El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-08-22
VALLEY WILL
SUPPORT GARCIA FOR
GOVERNOR, DECLARES
BATEMAN OF ROSWELL
ORIGINAL DE BAcA MEN IN CON.
TRoL M SOUTHEAST CoUN-
TIES AND WANT SPANISH
AMERICAN FOR EXECUTIVE

u. S. Bateman, who is a member OF
the Democratic state central commit
tee from Chaves county and is at
tending a meeting of that committee,
upon being asked about who would
probably be the Democratic nominee
for governor said:
Il shall inN ulge in a little political
reminiscencet 1t will be recalled that
at the first r,eetion for state offices,
the Democrats gave to the Spanish
Americans five nominations out of the
16 for the state and that the Republi-
cans did likewise. The Democrats, at
that election elected eight of its NOM
inees for state office, three of whom
were Spanish-Americans, and that the
Republicans also elected eight, but
not even one of its five Spanish-Am-
erican nominees was elected. 1t will
also be recalled that the Chaves coun-
ty delegation to the last Democratic
state convention after considering va
rious prominent and competent Dem
ocrats OF the state, decided to, and
did, support the late Hon. e. G. de
Baca for the office of governor; and,
in fact, was the first county to sup
port him for that office, and placed
his name before the convention.
While our nominee for this office
was a man of unquestionable integrity
and splendidly equipped to discharge
the duties Of that office, and no doubt
these qualifications naturally brought
about at first the consideration of him
for the office, still the deciding influ-
ence in his favor was the fact that he
was a native of this state, a so-called
Spanish-American.
THE Republican party has claimed
for years to be the champion Of the
native people of this state. The
Chaves county delegation, while rec
ognizing the fact that the Democratic
party had demonstrated in the first
state election its loyalty to its Span
ish-American nominees, felt that it
would not only be good politics for
the Democratic convention to nomi-
a competent Spanish-American
for governor, but that 1t was only
equitable and right for the party so to
do and incumbent on it to elect him
ehO pOllS, WHICH tHO OOhiONAd tiS
party did. UNFORTUNATELY not only for
our party, but as | believe, for the
people of the entire state, our gov
ernor only lived long enough to quail
lily as such officer.
The original DeBaca men are in
of the Democratic party of the
of Chayes, and control the del
egation already selected for the next
Democratic state convention. / do not
undertake to speak the views OF tns
various members of the Chaves coun-
Ly delegation, but | know that 1t is
The opinion of many Of that delega.
lion, including myself, that in consid-
the claim of the various worthy
Democrats of this state for the office
Of governor, great consideration, yes,
preference, will be given to some
Spanish-American for governor. The
of the Hon. Felix Garcia has
been prominently and frequently men
"Chaves county has already in
for G. A. Richardson for
United States senator and George A.
DaVisson for state land commissions
or. OF course. our delegation Will be
or these gentlemen first, last and all
time, and sincerely hope that they
Will be nominated on the first ballot"