The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1916-10-07
JONES, LUGERO AND WALTON
make CONVINCING TALKSI

Thursday evening at the Dixie
Theatr,, Hon. A. a. Jones, democrat
ic nominee for L. :. Senator, Hon.
Antonio Lucero, democratic nom
inee for Secretary of state and Hon.
W. d. Billy Walton, democratic
nominee for congressman, spoke to
"A capacity house. Many people
were forced to stand in the aisles
and entrances and the fact that all
remained until practically the last
word was spoken, is an evidence OF
the deep interest shown
Mr.. Walton was the first speak
er and confined himself almost eN-
clusiNely to a discussion of national
issues. He is u pleasing and con-
vincing speaker, and proved to the
satisfaction of all excepting the
little bunch of e. o. p. leaders pre-
sent that he is the only man now
running for congress i'm New Mex
leo. who measures up To- the job
Billy Walton has served the pe0-
pie of Grant county his home com-
ty for many years, and his cIcctian
in that country, year after year,
has been almost the unanimous
thing; and now that the stat" has
called him into a larger field. it is
certain to accord him the same con-
fideuce as have his Grant county
neighbors.
A. a. Jones, nominee for L. 5
senator was the second speaker,
being introduced by the Hon. Paz
NGhcrde. The large crowd expected
big speech by a big man, and
was not disappointed. Mr.. Jones
address was a mastery present
ment Of the accomplishments Of
the present administration, and
Big American plea for The reclec-
ion of a Big American President,
Woodrow Wilson Mr.. Jones did not
defend the record of President Viii
son and the congress, saying that
it needed no defense; he simply en-
Legged upon its greatness, pointing
out the great benefits TO the coun-
try of the Federal Beserve act, the
Rural Credits act, the Clayton anti
trust act, the Underwood bill, the
Seamans bill the Child Labor law,
the Anderson Eight Hour law, and
many others, everyone of which
We're proposed and enacted into
law on the personal recommends
lion of the president, and in the in
terest of the great majority. Mr..
Jones is easily the first citizen of
New Mexico, and will be elected to
represent the state ip the L. S.
senate by our unprecedent major
ity.
Then came Hon. Antonio LuCrcO,
the pleasing silyer-tongued orator
and efficient secretary of state.
Mr.. LuCero devoted his address al
most entirely to the state ticket, and
to the accomplishments Of the Nc
Donald administration n. ...
out that the democrats were in pos
ession Of only the executive depart
meat Of the state government, and
the republicans in practical con-
troll of both the judicial and leg
islative departments, having secur-
ed two-thirds majority control of
the latter, through the instrument
ality Of the jimmy. Union coun-
ty know all about the Jimmy"
Besides the unanswerable argu-
ments advanced by the speakers, the
pleasing gentlemanly manner in
which they spoke of their oppon-
ents and those who disagree with
them in political belief, won them
many friends. This was brought
prominently to the attention of the
audience by remembering the bloody
shirt, bitterly partisan and really
ungentlemanly address made by j.
Wight Giddings, the night before,
One republican summed up the diff
Ference between gentlemen who had
something to say, and a hired man
who had to earn his Hubbell check.
Editor Busenbark of the Report
er at Ration, spent last Saturday in
Clayton. Mr.. Busenbark is the ed
itOr and business head Of n mighty