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The announcement that Col. BD. R. B. Sellers of Albuquerque had decided to permit his name to go before the democratic state convention as a can didate for governor, carried in yester @day’s Journal, is quite likely to clarify the atmosphere considerably as to Who is to head the democratic ticket s fall. The indications are that the colonel will have no strong oppo sition for the nomination, as the senti ment existing for him in various parts of the state seems to presage his nom ination on the first pallet. Colonel Sellers was born in Dayton, ©., on August 9, 1863, where he grad uated from the high school in 1880. The site year he harkened to Horace Greeley’s advice to “go west,’ and landed in Colorado, where he engaged in prospecting and stock raising until 1886, when he went to California. There in 1889 he married Miss Fris Die K. Walls. In 1894 he was elected democratic chairman of the first California con gressional district and aided in the nomination and election of Thomas Geary to congress. Geary afterward became famous as the author of the “Geary Chinese exclusion law.’ San Juan county, New Mexico, at tracted Colonel Sellers’ attention in 1990 and he moved there, remaining for three years, when he came to Al buquerque, where he has since con tinued to reside, being engaged in the real estate business. Colonel Sellers has always been ac tive in city affairs. He first came into prominence by bringing a large number of Navajo Indians to the fairs here. It was he who initiated the movement which resulted in changing the name of Railroad avenue to the more euphonious name of Central av enue. He organized, the wholesale grocers of New Mexico in 1905. In 1912 he was elected mayor of Albu querque and with the assistance of a Progressive council did what street paving we now have, put In the orna mental lights, re-equipped the fire de partment with motorized machines, built the city hall, uniformed the po lies, built the storm sewers and car ried out many other schemes for im proving and beautifying the city. In 1912 he was president of the state fair Besociation. He was elected president of the Ocean to Ocean Highway asso ciation at Los Angeles in 1913 and in 1917 was elected chairman of the Hernalillo country democratic com mittee. While the colonel has always taken Qn setive part in politics, he has never before sought public office with the exception of mayor of the city of Al- Duquerque. He has always been a consistent democrat and has worked untiringly for the success of that ticket on all occasions. As a booster Colonel Sellers’ reputa tion hardly needs to be commented upon to any great length. Not only Albuquerque but the entire state has seen evidences of his success in this line. If he assumes charge of a task this is sufficient guarantee that it will be disposed of in a highly sat isfactory manner. he is a regular dynamo of energy and if elected gov ernor will exercise the same progres sive policy in affairs of state that he has in private undertakings. The colonel has, no doubt, toured the state more than any other man re siding in it. He knows exactly what our needs are. He is in close touch with the cattle industry, the mining business, the farmers, our needs in the way of good roads and everything else Which concerns the welfare of the state. A more versatile man, in fact, Would be hard to find. He is in every way fitted to give the state a clean, broad minded businesslike adminis tration, and we feel confident he will do this if the good people of New see their way clear to place, in the gubernatorial chair.
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Albuquerque Morning Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Fri, Aug 30, 1918
Page 6
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