New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-09-16

TWO teleSramS and letter to Nel
Mexico in behalf of Bursum's re-elec
ton. His great newspapers and farr
magazines are urging Bursum's elec
ton. He has declared in an authoriz
ed interview that Bursum has beel
an active able worker with the agric
ultural group for the benefit of tn
western producers.
Senator McNary, author OF the Nc
Nary reclamation bill, is another o.
the agricultural group who was the
first to wire Senator Bursum on nom.
ination, and who said of it, good bus
mess for New Mexico"
The Seligman-Hanna press bureau
charges that Bursum is an "old guard
senator, and against the progressives
Here is what Hiram Johnson, of Cal
/ ifornia, leader of the most progressive
group in the senate said in a telegram
sent to the chairman of the Bursum
campaign committee last Saturday:
''It was a matter OF profound regret
to me. that | could not come to New
Mexico to aid Senator Bursum's cam
paign | was most anxious to contri-
butte what little | could to the senator S
success. | regard him as a sterling
republican, an earnest and industrious
representative of his state an able SEN
ator who is entitled to reelection"
The fact is, as the record shows,
that Bursum has won the respect of
all groups in the senate and that his
vigorous work for the livestock and
farming industries has won him the
warm championship of the agricultur-
al group.
This same championship OF our prin-
cipal industries has won Bursum an
overwhelming popular sentiment in
New Mexico. That sentiment is so
strong as to make his election certain.
1t may lead to an overconfidence that
may be dangerous to the large MAORI
ty he should receive. 1t is the size
of the majority at which the democatic
campaign management is driving with
mud and money.
Seligman, chairman OF many demo-
cratic campaigns, is using his familiar
tactics. Money contributed by loyal
democrats in counties in which large
democratic vote is usually delivered
is being used to attempt to create dis
senson in republican counties. Selig-
man made a desperate effort of this
kind last November and scored dis
NAL failure. He is trying it again,
however. Cutting, owner OF the New
Mexican, held a convention OF IA peo-
pie in his office in Santa Fe and nom
mated Apolonio Sena, of Las Vegas
a former mounted policeman Tor Unit
ed States senator. Max Gutierrez, OF
Bernalillo county the only "independ-
ent" left in that county since Frank
A. Hubbell returned to the party and
to the support of Senator Bursum,
was at Cuttings convention. Last week
Seligman gave Gutierrez check Tor
$780, 1t is impossible to say for what
purpose. No doubt to uplift the cleo
torate and purify the ballot, which
we understand, was one of the purpos-
es for which Hanna demanded S25,-
0O0 campaign fund as ,the price of re-
naming on the Seligman ticket as the
for the senate.
The men and women OF Luna county
know that Holm o. Bursum has done
a great work for the livestock growers
and farmers of this part of the world
who need real help as they never need
ed it before and who are going to get
it through the agricultural relief law
now functioning. Lee Baldwin, Soco-
rro banker and stockmen, has just
been appointed inspector for the war
finance corporation, at Bursum's sug-
gestion; this state being one of the
first to get organized for action under
the great two and one-half billion dol |
lar agricultural credits law.
Bursum stood resolutely for everyone /
Of the measures designed to help the
farmers and stockmen.
Bursum has been recognized as one
Of the leading champions in the senate
Of the measures proposed for the vet
Grams OF the great war.
Bursum has taken his stand in the
senate for progress and public well
fare, just as he has maintained that
stand during his long career in the
public service in New Mexico.
An effort is being made to hold down
3ursum's majority by last hour cam
,aign of abuse, by mud and money. 1t
S being made at the instance of the
national committee, to
whom the welfare of New Mexico does
lot count a snap as compared with
ONE trifling partisan advantage for
se in some far-away presidential cam
'aign.
Voters of Luna county let US rebuke
his effort to put an untimely and
utile partisanship ahead of the public
Welfare and the obvious best interests
# this state. Let US go to the polls.
very one of us, on election day and
ote for the man WE KNOW can
nd will do the most for New Mexico
S member of the United States SEN /
te. Il
Let US meet and defeat mud and
money with voluntary effort in behalf
f Our own best interests. 1