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Show NEW MEXICO'S ELECTION. Th Conatttntio i'jMd by AUont TiHHI Majority. Ai.ErjCEBQrs. JJ, Oct. 10. As the returns come in from the resuit of the election, it is found that the eomstirutioa is rejected by a much Iarjtr majority than at first supposed. The total vote wiil exceed 2.",Kili; the majority against it will be at least TDfiO. The result oilers no idea as to the sen-menf sen-menf of the people on the question of statehood. The men who opposed the constitution are in favor of making the terrieorv a state, bnt don't want it to e-ome in under a constitution which they believed would put the state in the hand of tha land grabbers and arms claimants. It was simply fight between the nnit.ee: ormnsitioii to the ! eiemocrattc pnrry and the party of land I barons who claim to own lO.Of 0, 1 acres of land in the farrtory, and the ! peoole, the latter coming out ahead. |