Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-12-12
THE ELECTION RETURNS.
A Critical Analysis of the Official
Figures that Reveals Inter-
esting Facts.
Some Very Significant Increases in the
Vote that Suggest Frauds-Food
for Reflection of Honest
Citizens.

A comparison of the vote of the yari-
Gus counties of the territory for 1894
with the vote for 1892 shows some very
facts as to the population of
New Mexico as indicated by the voting
and also as to the election
frauds 80 hagrantly perpetrated.
The total vote this year in the terri
tory was 35,3Ol. Statisticiaus say that
an average of four non-voters out of
every five of population is very safe
estimate, so that upon the basis of New
Mexico's vote this year, taking all the
votes to be legal, Thea population of the
territory is now 176,505, an increase of
about 20, 900 since 1890. The total vote
in 1892 was 81 ,O19, 80 that the vote this
wear was an increase Of 1882 over that of
1892, or an increase of nearly IA per cent
Three counties in the territory
SHOW A DKoREAsE
of vote since 1892. Grant county's vote
this year is 113 less than it was in 1892
due doubtless to the number of mines
inactive in that county and the cense
auent diminution in the number OF
miners. San Miguels vote was 81 lest
this year than ia 1892 and Mora county'f
vote was 50 less, the decrease in each
instance being due to tbs fact that Union
county has, since the vote of 1892, beer
carved out of portion of the territory
included in San Miguel and Mora coun-
ties.
The greatest increase in the territory
was in the counties of Chaves, Eddy, Sar
Juan, Lincoln, Colfax, Guadalupe, Socor
70 and Valencia.
In Chaves county this years vote was
an increase of 81 per cent over that o.
1892, thus showing that that county hal
RECEIVED MORE 1MM1aRATIoN
than any other county Of the territory
its vote having increased from 1926 il
1892 to 6O9 in 1894. The other Pecot
valley counties, Eddy and Lincoln, botf
come forward with substantial increases
as the result of healthy immigration
Eddy's vote having been this year III
against $40 in 1892, an increase of abou
rs per cent; and Lincolu's vote having
increased from 1854 in 1892 to 1888 ii
1894, an increase of about ~ per cent
Colfa1 county, in which immigration has
been very notable, increased its vot'
about 16 per cent.
In San Juan county, the irrigation en-
terprises have brought in large immi
grant population during the last two
wears, fact that is evident from tn
increase in its vote from 1856, in 1892, t.
1928, In 1894, an increase of about 48 pc
, cent.
In the foregoing cases the reason TO
| an increase appears in the notorious fac
that foreign population has come in, bu
in the other counties where the vote ha
been increased to an extent greater tina
the amount of immigration would lea
one to e1 pect, the causes for lncreas
must be taken as of much, less credit
able nature. .t.s.li1
In Valencia county, for example, wher
in the last two years there has been n
ceptible additions to the population
EXCEPT THE LAMB CROP,
the vote increased from 1,473, in 1882,
1881, in 1894, wonderful increase of 81
votes in population Of 1,473 or over
per cent. This places Valencia as tt
fourth county of the territory in increa
Of voting population, when everyol
knows that there has been, no county
the territory which has been more sta
nant in the matter of immigration.
This enormous increase shows that I'll
peculiar Valencia methods of votir
sheep and other quadrupeds prevailed
that county on November g, and tn
there were several hundred votes count'
for which there was no legal excuse.
In Socorro county, where depressit
has prevailed for two years land where
vo,e not larger than that two years al
could have been honestly cast Il view
the great number of miners aud lahore
who have gone elsewhere, the increa
of vote was 10 per cent, or 39l mo
votes this year than in 1894. The on
explanation Of this great increase is t
fact that the most fragrant and
NOTORIOUS FRAUDS WE'RE PRAoT1cED
in that county on election day.
In Bernalillo county, where the clos
railroad shops and the low state of blu
ness gave no reason to anticipate an