Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-08

wool is raised, at forty per cent Of
what it costs us in The United States.
and yet free trade would not reduce
the cost OF your underwear or socks,
one penny.
But not only is it wool growing
that is threatened with destruction by
Democratic tariff ,lnkering.
New Mexico is a great producer Of
lead and zinc. Large sums of money
are received annually for the product
of lead and zinc mines, and many men
are employed at good wages. That in
dustry, too, if Democratic theories pre-
vail will be wiped out. Similarly, the
beet sugar industry, whicn is destined
to be one of the great industries of the
future New Mexico. 1t is an infant in-
dustry now, anC it needs the coddling
of a protective tariff.
The Democrats in Colorado and
Utah, and the progressiyeS in Cali
fornia, cry out against a reduction on
the tariff on sugar, because they rea-
lie that free trade in sugar will de-
stroy the beet sugar industry in the
west, without giving the consume
cheaper sugar, for they have learned,
and are well aware, that putting hides
on the tree list, has not brought cheap
er shoes to themselves, 10 their wives,
OF to their children, bat it has in
creased the profits of the foreign live
stock growers.
Protection, the keystone OF Amer
lean prosperity, if once removed, will
cause the whole arch TO tOtter. The
Republican party must plant itself
square in the road Of the Vandals, who
would seek to remove it. This is the
issue that VIII keep New mexico in
the Republican column, for it is a
fight for self-pres Let not
the glittering theories, and attractive
~ garbed "isms," divert the attention
from the one great issue, and from the
one great candidate, in whom rests
the hope of the United States, and OF
New Mexico especially, for mucn need
ed prosperity, for the full dinner pail
Republican Party Is Progressive.
The Republican pa yty never looks
backward Its policies and measures
| have always been progressive. There
| is no need of raising any dust on this
proposition at all, for history speaks
| louder than any oratorical allegations
"A Republican president. and Re
publican Congress, passed the enabl
| ing act, and a Republican president
! gave New Mexico statehood, witt
! splendid endowments, so that the peo
policies that build up, rather than de
stroy, that give stability rather thar
uncertainty, that mean prosperity
rather than want. Give the nation!
! prosperity and all other things will bt
| added thereto. Thai is the issue an(
the only issue which confronts New
Mexico today at this convention ant
which will confront the nation at tn
polls in November Of this year.
There Is No Race Issue.
so much for national policies. Nov
speaking about conditions at home
the Republican party in this new state
is conceded to be composed of sever
ty-fiVe percent Of Spanish America
speaking people. During my eXper
ence in the political arena, | hav
heard in conventions, in Legislature
and even in our constitutional conveI
ton in the praises of the Spanisl
again that they are the most hospit;
BILE people on the face of Gods gree
earth; you have stated that their for
fathers fought the battles of the brav
for oar peace and prosperity. Yo
have stated and praised their loya1t
, to the Union and to the Republica
, party, and it may look strange to on
that has not had anything to do wit
. politics in New Mexico that ever
Spanish-American state candidate
the Republican party at the last ele
tion was defeated. | do not attribu1
f it to the race issue which | beliey
does not exist, but of which we hay
S heard so much since that memorial
: occasion But | do believe that it VIZ
:, an oversight or the part of some
S our Republican friends IN not keepir
4 in the Republican organization, and
: course on account of the great disse
+ sions in the party for a year or so.
:, 1T is obvious to any one that h;
y had experience in New Mexico po
J. tics that Bernalillo county is normal
y Republican from thousand maJori
and up, and that Sandoval county
normally Republican from five hu
s. dred majority and up. At the la
h election this normal Republican N
O jority of more than seventeen hundr
e in those two counties was changed
| q bNhloSi eijlC lhdJollly vi lOuI
y hundred and fifty. Notwithstan\l
e the fact that the Republican voters
d the two counties are eighty per ce
t, Spanish American citizens. Purely
v cal conditions brought this chan
IS about and the so-called race iss
had nothing to do with it whatev.
1t Hurt as we may feel at this defe
It we still believe in the principles
G the Republican party and that the I
,r publican party now assembled "
it continue to recognize this great p
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