New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-01-16
SANTA FE REPUBLICAN
LEAGUE MEETING

Santa Fe countys branch of the
Young Republicans league-which il
is planned to make state wide-wa.
launched at a meeting attended BY
40 young men held Monday evening
at the city hall. Santa Fe is the
first county in the state to organize
but others are expected to follow
suit quickly. By the time the open
ing gun is fired in the coming po-
litical campaign it is hoped that every
county in the state will have a
branch in the league.
The Santa re county branch got
no further than temporary organiza-
tion Monday night. After the elec-
tion OF Assistant Attorney General
N. ID. Meyer as temporary chairman
and the appointment of City Clerk
Pete Berardinelli as temporary sec
retary, speakers had the floor until
nearly 1880 o'clock. and permanent
organization was put off until the
next meeting, TO be held on Thurs
day night, January %. The speak
ers were, Lieutenant Governor B. +.
Pankey, A. B. Renehan, H. c. HERE.
ra. Captain T. L. Stafford, City At
torney J. J. Kenney and Walter NJ
Danburg George R. Craig of Albu-
querque, republican state chairman
wired that he was unable to attend,
but said he would speak before the
next meeting.
Lieutenant Governor Pankey, who
termed his effort "the pork and
beans" and Mr.. Renehan's, "the des-
sert." gave one of his characteristic
talks, marked by humor and sound
sense. He forecast a greater victory
for the party in New Mexico than
that scored nearly two years ago
at the last state election-saying that
aided by the young men, the repub-
lican plurality would be raised from
5000 to 5000.
The lieutenant governor called at
tentlon to the fact that before long
the young women of the state would
be voters as well as the young men
that is those who were willing to
admit their age was more than d
years. 1t was for that reason that
the word men" was omitted from
the leagues name, being called simp-
ly the Young Republicans league.
Any one who kept his ears open
knew that there was a drift of in
diyiduals from the democratic ranks
to the republican said Mr. Renehan
He told of meeting democrats in ri
Paso and other places who had voted
the democratic ticket all their vo,-
ing years, but who declared that
they were through.
Mr.. Renehan recently returned from
Washington, ID. C., He said before
the meeting that he had talked 10
many persons on the trains and ir
eastern cities. including the national
capital, and that the verdict he had
arrived at was that the sentiment OF
the nation was for reputation OF
the national democratic administra-
tion, particularly because of its
course in handling reconstruction
problems which tended TO set up min
ority control and because of its
toadying to the forces of disinte-
grafton"
Mr.. Renehan said he had heard
Governor Larrazolo's name mention
ed in the hotels in the east and in
the corridors of the capitol at Wash
ington linked with that of Coolidge
of Massachusetts and Ole Hanson Of
Seattle as a man who had stood
firmly and fearlessly for the supre-
macy OF constituted government He
said the governor was a man OF whom
the state could be proud and char
acterized him as an executive OF
brains and courage.