Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-07-03
Uncle Hiram Thinks
the Colonel VIII
Settle At
Agua Caliente. n Mex
.IlIlN 2nd 1910

July ZnH, WV !
Mister Theodore Roosevelt. |
Private Citizen.
oyster Ray, l.. /.
Ny Dear SIR; seen ny the news-l
papers thai you are the man 10 get
advice from as To how TO run the
government and everything else. 1
have also been told by n friend here
that you know how 10 fix the jobs for
the feIiers, and that YOU took care OIL
all the people who went with yon
down Ia cuba, when You was working |
for the government down there, andi
that you vas tho one tina got them
tho good political jobs. ] suppose you'll
saw by the papers that we people out
here In New Mexico pretty soon are |
going to be a state. ] have only BEEN
IN this country 6 year now and of
course can vote and Will be qualified
to get a political jon myself. They
are going TO have an election pretty
soon for SOME senators TO go TO wash
ington 20 soc we get what is coming 10
us. Already there Is plenty Of the fel-t
iers that want 10 throw up their bns+l
mess and leave their families 20 work.
for themselves, SO they can get the
vacation in Washington. ! want 10
get the job Of q senator myself, be-
ing as ! lately came TO the eountryl
and know All about now To take care
of the people. Besides, the people out
here take kindly to the last man that
zones because they don't know SO
much about them and they don't get
any charges tiled against them, Now
they claim that President Taft got
tho statehood hil through. but I'll
know You had something to do With
II, and Il you didn't I think you wouldI
enjoy mixing up in the scrap yours
SELF, because fighting lions won't bel
ANYTHING IKE tho right we are gningI
to have on the Fellows that want to
yet elected senators. SO I want TO
ret your advice how To go after this
Job. The governor, who used to- he
chief Justice of the court at Las We
pas. so tho papers say, hos told all
the fellows 20 keep quiet, MS probably
he would like the Job himself, hnti
Tom Catron who lives in Santa Fe,
wont he stu, so the papers say, be-i
cause he has heard about them fine
bath tubs they got down there at thej
main building In Washington for thel
senators and members OF congressii
lei paso, the town that's ver In Tex-i
rs next to us. has got a man by thei
name Of Judge Fan That FL Pasol
wants to send as senator, and back I'M
Missouri they want another memberi
OF the senate ana they want the vot-l
ers in New Mexico to elect their mani
who WorRs for the railroad Then
up there III Las Vegas, there is n man |
by the name of T'witchell that has got
a railway station named after him
up real Iamy, and he wants TO be a
senator. too. I9Iese are only a few
ont Of the bunch that wants 10 go.i
The man that Is already in congress, !
he wants 10 20, too, and some seem
"a think that he has got q sinch on y, !
but nobody has got nny3 cinch at All
Now after laying the situation before
you as above, DO you think that u
get some of the people who manage
the schools in the country precincts
and VINO are looked mp 10 as leaders
OF public sentiment in their commun-
tiles to support me. that l would stand
any show for the job? ] am right now
undecided If l. should I'd to the Con-
stitutional C~onVention that they ARE
going to hold IN in Santa Fe Tor sixty |
DAYS to help their hotels out. some |
OF the candidates seem 70 mink fhet
ought TO go to the ~couyuntion, !
and If / don't be a delegate fncN'ieI
/ can get IN the convention by pcinG
a d~oorkeeper or a MESSENGER Tor some
of the delegates, os the h"legates wlI
need messengers to carry then
constitutions around with them. Do
YOU think, Mister Roosevelt, that u |
can control the precinct OF fatigue
Tusuke or some other precinct that
Is well known and has lots nf ~V-terS
which nobody knows about, that thel
legislature would elect me II senator
/ think If you would write a general
letter to the public hcrA in New Mex
leo that wants the scnaror 5obs howl
to get elected. That 1t would have n
effect and enlighten the people
here who do the voting.
Very truly yours,
HIRAM NEWCOMER.
p. s. MY address is Aqua Caliente,
but since the statehood bill they are
not going TO use spanish down hero
ans more so. address me Hot Water.1
as that is what We are all In.
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