Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-05

comprising 1892 names and adj
dresses, and we are now securing their
vocation ana politics, through the
county organizations
we are compiling, at the request
of the national committee, list of
1000 G. mocratic workers, apportion-
ed throughout the counties in proper
ton to their voting strength, and we
have received these lists, showing the
names precinct numbers, postoffice
addresses, nationality and vacations
fro NTH following countless Taos,
Sierra, Sandoval, Santa Fe. san Mig
uel. Rio Arriba and Mckinley,
I'VE have secured taxpayers list
from seventeen counties in the state,
and will endeavor TO obtain the re-
mainipg lists through the county or
ganiZations. or secure same through
state headquarters channels. These
lists win contain about $4,000 names.
we have compiled statements
showing the Spanish-American and
Anglo American votes by precinct and
county in the 1916 and 1918 cam
paigns My statement that we are
normally a democratic state IS based
on tho fact that with the big daily
press of the state, and the large cam
paign funds, handled and subscribed
by the republican national. state and
county committees, and with most OF
the big corporations against us, we
were defeated by an average OF LOO
votes
We find that in 1918 there were
19,4T3 fewer votes cast than in 1916.
The average vote cast in 1916 was Co.
T%7 and In 1918 it was 47224 OF this
loss of 19,473 in voting strength we
find ana have a record of 1882 who
lef! the state to serve their county
and more than 1890 who left the
state to enter the munitions factories.
We also find that we had more than
500 stay-at home democrats and
about 4 400 who left the state on ac-
count of the extreme drouth. OF these
our records show that the democratic
party lost between $500 and 2,600
more voters than our opponents. These
voters viii be home in 1920 and il is
our estimate that we will have F,a-
tween 1000 and 10000 voters in the
next campaign. We find after caretul
study of the poll books that there
were 1,16S votes cast that were not
counted owing to defective voting, or
which 50 per cent was democratic
loss, and a campaign to educate the
voters how to vote the ballot is of ut
most Importance.
"Our recent legislature is a shining
example of republican rule-and-ruln
policy The creation of new offices 10
huild UP their political machine and
the extrayagant expenditures of the
taxpayers money, is but one instance;
the refusal TO give preference TO em-
ployment OF our returned soldiers IN
the mounted police service is another.
The refusal to pass the woman's SUI
frage amendment, provided for in
theft PLATFORM is another, Taking the
good roads building program out of
politics and substituting therefor a
program TO build up a republican ma
chine rather than good roads for the
benefit OF all the people, is another.
Refusal to pass legislation calling on
the state council Of defense for an
itemized report is another. Refusal to
repeal the boundary commission act
and place this work in the hands OF
the attorney general of the state is
another
Touching upon the so-called race
issue, the report expressed regret that
it ever had been injected into poll
tics
The question is not one Of dividing
offices fifty-fifty" said the report
"between Spanish Americans and
! Anglo Saxons on account or their vot.
ing strength, but is solely and purely