Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-09-18
THE HALLUCINATIONS
OF O. A. LARRAZOLO
Makes Bitter and Untrue Charges
Against Republican Party and Its
Candidate at Pennington.
Special to the New Mexican.

Special to the New Mexican.
Pennington, N. NJ, Sept. 1S.-Larra.
zolo. the Democratic candidate for del.
egate to the Sixty-first Congress,
whose record, except for the fact that
he has been twice defeated for dele
gate to Congress on the Democratic
ticket, is a blank in every respect as
far as having done anything for the
benefit of the territory or in any Of
fetal position, is concerned, spoke
here on the evening of Septem-
ber the 18th. He commented some
on the election methods in the
coal camps in Colfax county
two years ago and raked j. Van Hout.
en-, the general manager of the Max
we'll Land Grant coal lands in that
county, and of the st. Louis, Rocky
Mountain and Pacific Railway com.
pany, over the Goals in great shape. He
charged Van Houten with having been
instrumental in arranging for fraudu.
lent elections and ballot box stuffing
in the Colfax county coal camps, thus
making an apparent majority for the
Republican ticket and defeating him,
LarraZolo. He gave Van Houten very
black eye, criticised the way the Re.
Ipublicans are handling the statehood
question and hauled Governor George
Curry and his statehood committee,
who were in Washington during the
first session of the Sixtieth Congress,
over the Goals. He claimed that Gov.
ernor Curry and the Republicans were
simply in Washington to have good
time and to throw dust in the eyes of
the people.
He blamed the Republican party and
the Republican Congress for not giving
the people of New Mexico statehood
and said had the Democrats been in
power they would have given us state
hood long ago. However, he had no
proof for that assertion and offered
none. He blamed the native voters in
New Mexico for not standing up for
their rights and ruling the territory,
as they were in the majority. He went
for Chairman H. O. Bursum, of the
Republican territorial central commit.
tee, and charged him with all sorts of
misdemeanors while warden of the
penitentiary. He accused Chairman
Bursum with being the owner of the
Socorro Chieftain and also engaged in
the manufacture of votes, and while
in the penitentiary, in place of look.
ing after the manufacture of brick and
sell them at good prices, Larrazolc
claimed Bursum manufactured votes
and stuffed the ballot boxes for the Re-
publicans.
He gave Delegate Andrews credit
for securing 100000 for the Sixteenth
National Irrigation Congress, but stat.
ed that H. B. Ferguson, while Demo
cratic delegate to Congress, secured all
the rest of the public land donations
for educational charitable and penal
institutions in New Mexico.
Afterwards he praised Delegate An
tonic Joseph to the skies and gave him
credit for great many acts which
he said were passed by Congress,
while Mr.. Joseph was delegate, which
in reality were not passed at all, or
were to the credit of Delegate W. H.
Andrews.
He called Hon. Solomon Luna, the
"Uncrowned King of Valencia county
and stated that he was in deal with
the Gar of Russia for the purpose OF
exiling all the Democratic voters to
Siberia. He charged that the Republt
can machine in New Mexico was a
mighty man devouring octopus that
was crushing the very life's blood out
of the people and robbing them by
heavy and tyrannical taxation. At this
stage he got chesty and struck a pose
Butler, of the Times Hustler, and Dan
burg, of Pennington, got in their work
with their automatic hand clappers and
a slight ripple Of enthusiasm passed
over the audience, but no one broke
in the head of the bass drum. His talk
here fell fiat and his managers then
tried to explain that he had just de
livered rip-roaring talk at Fruitland
that afternoon and therefore was tired
which looked to your correspondent
as If he had sized up his audience.