Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-09-21
PRIMARIES
ADD GAIETY To
CAMPAIG
FRANCISCO & co. PUT
ON FUNNY BURLESQUE
VoteIeSS Voting in Country and
City Ends in Solemn Farce of
Counting Ballots Returns
Withheld For Revision.

Despite the most strenuous efforts
of the Huhhcll holters. the "prmar-
ics' Yesterday were miserable Hzzlc
from the standpoint of the men who
hoped by this means to secure some
recognition from the republicans ot
Rernalllo county
After waiting patiently from in
the morning until i'm the evening.
the Judges in the city precincts went
sulcmnN through the farce of count
ing the few scattering ballots aud
wendcd their way honlcward
In Albuquerque less than two hun.
dred votes We're cast ana in the coun-
! try precincts the showing was even
more discouraging to the misguided
followers of the deposcd boss. In Dur
anes, which IS entitled to send four
delegates ia the so-called convention.
only two mon voted. In several Of the
precincts no voters appeared
| ~ Jaw iilAA To- NlllA a. iNWUlf NI NNM~
cn votes We're east The majority of
them being deposited by young boys
employed at the American Lumber
company plant In this precinct the
rN-boss early abandoned any hope ot
securing votes In ola Albuquerque and
gave orders that the primary should
nc held at the house OF Tomas Duran.
near the gateway OF the lumber COM
pany plant aud a mile from the usual
| place OF holding the election Fhe
| proximity at the polling place, and
the torlorn appearance oi the clec-
ton officials attracted the attention
of a few good -natured youths ON their
way from their days work ana these
dropped a ballot or two into the empty
box, Most OF those who did the Vot-
ing here were under age ana "A large
percentage of them reside In BarelAs
and other outside precincts.
| In Albuquerque the Hubbpll auto
mobile pat in the hardest DAYS work
since II left the factory. The one-timo
car dt Bernulillo county and master
Of the assessment cinch, accompanied
by "A chauffeur rushed frantically
about tho city seeking those who
might be induced to cast q ballot in
return ior the unusual experience of
an automobile ride, An looked alike to
| Don Francisco. ltailruad lahOrers
from old Mexico were induced to en-
| ter the luxurious machine and were
whskcd swiftly to one or other of the
| polling places whore they were sup
| piled with tickets. told where to de
posit them and sent on their way re-
Jocing. Many Of the men from the
lrepublic To the south appeared to think
that thcy were voting for Francisco
| Madero instead OF for Francisco Hub
| bell
| Cut and dried tickets had been pre-
pared In the four city election districts
land a strong effort was made to Sc
cure the names of as many respectable
citizens as possible In quite number
| OF instances the men whose names
appeared on the ticket We're not con-
suited, and when Mr Hubbell's Tri-
bune citizen gets around to announc-
ing the result and publishing the
names of those on the ticket, these
men win learn with some surprise
! that they have been chosen for the
doubtful honor of doing Don Francis
co.'s biddinI IN a so-called convention
to select other victims for the sacri-
| ficc at Las Vegas commencing on
| Thursday next
4
| whore some seven hundred men are
| employed. the authorities in charge
gave notice that all employees who
! desired Ia attend primaries We're at
! liberty to do so during working hours.
| This order. 1t was stated, applied to
primaries Of an parties republicans
democrats, socialists and llubbell bolt
crs. just three men of the seven
! hundred took advantage of the op-
portunity and attended the fiascO yes
FRIDAY II is not known whether or
not the entire three voted and thus
helped to swell the magnificent total
Worn ana weary from his slrrnu-
ous days work and seeing that the
result OF the vote would not be cheer
! ful reading for the faithful, the boss
gave orders that the Tribune Citizen
| should be issued without announcing
the result save IN general way
council at war was called for late last
night at which it WAS hoped that tho
| Ircurns could be 50 fixed up that they
| would 1T least afford some cunsdH-
| tion to the men who had been led
away rom their party allegiance To
! follow Il little band of clf-sccking
| boltors. The bolder among the counsel
Ors advised that statements be- put
ont claiming the entire republican
strength i'm the county. More cousorta-
| tive ones held that little over half
of the republican votes should be
| claimed The matter was thoroughly
! thrrshcd out ana il was decided to
| cmm between 500 and GOO votes IN
| Albuquerque ana between seven ana
| rlpht hundred in the county
! The mHttor OF the publication of tho
! tickets voted upon yesterday was
| held i'm allegiance us the boss desired
| time to look over the list for fear that
some "nudcsirahle had been elected
and he did not want to haNo his con-
vcntiun inflicted with any delegates
who would not chcertullN ubcy orders
"rhe people. must rule, declared
| Don Francisco, and / am the peo-
pie.
Among the gentlemen who took an
active part in Yesterdays ceremonies
were John W. Wilson, hitherto prom
| incutly identified with the movement
| for clean government; -. A. Porter
| field. president of the Good Coy
eminent leaRue, which recently secltr-
ga the abolition Of the red ieht' dis
! uict, NJ r.. Hickey, Elego Baca and
George r. craig. the latter three pro-
| Iminontly mentioned as candidates for
| district judge ON the Huhbell ticket
! II Is said that MI Wilson has been
promiscd the nomination rs district
lattorncy ON the same ticket II Is not
| known what inducements were held
| out TO Mr.. POrterfield.