him IN almost
every speech h" has mnl lc stand before
the people ~ citizen of New Mexico
telling them fonrlcsslv and frankly wha,
his policies would hs IL elected guvrr,.
~ nf ia" state. and have never hoard
him hesitate I" answer any question tirn
pounded 10 him ns Ia what hc wnula 10.
] have heard him discuss questions Of
interest io onch riiizen of this state. aud
only such questions have never heard
him open hi- mouth ~ critici.c any man
IN either ticket running IN opposition 10
him, aud have never heard him use one
harsh word IN rriticisinp u pnlit,ral on
p"nent. the republican candidates are
making q clean campaign upon business
principles aud u :, Tor the people of
New Mexico tu say whether they are
satisfied with these principles On the
other side, have heard nothing from
the great democratic party hut yilidca
tIon aud abuse. have heard uu prin.
ciPlrs discussed except two nr three hy
the urnt"r,, the mJI,.itN of " hom were
imported for the purpnsr ~ discussing
some 1T these matters with ynu which
ar" involved ~ embraced IN the rnusti.
tuition which the people of thi, trrritC'v
adopted hv an eighteen thousand ma
iority. With that exception, with the
exception nf the reference tu certain
constitutional provisions. the campaign
upon the part 1T the democratic party
publican candidates. Now I leave IL I,
ynu ~ say whether ar not that is not
the truth. That has been my experience
| ihrnugh0ui ~" campaign which l. nov
drawing to close aud am here tonight
- answer hy the records nf the uneS
| tinnS which have been discussed hcfurr
I f.st. IN. ~
aud with rfcrrnrc ~ thc article known
~ the blue ballet. or the proposition To-
amend the c"n~t tiiutiun. | am also here
in answer the NilnnrUu~ HttH,k, which
nave hrcu made upo. the republican
standard hrnrcr ia this campaign. |
shalt make no statements either IN the
other which cannot hc b,rnr out by the
| public records "f the state ur rrrrii"rv
of New Mexico, OF its congress aud at
the congress 0f the lnitrd states |
| have ~ written speech aud am ne an
| orator. or great statesman imported
| from the State Of Virginia to instruct
plain citizen aud Just one of YOU, in.
trrrstrd IN the welfare of this terri.
tory and interested in year welfare. that
Oi each one uf vuu, because II j. my wei
fare. | have before me here two speech
-, nnt my own. hui two written speech.
-. one that If II, D. Flood ~ Virginia,
aud the other that of llrrhrr, i. lla.
german of New Mexico. I have here
also certain documents, three "f which
! will refer tn, aud they constitute the
hearing before the House nu Territories
on the question of admission OF New
Mexico, ! have here also speech made
| IN the congress of the United States
by senators, aud arguments 1T that
body, which | may refer Ia IL II he.
c,snrs necessary. have the records
~ stated, for every statement of fact
that shall undertake 10 make Ia YOU
tonight
Now. IN the speech which Mr. floOd
made all over the territory, because he
made the same speech everywhere, IN
this speech he told the people they
owed statehood entirely 10 the demo
cratic party That the democratic party
had always stood for statehood for New
Mexico, and that the republican party
had never stood for statehood for New
Mexico aud had never, despite its many
opportunities, given statehood To New
Mexico. ! am here Ia shy 10 YOU ~
o citizen of New Mexico that neither
party has given Justice % New Mexico
that repeatedly for the last sixty YEAR
both parties In their political platform
and through public speakers, have prom
ised Justice Ia the people of New MeXic,
aud that neither of them ever gave IL
aud when he says that the democrati,
party had no opportunity "a give state
hood ~ New Mexico he forgcts tha
IN 1894 the congress d the Cnite'
States was Overwhelmingly democratic
that the senate Of the United States ha,
three democratic majority aud thre
populisi connected with the democrat,
and that the President of the Unite,
States was one Grover Cleveland, an
that the statehood bill instituted a
that time for New Mexico, promised il
the democratic platform, never even 60
through the democratic congress- |
never reached the democratic senate
! II never so much as reached the dem,