The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-10-28
a swzET.solNTED CANDIDATE.
To Deodorize a Bad Smelling Ticket.


4 Briel 0allire OF The Biocty iced and q Sketch
Of he lNaSiB.
The roformers of bona Ara
county met in conclave last week
.at Messilla and after adopting a
set of mixed truisms that might
suit any party or political body, as
u platform, proceeded TO vindicate
the Pecos Statesman and Vera
Cruz politician, and further braced
up a waning cause by putting the
names of Whitehill and Yghacio
Orrantio on the ticket. The RIO
Gran8e RsDubJicqm pays his re-
spocts TO the latter gentleman inthe
following very forcible way:
About eigntecn years ago, g<cer-
tain man, who was then a JT<fice Of
the Peace at Messilla, sc6t out q
posse of mon to exterminate a fam
lily of American immigrants, who
had recently settled at Magdelena
Canon. His orders were to kill
and spare not; neither sex nor age
were to excite pity in the hearts Of
his murderous gang. The aged
grandfather, the delicate women,
the helpless children, all were to be
assassinated. That suspicion might
not attach to the perpetrators OF the
hellish crime, their instigator di-
rected them to disguise themselves
az Indians.
The plan was executed with an
accuracy and dispatch that would
have gladdened the heart Of Luci-
fer. When the mornings sun
arose, it looked down upon a spot,
that but yesterday was q happy
home, but where now the smoking
ruins formed the tomb Of an entire
family.
But though the unhappy. victims
of his crime were no more, its
memory was imperishable. Before
the next election, when this mur-
derer came to have his name reg
istered as a voter, a man said to
him: "Assassin Of the Magdalena
canon! Go to hell, where your
name is registered ! Go, and vote
thero!"
Disowned by the good men of
this county, avoided by his former
associates, and tortured by the
paDgs of his guilty conscience, he
fed to Ascencion in Mexico, hoping
that amid strangers his crime would
not follow him. But even there,
the tidings of his bloody deed
sought him out, and he was eXpell-
ed from his new home. He re-
turned TO bona Ana county, only
to find fresh tormentsin the univer-
sal detestation that awaited him.
From that day to this he has been
branded with the mark of Cain,
until Us q fitting reward for his
crimes, he was on last Saturday,
made the nominee of the Messilla
convention, for the Office Of Repre-
sentative,
That man is Ygnacio Orrantia
What a pity the murderer of the
Nesmith family is not known, that
the deIectablo pair might jointly
solicit the votes Of the people o.
this county, Why is Chilly the
Kid" not alive, that he also might
seek high honorsl But we believe
that thegood citizens of this county,
viii punish such eflrontery by ar
overwhelming defeat at the polls,
and that they viii decide by then
: ballots, that crime, even though i
remain for a long time UNPUBLISHED
will at last meet with retributiyJ
Justice at the High Court of the
Ballot Box. The name Of Orranti;
} would Kill q ticket otherwise com
posed Of archangels.
And yet the heightened mora
, pressure organ Of Lincoln count,
associates the names Of respectable
| citizens on the same ticket with thi
fellow. Truly this New Process
movement makes strange partners
t Mr.. Dan Freitze has reason T.
r,o1 bivlI,- IlnceoJ o,-or tho roe,,1