Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-24
Eager Anxiety to Make Gov
ernor Central Figure of
GoyemorShip Fight Turns to
Desire to Change Subject,
BANK FAILURE NOT ALL
LEADERS HAD EXPECTED
Chief Executive Has Given
Blow for Blow Without FIJI
ing Any Libel Suits 0tero
Proves Cyclone on Stump,

Proves Cyclone on Stump,
ESPECIAL eoNatsposorses 70 poRplHe JOURNAL
Santa Fc, oct 23,-Tnose who
have kept tab on political events in
New Mexico since convention
days will recall the burning desire
that was evidenced by certain repub-
lican leaders last August to have
their opponents nominate one Will
Ham G. Mcdonald as a candidate to
succeed himself as governor. Chief
of those who wanted Mcdonald nom-
mated was the attenu8ted and astute
W. II. Gillenwater, who even then
WAS looked upon as certainty for
the chairmanship OF the republican
state committee, and hardly second
in the earnestness of the desire for
the governor for denomination was
Holm Q. Bursum, whose candidacy
for the republican nomination for
governor was an assured fact long
before the convention which named
him met
II will be remembered that Cap
Gillenwater was the patron saint, not
to say the fairy godfather and the
friend, philosopher and guide of both
Hursum and Hubbell in their efforts
to secure the nominations which
each desired at the hands of his
party. 1t was. comparatively simple
matter for Gap to put the two
across, ana when ne saw, or Thought
ne saw, that they were out Of tho
woods SO far us the uoDIHaiioaa Nc""
concerned ne decided 20 DO conn
plcte lob 1D iFot the opuos'huh
candidate as. ttssnA. ar. to hs ninnt
accurate, he decided 10 select the Op-
position candidate for Bursum for A.
A. Jones was the only man IN sight
for the democratic nomination for the
senate and there WAS no way cap
could mix up in that race inside tho
democratic party.
Mcdonald Looked Good.
There were certain reasons appar-
ont only to the inscrutable mind or
cap" GillenwaICr. why McDonalu
looked 10 he an easy man for Bur
sum to beat, and the remarkable
spectacle was soon presented OF
well defined movement inside tho
democratic party for the renomina-
tion OF democratic governor, act
lively sponsored aided and abetted
by the admitted leader of the repub-
hcan party in the state, To Gillen~
water and Bursum it was Mcdonald
or bust They simply must have NC
Donald and wouldn't be happy uh-
less they did have him.
At that they came near gaining
their wish When the democratic
convention met in Santa re Mcpon-
aid was easily the dominant figure
Of the gathering Party leaders wore
their shoes thin walking back ana
forth to the executive offices be-
soechmg the governor to allow the
use of his name for the nomination.
and every time that Mcdonald
showed his face on the floor Of the
convention there was an outburst OF
cheering that showed beyond ques-
ffon his popularity with the rank and
file OF the party. If Mcdonald had
once ntimated that he would accept
the nomination it would have been
his without the asking
TOO Much Mcdonald.
what happened at the democratic
is a matter of too recent
history to require recital here. NC
Donald would not allow himself to
d., nominated for governor, but IN
response 10 pressure brought TO bear
lpon him by party leaders he con-
scented to accept the nomination tor
lieutenant governor. Immediately
there was wild rejoicing in the repuh-
Iican camp. Leaders Of the grand ola
party Of Lincoln and Grant and Nc
KinIcv considered that they had got
ton even more than they wanted.
with Mcdonald on the ticket for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, they argued IL
W ould seem that the democrats we're
afraid TO name him for governor ana
they could make all the fight on his
record that they had originally in
tended and at tho same time say to
the voters OF the state that de Bact
was being used merely as stalking
Lorsc for Mcdonald.
And so they got Mcdonald In
fact. at the present writing it seems
that they have gotten an overdose OF
him. For as matters stand today the
fight made on the governor has failed
utterly and completely Republican
attacks have been centered on him
only to fam flat The attempt to
make Mcdonald the sole issue of the
and to obscure everything
else involved in the contest for Of
fices in New Mexico is now admitted
to he perhaps the greatest of the
many blunders that have character
ICED the management Of the repub-
.ican campaign.
las Cruces Bank Failure,
The fact that the First state bank