Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-07-03
THIS BUSINESS OF NEPOTIsM

Several of our more of less esteemed
contemporaries, claiming to be Democrat
ic in politics and some of them Of decided
ly Matchmaking tendencies, have been
INDUCING of late in sundry, various and
divers charges against Republican off,
Gals in the matter of employing relatives
! in their respective uGlUos. II ~ charged
by them that Surveyor Gen. Hobart has
filled his office with relatives; that U. S.
Marshall Romero has several deputies,
who are also his sons; that there is a
great deal of nepotism existing in the
matter OF employees at the territorial pen
itentiary, etc.
mitted to be true; that some of the Off
Gals named have employed relatives is
true and that there are several employees
in the territorial prison, who are relatives
OF one or two OF the members of the board
Of managers is also true; but when it
comes to the charges Of wholesale nepot-
ism, they are utterly and unequivocally
false, as we shah prove fully and to the
satisfaction of all honest men at the
proper time and in due course of time.
In the mean time it may be well to ex-
anime partly the record of the Democratic
administration in this particular.
E. G. Ross, greatly to the detriment and
disgrace OF the territory was governor; he
had his nephew in Office as attorney of
the Sd district; his daughter drew pay as
private secretary and his son drew pay
from Mr.. Fl. G. Burnett, who was secre-
tary of the bureau of immigration and
warden of the territorial penitentiary, and
who "whacked up" with the govern
ors son the salary OF the secretary of the
bureau, which then amounted to SIS per
month.
Julian, surveyor general by the grace Of
the devil and Grover Cleveland, had his
son,in-law, his son, his daughter his neph-
ew and his niece in Office with him, all
drawing pay from the United States gov
eminent. Julian was a great reformer,
he believed in reforming his own family
first.
That gre& and learned chief Justice, 4.
V. Long, who was sucn remarkable
success in straddling cases and in coquett-
ing with juries, imported his nephew and
appointed him clerk, after he had fallen
out with Col. Johnson over little matter
OF addition, division and silence"
Delegate Antonio Joseph caused the ap-
pointment of one of his brothers as clerk
for the federal building and the appoint
ment of another relative as clerk of the
district court of the LIST district.
Judge Brinker appointed his sister
clerk in the Office of the I'd district clerk,
Sec. Lane appointed his brother-in-law
clerk in his office.
The above is only partial list and the
New MEXICAN will continue it when oc-
casion requires.
Our Democratic contemporaries are very
great at seeing the splinter in the eye OF
their adversaries, but pay not the least
attention to the beam in their own eye
However, it is the business OF the New
MEXICAN to see that the big, dirty, ugly
beam in the Democratic eye be not for
gotten by the people Of New Mexico, and
it shall not be forgotten as far as we are
concerned. A fine crowd that our Demo
cratic friends, the enemy; they howl
"thief" in order to divert attention from
their own thievery and shortcomings, but
that will not do; the people can not be
hoodwinked that way. That time has
passed.