Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-14
IN ALBUQUERQUE, SEPTEMBER IL

one MEMBER OF Congress, can
testify that in that great body,
to which belong, there are men
of high charaoter--there are men
who would not stoop to PROSTATE
their Government-to prostitute
its great principles for such a
sordid end; and l can say, my
good friends, that the leaders of
the Republican party, who in my
opinion ought not to be In control
of the Legislation of this Country.
be whatever they may, they do
not dispense or pay out money of
the Treasury of the United States
because some Republican wants a
favor done.
Few Party Votes.
Moreover, / believe I can testify
to another fact which will be Of
great significance to you at this
time in view of the cam
paign argument which is being
presented. 1t is astonishing how
few questions come before the
Congress of the United States
which are really political questions
at all-questions upon which there
is a division of sentiment and vote
according to party lines. Take
any or the questions which locally,
directly affect the great State of
New Mexico and l will venture to
say that there isn't single one of
them which Is advocated or oppos-
ed along party lines.
l know that the city of Albu-
querque and this great portion of
New Mexico is interested in the
reclamation of the Rio Grande
valley. ! say to you, my good
friends, that believe that that
is the one great improvement
which is in the near future to be
contaminated in the State of New
Mexico. There is no question but
what in the near future there is
going to be passed a reclamation
Dill, bill to further reclaim
arid lands of the great West. Has
anybody ever even suggested to
you that that movernent is a party
question? Now just think mo-
ment. my good friends. Do you
believe that anybody. on reflection,
vii say that the passage of a re-
clamation law for the irrigation
of the semi-arid and arid lands
OF the great West is a party ques-
ton? Not at all, my friends.
Every Western State is directly
interested and there isn't a voice
In Congress from the great West
which is opposed to reclamation.
There is no thought of dividing
upon that question along party
lines. SO also may you take the
question of Federal appropriation
Tor good roads. Do you think for
minute that that is a party
question? Take the subject of
the War Finance Corporation
making an arrangement whereby
the Banks carrying the paper of
the agriculturists of the Country
may be relieved. Do you think
that that is party question? Do
you believe that any such Iegisla-
ton was ever enacted because
some Republican asked that it
might be done.
Many Helped Farmers.
On the other hand, and l think
I can say it with all proprity,
if there is one individual who as
serted himself more than another
in favor of the measure, that 1t
was-I would like to say a Senator
from New Mexico--but it was the
Honorable Senator Smith of South
Carolina. But he didn't do It
alone. It was recognized from one
side of this country to the other
that something along that
line must be done, ana so with
the various other measures. /
ask you, my good friends, to point
to single act of any consequence
to the people of New Mexico,
where anything has been accom-
plished as mere matter of favor.
These things are decided upon
their merits, and It is not done
otherwise, and should not be done
otherwise.
But unfortunately there are
other things which do take on the
political color. The line of de-
marcation between the two great
Political parties is manifest in
Congress regarding certain great
measures about which there is a
difference of opinion regarding
their fundamental priciples.
why Endorse Administrations?
The next issue presented in this
campaign is the argument that we
should elect Republican to the
United States Senate because we
want to ratify. approve and en-
dorse the present Republican ad-
mlnlstration. | want to say to
you, my good friends, upon that
issue / am willing to join in this
campaign. / am perfectly willing.
if the good people of New Mexico
will analyze what has been done
or accomplished by this admins
tration to let the result of this
campaign rest upon that one ques-
tion-Shall you approve and en-
dorse this administration? I
wish to remind you that by oppos-
ing the endorsement of this Ad-
mlnistration you are not opposing
great many principles which
have been uttered in Republican
platforms. I have just recently
read the platform of the Indepen-
dent Republican party of this
State, and aside from that part
of it endorsing the Harding Ad-
ministration, i can stand flat
footed upon every other part and
plank of it. So too, my friends,
| observed in your morning publ
cation a boast as to certain things
which have been put into the reg
ular Republican platform. Ger
tain declarations for equality
for equal opportunity-for equal
justice--for legislation in favor of
the masses of the people as
against the few. That was a part
of the platform about which
your Morning Journal boosted.
and ! say to you, my good friends,
that there was never better DEM
ocratic doctrines anywhere than
those few paragraphs put into the
Republican platform. And so we
look back to some OF the declara-
tions of the Republican party in
the past. We often hear it re-
itorated in the words of that
great model President, Abraham
Lincoln, that 1t should be a.
Government of the People-by the
People and for the People. /
stand here tonight appealing that
that doctrine may stand emblazon-
ed in the skies and be glorified in
this campaign. But I wish to
remind you that in the Congress
of the United States, and in both
houses of that Congress. there is