Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-10-16
Impossible to Tell From Sat-
urdey Night Blow Out
What Democrats and Bush
whackers Stand for.
HAGERMAN, FLOOD AND
MCDONALD. SPEAKERS
Grand Old Ship Of State Off
cered BY Democrats. With
Republicans As Suckers,
Pictured BY virginian.

The widely advertised big noise"
took place al the Elks' theater Sntur.
day night n didn't seem to disturb
the hallyhoo men at the carnival
AROUND the corner whose voices could
be- plainly heard. aud whose merry
barking 10 a crowd many times the
size OF that IN the theatcr was rather
disconcerting TO the big nOisors on
the stage. bu, az ali events II was The
biggest noise the Democrats and bush.
whnckers could make, and may fairly
be- considered their supreme effort
during the present campaign
The unise was delayed for fully an
hour by the protractcd catflght no
tween the local Democracy ami the
uillencrats. who had wrangled the
ilNelong day and well into the nignt
over the question of which should be-
allowed 20 furnish the greater number
Of Lemons tor the ,lic that ~ 10 be-
served 10 The Bctnuliilo county voters:
but Anally. in order To prevent the big
noise frum being completely spoileu
hS having nobody 10 lisien 10 No. the
Democrats threw down their hands
gave the hushwhackcrs al they asked
Tor and marched into inc theatcr 30
ainrt tbs noise going Il vas oC'ocb
when This Happened. api the lower
ilonr al ihe ihcater was cumiOrtabi
filed about onc.ihhd of The audience
being composed ~ lssiics
The occasion WAS more notable Tor
what the speakers didn't sas than tor
what they did say Not onr word was
uttered on the subject OF the Demo
cratic tarln policy, ami all the speak.
efs Kept as iaI from The subject ot
frec wool ls lie English language
would permit Mr. Flood unaertook to
meet the challenge OF the EVENING
Herald ior comparison Of The con.
HtituSion of New Mexico With thar ~
Virginia. bu, be omitted any mention
1T his own record aS "a man that IA"
railroads have always been able to
rely Oh Az Ut the speakers compll.
mented the Herald very highly by hc.
nouncing d IN uumeasurUd terms. and
otherwise gave evidence that the
blows dealt by Il In the interest OF
the Republican ticket have raised
wclts on the Democratic hide
The proceedings were opened BY
Chairman Isaac BArth OF the local
Democratic committee who intro.
duced A 4. Jones OF Las Vegas, as
the chairman OF the meeting Mr..
Jones startled his hearers at the out.
set by announcing that Intelligence
had entered the household of the
journal. Democrat. but he didn't ofer
10 prove Il, and as nobody In the
audience had heard OF such thing
heiOTe, the statement was receives
with considerable incrednlity. The
speaker also lamented the fact that
the fates seemed 10 be opposed 10 his
making speeches In this campaign,
hut before the evening Was over he
managed to get a halfnelson on the
iates and made two OF three. lilo con.
cluded his remarks BY introducing Mr.
W G. Mcdonald.
Mr Mcdonald began by saying that
he wanted 70 he governor, but that he
hadn't wanted the Democratic nomi-
nation, leaving the inference that he
did not consider that q particularly
promising route TO the g0vefnogship
lie had evidently changed his mind
about taking seriously the charge that
he and Mr.. HaRerman together held
over 10000 acres OF the public land.
Tor he denied that he held any public
land nj all. Ito explained. however,
that his last lease had Just expired,
and that OF the land which he former
~ held 10000 acres was taken by ham
as an act OF friendship for a political
boss. lie seemed 20 resent being con
sidefed exclusively a cattle man, and
said he was also a sheep nam, adding
with tone OF regret that he had
never taught hts sheep 10 vote This
mention OF sheep by the candidate
was the nearest that anybody got TO
speaking OF free wool, and look or
panied nnxiety was seen TO come over
the faces of the leaders on the plat
form witch did not disappear until
the speaker got entirely away from
the subject OF sheep. Mr. Mcdonald
admitted freely that he was connected
with several foreign corporations, nut
said that SO far they had declined TO
nut up anything for his campaign eN-
penseK lie did not state his position
ON any public question. but said he
was for good government" lie con.
cluded by inviting those who prefer
rcd Mr.. nulAum's candidacy to his TO
vote for Mr. bursum.
The principal feature OF the speech
Of former governor lIagerman, wno
was the next noise uncorked, WAS his
assertion that he had once Informed
Hon. solomon Luna that In his (Mr.
Hagerman'sl opinion the native pee.
ple Of New Mexico We're as well quail
Ned 10 use the Australian ballot as
what he was pleased To term the
white men" Mr.. iiaaerman, did not
undertake 90 explain this very fine
spun racial distinction. He said he
knew the audience was more anxious
10 hear the other speakers than him
self, 80 he cut his remarks short
without any reference to free wool or
TO any other issue IN the campaign.
CONGRESSMAN Henry d. Flood was
then led 10 the center Of the stage and
presented 10 the audience as the real
cream cheese of all the big noises. Mr..
Flood placed both hands In his hin
rockets and started out by telling q
stony Of dream which he said
friend OF his In Virginia had had. lie
managed 10 spread the story out over
quite d considerable time In the tell
ing. but the point OF Il was that the