Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-30

the places on their county ticket. and
candid republicans do not hesitate to
| aunt mat the normal republican ma
| Jorlty will be decidedly reduced ON
the state tlcket-just how much they
do not undertake to say.
| In san Miguel County.
| IL is IN san Miguel county that per-
maps the most significant of all the
/ county fusion rEvements has taken
| place. San Miguel has always been
! rocked upon as the banner republi-
/ can county of New Mexico. The sway
| OF Don Eugenio Romero, to say moth
| ing of Secundino Romero and the
| other Romeros, has been absolute,
! ana revolt against the established or
der of things there has never been
! thought possible
The convention held at Las Vegas
last week, at which a large number
! OF ~+sHS-- most influential repuhtcan- OF
san miguel county merged with the
| democrats In putting out a Combina-
ton ticket in opposition to that nom
/ mated by the regular republicans, is
! perhaps the severest blow that has
| been struck at the republican state
! ucket since the campaign began, No
| Well-lnformed person expects San Mi
! guel county to go democratic, but
when it is recalled that the normal
republican majority in that county is
about 1900 and that there is a lively
possibility that that majority will be
| cut in half at tho election next week,
1t can be seen that the loss will be
telling one to the republican candi-
dates.
1t is i'm Santa Fe and San Miguel
counties that the fusion movement is
apt to cut the largest figure in the re-
suit on the state ticket, but much is
| hoped also from mergers made be
tween democrats and Independent re-
/ publicans in five other New Mexico
counties Just how much the repub-
lican vote will be cut by the fusion in
! Bcrnllillo county it is hard at this
time to estimate. Bernalillo county
has of recent years acquired a habit
Of independent voting that makes any
advance estimate of what she is GO
ing to do exceedingly difficult and not
at all accurate, but reports received at
state headquarters from County
| Chairman Frank Butt and other lead
ers in that county have caused a most
sanguine feeling to exist there.
In Sandoval county, also, a fusion
has been effected that leads to the
belief that the republican majority
will be greatly reduced in that county,
This is the home county of Bonifacio
Montoya, candidate for county com
missioner on the democrat-progrcssive
state ticket, and Mr.. Montoyas in
/ fluence, it is believed will be potent
in drawing strength away from the
! Bursum- Hutbell combination to the
democratic ticket
In Guadalupe, Mora and Torrance
/ counties, also, there are well defined
fusion movements that are preventing
! Cap CLEARWATER from getting the
full allowance of peaceful slumber
these nights to which he is aCcus-
toned when things are going his way.
These counties all normally republi-
can, have not the large voting strength
of those already mentioned, but the
! Instruction there, while not as deep
as a well nor yet as wide as church
door will, the democrats feel, suffice
for their purposes.
And in addition to the various
county revOlts that are worrying the
republicans in various parts of the
state. it must not be forgotten that
there is still a bun moose party in
! New Mexico remnant weak ana
small, perhaps, when compared with
the valiant army that stood at Arma-
geddon and battled for the Lord ana
Teddy four years agO-but still de-
termined fighting force and working
solidly for the success Of the demo-
cratic state ticket
At the time of the democratic con-
vention last August doubts were eA-
pressed by some of the unterrltled, as
Ia the wisdom Of giving places on
the ticket to former Governor Miguel
A. Otero and County superintendent
Bonifacio Montoya as representatives
of the progressive party Those VINO
EXPRESSED these doubts are now VIZ
ing to Concede that they were nope
lessly i'm error i'm their conclusions
| Otero and Montoya have both proved
vote-getters of formidable type
The whirlWind speaking campaign or
| Governor Otero has been one of the
big cards offered by the democrats
while the influence of Mr.. Monloya
has been felt in a most pronounced
manner i'm sections of the state WheTe
the democrats heretofore have tound
if impossible to make any impression
In this connection it IS Wo"th WINE
TO reprint the resolutions adopted Wy
the progressive convention when 1t
was in session here at the time ihaI
the democrats were holding ih'Ir
convention. Those resolutions were
as follows
"Resolved. that the progressive ana
Independent voters in convention as
sembled. do hereby endorse and rec
ommend to all progressive and lnoe-
pendent voters in New Mexico TO 'o'c
FOR and support the candidates for
United states senator, member of the
house of representatives and all state
offices as nominated by the demo
cratic convention held in Santa Re on
August 81, 1915"
state Land Brings SIS per Acre
Santa Fe, oct 29.-At the SAFE or
1850, 600 acres Of state land at Silv eT
Citv a few days ago, as high as $l5,oS
was bid per acre J. l.. Johnson, 10,