El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-12-05
ONLY 3 WOMEN
RETAIN PLACES
New Mexico Election Cuts
Down Number Of Women
superintendent
By GUTHRIE SMITH.

santa Fe. y. NJ. Dec. after Jam
uary ]. two women less VIII be hold
ing offices of county superintendent
OF schools in tile state of New Mexico.
as shown in the list prepared today
by Alvau y. White. state supermtend-
eut Of public instruction. There have
been five serving since 1911 while
there will be only three after Jan J.
The women who were not reelected
and viii be succeeded 10y men, are
Mis-. Josie Lockard. Of EolIaIA, ITS I
Wallace J. Gumm. Of Lincoln ana
Mrs. y r. Culberson, of Roosevelt rms
loss Of three women is partly recoH-
cred in Chayes county. where Mrs /
W HAYES succeeds g g HILL
Democrats Gain Two
There was a change IN the politics
OF the newly elected superintendent
in nine of the counties. and as q net
result the Democrats have gained two
offices increasing their number from
nine to Il. AtanasiO Montoya. or Ber-
nalillo- was the only one 10 nave inc
honor Of being reelected without oppo-
sitiou- Nontoya IS Progressive and
i'm 1911 was elected on the Democratic
ticket He was nominated in TINS cam
paign uy the Republicans. ana the
Democrats i'm effect endorsed his MONT
nation bv leaving that office blank
on their ticket The vote in ChaVes.
Curry. Eddy and Roosevelt Is so over
whelminEiy Democratic that the oppo-
sitiOu is purely formal In RIO Arriba,
one of the Republican strongnolds.
there was big shskeup on this office,
resulting 81 the election of Jose O.
Garcia. a Democrat.
List of Superintendent
The complete list Of the superlntend-
euts who viii serve after the first OF
the year, with the names OF those
whom they succeed. is as follows
Bernalillo. AtanaSiO MOntoya, Pro
greSsive. reelected Chaves, Mrs. 7 w
Hayes. Democrat. succeeding G g Hill.
Democrat; COlfaN. jay T Conway. Re
ard. Democrat. Curry. j. " Buckley,
Democrat. reelected Dona Ana. Dr. r
f Mcbride, Republican. succeeding +
~ Hayuer. Republican; Eddy, W y
FoOre. Democrat. reelected. Grant. Miss
Isabel L. Eckles. Democrat. reelected
Guadalupe. Bonifacio LucerO, Republic
can. succeeding J. v Gallegos, Repub-
liCau- Lincoln. J. r kokuce. Democrat,
succeeding Mrs Wallace L. Gumrn. Re-
publican Luna. Airs. Alice Smith,
Democrat. succeeding Miss Grace GOe-
bel. Republican, Mckinley. Palmer
ketner. Republican. succeeding W D
Cornell Republican, Nora. Minor Ru-
dOlph. Republican succeeding Manuel
Madrid btero. Lacy Simms. Republ
can, succeeding r 5. Upton. Demo
crat: Quay, J. A Atkins. Democrat,
succeeding f Pack. Democrat. Rio
Arriha. Jose O. Garcia. Democrat. sue
ceeding Slviano RiobaL Republican,
j L
AIrs- = F. Culberson: SandOval. Jus
tinianO Castillo. Democrat. succeeding
Bonifacio MOntOva. Progressive. San
Juan, Earl Douglas. Republican. sue
ceedinE J. l. G. Swinuey. Democrat;
san Miguel. Placido Beltran. Republi-
can. succeeding DR.. NJ r. Desmarais,
Republican, Santa Fe. John Y Con-
way. Republican, reelected, Sierra,
James p. Parker. Democrat. succeed
inE T. I. Given. Republican, Socorro,
Martin Lopez. Republican. succeeding
BENJAMIN Sanchez. Democrat: Taos.
Pablo Quintana, Republican. succeeding
Jose MOntaner. Republican. Torrance
Charles l. Burt. Republican. reelected.
Union H II. Errett. Republican, re-
elected Valencia. SaturninO Baca. Re
publican. reelected.
Eigh; Are Reelected.
or those now serving. only eight
have been reelected John Y COawav-
Of the Republican county Of Santa Fe.
was the only one on the Republican
county ticket to be successful. so
strong was the fusion movement here
Two of the rounty superintendent
We're candidates for state offices this
time. BonifaciO MontOya. of SandOval.
q Progressive. was nominated By the
Democrats for state corporation COM
missioner. and was elected j. l. g
SWlnney- Of San Juan county. was
nominated by the Democrats for state
superintendent of public instruction
but was beaten by j. H. Wagner. the
Republican nominee, by a few hundred
votes