Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-05
NEsT0R MONT0YA
IS A CANDIDATE
FOR HOUSE SEAT
incumbent Announces for
denomination Subject to
the Action of Republican
State Convention.

announces himself as candidate
for denomination, as follows:
Having returned from WASH
ington a few days ago and the po-
litical campaign of 1922 for con-
gressional and state officers APP
preaching, l desire to announce
myself as a candidate for renom-
nation to congress, subject to the
action of the republican state con-
vention.
aside from national legislation
necessary to the state, which has
been accomplished and Is now law,
recommendations and appoint
ments to office under the republic
can administrator which has been
attended to by the republican
United States senator and myself
for New Mexico, my platform has
consisted during the last session.
or present rather, and Will consist
in the next regular session, in pro-
noting and actively helping in the
passage of the Smith cNary re-
clamation bill, which will be con-
sidered and I have no doubt pass
ed, at that session.
This measure means all for the
state, as it does for the whole
west and south, not only in the
central Rio Grande valley, but in
other sections of the same, which
may organize projects and reclaim
hundreds of thousands of acres of
land to settlement, cultivation,
producing crops, wealth and happi-
ness of home builders, increasing
the population and tax returns.
This may appear to be a dream,
but it will be made real by fed
eral aid for such enterprises, for
l consider that the reclaiming of
arid lands, drainage, flood protec-
llon and modern systems of irri-
cation are an impossibility and be-
yond the reach of communities,
private effort or limited capital.
1t must come and will come next
year by government aid, as a bus
mess proposition to the whole
country for the opening and de-
veloping of immense areas, and
woe to The state or community
that needs this aid, if invited and
fails to avail itself of this Won
derful offer; it will mean deca-
dence and going back instead Of
forward, as the necessity and the
times demand. 1t is national
movement through congress for
home builders, production and
commerce. 1t will vivify all ar
terles OF trade and turn the des-
ert and the swamp into a bios
somlng haradise of production.
State Needs Aid.
New Mexico needs this govern
ment aid and from the moment I
arrived in Washington in April OF
last year and was sworn as a mem
Der of the house of congress, / got
In touch with the men of the west
and of the south interested in this
Srcdt plan, and concentrated nv
efforts with them for the passage
4of the bill.
Il am a member of the commit
zee OF western and southern mem
pers TO promote and keep it alive
before the congress until final sue
cess is achieved and the fountain
OF wealth is turned loose from the
national treasury or through its
action, where it may be accepted
by cooperation and intense effort
on the part of states and COM
munlties where it may be needed.
Know and l am in touch with
every member OF congress that is
interested in this law and I have
followed and seconded every stem
SO far to carry it through.
IF FpnOn1inatad 80 -
my EFFORTS will be redoubled and
When success is achieved, I shah
deem 1t, as the whole country will
acclaim 1t, the GROWING success of
congress in which / have had a
small part.
49, Official Record.
ask my denomination at the
hands of the electorate of New
Mexico. upon my official record in
congress in voting and supporting
all national and administration
measures for the reconstruction of
the country. I have in my office n
certified copy of my individual
voting record, officially certified TO
by the clerk of the house, which
VIII prove my assertion, lying in
nuendos by enemies of the republi-
can party to the contrary notwith-
standing. The record is here and
can be published il desired.
In the year and a half that ]
nave served constantly as your
member of congress / have at
tended to hundreds of matters con-
fided to me by my constituents, ex-
service men for compensation, vo-
cational training, disqualification, in
surance, ETC., giving each case that
attention before the veterans bu-
reuu to whies1 the defenders of the
country are entitled from their
representatives in congress. I have
attended to many land matters be-
fore the interior department, gen.
eral land office, for old and new
settlers with success, Indian mat.
tiers, immigration matters, claims
pensions, postoffice matters, mail
routes and rural carriers, by the
hundreds, which l know those for
whom / have attended them will
bear out that l met with success .n
most cases.
History of Transit of Venus.
1T takes some time to get ac-
quainted with your colleagues.
members of congress, four hundred
and thirty-five of them, and then
the senators also, so as to be able
to help in matters they want and to
ask for their help; it takes some
time to get acquainted with all gov
eminent departments, their heads
and sub-heads, SO as to go where
you should 60 and get what you
want for your constituents, infor-
nation, etc, from an appointment
to a lucrative office, to the effect
of bugs, insects and larvae upon GER
tain plants, trees, ETC., to show the
! variety. One individual in the state
wanted to know the history of the
transit of Venus in 1912. That was
a poser for me, but l wended my
way to the meteorological division
and they put me wise to the as
tronomy observatory and in a few
days / received communication o.
the whole story, telling Of the
phases, opposition of the planets
and the Lord knows what. I could
not understand it, nor tried tony
mind WAS in the MpNarv hi1l---hut I