Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-11-03
bURSUM GIVEN
AN OVATION
Makes Magnificent Address
to Splendid Audience at
Albuquerque
WILL CARRY COUNTY BIG.
Last Vestige of Serious Opposi.
ton at Albuquerque
Fades Away.
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! Special to the New Mexican.
| Albuquerque, y. NJ, Nov. 3.-One
o. the biggest meetings ever held in
this city was the ovation rendered
Holm O. Bursum and his party here
last night.
| Mr.. Bursum has many friends in
Bernalillo county and in Albuquerque,
who have known him for years. But
there are many people here who until
last night had never seen Mr. Bursum
and that he made friends of them,
is apparent on all sides.
Mr.. Bursum does not claim to be an
orator but he is speaker who COM
pels close attention by his manliness
and the sincerity of his utterances.
| Despite the fact that Mr.. Bursum
has been constantly speaking, most
of the time in the open air, in all
kinds of weather and under varying
climatic conditions, his splendid
| physique and his strong, resonant
voice showed no indications of II. He
was in fine health and he looked every
inch of the typical man that he is
and that was the impression he ere.
ated here.
Mr. Bursum discussed, in an open
and manly way, in plain everyday
English, the issues in the present cam.
paign and his speech throughout, in
contrast to the speeches here of Nc
Donald and others could not help but
impress upon the people who heard
him, that he was a big, open hearted,
manly man with deep insight into
New Mexico affairs and knowledge
OF measures and men.
Mr. Bursum visited among his
friends here yesterday and made sev.
eral talks in some of the nearby pre-.
cincts, receiving in each of them a |
hearty reception.
Following is brief summary OF
some of the things Mr.. Bursum said
here last night:
A Democratic Debt,
Mr.. Bursum explained that the |
county of Socorro had been saddle
with debt during the administration
in that county of E. " Chaves, who
is now campaigning against Mr. Bur-
sum and explained that the Repubii- |
cans OF Socorro county had ever since !
been struggling to overcome the CT |
feet of the Chaves administration
Ruin of Wool Industry.
Mr.. Bursum next entered into a dis. !
cussion of the issues involved in the I
platform of the two parties, and made
a powerful and convincing argument
in favor of continuing the Republican
party in power. He dwelt at some
length on the Democratic policy OF
free trade and showed that its effect
on the wool industry of New Mexico
would be rlinous.
Education and Good Roads.
He pledged himself to support
measures looking to an efficient pub.
lie school system and state industrial
education, and promised that his ad
ministration would give every encopr. ,
agement to the building of complete
and efficient system of roads through ,
out the state. On these subjects Mr.. 4
f'rsum was clear and explicit and /,
left no doubt as to his position. Mr.. |
Bursum concllded his speecI with an |
arglment in opposition to The AGop. {
tion of the blue ballot amendmen.
which was pronounced the ablest pre- S
sentation of the question made by any
public speaker who has yet been (
heard in Albuquerque. 1t
Mr. Bursum received the closest +,
attention from the big crowd through &
our his speech. The meeting was be. t
yond all question the most successful r
that has been he'd in AlbalucrJuuo
during the campaign and every YES ]
tlge OF serious opposition to Bursum I
has disappeared. c