Show DE1fI0CRAThC DEMOCRATIC UNWISDOM Delegate V oorhes the brilliant young Dcmocra t of Washington Territory also arraigned his party in the House for its refusal to listen to the righteous appeals of his Territory for release from political slavery He told the Democrats Demo-crats that their apathy in the matter had called forth popular resentment in the form of an overwhelming Republican Repub-lican majority at the late election When thesa truths are fired at the Democratic leaders who are responsible for the injurti practiced upon the Territories they must feel that they have been mean or were lacking in political wisdom For four years THE HERALD has been pleading with the party to save Washington and Montana to the Democracy by admitting them to the Union and we have unceasingly warned the Democrats that unless they heeded the just appeals of these colonies for emancipation they would drive them into the Republican ranks We do not refer to this now for the purpose pur-pose of crying I told you so but to warn the Democrats in the House that they are driving another Democratic Territory the last but one that holds with the party over to the enemy Unless the Democrats in this Congress manifest an honest earnest disposition and willingness to admit New Mexico to the Union the Territory will as certainly be carried by the Republicans at the general gen-eral election in 1890 as the sun will rise this morning Men may call the people of New Mexico ignorant Greasers Greas-ers and uneducated and Representatives Representa-tives in Congress may say as is being done all the time that the New Mexicans Mexi-cans are not prepared to be entrusted with selfgovernment but ignorant and uneducated as these people are they know their friends they can tell when they are imposed upon and they will retaliate when an injury is done them The unwisdom that has characterized ized the Democratic conduct in regard to the Territories is bearing bitter fruit but the harvest is just what might have been expected More of that same unwisdom will be attended by equally ugly consequences |