The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1916-10-06

sneered at the election judges. IN
effect they tore up the certificate
Of election. They threw out Gar
ella and seated NJ. G. Ortiz, the Re
publican the people of BernalillO
county had repudiated.
q. G. Smith, Democrat, was
elected from Union county. He
had majority of "a over his near.
est opponent. But the Republican
bosses said, "The people be
dahlned. We feed O. r. Toombs. :"
So they kicked Smith out and
seated TOombs.
TOombs is the man who publicly
announced, when he reached Sam
ia Fe, that although he didn't
have an election certificate, he
had Jimmy. ~
A jimmy" is a piece of steel
used by burglars to break into
houses in the night time.
Serapio Miera, Democrat, was
elected from Union county. He
had 994 votes, while Candelario
Vigil, his Republican opponent,
Received but 800. But the Repub-
lean Bosses said: 1--WE decree
that 800 is more than 1884. " SO
they elected Miera and seated
Vigil.
And the people of Union c6un-
ty were disfranchised.
All this was rank enough to dis
gust every decent citizen. But
the worst is yet to be told.
f. Nj. BOjorquez, Democrat,
was elected from Sierra county.
He received 369 votes as against
1877 east for Antonio r. Chaves,
the Republican who opposed him.
His majority was nearly 3 to /.
At the direction of the Republi.
can Bosses, Chaves brought con-
test against Bojorquez. The seat
ing Of three repudiated candi-
dates In place of three duly
elected candidates was not enough
to give the Republican gang a
two-thirds majority. They needed
a fourth puppet.
But the Republican Bosses
found the Chaves contest SO
flimsy that their nerve failed
them. SO they looked about for
some other means of stealing Bo-
jorquez seat
They found that BOjorquez had
formerly been a county commits
sioner. They found that he had
duly resigned. But on the out
rageOusly transparent pretense
that as his successor had not been
Immediately appointed by the gov
ernor he was still a county com
missioner, they declared his seat
vacant.
The report declaring the vacan-
Hy did not recommend the
seating of Chaves. The Republi-
can Bosses hadn't bolstered up
their nerve to that point at that
time.
The vacancy was declared dur
ing the afternoon of January q,
1915.
Early in the morning of Janu-
airy %, 1915, Governor Mcdonald,
acting under his constitutional
right, called an election in Sierra
county to fill the vacancy de-
clared by the House of Repre-
sentatives. The proclamation call
ing the election was filed in the
office of the Secretary of State at
10 o'clock on that morning, and a
copy Immediately forwarded to
Sierra county.
Late in the afternoon Of Janu-
airy %, 1915, hours after the
Sierra county election had been
called, the proclamation filed and
forwarded, the Republican Bosses
got their nerve up to the point of
holding an election for Sierra
county in Santa Fe. They then
elected Chaves to the seat stolen
from BOjorquez.
Their action was the rankest
ever recorded in the history of I'M
scrupulous politics.
The Sierra county election, con-
Stitutionally called by Governor
Mcdonald, was duly held and
BOjOrquez elected a second time
by a vote of 1913 to 2 for Chaves,
Fifty-one of the 1913 votes were
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