The Socorro chieftain., 1906-10-27
LARRAZOLO HAS SPOKEN
Eloquent ExpOunder Of New Mexi-
Co..DemOoraOy Fails to Enthuse
a Small Audience
THE RANKEST OF SOPHISrRY
Meets Republican Arguments and
Statements Of Fact with Abuse
of Republican Politicians

Octaviano A. Larrazolo, the
democratic candidate for dele
gate to congress from New Mex
leo, spoke to an audience in the
court house in this city last Sat-
urday evening. The audience
was.by no means as large or.as
enthusiastic as many that have
greeted speakers ION like occa-
sions in the same place hereto
fore.
Mr.. .Larrazolo's address was
eloquent. That goes without
saying. The democratic candi-
date for delegate has the reputa-
tionsof being eloquent and to a
disinterested observer it must
have. appeared that the speakers
chief effort, .,wass-directed to the
sustaining of his reputation.
The address was composed of far
more eloquence. .lthan.. logic, far
more sound than sense. In fact,
from beginning to end it was a
web of sophistry that was neith-
er creditable to Mr.. Larrazolo
nor complimentary to his hear
ers.
(which party is best entitled
to the respect and confidence of
the people of New Mexico?" ask
ed Mr.. Larrazolo. His own
answer to the question was that
''the records must determine,
and he proceeded to cite Just so
much of the records as he
thought he could make serve his
own purpose. For example, he
did say by indirection that for
twenty-five years no law had
been passed for the common
good of the people of New Mex
leo through the efforts of a re-
publican delegate in congress,
but he did not say that during
fourteen of those twenty-five
years New Mexico's interests in
congress had been entrusted to
democratic and not to republican
delegates. He did say that Hon.
Antonio Joseph, democratic dele
gate for ten years, had secured
the establishment of land court
that established the title to r.
100000 acres of land in New
Mexico, but he did. mot. .,.say that
the land court was established
tn rough the efforts of commit
tee of prominent citizens of New
Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona
and the united efforts of eastern
capitalists interested to the eX-
tent of millions of dollars in the
land grants of these three COM
monwealths. He did say that
Hon. H. B. FERGUSON, demo-
cratic delegate, had secured the
appropriation of 100000 acres
of public land for the schools of
New Mexico, but he did not say
that a republican congress is al
ways generous in its support -of
educational institutions and that,
to use his own words with refer
ence to Hon. w. H. Andrews
securing 100000 for a public
building at Albuquerque, 1T had
to come" He did say that those
who assert that Mr.. Andrews is
entitled to reelection because of
the large number of pensions he
had secured for disabled veterans
were either grossly ignorant or
willfully perverted the facts, for
the pensioners of the civil war had
earned their pensions just as a
man who kills a wolf earns a
bounty on the scalp; but he did
not say that a man who presents
a claim at court usually fares
better if he has an attorney to
represent him. He did say that
the man who steals a goat is
tried by jury and sentenced to
the penitentiary, while. the ex-
superintendent of the peniten-
tiary is thousands of dollars
short in his accounts and goes
scot-free; but he did not say.that
the ex-superintendent had had
no trial by jury and that a grand
jury composed of republicans and
democrats alike had given his ac-
counts searching investigation
and refused to find an indictment
against him. Mr.. Larrazolo did
say that the main issue is honest
and virtuous government in the
territory, but he did not say that
during the last period of demo.
cratic rule in the territory, that
from 1895 to 1898 inclusive, the