New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-10-27

WHAT The DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR THINKS ABOUT THE
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR AU7IT0R

l. N .sev P' nsn1s.e cs" s.s t at ssn,s F ss 's sss nsns OF the s ststs
ticket for auditor. spoke to a small but Interested audience of his
up ten years of unpaid back taxes, and that Eziquiei c. de Baca, the
with him. the ssn naeHser :, Of ss Soth vent SG to 'n e' meeting q {, oi he n,a' %nat
evesf getting oteros delinquent tax money va and IS his nomination in ION by
people loh with pf faVor &c h hs n no max i "a ' atnoS "a Iis ~ wn i no, afsst
I ths wy they r yG1s ID ddAs swds n they ., TSm snmnaf odo1 all TT the E! nice eens things
h NSn de de- l Raaa Published ID at l%s V co5%s, and 11ta so .tS IT., turned ara. out to to
some praise. 1t was a n interesting meeting.
u otero, as is his custom when in a political contest, opened up
using the the rae" race issue issue in the the P %~s9 valley l%y ' This " rcI"~ tnS old T@% CHARGE "re
inal man Ills methods as governor Of the territory we're those Of
Me- "% and it's ps mtui 5aSsi 'b S'cb 6 AN he iaS" not {, cn sns Sh''e o, ERE 4GS
the people what he and de Baca had done in this campaign 10 prove
people what he and o%ro had done to prove 'He Nspnnicans ali liar
candidates and speakers appear to be to call all Republicans liars and
thieves
1t was an attentive d4ntned, courteous audience. but when de
be Ian TO I"ng ehoI a eru mf" vonn na"n q w sip a . e N o or h1m noe Ib r%p1e
passing around the hll copies of TRANSACTIONS of paragraphs quoted
ysars ao. ''G While Lea G De i ad tq t@a the de p eoSs Of P" hs home OF a to fT s xGs,
1d nice Of CHAP I,s 19 39v o lnl31 ao oT n,rSs his f. a ND re- n WAS rD ,%a fon a ,os
"Tl" fact that not a single native son of the territory a-
n n"a%. %p ' ,o p ,7i 10 G" ch dcags', o9 t Te'e s9st the SaT SG OF I%"o Y to rn
r nM. oM I~ , % ~ 81. .g nr r"rt 3i IN tn the IN national ATTIC yI. c9os'", lion, tL
said oHtcro rrleoIy has to the race, onehalf of whose blood
to yhic5 s or.pes:say We Ga,e oa4e@ the a,,ea9,toa Of ,thc
,g 2 rovg'ror c "#I 'f th a tbs Y IS 9 %e|san np nan6r. ne oo ,m ms
heir Lord" WIN "0 "' =" " '' W.T."
OTERO, WIEN HE UNDERTOOK TO RAISE THE RACE Is-
SUE" AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS IN HIS LAS VEGAS SPEECH,
OF HIS PAST WHICH, WAS NOT HALF AS DEAD AS HE HOPED.
De Eaca Is nov going about the state telling the people that
Otero is their friend, IN honest man and a good citizen During the
eight years that otero was governor de Baca hardly passed an issue
Of his paper wttout. some statement like the n quoted above, which
he evidently sincerely believed.
Las Vegas citizens have been infinitely amused at The exchange
ot pleasant fiction about each other between de Baca and Otero. AS
the bouquets we're passed back and forth the people remembered.
When Orero raised the race issue they recalled how de Baca had
proven Oteros attitude toward the spankh-American people. or
against them, Will" he was governor. And when OtcrO told of the
nigh character and personal integrity and clean record of r. C. de
Raca, the people remetbcted his years of residence in Las Vegas and
the outstanding incidents therein. They recalled practically the time
"ten de PacH as "A member and secretary of the Las Vegas school
board. loaned $500 OF the public school funds to his political boss. to
!" used for the purposes OF n local election campaign.
Men who harbor hatreds as De Raca and Otcro do: men who have
ard give little credit to the intelligence Of the people when they go
~ the public platform rs candidates fer utcf together and for the
axe O. the effort "a get voice. forgot their rasts The people have
always been regarded by C'erO as fools Ills Whole official record
proves his point of view. lt tine prrple are not fools and he PEG
pie do not forget. THE po,ulc will not forget on election DAY that
the same newspaper at Santa %, "Ihe New Mexican" under a diff
fcent management, supported Otcro Nhrn he was governor: that 1T
gave to him the same large proportion of its space and the same
fulome praise as Is being given him now. They remember Otcos
relation to the former MANAGEMENT of the New Mexican; and they
know his relation to the present management.
Otero has resOrtcd and will continue to resort TO unfair. un-
gentlemanly, crooked methods in this camrHtan. It Is the only srs
tenn he knows. The Republicans need go no further than his record
and the general public knowledge OF that record to guarantee OterOs
overwhelming defeat. Such strclath as de Rtca had has been lost
10 him largely by hs abandonntr It Of principle, his complete change
OF front and his public repudia ion Of his fight on Otero and his
statements about him covering " period of nearly twenty years OF
active direction of his newspaper