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By DAVID G. LANDMANN
Eagle Staff Writer
Barbecued chicken, soft drinks and
bilignal political speeches were on the
bill of fare of the League of United Latin
American Citizen's Sunday afternoon
"Meet Your Candidate" rally.
More than 100 LULAC members and
political candidates' camp followers
turned out for the traditional event
highlighted by an address by a Chicano
student at Texas A&M University and a
Mexican-American candidate for state
treasurer.
THE CHICANO student, Daniel Her-
nandez of Bryan, gave the candidates at
the rally a few pointers on the outlook and
attitudes of the state's 18, 19 and 20-
year-old voters, telling them it would be
wise for them to listen to what the young
voters have to say.
"There is a new committment among
young people ...in the 60s they had riots
and woke up the world, but now, in the 70s
they've gotten together to work on the
practical and peaceful solutions to world
problems."
HE SAID YOUNG people, despite the
"why don't you wait until you're out in the
world" attitude toward them, are ready to
be responsible voters and are concerned
with changing the country through the
established political structure.
"Politicians should listen to the young
voters," Hernandez declared, "because it
is the votes-they young voters as well
as the old-whose opinions rally count."
State Rep. Lauro Cruz, who is running
against incumbent treasurer Jesse James
in the May 6 primaries, was the next man
to the podium in LULAC Hail.
REPRESENTATIVE Cruz began with
a two-minute speech in Spanish directed
chiefly at the Mexcan-Americans in the
audience, in which he said it was time the
Chicanso had a representative in a high
state office.
Asking the LULAC members to rally to
his cause he said (in Spanish), "The
Mexican American's blood runs strong
and it is better for us to die standing up
than to die lying down."
THEN, CONTUNUING in English,
Cruz . `V,thjat Texas politics in 1972 is
no place for wheeling and dealing an,
called upon the audience to put p stop
what he termed "a state governmeN, J
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