El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-22
AS USUAL, NEW MEXICO POLITICS
FURNISH PLENTYFOR SPECULATION
Both Parties Have Usual lumber of Receptive Candi
dates and Usual Number Ready to Leap at Threats
of Opponents For the Pu rpOse of Carrying Aloft
Party Standards and Winning Emoluments

b man 9oS Charles A. spiess. spiess AYERS
S1- GoSsu want TO be senator. but only
desires a place on the Dafi6roI 49, 49,
mittee again. 'oii"A ooiii-
Romero for Governor.
Secundino Romero. sneaIrer Of +ba
- Hgu9e OF representatives a son Of
H1ilss5' emo romero, dictator of San
days, claims he has the Spanisb- AMER ,s,.i.
can vote corraled for governor his
strength Is said to lie princinalIv in
ne counties where native voters are
LnIchesL II the race issue appears this
coming campaign. as there fs reason 70
believe it will. Sec" will liIreIy- 90 nv
the solid support or his "naisanoe :,
PROVIDED ne gets the gubernatoriaI
goInlnauon over Holm 0. Bursum. the
Socorro county sheep king.
Americans for Bursum.
bursum viii get the support Of most
OF the American RepubIicans IN tbe
convention. They wrote that on the
STATE months ago. Bursum has inst
been complimented by his home folk
WIN reelection as mayor Of Socorro.
ne also ram for governor when Will
lam g. Mcdonald won that chair at The
statehood election, and has been quietly
raslng sheep and putting through tax
legislation and other Important meas
ures Tor Few years. There are sew
eral corporate interests too. that ex-
pect TO back the Socorro leader for the
executive seat INC
EIy's LOnE-Shot Chance.
state chairman Ralph Ely OF Deminr
is taking a long shot on the probability
or a deadlock between the northern
and southern Republicans and is MAX
ing nay as well rs shovelina- snow
depending on where I'm the great state
ne happens to be--in his efforts to be-
come the standard bearer of the G. o.
p. Ely hasn't a lot. Of financial helm
but he's a railroad official and that's
some assistance in transportation. and
he has been telling the public in most OF
the counties that he stands for cleaner
methods and better men and more pro-
gressive legislation than his party has
been dishing out, and he wants to be
governor a term and fight out the
questions in the great party Of con-
structive legislation etc" Flv has
consistently refused to be muzzled bv
the machine" element Of his party and
Is appearing as a surprise lately over
the state where he is least wanted by
the "Old guard"
Three other Probabilities.
The whisper that has been heard Of
the candidacy OF B. c. Hernandez, pres
emit congressman Of the native element
for the goyernorship, is probably only
a neilghborly compliment. There was
mention also of the possibility OF Judge
Herbert F. Reynolds. but not loudly
Miguel A OterO, ST., territorial gov
ernor for several years, once the head
OF powerful -maChlne'-and bV the
way, an executive against whom there
is yet little or no complaint-has said
that IL Bursum is nominated bv the
Republicans, he, Otero. will take the
field as an Independent against the
sheepman. Well informed Republicans
declare, however, that "Gilliev Otero
has run his race and that there may be
a seat for him at the pie table only
when he has severed his affiliation
with the Roosevelt Cutting crowd Of
insurgents. Otero claims he has as
good opportunity to capture the ma
tive vote as Sec Romero has. and he
seems to have personal reasons for
wanting the scalp of the sheep baron.
Sargent md Ervien.
W. G. (BuD Sargent state auditor.
has received a newspaper nomination
for governor. The boost comes from
the paper he is president OF, since
Sargents reelection as mayor Of the
capital city.
Robert P. Ervien, present land com
missioner. is another Republican guber-
material possibility, but he is said to
much prefer holding his lucretive job
another term.
HubbeII and @BuII" Andrews.
That Frank A. Hubbell lacks sup
port in his effort to secure the nomi-
nation as United States senator is in
dicated by the struggle his friends
had in the Bernalillo county cOnven-