Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-10-27

me bitter and illogical attacks
made by the Democrats on the Repub-
llcan candidates disguised their hear
ers in Roswell. This is far too intelli
gent a community to be %favorably i'm
pressed by candidates who have no
better arguments for election than
blatant shouts that all Republican AN
didates are liars, thieves and cut.
threats. It was as if the candidates
were striving, somewhat maudlinly, to
drown their own imperfections in the
noise of wholesale misrepresentation
and libel of the opposition candidates.
If there was no enthusiasm for the
Democratic state ticket before the de
Baca-Mc Donald-O tero party got here,
there was less after they had gone.
The Mcdonald Brand Of Governor.
Governor Mcdonald told the people
here that de Baca would make the
same kind of a governor he (McDon
add had been. This statement has
provoked shifts, where it has not in
spired more emphatic indications OF
disapproval, up and down the valley.
The Pecos Valley is normally Demo
cratic, as everyone knows, but that
does not mean that the people here
are elated over w. c. McDonal s adj
mi%nistration of the high office of gov
ernor There are many citizens,
among them lifelong and prominent
Democrats, who are frank to say that
Mcdonald as a governor has been far
from satisfactory.
Therefore McDonald's fatuous as
e,,rovoo aua cOpfaoufop- that do no-
ca would make the same kind of a
governor he has made did not boost
de Baca's stock bit. 1t might have
done de Baca more good If Mcdonald
had said that de Baca would be the
kind of a governor Mcdonald was not
De Baca's Amazing craftsmanship.
II is doubtful, though, if this re-
Versal of the statement would have
helped de Baca any, for de Baca him
self did not strike the people here with
any favor. Voters, Democrats and
otherwise, who attended the meeting.
will tell you that de Baca, looking so
seedy as to be almost unkempt, dis
coursed for three-quarters of an hour
on how he prevented the first state
legislature from performing the an
Client privilege Of stopping the clock"
IN order to complete Necessary bust
ness before time for adjournment. He
seems to regard this feat as a startling
bit of statecraft. Either that, or he
thought that the people here would
not know that stopping the clock was
a time-honored %eXpedient practiced by
legislatures the country over.
otero's Billlnssgate oisgusts People.
What most Disguised the people
here, however, were the vulgarities OF
the Democratic candidates in their de
%nunciation of their opponents, the Re
publicans, as liars, blackguards and
criminals merely because they were
Republicans. To the naturally chival-
rous Pecos Valley it did not sound
good, for instance, to hear a political
t%urncoat like Miguel A. Otero. Demo
cratic candidate for state auditor, at
tempt thus to brand all Republicans,
including the present Republican can
didate for auditor, who Otero himself
appointed to office three times.
Otero carried his vulgarity so far, In
fact, that he was publicly rebuked by
one of the most popular and influen'
tial citizens of Roswell.
Gilly and His Morals.
Otero was defaming the moral char
acters of Republican candidates in a
large group of citizens on the street
here when the influential citizen re
ferred to Interrupted him.
IF / we're you. Gilly, said this Ros
we'll man, Il would not bring up the
moral question. / have known you a
long while, and you know that know
ali about you and the candidates who
are with you on the Democratic state