Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-11-26
SOME INSIDE FACTS
DEMOCRATIC MEETING
Child Taking Notes Who Was
Little Dreamed of BY
Those Taking Part.
REPORT OF SOME SPEECHES
Deliberations Were Never Expect
ed to Come to the Public Ear.
$4,000 For Contest.

The CemocraCtc territorial centrar
committee as announced in The
Citizen, held an all-day executive
session last Saturday. Executive
| sessions of democrats have leaks, as
well as executive sessions of other
political committees, and even those
of the United States senate, If there
is forgiveness for comparison.
The object for which the meeting
was held was the discussion of the
advisability, from democratic
standpoint, of contesting the elee'
ction OF Delegate Andrews.
Hon. H. b. Fergusson's voice was
heard long and loud for war. He
said among other things that the
trend of the country was democratic;
that the republicans who had been
led into voting for Larrazolo on the
race issue would stay with him;
that the Texans were coming into
the territory rapidly, and all this
meant the complete overthrow of the
republican party in New Mexico. he
spent some considerable time in
abusing Senator Penrose because he
was the friend of Delegate Andrews
( Speaker Cannon also came in for vo-
ciferous denunciation. He further
stated that Governor Hagerman was
thoroughly in sympathy with them
and would help to carry out the pro
gram for contest: that the governor
/ had a decided pull with the president,
and that he would not only enlist the
} presidents influence in the contest
/ against the corrupt bosses in New
( Mexico, but would subscribe to aid It,.
/ The speaker offered to guarantee all
| the democratic votes, as well as
I those of thirty-one republicans, in the
next congress, TO unseat Andrews, de
spite Uncle Joe's" influence. The
modesty of this guaranty is striking.
This speaker as well as Summers
/ Burkhart, was emphatically of the
opinion that the judges and clerks OF
| election in the territory shold be in
dicted, because il many counties the
democrats were not appointed, ex.
cept. Of course, in Bernalillo county.
/ This exception is to be made because
/ LarraZolo received a thousand or
more votes by the use Of stickers
placed on the ballots before they
were sent out in violation of the law.
The speakers undertook to guar.
antee that District Attorney Clancy
would secure indictments and pros
ecute the election officers, especially
i'm Valencia and Torrance counties
excepting, of course, Bernalillo
county.
A committee o. are lawyers was
appointed 10 report upon the law ana
the ways and means of carrying on
the fight. A recess was then taken
for lunch. At the afternoon session
the committee returned with law
books and recommended contest,
and the raising of 10000 to prose
cute it, stating that the lawyers
should be well paid for their serv-
ices. as they were not willing 10
work for nothing TheTeupon il
was unanimously agreed that success
could be secured only by raising all
the racket and stencil possible.
Chairman Jones was emphatic iu
his demand that the election officers
in Taos and Rio ArTiha should be
prosecuted. He claimed that he had
made some special arrangements that
should have resulted in a majority
for Larrazol1 in Taos county of 40r
or more, and I'm Rio Arriba Of 800 "a
500. These majoritics had not ma
terialized. Therefore. something was
wrong and the election officer,
should be indicted.
That eminent relOrmel from Mora
county. Rafael Romero, was equally
: pronounced in demanding the indict
3 mcut of the election officers in Mora
AZ the close OF the spechmakig II
was uuauMuu-I. resolved TO rails,