New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-09-01

OF business. The national house o
: representatives rules were recon-
: mended. Secretary of State Anton
10 Lucero was named as the per
manent chairman The order OF
business was as follows Nomination
for presidential electros, Congress
man; corporation commissioner
governor lieutenant governor; sec
retary of state; treasurer; attorney
general; superintendent of public in
,tructon land commissioner audi
tor supreme court justice; senator
Chaves, of Bernalilio. moved that
the governor be placed before the
corporation commissioner, which was
carried after various motions and
some argument. This was the re-
suit of complication arising on ac'
count of A. Lucero and E. c. de Baca
10th being from San Mig tel
and the selection of the one man
was likely to interfere with the in
terests OF the other, both being can
didates for positions on the ticket.
Permanent Chairman Lucero was
then brought before the convention
and made speech thanking the con-
vention for the honor. He said the
Democratic party was stronger than
ever before, but they had a fight on
hand victory was not so certain ;
work must be done; ''foolhardish-
ness" might be fatal; the Republi-
cans had tried to attack Mcdonald
successfully and their failure had
made them wild; they were prom
ising everything, including woman
suffrage, but this meant nothing and
was only buncomb, the, are trying
to make the women think they love
them more than we do, men have al
ways embraced the women The
speaker did not say, though his re-
marks might be construed, that the
only thing the Democrats intended
to do was to continue to embrace
/ the women" as their president has
steadily refused to commit hmscl:
on the proposition, whie Hughes
/ has come out in favor of the submls-
! sion of the question to the people.
The committee on credentials re-
ported no contests and the roll was
/ adopted The resolution committee
was ready to report and was
given more time. An invitation was
/ then read from the Progressives to
meet with the convention which was
to assemble in the supreme court
room and hear Ralph c. Ely relieve
himself Of keynote speech which
he was to make as the temporary
chairman of the Progressive junta.
A motion was made by Buckley, of
Ration, that the house OF reprsen-
tatives be rendered to the Progress
( ives. for the delivery of the orat'on
which Ely probably had on his chest
since the Republican convention,
when he was invited to bottle it up
for future delivery at some other
time and place All the oratory in
possession of the Progressives was
expended by Bronson Cutting. the
boy chairman and Col, George w
Prichard at the little party last
spring when delegates were sent to
Chicago. to vote first, last and all
the time for Theodore Roosevelt"
SO they had to get screhead from
another source.
At 200 p. m. Mr.. Ely keynoted in
his usual flowing style, handling
language with that felicity and fa-
cility for which he is noted
The speech which he delivered has
been printed so often in the columns
OF every paper which would print il,
and from various platforms both il
lyceum and school graduation exer-i
cises in the state that it is unnec-
essary to say anything about its sub
stance.
At the conclusion of Mr.. EIy's
speech the convention reassembled
and one of the first matters present
ed was a very remarkable motion by
State Treasurer. O. N. Marion. to-
exclude members of the press and
ladies from the hall and go into ex-I
ecutive session to agree upon a tick
ct.
Mr.. Marion stated that in get /
ting down to practical politics in the
family gathering" which he propos-
ed, some very harsh things might
be said which it would not be well