The Socorro chieftain., 1908-10-31
GOV. CURRY AND PARTY
Visited Sooorro County Tuesday
and Held Large and Enthusiastic
Republican Meetings,
REPUBLICAN CAUSE ARGUED
BY Governor Curry, Delegate An
drews, Chairman Bursum ana
Hon 7. b. Catron.

Tuesday was a great ddy for
the republicans of Sucu,rJ c"ua-
ty. On that day party ul the
foremost republican leaders ui
the territory visited the princi-
pal towns OF the county aud
aroused great enthu >idsm wher-
ever they went iur The cause they
so eloquently and ~ ably advO-
Gated. If there had brIurc been
the slightest doubt Vi oUcorro
county's giving the republican
ticket rouSing majority, that
doubt would have been dispelled
as the mists before the sun by
the visit of those distinguished
republican leaders.
The party consisted of Gov
ernor George Curry, Delegate
William II. Andrews, Chairman
IL. o. Bursum, Hon. II. b.. Cat
ron, Col. George w. P-ichard,
Major w. II. H. Llewellyn, and
others. They held enthusiastic
republican mass meetings in San
Marcial, San Antonio, Magda-
dalena, and Socorro and there is
no doubt whatever that as re-
suit this county's normal repub-
lican ma jority will show a sub
stantial increase when the votes
are counted on the third of No
vember.
A special train brought the
party down from Magdalena and
although it was after nine o'clock
in the evening when Jose f.
Torres called the meeting to
order in the court house the seats
were occupied and large num-
ber of people stood for two hours
to hear the speakers advocate
the republican cause in a man
ner that called forth repeated
and enthusiastic cheers.
Sheriff Aniceto c. Abeytia
was elected to preside and on
taking the chair spoke briefly
but we'll. Conrado A. Baca per-
formed the difficult task of inter-
.preting to the satisfaction of all
concerned.
DELEGATE WILLIAM II. ANDREWS.
The first speaker introduced
was Delegate William II. An
drews, who dwelt convincingly
upon the importance of statehood
for New Mexico and showed that
the 100000 acres of land and
S5,000,000 in cash appropriated
for public school purposes IN the
statehood bill now pending would
give the state of New Mexico a
larger school fund than is now
possessed by any state ia the
union. Mr.. Andrews declared
that if conditions remain as they
are now he would pass the state
hood bill at the short session OF
congress and Theodore Roosevelt
would sign it before the ink
was dry. Delegate Andrews
speech was we'll received and
there is no question that he
made many friends and support
erS by it.
GOVERNOR GEORGE CURRY.
Governor George Curry wa:
the next speaker. The governor
is exceedingly popular in Socor
TO and his speech Tuesday even
ing made him still more popular
if it is possible that he could bt
so. He first thanked the people
of Socorro county for their invi
tation to him to open the seconC
annual fair and said that th'
reason for his not coming to ac
cept the invitation was that h,
went to Washington at that tim
to interest the president in tn
cause of statehood. The gov
ernor set forth the great advan
tages of statehood, told how L
secure statehood, called to min'
the fact that Delegate Andrew
had already secured the passag
of the joint statehood bill tina
was killed by Arizona, predicte
that Mr.. Andrews, if reelected
would now secure the passage Q
the pending single statehood bill
and pronounced him the best de
egate New MeSico ever had.
CHAIRMAN II. o. BURsUM.
When Chairman II. o. Bulsul
was announced as the next speal
er he was received with an eI
thusiastic round of applause
Mr.. Bursum has developed into
good public speaker in the la