The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-01-21
PLAIN SPEAKING ON
FLOOR IN UNION
CONTESTS
Judge Swan Of Tucumcari
Tells Majority Where it is
Headed. Judge Mann
Shrouds Lack of Evidence
in Cratory.

in Cratory.
Santa Fe. y. NJ, Jan. FL
Here H. the official vote. upon ne
adoption 90 h majority report
or the house committee of privil-
eyes and elections. unseating the
two Union county Democrats tate
yesterday afternoon.
To unseat the two Democrats.
Abeyta, Blood. Chavcs of Tor
rHnce. Chaves Of Valencia. Davies.
Eaton, Francis. Fleming. GaIIe-
gus, Of SAINT Fc. Gonzales. Jac.
quez Lucero. Luian. Mann.
Martinez. Mirabal. Medina. Mon
q y of Rio Arriba. Montoyt of
b~ernalillo. Heinberg. Renehan.
%Sandoval. Skidmore. TruBllo.
Vigil and Speaker Romero. Re
p~ublicans-27.
Agains' the unscatinR: Black.
Bojorpuez. Bryant. Cisau,. Dow.
Garca, Hewitt. Holland. Mullens.
Rutherford. Ryan. Skeen. smith
of Union. Smith Of Luna. swan.
Veal. WEIGH. Democrats. Tharp.
ot curry county. Socialist. Pal
MGR OF sun Juan and Taylor Of
ColfaX. Republicans-2O.
Miera ~ Union, paired with
Sena NJ san Miguel. who is 40.
House membership a.
The final expulsion Of the two duly
elected Democratic representative of
Union county. from the house late
Yesterday afternoon followed "a flare
~ oratory. covering about two hours
in which Representative Fleming ~
Mckinley county. and Majority Leader
Mann. led the debate for tho Eepuh-
h"ln caucus while Judge Henry swan
"i TuoumcarL and Representative
RYAN OF Grant county. delivered the
driving attack uf the Democratic
minority.
pr Fleming undertook. In opening
tho debate. which hy agreement. had
been limited Co two members of euch
side. with 90 minutes each. to make /,
review Of tho Republican caucus cnse.
~ Was us ahl 90 speech as could have
been made with the material the Nc
Ninley county man had to work on.
although 10 attempted To make no an
'lNsi~ ~ the Evidence or To prove that
tho Republicans had rcccivd q ma.
l"rity of votes The snmc may he slld
for the closing address OF Judge Mann.
which vas one Of the best public
speeches tho Albuquerque lawyer has
ecvr made. Judge Mann was i'm good
voice; he was al his oratorical best
and ne succeeded admirably IN mask 70
ms the complete lack uf facts len the
caucus case, und,r "a gorgeous cloak
OF oratorV, ranging from caustic hui
NOR to serious tud even dramatic at
tack The Judge dclvcd back into an
Gent history ~ contest cases iu wears
gone 10Y. lie quoted legal authorities.
ne told q funny story and 10 dcfied
tho minority to do anything about Il.
Also he proclaimed repeatedly that
the majority was prepared la stand
squarcly ON its record In the case ana
he Judged on b. hy the people of Union
county and the state. lie declared tho
caucus did not need any Dmocratic
sympathy aud that its worry for the
clucus' welfare was wasted energy I'm
fact Judge Manu- covered the cntir,
open Held with the single exception II
ihr facts and the evidence IN the
Union county contest. there pending.
"i which he fought skilfullv and stu
dtously shy. Al that il was q good
speech ana viewed purely as an ora.
torical effort, II demonstrated once
more hat the majority floor leader o.
there with tho first grade article.
Speechmaking. 70 VIII be recalled.
followed the definite refusal Of the
majority To permit the evidence ana
the record In these contests To bc rcud
to Inc house. an dthis led Geprcscn-
iaiiNe Thurp, Socialist. of curry coun-
~, 20 declare himself natly Ia eN-
planning his vote. AIR Tharp declared
That any cause which feared Co let It's
evidence become public was an un-
worthy cause. aud that ne could not
support % or he a party To Injustice.
The motion If Majority Leader iie-
witt Ia have the record read. furnish
Ing The test vote was lost 2S To 10.
Representative Hya not Grant coun-
~, making his maiden speech in the
house, attempted an analysis of the
evidence. tie considered il no use
The caucus order had gone forth. ne
said. nm dthc majority had mr. ie up
IFS mind to go on record as against the
square deal ana for injustice. lie held
up the whole caucus position before
the memoirs Of that organization In ,.
word picture which LEFT out none Of
tho details.
% was Judge Swan 81 Tucumcari.
making the main address for the min
oritN. 10 make The onl yanalysis of the
case upon lie merits and In the course
Of almost an hour tho Quay county
man confined himself to facts and the
record, I'm one ~ the most compelling
speeches ever delivered In the house.
Judge Swa brought out the facts In
the Uuion county contests. lie said In
part:
judge swans Address.
Mr.. Speaker ana Gentlemen ~ the
Assembly:
The gentleman from Mckinley, In
opening his argument On behalf ~
the contestants. told you that It had
fallen to his task 10 open the argu-
ment for them I will not SAY "a