Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-07-17
Taos and Rio Arri.
ba Counties For
the Delegate
RECENT TRIP SUCCESSFUL
Citizens Generally Gave Him
Grand Ovation Every
Place He Went

Delegate W. H. Andrews reached
the city last evening on the belated
train of the Denver and Rio Grande
from northwestern New Mexico. He
felt well and was satisfied with the
results of his sojourn in TERRA Am
arilla, Parkview and Chama in Rio
Arriba county and in Arroyo Hondo,
Arroyo Seco and Taos in Taos county.
He met large numbers of the leading
citizens of these towns and became
well acquainted with conditions and
with the people.
In TERRA Amarillo he was the guest
of Hon. 7. d. Burns, at the latter's
spacious and commodious residence.
He spent Sunday there and enjoyed
his sojourn greatly. Many of the lead.
ing citizens of Rio Arriba county from
the towns in the vicinity of TERRA
Amarillo, twenty, thirty and forty
miles distant, went to the county seat
to pay their respects to the delegate
and to become personally acquainted
with him. Delegate Andrews is of the
opinion that Rio Arriba county citi-
zens who met him were among
the best citizens in the territory and
they impressed him very favorably.
They are sturdy, self-c0ntained, self
reliant men who know what they want
and are alive to the best interests of
the territory and Of their sections. He
held consultations with many of the
leading Republicans and also met
quite number of Democrats who as.
sured him of their votes If he receiv-
ed the Republican nomination as can
didate for delegate to the Sixty-first
Congress.
People Are For Statehood.
The people of Rio Arrba and Taos
counties are alive to the Importance
of statehood ana are very desirous of
securing same. They understand fully
the benefits that will be given to New
Mexico under state government and
also know all about the beneficial pro-
visions of the bill for an enabling act
introduced by Delegate Andrews and
now pending in the SiXtieth Congress.
They expressed their gratitude at the
good done for the sheep raisers and
cattle owners of Rio Arriba and Taos
counties and for the people there gen.
orally in securing a reduction in the
area of the Navajo Indian reservation
and in helping the people In getting
from the forestry bureau an increase
in the number of sheep to be grazed
on the National forests in these cOun-
ties as we'll as the reduction in the
fees and arrangements for more easy
and liberal regulations governing the
grazing of sheep, cattle and other live
stock on the Jemez, Carson and pecos
national forests.
Delegate Andrews considers his Wis
1t to Rio Arriba and Taos counties a
very satisfactory one. He was assured
that the two counties would go very
strongly Republican and that the sen.
timent of the voters there is growing
stronger daily towards the support of
Republican territorial legislative and
county tickets.
Warmly Greeted at Taos.
From Chama, Delegate Andrews
proceeded to Taos via Servilleta. At
Arroyo Hondo he was met by caval.
cade of prominent citizens of Taos
and surrounding towns. There were
about forty buggies in the cavalcade
and nearly one hundred horsemen.
The buggies and wagons were decorat-
ed with flags and the horsemen car
ried flags. The reception in Taos 1T
self was one of the most pleasant, larg-
est and most cordial ever experienced
in the prosperous county seat of one
of the best counties in the territory.
That delegate Andrews is highly pleas.
ed with the reception, the meeting at
the court house, with the very sincere
and friendly treatment he receivd at
the hands of the many prominent citi.
zens and the cordial and genuine graf.
itude extended to him by the people
generally who came into Taos by the
hundreds need not be repeated here.
He conferred with nearly all the Re
publican leaders and many other citl.
zens who are interested in his nomina
tion as the Republican candidate for
delegate and in Republican success
The Republicans of Taos county will
carry the county in this campaign by
one Of the largest majorities ever Civ
en- that party in any election since
the organization Of the county. Con
ditions politically are getting better
The citizens of Taos, especially the
ladies', were among the incest people
that the delegate has met in the ter
ritory. They treated me In the best
possible manner and extended to me