Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-01-20
A LIE NAILED.

A LIE NAILED,
The total tax levy OF the territory Tor |
the hscal year 1880, ior all purposes, is
$4lS, 406.l3. OF tins $l0l ,423 is Tor inter |
est and sinking fund on the public IN |
debtednesS-$54,i 4O beng Tor the C@pl-
lol and peuitentlary foollshness, am
i47,277 for losses on deprecated warrants
10y reason Of lack of business sense oil
the part Of the legislature OF three years
ago, and its inability to comprehend and
-Deming Hea light,
1t is not often that the New MEXICAN
cares to pay attention to the utterances II
the Demng Headlight, published by
that bombastic, conceited, ungratetul, old
political charlatan, ex-GOv. Ross, and his
tool, Ashenfelter That malodOrous
pair, for ought the New MEXICAN cares,
might 20 on forever, saying anything they
pleased about the New MEXICAN or any
one connected with it, without comment
from us; but when that unsavory team
publishes matter calculated to lnJure
tlie SOoI udilte anu VIC ADVANCEMENT VI
New Mexico, then it becomes our duty, as
public journal, and as sturdy cham
pion of the people of this territory, to
show these political tricksters up i'll their
true light.
The extract above, from the Deming
Headlight, is full OF intentional misrepre-
tation and falsehooi. The fact is that the
levy Of 1859 for 1890 amounts to, for the
penitentiafy interest and sinking fund,
$13, 9GS; for the capitol interest and sink
ing fund to $40, 1872; for the current ex-
pense interest fund to $3.50; for
the provisional Indebtedness interest
fund to SIG, $40 and for the fund for the
redemption of outstanding warrants to
S17, 253, or altogether, $9l 1877. The levy
for the capitol interest aud sinking fund
and for the penitentiary interest and sink
ing fund alone amounts to S44 10, OF
which sum $23, 800 will be required for
interest, the remainder going into the
sinking fund. There are no "depreclated
warrants and there is ouly Il tax OF
VIZ ,253 levied for the redemption OF out
standing warrants these latter are worth
from 90 to 81 cents on the dollar, and
bring therefore higher price than terri
torial warrants did at any time uncer the
imbecile and corrupt administrator dur
ing the years 1859, 1886, 1887 and 1883,
when Ross was governor.
But no is this fellow or who are these
fellows who set themselves upas mentors
and censors? Let us see One of them,
Ashenielter, is hardly worth while men-
tioning, but if necessary his record will be
given. But the other fellow, Ross, who
is he? The past tells: One who by the
force of circumstances was made governor
Of New Mexico, and during whose admin
lstration this territory was greatly injured
in name, fame and prosperity, and retro
graded instead of advanced; during
whose term OF Office the public funds were
squandered and sometimes good deal
worse than squandered, right and left, he
pleading the baby act, saying: "Forgive
me, for knew not what they did )" a man
who filled the offices of ills territory with
strangers and relatives, and who discrimi-
mated against citizens of New Mexico;
either relationship or tlattery secured office
under him; fitness and honesty We're no
consideration; man who so far forgot
his duty and oath of Office as to hide like
whipped spaniel when committee of
the 9th legislature, the one of three
years ago, the representatives of the
people, tried to find him to present to
lin bills that had passed-agalnst his OPP
position for the benefit of the people, and
that, had they become law, would have
saved this territory in two years hundreds
Of thousands of dollars. But enough of this
for the present; this is chapter No. |, and
if necessary, the New MEXICAN will pub
fish about fifty more chapters concerning
this matter, each true and based upon
facts. Ross record, like Banquo's ghost,
shall not down.