El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-13

Ed r. Wright is out as a candidate for
the supreme court. OF which there are
to be three members. And the judge,
we s shoss at 0hsT pofea E0R ob for
money On recommendation of H. O.
Bursum, Republican state chairman,
the state convention is to be held and
noD'ina lions made for state offices, be-
fore district and county conven-
tions are held to name district and
county officers. The state convention
is To be held at Las Vegas on Septem-
Der IS. All those who aspire to state
offices and fail to set on the ticket,
Will then have time to get back home
and get into the race for county and
of certain districts, who fail to prove
fayorites for the state at large, may
still be kept on the public payroll.
Judge Wright is now presiding over
this district and If he does not get a
nomination for the supreme court, he
will, 1t is declared, be a candidate for
district Judge in this, the third district,
including Dona Ana, Otero, Lincoln
Of Las Cruces, law partner of Maj. w.
H. H. LewelIyn, is also said to be out
for the district judgeship. Just what
been divulged, SUIT the major usually
has some sort of an office that helps
alonC the bank account derived from
general practice.
Federal offices.
David ]. Leahy, who is United States
district attorney for New Mexico. is
going to run for district Judge up at
Las Vegas, in which district he lives.
and will not be a candidate, 1T is said.
for his present job again. But, once
more, there is chance that he may,
for the federal appointments are not
going to be made until after all the
state and county and district nominal
tons have been made and the new state
comes into the union The president
viii then have a chance to put some
OF the men vulgarly called political
lame ducks" into such jobs as their
lieves them fit to fiji. Louis o. Fullen.
OF Roswell, is said to have some strong
backing for the position of federal dis
tr1ct attorney and some others are also
house by men CLOSE up" that they
were just the persons for the job.
Legislature.
1t is said TO be almost cinch that
benjamin +. Adams, postmaster at CO.
roma, an old time friend of Theo. Roose-
welt and a veteran or the civil war, Is
going to get in on one of the legisla-
tive representative Jobs up here, and
mat ne VIII help to make the laws in
the lower house. He is a friend of
Theo. Roosevelt, which counts for a
good deal, as George Curry and several
others can well testify.
j. h Canning, prominent merchant
Of Carrizozo, and just elected president
OF A b. Falls bank at Alamogordo is
said to be certain of another of these
jobs - ;,
H. B. Hamilton, who is chairman Of
the Republican county central commit
tee for Lincoln county, is slated for
the district atorneyship Of this dis
trio third ID 50 the Republicans
TO the close votes of the past and say
mot So"
The County Seat Fight.
In Lincoln county, the county seat
fight is going to enter largely into the
political situation. Residents of Lin
lican ticket, have declared that they
Will scratch certain Republicans from
Carrizozo-just because they are from
Sarriz so which took away the county
there are people in Carrizozo in the
Republican party who talk the same
way about Republicans at Lincoln. And
timent applies in each instance among
the members of this party. With the
vote close in the county. there are Ii
able to be some new and startling stu
atlons in the next election.
Meantime the county seat fight is
unsettled. Lincoln county people have
some or the county records and say they
are going to keep them and the Of
business at Carrizozo. Carrizozo has a
handsome courthouse with the walls
completed to the top of the second
StoIys out no roof on and no prospect
of one going on for a while at least.
The court granted an Injunction to the
Lineoinites restraining the builders
from further work on the courthouse
until the county seat fight is settled in
the courts. Lincoln has lost the fight
in all the courts except this Injunction
matter The district court decided
against Lincoln and in favor of Carrf-
zozo on the county seat location and the
supreme court has larely refused a quo
warranto move Of the Lincolnites. but
the Lincoln people have now taken the
matter TO the United States supreme
court and until that is settled, lincoln
county has two county seats in fact
with each fighting the other, although
the vote and the courts to date have
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