Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-21
Walton Stands SQuareIy With
President While Hernandez
$ Attacking Executive All
Along the Line
IARRAZ0L0 HITS HARD
LICKS FOR DEMOCRATS
Wilson, Jones and Walton
Like " to Run Closely To-
gether in Vote as National
SSueS Will Predominant,

..r.,,, CORRESPONDENCE TO MORNING JOURNAL
sonta Fe. oct. 20.--The race be
.n,oen "BilIy" Walton and b. G. Her
arde1 for representative in the
LIVER house Of congress is peculiar
ar,ong those that are being contested
~ The present campaign IN that 1t
is more clean cut and is less confused
NTH collateral issues than any other
i ie.a rather unusual state of affairs
irt This contest bids fair to be the
onlv one decided squarely on the is
s,os involved in the national struggle
now going on -
Not that the personal popularity
of tbe candidates will play no part IN
tbe contest. for it will. Mr. Walton
is immensely popular in southwestern
New Mexico. in the Pecos valley ana
m the eastern slope. Mr.. Herman
de- is not less popular in the northern
mart Of the state. So far as popular
Inv goes it is about standott, ana
for every republican that votes for
walton for personal reasons it is reas-
enable TO expect that a democrat VIII
vote for Hernandez for similar reas-
ems and in the end the race will be
decided on the preponderance of vot-
ers who believe in the policies Tor
which the candidates stand.
The Mexican Question.
DWelIefs in the cities, especially 1T
those cities where the Spanish-Amer
lean population is small, nave llttle
idea of the extent to which the Mex
can policy Of President Wilson has
entered into the present campaign II
Now Mexico. Democratic orators
have borne down heavy on this ques
tion in their speeches in the rura
districts. taking the position that TN
npople of New Mexico should be al
lowed TO work out their own govern
mental problems in their own wa!
without any interference from th'
United States, and that the republican
policv would lead inevitably to armed
intervention and to forcing upon Mex
leo a government not Of her owl
CHOOSING. All reports from Spanish
American sections arc to the eIlec
taat this argument is having SIea
weight with the voters and IS adullil
lreatly to the democratic strength Il
quarters hitherto regarded as rcpup
lcan strongnolds.
Mr.. Walton has come )ut squarel
for President Wilson'S policy on tHF
as on other questions involved IN u,
rational campaign, and has Warml
defended the stand taken by the pres
ident regarding Mexico. on the othe
hand Mr. Hernandez has attacked Tn
administrations Mexican policy, max
ing a clearly defined issue with M
opponent Whether or not the span
ish-American voters approve OF u
4
the returns next month from thoS
counties in which the vote OF ths
class of citizens is heaviest.
LarraaolO Hits the BAH.
In this connection a young man h'
entered the fray for the dcmoocra
in this campaign who is "a new tlBul
in New Mexico politics but VINO
making his influence felt in mo
remarkable manner He is Juan
Larrazolo, a son of OCtaviano A, La
razolo, formerly staunch democr
but more recently an equally stauh'
republican and defeated last AuEu
by a narrow margin by Chief Justl
Clarence J. Roberts for the nomlh
ton for justice of the supreme coui
Young Larrazolo has all of his rat
ers eloquence and fire as an oral0
and reports are that he is proving
most effective campaigner. His Wo
is being done almost entirely IN u
Spansh-American counties and is q
llvering some of the most tellll
blows in behalf of President Wis
on the strength of the Mexican pom
Of the administration. AS an evlden
Of the impression that he is creatlr
Congressman Hernandez himsen
taking the stump in counties alWa
regarded as Overwhelmingly in
E favor and is trying, with what succt
remains to be seen, to stem the II
That young Larrazolo has rails
81 against him.
The Adamson Law.
How Mr. Hernandez would ha
voted on the Adamson bill if he h
Il een in Washington at the time 1t "
up Tor passage is a matter on VIM
q ne has not as yet enlightened the "
81 SIs The fact is that he was in \
Mexico at that time, having co
nome to attend the republican ST
convention, and so he has no adve
Il NOte on that measure to confront II
Fl Nnen 1t comes to appealing to
II Iallroad men who form so numert
anu so widely scattered an elem
Il leo
i me opposition to the present c.
Fl sIessman, however, is assuming t
ue hernandez vote, had it been Ct
"ould nave been against the Ada
9on OIL, because, they say. Mr.. II
4 nanuez Is as Whole-heartedly tied
Nun the Hughes propaganda as
"a NalIuh is committed to the VII