In New Mexico. today the that time they have stood at the door and knocked. but it has taxable. values now amount to. $300.000.000. In addition. there never yet been opened to them. Other Territories with less are 400 miles of railroads now untaxed but soon to be. and. population. with less territorial area. with less industrial development have been admitted on their borders. but these more fortunate Territories were peopled by emigrants from the older States. and so those people believed. and so they had a right to believe. and I believe and charge that the only reason they have been denied admission to the Union was because the Republican Party. which has been in power in this country. with the exception of two short years. for the past half century and more. did not believe that in character and qualifications for selfgovernment they were capable of maintaining the institutions of a State.
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The Republican Party did not believe that the people of New Mexico were capable of self-government.