Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1911-10-16
A MONUMENTAL MISTAKE
DEMOCRATIC SLATE MAKERS ARE
HAVING DIFFICULTIES OF A
SERIOUS NATURE.
THE RANK and FILE OF PARTY
REFUSES TO ACCEPT PATCHED
UP TICKET PREPARED IN SAN
IA FE CONVENTION.

From all over New Mexico com.
encouraging reports for the republi
can state ticket and it is already ap
parent that the republican party il
the new state win triumph at the
polls on November Z by one of the
biggest majorities in its history.
The democratic-progressive slate il
losing strength every day. The dem
ocratic bosses, who forced two weak
progressives upon the slate, have dis
heartened and displeased those veter
ants of their party in New Mexico
who have fought the democratic bat
ties for so many years. They are not
saying much, but they have abandon
ed the fight, knowing that already it
has been lost through sheer stupidity
and gang methods used at the Santa
Fe convention. Neither Van Stone
nor Hanna add votes to the tickei
and, on the contrary, are a dead
weight for democracy to carry.
The enthusiastic receptions given
Holm o. Bursum in Mora. Colfax.
Union. Quay and Guadalupe counties
have greatly disheertened eysa The
democratic bosses because they know
too late that they made the most gil
gantic blunder they ever made when
they steam-rolled the Santa Fe con-
vention and put through the Mar
tinez- -Eagerman slate
Over in Quay county, the demo-
cratic party is split wide open and it
ia a breach the democratic bosses
cannot repair in the brief space of
the present campaign. The democrats
in Quay county who refuse to be rid
den over rough shod, are openly de-
claring what they are going to do and
the democratic bosses know that they
are powerless to line up the warning
| factions.
Mr.. Mcdonald cannot even carry
his own county and it may go against
him with a substantial majority un.
less the missionary work being un-
! dertaken by the democratic bosses
has more effect than now seems
likely.N
| Eastern, New Mexico got nothing
fiom the Santa Fe convention but Il
slap in the face. 1t did not even get
what it asked in the. platform and
while its delegates in that convention
stood for the bosses, they did it with
bad grace and they are now hearing
from the electorate at home.
The strong republican counties are
putting up their county tickets in
harmony. naming good men and ce'
menting their lines. It Is the oppo-
site state of affairs in several of the
banner democratic counties, wAere
there is more discord than there hes
been in years.
Believing that they had chance to
win a few democratic bosses, we'll
.nown to the voters from past ex-
periences. got together and tired to
grab the slate-and they did grab It.
But they yin never elect their
men,. because they cannot control the
rank and file of democracy as they
did the convention. Even the news
paper organ of the democratic party
at Albuquerque has been forced to
admit the greetings of enthusiasm
given the republican nominee for gov
eInor. Hon. Holm o. Bnrsum. and 1t
weakly tries to explain 1t by declar-
ing that the people crowd to those
meetings simply 4ont of curiosity to
see what Mr.. Bursum looked like.
But the people already knew what
Mr.. Bursum looked like. for they met
him frequently and became well ac-
quainted with him in the three sue
cessful republican campaigns he has
managed. They turned ont to assure
him that they were going to stand by