New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-10-13
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over HERE 0TERO,"
DE BACA FAILS TO AROUSE
ENTHUSIASM AMONG HIS
FAITHFUL DEMOCRATS,
WHILE UNPOPULARITY OF
M'DONALD IS SHOWN IN
MEAGRE CROWDS
(By Geo. c. CoWing.)

genuine enthusiasm for the Demo
cratic state ticket in the Pecos valley
and a careful inquiry has developed The
fact that the recent visit of Candi
dates f. c. de Baca, Governor w. c
Mcdonald and NJ. A. Otero was a per
ceptible frost.
The democratic candidates had sen
out glowing reports OF their visit tt
Roswell, alleging that they were re
Ceived by great crowds and with muct
enthusiasm and recounting the favor
able sentiment their Coming had en-
eondCred for the Democratic ticket.
BY WY Of asccrtainina how far the
Democratic candidates had stretched
the facts and to get a reliable survey
Of the political sentiment along the
Pecos, an investigation was made here
In the wake Of tie de Raca.McDonald
efero troupe.
As was to be expected, the reports
sent out by the Democratic candidates
were the veriest fiction. They either
deliberately misre| presented the quail
ity of their reception or they were
Kidding themselyes'-a bidding il
might be remarked, that amounted tC
a broad hoax.
The facts are these: De Baca, Nc
Donald and Otero spoke here in Ros
we'll TO a small and Indifferent audi
rnce. Most of the %populace sought the
attractions OF a local festival, then in
progress, rather than listen to candi.
dates for whom they had not then, and
still have not, amy enthusiasm and lit
lie interest.
The bitter and illogical attacks
made by the Democrats on the Repub'
!ican candidates disguised their hear,
Crs IN Roswell. This is far too lnteIli-
gent a community TO be favOrably i'm
pressed by candidates who have no
better arguments for election thar
blatant shouts that all Republican can
6idates are liars, thieves and cut
threats. II was as if the candidates
we're striving, somewhat maudlinly, to
drown their own imperfections in the
noise OF wholesale Misrepresentation
ND libel of the opposition candidates.
ii there was no enthusiasm for the
democratic state ticket before the de
Raca. Mcdonald Otero party got here,
lilClt Ndo 1850 Az thN1 q S'HN'
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. hut that
does not NEAR that the people here
are elated over w. G. McDonald's adj
ADMINISTRATION Of the high office of gov
ornor. 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 fatnons as
surance-aye, confession-that de Ba-
ca would make the same kind Of a
governor he has made did not boost
de Baca's stock m bit. Ii 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.
1t 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 thr1e-Quarters of an hour
on how he prevented the first state
legislature from performing the an
cient 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 t~ime-honored %expedient practiced BY
legislatures the country over.
otero's eiliinsseate Dissusts 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
turncoat like Miguel A. Otero, Demo
cratic candidate for state auditor. at
tempt thus to brand all Republicans.
including the present Republican can
eidate 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.
GilIy and His Morals.
Otero was defaming the moral char
OF Republican candidates in a
group of citizens on the street
AoSe Whea tho Influential citizen re
to interrupted him.
IF / were you. Gilly," said this Ros-
we'll man, Il would not bring up the
moral question. 1 have known you a
Iong while, and you know that l know
Ill about you and the candidates who
ire with you on the Democratic state