Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-29

L QfUHu tHc ulbt6rutb1 Oh uu0 CuUg
For I've some enemies under cover,
Who are trying TO 90 me up.
It'll be a great victory for Don Hilario
Romero, aud he is certain to win it.
Engineer Thos. Collier Is looking for that
man who has $500 to 500 to bet on McKin-
ley.
There will be a meeting of The Hilarlo
Romero club at the school house In pre-
cinct No. 26, this evening.
The central committee of the democratic
party In this county has endorsed the
nominees OF the union party.
The military band has been engaged to
furnish music at the republican rally at
the opera house, this evening.
Already, ons-dollar bills are said to be
getting scarce at the city banks and two
dollar bills are too expensive, these hard
times.
Albino Baca, Q former janitor at the Las
Vegas court house, has been nominated for
assessor by the republican party In Guada-
lupe county.
A personal, explanatory letter 10 said TO
have been written by . prominent member
of the republican party to a member Of the
union party.
Catarino Romero, candidate for county
commissioner on the union ticket, n
party, were expected to return to town
from Rociada, to-day.
In Chicago, Tuesday night, Mr.. Bryan
was presented with a silver star, in the
center Of which Is the candidates. picture.
The donors were the Hebrew democrats Of
! that city.
The only excuses THE Optic can offer
for the large amount of space in its
columns given to politics, is the sbortness
! Of the campaign and the Righteousness Of
our cause.
A poor horse that had been ridden to
death for nothing was the one from the
Red river country, which dropped dead In
its tracks in front of the republican head
quarters, on the plaza, last evening".
Chris Sellman has wagered $50 to $25
with julius Judell that Bryan will carry
| his own state of Nebraska; also, 500 to
$50 that the same individual will be elected
to the presidency of the United States.
T. B. Catron, candidate On the republic
can ticket for delegate to congress, will
speak at the Tamme opera house. this
evening, and to the native people, In
| Spanish, at the court house, tomorrow
afternoon.
T. F. Kleinschmidt, a banker at Helena,
! Montana, cousin of Gen. Fred WalseD, OF
Denver, Colo, has 100000 In New York
| City, to be placed on Bryan, and he is taxi
| gives them.
Usually, the men who hang around the
local political headquarters are to be
| viewed with suspicion. The workers
ought to be out in the field, with their war
paint on, and their sleeves rolled up to
their elbows.
A Las Vegas merchant received informa-
| tion by wire from st. Louis, to-day, that
an aver bet of $500 that Bryan would
carry the states of Indiana, Ohio and ILL.,
nois, was posted in the Southern hotel In
that city, last evening.
Patricio Gonzales, Bias Sanchez and
Adolfo Sandoval, who have just returned
from the Pecos, whittier they had been on
a campaigning tour for the union party,
left, to-day, for the Conchas country,
fully confident of victory on next Tues
day.
James e. Whitmore, candidate for the
shrievalty on the populist ticket, visits
town from his Gallinas Springs home, to-
day. He has not withdrawn from the
race, believing, as he does, that where two
or three are gathered together in the name
Of the Lord, it will be well for them, In the
next world, if not in this world.
The county's funds will be safe In the
hands Of Henry Coke, the candidate for
treasurer on the union ticket. He is presi-
dent of two banking institutions and has
risen from poverty to afluence through his
own individual efforts. He is an enter
prising, deserving, Industrious and eco
nomical citizen who 10 certain of re- election
to the office which he has SO acceptably
filed, the past two years.
Roy W. Scott, representing the Phila-
delphia drug house Of j. II. zeilin & Co.,
who has been constantly on the road from
that city since last August, stopping at the
principal places along his route, openly
stated in a crowd, last evening, that all
the money in the United States, IL at hand, |
could not prevent the people from electipg |
Eryan to the presidency. He remarked,
further, that he would sacrifice his little
finger to be in Denver, on the night of the
election. The people of the queen city of
TIE west will fairly burn up the town, un-
less the ides of November reveal some
thing that is not now f~orehadowed.
Messrs. Austin & Mccormick, attorneys
at-law, in Jackson, Miss, write that they |