The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-09-02
WHAT DEFEATED LARRAZoLop

IT is now generally agreed that Governor Larrazolo has. been de-
feated in his fight for q denomination. -Four days before the open
= ing of the republican state convention he is without a single in
structed delegation. If his name is placed before the convention it
must come from another than his home county which is against his
denomination. Statements of support he is expected to get from
various whnstrIeted delegations ga are found nc, on invesugat,on to be no no
held tomorrow and Saturday, according to the indications Of the pi-
maries, will add but a few TO the scattered delegates that arc for
Governor Lnrrunolo may well join with the well known mouner
who justly prayed 10 be saved from his friends.
The governors most active supporters in his campaign for a re-
and the Morning Journal. Added to his official record the nature Of
the support these two newspapers have given him has wound up the
der the ownership Of Colonel Bronson NJ. Cutting, has been some
what persistent in advising the republican party what it must not
do, in advance Of party nominating conventions, and in fighting the
republican party after is nominations have been made. i wanders
in a sort of amazed indignation because the republicans do not in
stantly accede to its preconvention demands and assent to its post
convention opposition.
Two years ago the New Mexican made a bitter fight against the
nomination Of, Larrazolo for governor, terminating its campaign
against him with this declaration N the opening day of the nominal
ing convention
THE republican state convention will make a serious mis-.
take i II nOminatss 0 A IarrazOio for gOvsrnOrm,and he win
support Mr.. LArrazOlO for governor"
Governor Iarrazoo was nominated the day following this blast,
and was elected over the New Mexicans opposition. The fact that
he was elected only because the democrats nominated a much less de.
after the convention.
In the present pre-cOnventiOu cOmpaign the New Mexican is
giving a kind Of support to Larrazdo. u does not undertake to de-
fend his record as governor; i: does not deal frankly with any Of the
major items in the governor, 5 record TO which republicans object
aud which they know make his reelection impossible. 1t tells of
vague things Larrazolo has done and proposes to do it misstates the
facts in its news columns as to the attitude de. toward Larrazolo OF
republican party must nominate Larrazoo or be defeated.
THE alternative it says, lis between going ahead and going
backward. The only way the party can convince voters Of its pres
ent intention to go forward is to nominate Larrazolo.
the republican party before its nominating conventions and to beat
the party nominees after conventions have been made, but It persists
The nomination of Mr.. Garcis by the democrats two years ago
made it possible for the republicans to elect any candidate for gov.
This fact except the editor Of the New Mexican.
The nomination of Judge Hanna by the democrats this year
ernor whose record IS clear and who can be supported enthusiastically
by everyone who honestly desires republican success LarrazOlO does
not FIJI the bill. No one knows this better than does the editor of the
New Mexican. He has stated on various occasions. and in consider
for governor or in the executive office. Since switching to LarrazolO
he has carefully refrained from giving a single concrete reason that
record. He has simply assailed everybody in the republican party
who is opposed to Larrazoos denomination.
Knowing. as the editor of the New Mexican knows the certainty
that Larrazolo would be defeated by Judge Hanna and that his can
didacy might endanger, the success of the republican presidential
electors in our state, why does he 80 urgently press the republican
party, whose success he has always opposed, to renominate Larrazolo
Is this determined effort to force Larrazoio onto the republican
ticket, preparatory to the New Mexicans customary post-convcntion
switch TO the democratsf
And the New Mexican's ally in the Larrazolo campaign, the
Journal, What does it seek in its determined effort to force Iarr-
the enthusiastic reception rendered its editor at the las Vegas conven.
tin last week, and has paved the way with a general declaration
service in connection with the dawn of the new day often demand
bolt What greater aid could be given the democratic party than
If the journal should he successful in forcing the denomination
of a democratic governor.
The New Mexican would probably bolt anyway, from habit and
the natural workings of an ingrowing Crouch.
We find at the respective heads of these two Lsrrazolo news
papers two very rich men who can actually afford to play at politics
an abundance of unoccupied time; the other in pursuance of an am
hilton to rush into New Mexico politics and rush out to a seat il
They unite in demanding the denomination of Larrazolo for gov
crnor, which is equivalent to a demand for republican defeat.
II is not strange that under these conditions the support OF thu
New Mexican and the journal for Larrazolos candidacy has uniteC
the opposition to the governor in all sections of the state, effectuan,
killing any chance he may have had to secure a denomination.
Governor Larazolos record as governor, plus his newspaper
opens.
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